Maryland prosecutors are not seeking jail time for a former member of an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood watch group convicted in the beating of a black teenager.
Twenty-four-year-old Eliyahu Werdesheim faces sentencing Wednesday for second-degree assault and false imprisonment. His 22-year-old brother, Avi, was acquitted. The case drew comparisons to the fatal shooting of Florida teen Trayvon Martin.
Eliyahu Werdesheim faces up to 10 years on the assault count, but prosecutors are requesting a three-year suspended sentence, probation and community service.
The teen told police that Werdesheim struck him in the head and shouted, “You don’t belong around here.” Werdesheim testified he acted in self-defense when the teen attacked him.
Werdesheim’s attorney, who will argue a motion seeking a new trial, says scores of people sent the judge letters of support.
(Source: Washington Post)
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Big differences between the two cases. A) the boy is still alive. B) he didn’t have a relative in the neighborhood to claim he had a reason to be there as was the case in the treyvon case.
The whole argument against Werdesheim is that he used his IDF training not as a defense ,but rather as an assault on this poor boy that was only checking to see if everyone locked their car doors at night. The justice system stinks- 10 years is WAAAAY too harsh a sentence for a bop on the head with a walkie talkie.
HE SHOULD GET A MEDAL NOT A PUNISHMENT