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Double Standard: After going easy on Ray Rice, prosecutor torments single mom
ANDREW JERELL JONES firstlook.org From time to time, the American public gets a glaring reminder that the elite play by their own set of rules. A county prosecutor in New Jersey, James McClain, is offering up a prime example: After going easy on NFL player Ray Rice for violently attacking his girlfriend, he’s throwing the book at a single mother of two for having the wrong paperwork on her gun. The mother, Shaneen Allen, spent 40 days in jail and faces a minimum three-and-a-half year prison sentence. The 28-year-old was arrested last October for not knowing that her legal gun permit in Pennsylvania is not recognized in New Jersey. Allen was pulled over for a traffic stop and could have never mentioned the gun. But Allen was forthright in telling the officer about her weapon. Allen figured she had nothing to hide. She had no criminal record and only purchased the gun to protect her family after being robbed twice in the past. It seems rational to conclude that her honesty would lead to a quick resolution of the matter and no long-term damage to Allen and her children’s lives. Instead, she was arrested and charged with a felony. McClain, of Atlantic County, had a chance to end Allen’s nightmare, to show the sort of mercy he showed to Rice on far more violent charges. Allen was eligible for a diversion program for first time offenders, as The Washington Post’s Radley Balko has reported. New Jersey’s pretrial intervention program says that it is “generally” for first-time offenders, with “opportunities for alternatives to the traditional criminal justice process of ordinary prosecution.” But McClain chose not to allow Allen into the program. Yet McClain granted leniency to Rice, even though New Jersey law says violent offenders should “generally be rejected” from the intervention program in which he was allowed to enroll. to read more: firstlook.org
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