Say Good Bye Comdy

[dda]

Sometimes, what I do for a living can get a tad depressing.

Today I took part in a sentencing hearing on a young man who waw recently convicted of murder and attempted murder in a trial which I presented.

The young man, Comdy Vang, was 17-years old at the time that he decided to do a drive-by on another young man named Herseng Vang. Both are Hmong. Apparently, there are a limited number of family names among the Hmong. This is emphasized by the fact that the driver of the car from which the shots were fired is named Nu Her and the driver of one of the cars in the victim's group is named Nu Her.

At any rate, prior to the trial, Comdy was offered the opportunity to plead guilty to second degree murder with the use of a gun which would net him 25 years to life in prison. At age 42 he would have been eligible to seek parole.

Comdy's defense attorney tried to talk him into taking the deal (you can imagine how strong the evidence was that HIS attorney wanted him to plead guilty).

However, sadly for Comdy, he had "found religion" during the time he was awaiting tiral. Comdy chose to put his fate in the hands of his gods (some sort of tribal religion).

Comdy was convicted of everything in sight and was just sentenced, minutes ago, to life without the possibilty of parole. This means that Comdy will only get out of jail if he dies, is pardoned or the law changes.

Faith did not set him free.