Get out of Jail Fat card

[Gob]

A 30-stone motorist who killed a jogger when she jumped a red light has begged a judge not to send her to jail because she is too fat.



Unemployed Linda Ann Jenns mowed down 45-year-old Paul Stinton in her white Ford Kuga after ignoring the red signal in Ashford, Kent. The 49-year-old begged to be spared prison after being convicted of causing his death by dangerous driving at Canterbury Crown Court. Her barrister Ian Bridge said 'morbidly obese' Jenns hoped to get a gastric band and would not be able to cope with life behind bars. He said she had a stroke seven years ago and at the time of the crash was receiving treatment for her weight problem.

Mr Bridge said she had lost between five and six stone and was hoping for a gastric band to be fitted which would have increased her life expectancy quite dramatically. 'As it is she is grossly overweight, morbidly obese and since the incident has put on even more weight,' he said. 'She is a person for whom a prison sentence would be extraordinarily difficult and I don't think I exaggerate when I say she might not get through it.'

Judge Heather Norton adjourned sentence for two weeks pending medical reports and granted Jenns bail. But she warned Jenns, of Ashford, Kent, that she faced 'an almost certain' jail sentence for the offence - and also gave her an interim driving ban. The jury had heard evidence from a number of of motorists and shoppers waiting near a retail park, on a wet winter's day in January 2014.

One of them, Debbie Lange told the court: 'I was sitting talking with my daughter when a grey van came hurtling past my car in the outside lane of the dual carriageway. 'It shook my car which made me look up and it went through the red light. Two seconds later a white car came past at speed and straight through the red traffic light. 'I then noticed something flying up in the air. I wasn't sure what it was until I saw some arms and legs. 'I said to my daughter: 'My goodness, did you see that?' I realised then it was a person.

'I hadn't seen him before but I had noticed that there were some people at the lights waiting to cross.'

[MajGenl.Meade]

I wasn't sure what it was until I saw some arms and legs. 'I said to my daughter: 'My goodness, did you see that?' I realised then it was a person.

So I ate the evidence.

[Crackpot]

She's definitely attacking this from the wrong angle. She should point out the unlikelihood of jumping anything let alone a red light.

[Lord Jim]

This isn't the first time this crap has been used:

Obese Florida man, George Jolicoeur, avoids jail because he's too fat



A 600-pound Florida man, arrested for scamming restaurants in 2007, was offered a plea deal when prosecutors discovered it was too expensive to incarcerate him, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

George Jolicoeur, 38, is infamous for ordering food and then complaining about the quality and refusing to pay after he eats it.

The obese thief once devoured five milk shakes before finding a hair in the shake and refusing to pay.

Jolicoeur was arrested in 2007 after downing nearly $50 of beef jerky from a 7-Eleven, then claiming the last few scraps were moldy.

Police tracked him down at home and arrested him.

"The beef jerky got me," Jolicoeur said on his way to prison.

After Jolicoeur was charged with five counts of felony petty theft, he became ill and bedridden. He now resides in a nursing facility and relies on a respirator to breathe.

After prosecutors discovered that the state would have to foot the bill for Jolicoeur's medical care they offered a plea deal.

"He's in his prison cell," said Assistant State Attorney Kyan Ware. "He's not getting out of that bed."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... e-1.164923

Florida man claims he’s too obese to serve prison sentence



He's too big for the Big House.

A Florida man claims he is too obese to serve his 5-year federal prison sentence after pleading guilty in December to charges he ran a mortgage scam, reports TV Station WESH.

James Olivos, 47, walked very briskly — without the use of a cane or other assistance — outside court earlier this week as a reporter tried to talk to him. The convicted felon had told a judge he could not surrender to prison because he was too obese, the station reported.

He has missed three dates that were set for him to begin serving the sentence because of undocumented medical issues such as coughing up blood and pain in his feet, the station reported.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.1720692

Obese felon, 625lb, who claimed he could not go to prison because he was 'a prisoner in his own home' sentenced to 18 months - after he was caught driving

A 625 pound felon who claimed his size made him a virtual prisoner in his home and that he shouldn’t be sent to prison after being convicted of making a bomb threat was arrested by police on earlier this month behind the wheel of his car.

Jeffery Klein of Jackson, Michigan, had spent more than two years claiming that any time behind bars could put Klein at extreme risk after he admitted calling in a bomb threat at the Cedar Springs Mobile Estates on Aug. 25, 2012.



When Klein repeatedly failed to appear for court hearings his attorney maintained that his client was unable to get himself to the courtroom.

A Kent County Circuit Court judge was considering the possibility of home-based punishment after agreeing to take Klein’s plea via internet in December, reports MLive.

Then on New Year’s Day, police pulled over a car with a broken tail-light and found Klein behind the wheel.

Klein was arrested and housed at the Kent County Jail until he fell while using a walker and spent several days in the hospital prior to his January 23 sentencing.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... l-car.html

[Crackpot]

Uhh I think his picture is wassing up my phone

Eta the auto downsize function seemed to kick in after my post.