PRISON FELLOWSHIP: Leon Cannizzaro

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The Cost of Candy

Jacobia Grimes has a history of petty theft. Having previously been arrested five times for small-time robberies (and several other times for other low-level crimes), Grimes certainly had to expect that he would be facing some sort of punishment when he was caught stealing $31 in candy bars from a Dollar General store in Louisiana last December.

By Steve Rempe
April 14, 2016
Habitual Offender Law | Jacobia Grimes | Leon Cannizzaro | Louisiana | sentencing

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