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http://blogs.registerguard.com/cms/inde ... ff-harris/

"Here’s an update out of Fresno on Cliff Harris; thankfully, it appears I accurately interpreted online data late last week, which indicated that Harris now only faces a misdemeanor charge and was released from jail. He’ll be arraigned July 15 on the charge of obstructing a police officer, but it would appear he’s going to be suspended from Edison High School and considered for expulsion under a school policy for students charged with a crime."


My biggest worry here is the suspension from school. That would definitely hinder his ability to graduate & be academically eligible. Hopefully that will be worked out.

When will we know if he is even going to qualify?

Tough situation. You can't push an officer. So, he has to pay some price. But, ruining his college career? I'm not sure if that would serve society in any way. Wouldn't be proportionate to the crime, either. I mean, he's a young guy who got emotional over seeing his younger brother being roughed up. Even if his brother deserved it, I think it would be tough for anyone to stand by and watch. It's not as if he caused injury or damage to anyone (except maybe the officers pride).

Now, if he did was this guy is charged with, different story.

Or this one:

http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/7-4-2003-42554.asp

In what must rank as a warning to all footballers with short tempers who may think of playing in Oklahoma, a man has been jailed for life for spitting at a policeman.

John Marquez, 35, was sentenced this week for spitting at the police officer, who was trying to arrest him, in Sapulpa, Oklahoma.

April Sellers White, the judge in Creek County acted on the recommendation of the jury who convicted Marquez under a law which makes it a felony to place bodily fluids on law enforcement officers.

The prosecution had asked for the milder sentence of 25 years. Marquez's lawyer, Jason Sterner, had suggested four years. Mr Sterner said that an appeal would be launched.

The law under which Marquez was sentenced was introduced in Oklahoma in 1996 and was aimed at protecting police officers from people with Aids attacking and possibly infecting them.

Marquez is a convicted rapist but it was not rape he was charged with when he appeared in court.

He had allegedly spat at police officer Charles Gadd as he was being arrested following a domestic argument in which a woman's arm was broken. He received a one-year sentence for that offence.

The court heard Marquez spat at the officer despite being warned not to and then bit the officer as he tried to stop him from spitting.

He was convicted in May but sentencing only took place this week.

Hundreds of prisoners are serving sentences of 25 years or more in California for such offences as shoplifting and drug possession.

These sentences are a result of the so-called "three strike" law which imposes a minimum of 25 years for a third felony conviction.

In a case earlier this year, the supreme court ruled that 50 years for shoplifting videos was not a "cruel and unusual punishment".

Three strikes can be a little over the top, but how dumb does a guy gotta be to get the third strike. I mean really. People can choose to stop commiting felonies.

Maybe the reason Cliff sat in jail as long as he did was related to a parent who decided to "teach him a lesson" by letting him stew in his own juices...

Shoot, if that had been the Lane County Jail, the door would have hit him in the nose on the first swing, because the Sheriff's Dept would have "matrixed" him out before it had a chance to swing all the way shut...