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Fellow sailor charged in seaman's death Houston Chronicle

23.07.09

The U.S. Navy has charged a sailor with murder and other crimes related to the slaying of a Houston seaman at the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in southern California, military officials announced Thursday.

Jonathan C. Campos, 32, of Lancaster, Calif., a second class petty officer, is charged with 16 criminal offenses, including murder, unlawfully handling his victim's remains by setting them on fire, stealing military property and soliciting a San Diego civilian to kill another fellow sailor, said U.S. Navy Capt. Matt Brown, spokesman for Navy Region Southwest.

Campos is accused in the shooting death of August “BJ” Provost III, 29, a gay sailor from Houston's Acres Homes neighborhood, who was killed June 30 while on duty in a guard shack at the southern California military camp.

After the slaying, Provost's remains were set on fire in an apparent attempt to destroy evidence, Navy officials said.

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New DWI policy leaves a lot to be desired

If rumors are to be believed, the new Harris County DWI policy going into effect on August 1, 2009, leaves a lot to be desired.
Apparently a citizen confronted with a first-time DWI will be offered pretrial diversion (if eligible) or 30 days in the county jail. The other option is to ask the judge for probation without a recommendation from the prosecutor.
For those unfortunate enough to pick up a second DWI, the choice will be 60-90 days in the county jail or asking the judge for probation without a recommendation from the prosecutor.
Said an unnamed source, "the plan is to force people into pretrial diversion."
The problem with such a "one size fits all" program is that one size doesn't fit all. There are no two identical drunk driving cases. The driving facts vary, the circumstances vary, the "results" of field sobriety exercises vary, breath test results or refusals vary. Such a program takes all discretion out of the hands of the prosecutors and reduces them to mere functionaries.
We've seen this scenario before - they were called the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and they hamstrung judges until the Booker decision.

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