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Date Posted: 23:01:09 02/09/05 Wed
Author: Femok
Subject: The path to enlightenment, part two

You may recall the local news story I posted a couple of weeks ago about the inmates who were using the pages of the Bible as rolling papers for their cell-made cigarettes. Now read this one.

Court grants woman's request for longer jail term
Wed Feb 9 2005
By Mike McIntyre

AFTER losing her bid for a conditional sentence, convicted home-invader Iwona Rutkowska had a bizarre request for Manitoba's highest court -- she now wanted a longer jail term.

Rutkowska, who was sentenced last year to 20 months behind bars for the violent shakedown of an elderly Polish immigrant, figured some extra time in custody would do her good, her lawyer told court.

The Manitoba Court of Appeal agreed to raise her sentence by four months, meaning Rutkowska will go to a federal penitentiary rather than a provincial jail.

Defence lawyer Sarah Inness said the increased penalty means Rutkowska will likely be transferred to Alberta, where she has family and friends who can visit her.

"She believes that in order to assist in her rehabilitation, it is important that she be near people who have an ability to visit her while she is incarcerated," Inness told court.

Rutkowska will also have access to better educational and training programs than if she were to remain in a provincial jail in Manitoba, she said. A jury convicted Rutkowska of robbery and extortion after hearing conflicting stories about her role in the August 2001 attack on Stanley Klocko.

The Crown argued Rutkowska was the mastermind behind the incident, calling the shots while a male co-accused brandished knives and threatened the helpless victim. Defence lawyers claimed Rutkowska was also a victim, forced into a situation against her will.

Rutkowska testified she told Klocko to hand over his money because her co-accused, Chris Williams, made her. Williams has already been convicted and sentenced to four years in prison for his role in addition to two years of pre-trial custody.

Rutkowska's claim of innocence was hampered by a 911 call in which jurors heard her screaming at Klocko to "give me my money." Klocko's roommate had phoned police during the attack and left the line open, which recorded part of the incident.

Okay, aside from the fact that it sounds like she deserved a longer sentence, what do you want to bet she is a smoker?

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[> Re: The path to enlightenment, part two -- bill, 13:17:48 02/10/05 Thu [1]

On the bus the other day I overheard a woman on her cell phone telling her lawyer it was bulls*!t a judge had sentenced her to only 10 months on an assault instead of the 3 year maximum because, as a convicted felon, she was going to lose her government funding housing and wouldn't have a place to live.

She wanted her lawyer to appeal and get her the longer sentence so she'd have a place to stay for free.

Although in her jargon it was, "I'm pulling me a 10 but I coulda gotten 3 large; but that woulda been all good, you know what I'm saying? 'Cause now the man's taking my HUD and I got no place to stay. So I'da been better with the 3 large. Maybe I'll just go slap that b*tch again."


Although everybody on the bus was laughing with her, its a tragically skewed outlook on urban life in America, eh?


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[> Re: The path to enlightenment, part two -- Femok, 13:37:55 02/10/05 Thu [1]

Yikes, what a warped outlook on life. I wonder what forces combine to make a person so self-centered and devoid of imagination and hope?


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[> what's wrong with smokers, in general? -- Caro, 23:58:31 02/12/05 Sat [1]


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[> [> Re: what's wrong with smokers, in general? -- Femok, 01:04:34 02/13/05 Sun [1]

Nothing, Caro. That wasn't my point. The second story just played into the comment in the first story about how you are still allowed to smoke in federal penitentiaries but not in provincial jails. So, it looked to me like the real reason this woman was demanding a longer sentence had nothing to do with visiting family or rehabilitation, but rather because she could smoke in the federal penitentiary.


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