Appeals court overrules judge and hands-out more lenient sentence to black female who punched-out elderly White female Walmart cashier

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Editor's Note: There should have been a hate-crime added to the charges, but, of course, there wasn't. Instead, because the perpetrator was black the appellate court reduced the sentence from 5 years to 1.

[Jaquetta] Simmons was convicted by a jury of peers in August of delivering a roundhouse punch to the face of 70-year-old Grace Suozzi, a Walmart cashier, on Christmas Eve 2011, after arguing with Suozzi about producing a receipt for her prior purchases.

Suozzi has not worked and reportedly rarely goes out of the house since the attack. . . . Read more