I wrote about 61-year-old Roger Stephens at another site last year but just to refresh your memory of the old fart Stephens is the man who slapped a two-year-old girl in the Wal-Mart in Stone Mountain, Georgia last year after he told her mother “If you don’t shut that baby up, I will shut her up for you.”
Nice.
Anyway, Stephens was sentenced yesterday to a year in jail after a bench trial was held. Both the defense and prosecutor agreed that a jury trial wasn’t needed. Personally I think Stephens would have gotten even more time than he did if a jury of his peers had anything to do with it, although getting a room full of snarling old men together at once probably wouldn’t have been a good idea.
