The Jena Six Back in Jail

McQ notes that the Jenna six are back in jail.

He points up an AP article:

A judge decided the fight that thrust a teenager into the center of a civil rights controversy violated his probation for a previous conviction and ordered the boy back to jail, the teen’s attorney said.

Mychal Bell, who along with five other black teenagers is accused of beating a white classmate, had gone to juvenile court in Jena on Thursday expecting another routine hearing, said Carol Powell Lexing, one of his attorneys.

Instead, state District Judge J.P. Mauffrey Jr. sentenced Bell to 18 months in jail on two counts of simple battery and two counts of criminal destruction of property, Lexing said.

“We are definitely going to appeal this,” she said. “We’ll continue to fight.”

Bell had been hit with those charges before the Dec. 4 attack on classmate Justin Barker. Details on the previous charges, which were handled in juvenile court, were unclear.

Apparently, from what I’ve read, this isn’t at all the first time Mychal Bell has seen the inside of a courtroom or a jail. While I agree that the charges initially brought against him in the Barker case were excessive, I think it should be obvious to everyone that Bell is far from the innocent and wronged little angel some would like to tout him as.

Well, in that event, Bruce, I question the idea of the charges being excessive. I pointed out at the time that this wasn’t the guy’s first brush with the law. Personally, because of that questionable past, I can’t blame the prosecutors for aiming high with this guy.  This was not another Mike Nifong… it was prosecutors honestly doing their job, and I think their perception was correct.

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It would seem also that this is been borne out by the facts that have come to light subsequently.  Facts, which one would suspect, they knew about when they laid the charges in the first place.

Whatever else this case may have been, this was not racism on the part of the community, or of the prosecutors.

Nice to see the truth finally out.  Too bad they had to rip up a community to do it.   Also too bad that by the time the truth made it out, the cameras and microphones had already followed Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and their ilk out of the room, and onto the next case of “racism” to be milked.