Robber beaten by beauty students sentenced
The Associated Press
Friday, March 3rd, 2006 03:40 PM (PST)
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) - It seemed like a good idea, but all robbing a beauty school got Jared Gipson was the beating of a lifetime and 25 years in prison.
When he tried to hold up Blalock's Beauty College last June, the would-be victims attacked Gipson, pummeling him with curling irons, hair dryers, a table leg and their own fists. He had to be taken to the hospital and had 21 cuts stitched up.
But the same women who beat him later pleaded for mercy for Gipson, saying the more than 200 years he could have faced as a habitual offender was too much. Prosecutors agreed to drop that distinction, which reduced his maximum sentence to 104 years.
"They feel they inflicted some measure of justice themselves," prosecutor Brady O'Callahan said.
Gipson, 25, received a 25-year sentence for armed robbery Friday. Caddo District Judge Scott Crichton said it was a more lenient sentence than he would have imposed had the victims themselves not asked him to go easy.
Gipson said a friend told him the women at Blalock's would easy prey for a robbery.
"That was obviously some really, really bad advice," Crichton told him.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/24hour/weird/story/3217024p-11934057c.html
The Associated Press
Friday, March 3rd, 2006 03:40 PM (PST)
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) - It seemed like a good idea, but all robbing a beauty school got Jared Gipson was the beating of a lifetime and 25 years in prison.
When he tried to hold up Blalock's Beauty College last June, the would-be victims attacked Gipson, pummeling him with curling irons, hair dryers, a table leg and their own fists. He had to be taken to the hospital and had 21 cuts stitched up.
But the same women who beat him later pleaded for mercy for Gipson, saying the more than 200 years he could have faced as a habitual offender was too much. Prosecutors agreed to drop that distinction, which reduced his maximum sentence to 104 years.
"They feel they inflicted some measure of justice themselves," prosecutor Brady O'Callahan said.
Gipson, 25, received a 25-year sentence for armed robbery Friday. Caddo District Judge Scott Crichton said it was a more lenient sentence than he would have imposed had the victims themselves not asked him to go easy.
Gipson said a friend told him the women at Blalock's would easy prey for a robbery.
"That was obviously some really, really bad advice," Crichton told him.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/24hour/weird/story/3217024p-11934057c.html
