I AIN'T REAL SURE ABOUT THIS...

Every once in a while something happens that makes me scratch my head. Edwin Edwards got 10 years for a lifetime of crime. The Jena 6 get wrist slaps for trying to kill some nerd. Then this guy gets 15 years... I don't really know how I feel about it, but I've gotta think there may be a better way to handle this cat. The article does not say if he's a life-time criminal or not, so the Judge may be right. Don't know...just makes me scratch my head...

Man who took one bill and handed rest back to bank teller gets 15-year sentence

A man who said he robbed a downtown Shreveport bank because he was out of a job and hungry has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for first-degree robbery.

Roy Brown, 54, of Audrey Lane, pleaded guilty in Caddo District Court to robbing the Capital One bank in December 2007.

Brown admitted walking up to a teller with one of his hands under his jacket and telling her it was a "stickup." The teller handed the man three stacks of bills and he took a single $100 bill, told her he was homeless and left, police said.

Brown surrendered to police the next day, telling them his mother didn't raise him that way.

Police let him sober up and interviewed him two days later. Police said Brown told them he needed money to stay in a downtown detox center, had nowhere to stay and was hungry -- so he walked up the street and robbed the bank.