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NY: Judge Supports Soldier With Police Record Seeking to Join Force

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

November 14, 2008 Judge Supports Soldier With Police Record Seeking to Join Force By ANNE BARNARD NY Times They called themselves a ?band of brothers,? and they all wore their paratrooper badges as they stood in front of the judge: Specialist Osvaldo Hernandez, recently returned from a 15-month tour in Afghanistan; his lawyer, James D. Harmon Jr., a former prosecutor who served in Vietnam; and their expert witness, Randy Jergensen, a retired New York police detective who parachuted into battle in Korea. They appeared in court on Thursday to argue that Mr. Hernandez, who served a year on Rikers Island for illegal gun possession, a felony, before joining the Army, had turned his life around so impressively that he deserved the judge?s help to realize his dream: joining the New York police force...continue to full post

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