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SACRAMENTO -- A Sacramento man is facing a three-year prison term for stealing Lance Armstrong's bicycle while the seven-time Tour de France winner was competing in California.
Sacramento County court documents show 40-year-old Lee Crider is scheduled to be sentenced Monday for burglary and theft. He pleaded no contest June 1 to stealing Armstrong's time trial bike and two other bikes from a trailer after the Sacramento prologue to the Tour of California in February.
Another man, 33-year-old Dung Hoang Le of Elk Grove, pleaded no contest June 1 to receiving stolen property. He has been sentenced to 90 days in jail, to be served on the sheriff's work project, and three years' probation.
A police report says he bought Armstrong's $10,000 bike, a Trek Livestrong 1274, from Crider for $200. He later turned it in to police.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/cycling/ne...e=ESPNHeadlines
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Stallworth received 30 days for drunk driving and taking a life.
Dung Hoang Le (above) receives 90 days for receiving stolen property.
Chris Brown received 5 years probation (no jail time) for felony assault.
While Lee Crider (above) will be sentenced to three years for theft and burglary?
Something is wrong here. I'll never understand our legal system...
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I think "Dung" has been punished enough already.
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90 days in jail, to be served on the sheriff's work project
Fancy wording for 'community service'.
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A friend of mine got 6 months in jail for possession of a gram of H.
Initially he got 3 years probation, and a suspended drivers license since he had rigged up before driving home.---but he soon decided that he would rather serve 6 months in county than dealing with an idiot probation officer for 3 freaking years. So he reported to jail.
He was pretty ticked after the Stallworth verdict. He was like: I didn't hurt anyone, didn't kill anyone, and yet I get more time than Stallworth. Pretty dumb when a gram of powder yields more jailtime than killing someone.
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Each case has a million different variables. No case is the same.
The above case didn't explain priors or their willingness to work with the prosecuting attorneys.
On the surface, it's easy to be disgusted at a verdict when comparing it to another case.....but these cases were in different states with different laws, different accused, different judges, different evidence, different charges, different jury, and different lawyers.
Yes, stealing a bike isn't as bad as DUI manslaughter......but again, the PA's in Stallworth's case must have felt there was a decent chance he'd be aquitted with the evidence they had. So they took the deal. In the bike case, the guy might have been an habitual theif and the evidence was clear as day.
When looking at these cases from that angle, it doesn't confuse me.
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90 days in jail, to be served on the sheriff's work project
Fancy wording for 'community service'.
Not really - 90 days in jail means 90 days in jail.
Community service means you show up in the morning to spend 8 hours doing whatever, then you go home, show up the next day.
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90 days in jail, to be served on the sheriff's work project
Fancy wording for 'community service'.
Not really - 90 days in jail means 90 days in jail.
Community service means you show up in the morning to spend 8 hours doing whatever, then you go home, show up the next day.
That's what sheriff's work programs are...you go home when you're done.
"The Sheriff's Work Crew Program is an alternative to incarceration available to offenders who are sentenced to the custody of the Sheriff for a short period of time, such as weekends. These offenders are authorized by furlough by the Sheriff to return to their residence at the end of each day.
Work Crew participants work on projects paid for by local government and non-profit agencies. Workers perform vegetation control, park and trail maintenance, and litter removal."
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What does Brown have to do with Dung? 
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What does Brown have to do with Dung?
somebody had to ask 
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