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Google News: Editorial: Sentencing needs scrutiny
[Greenville Daily Reflector] - Both Phillip Lewis and Eric Gilbert pleaded guilty to the charges in order to reduce the potential jail time they would face and, as a result, will serve terms in prison that do not seem commensurate with their crimes. While some have decried these
Google News: Letter: Justice system controlled by rich
[Greenville Daily Reflector] - Our family and friends could not raise half a million dollars, as Phillip Lewis' parents did, because we are just poor, white people. I read in The Daily Reflector that not only did Lewis spend fewer than 24 hours in jail, but he got a three-to-five
Google News: Letter: NAACP wrong in Lewis case
[Greenville Daily Reflector] - I will relate my comments to the alleged disparities between the convictions and incarcerations in the Phillip Lewis and James Richardson cases. It appalls me to realize that the NAACP would equivocate the case of one man (Richardson) in a fit of rage
Google News: Lewis case prompts rebuke
[Greenville Daily Reflector] - Civil rights leaders on Monday demanded a review of Pitt County's court system as Phillip Lewis, convicted last week of voluntary manslaughter, began a prison term activists denounced as a “gross miscarriage” of justice. Gathering outside its
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