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When you got to go (to sentencing), you got to go

By Douglas A. Berman

This local story, headlined "25 miles from court and in want of a ride, man puts sole into attempt to see judge," highlights one person very motivated to get to court for sentencing:Early Tuesday morning, Stephen A. Shoemaker discovered, to his dismay, that he didn't have a ride to the Cumberland County Courthouse.  The Shippensburg man was supposed to be there at 9:30 a.m. to be sentenced on a drunken-driving conviction. He doesn't have a car or a driver's license. His brother, who was supposed to give him a lift, was a no-show. So Shoemaker, 33, started walking at dawn. And he kept walking through 90-plus-degree heat for about 25 miles -- with a detour to Carlisle Regional Medical Center -- until he arrived to stand before Judge Edward E...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 11, 2008 (boomark / email).