You
often hear the phrase “Make the punishment fit the crime.” Judges often
try to do this when handing out sentences, but sometimes that leads to
bizarre plans that cause public outrage or go against our supposedly
impartial legal structure. Sometimes they get creative, which may be
appropriate to deter further crime, or may be just silly. Judge Michael
A. Cicconetti of the Painesville Municipal Court in Ohio is famous for
his “outside the box” sentences.
Just when you think
this judge might run out of creative punishments, Judge Michael
Cicconetti orders a women who stiffed a cabbie out of his fare to walk
30 miles. It was 60 days in jail or a 30 mile hike, the distance of the
cab ride she took for free. Offender Victoria Bascom chose to walk off
her punishment, according to Cleveland 19.com. Judge Cicconetti believes
in giving people a taste of their own medicine and has made offenders
do novel alternatives to jail time like dressing up in chicken suit or
spelling out an apology in coins. He also required a women who abandoned
kittens in the woods to spend a night in the wild alone, without food
or water.
Read about
ten such cases with unusual sentences at Money, Inc.
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