Snohomish County Jail

Pre-sentencing

Interview with Jon, Sabrina and Ronchie Boy


JM: Tell us about the pre-sentencing process:
Jon: The 1st court apperance I had was in Video court. Your jammed packed in a room a lot of people, and most of them smell. I was later bailed and returned to jail for a commitment
Sabrina: it was pretty horrible, i have never been in trouble before and considering the circumstances i was arrested under i should have been abile to keep my clean record. i was pushed and shoved my the arresting officers (i am tiny) i can say i will not ever again feel ok about a police officer...my police report was so far from the truth, i ended up in the hole for over a day due to the lies. there was many whitnesses to test to my side of the story but still the officers took statements from whitness's that did not whitness the actuall crime. i was being treated as if i had commited a mass murder...i can only now laugh at how horrible the justice system is
Ronchie Boy: I didn't have one I had an outstanding warrant for non compliance with a DUI. I explained why I never went to treatment for it and it's been 8 years. The judge gave me 90 days

JM: Did you have police stop by your house for questioning?
Jon: No
Sabrina: No absolutly not
Ronchie Boy: nope, I was arrested for an outstanding warrant.

JM: What was your court appearance like?
Jon: It was verry impersonal and kinda dehumanising
Sabrina: very aweful, my lawyer was more condernd about his relaitionship with the judge than my case. my judge was completly byist and as court would go on and on he would become irritated over unnessicary things during court. my judge also refused to give me a continuence for my fathers death, so on the day of his funual i was standing infront of that same judge that gave the 10 criminals before me a continuence.
Ronchie Boy: It lasted less than 3 minutes. I told the Judge I just wanted to be sentenced and that was that. I had already been in for a week waiting to see a judge.