20 months for murder
 

Get me this guys lawyer if I ever need one.

-- A New Jersey judge approved a plea deal Friday that will set free a man who admitted murdering his 2-year-old son 17 years ago.

Curtis Williams confessed to beating son Curtis McCoy to death, after claiming for 16 years to have lost the child while shopping in Newark.

Williams told prosecutors where he buried the body in exchange for a plea deal that would set him free with time served -- only 20 months in prison.


http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/05/11/nj...lea/index.html

thats some fucked up shit

It probably has to do with it happening 17 years ago and him coming forward and confessing to it 17 years after it happened

that guy is a fat bastard!!!poor mother of the child...

That's one helluva long guilt trip... wonder what finally made him cave after 17 years?

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Classic example of every case being different....

Basically.. there is no evidence other than the defendant's admission. But sure... strange circumstances....

thats nothing, I read that this guy killed 4 women and he only got 6 years for it.

what kind of law is that??

Well if the guy doesn't confess and tell authorities where the body is the prosecutor has very little chance at a conviction and he/she knows that. Most if not all physical evidence and witnesses are going to be long gone by now. At least this way there is some closure for the rest of the family. If they take him to trial and lose (most likely outcome) there will still be lingering doubt and he will walk anyhow.

yeah, evidence of little evidence

Well O.J. got 0 months for murder... so it just goes to show you how our legal system really works...

Actually he spent 16 months in jail while on trial.

Yeah the thing is he told them where the body was and they looked and never found it. In most places when you reneg on your part of a plea deal it usually gets thrown out.