This is a tough situation. I assume this kid is 18 already. I'll also assume he's had other issues with the law or whatever he did was truely heinous. Three years seems like a lot to me. Hopefully he has a strong, strong head on his shoulders. Jail is rough and putting a teenager in there will almost suredly harden him and teach him to be a criminal. He'll have a hard time ever landing a real job, he probably won't get any higher education. Statistically speaking you can just about carve out his life plan for him. And he's still in high school. I don't condone violence and I think everybody should pay the consequences for their actions. I wonder what constitutes kidnapping in this situation. Kidnapping to me is stealing a child to either keep him or get ransom. Kidnapping by law is just holding a person against their will (not to belittle it), but carries a very negative connotation. Blocking a person in their car so they can't leave during an argument can be considered kidnapping. Donald Little was charged with kidnapping and assault and he didn't get three years. I hate to say it but my gut is this is a case of a young black man getting the automatic jail sentence. They let drug addicts out of jail repeatedly, they don't show up to court, go to jail and get out. They commit more crimes until they overdose and die or the under ten percent chance they actually get clean. I have an acquaintance that was picked up on a felony warrant for not showing up to court for some serious drug offenses and for not showing up to court for lesser offenses and they let her out after somehow posting bail, she didn't show up for her next appearance, got picked up again, they let her out again and she now has another warrant out after she failed to appear. They put a high school kid in jail for three years, arguably his three most impressionable years for how to shape his life for what amounts to rage over a lost love. His victim didn't want him going to jail, that tells me whatever he did wasn't so heinous that he seems to be a severe threat to society. Sorry for the rant, but this country's judicial sytem completely baffles me. I don't pretend to know the facts of this case, but something doesn't seem right to me here.
