{"id":22961,"date":"2011-04-14T12:23:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T16:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22961"},"modified":"2011-04-14T12:23:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T16:23:26","slug":"stolen-valor-gets-man-a-reduced-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22961","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Valor gets man a reduced sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Sterner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/city\/communities\/twin-cities\/article384867.ece\">sends us this link<\/a> of a former Marine who endangered the lives of his girlfriend and anyone else within shotgun range of his apartment;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>David J. Searight, 40, of Adam Street, City of Tonawanda, was living in a second-floor apartment on Oliver Street in North Tonawanda at the time of the April 25 incident. No one was hurt when the rounds went through the apartment below his and lodged in a ceiling joist in the basement of the building, Assistant District Attorney Susan B. Bjornholm said.<\/p>\n<p>She sought the maximum two-year jail sentence for Searight\u2019s guilty plea to two counts of second-degree reckless endangerment, but Niagara County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III imposed three years\u2019 probation and 25 days in the county work program \u201cin light of the defendant\u2019s whole life. . . . I just don\u2019t see how a sentence of incarceration is appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Searight\u2019s lawyer, Robert Convissar, said his client won the Navy Cross and two Purple Hearts in the Middle East and had no prior criminal record. \u201cHe had one bad night,\u201d Convissar said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, no Navy Cross and no Purple Hearts &#8211; but as long as the lawyer says it out loud, the judge believes it. maybe two years was a little excessive, but no jail time for missing by two feet a bed normally occupied by two children? Because of a lie? The newspaper reporting it doesn&#8217;t check either. Now that the 9th Circus has decriminalized war stories, everyone gets in on the act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Sterner sends us this link of a former Marine who endangered the lives of his &hellip; <a title=\"Stolen Valor gets man a reduced sentence\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22961\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stolen Valor gets man a reduced sentence<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}