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Hirt was arrested in September when a woman reported he had attacked her when she wouldn't let him drive the car they were traveling in. According to the incident report filed by Saline County Sheriff's deputies, Hirt was intoxicated and became angry when the woman refused to let him drive.
During a subsequent trip from Salisbury to Miami, the woman said, Hirt became violent, kicking and damaging the interior of the car, grabbing the wheel of the car, nearly causing a crash, trying to choke her and at one point, while the vehicle was stopped, threw her to the ground.
Hirt was on probation after pleading guilty in January 2008 to class C felony vehicle tampering at the time of the incident.
In court proceedings Monday, Hirt was sentenced to 30 days on the domestic assault charge, and his probation was revoked in the vehicle tampering case, leading to the seven-year sentence.
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Fool me once...Shame on you...
Fool me twice...Shame on me...
Fool me five or six times... shame on Judge Rolf
Kathy Fairchild,
"Bobby G. Hirt, 29, of Marshall will be spending the next seven years in Missouri Department of Corrections"
Those are your words not mine. You wrote the article and stated he would be spending the next seven years at D.O.C. My point before you attacked, was just because a person is sentenced to seven years, they will in no way do seven years, they will do a fraction of the time. It can be found out what the exact time would be. I'd say three months on the year maybe? That's why we need truth in sentencing laws!
2004 Hirt was sentenced by Judge Rolf to 120 day shock for his felony case.
2007 Hirt was sentenced by Judge Rolf to 120 day shock for another felony case.
2009 has a pending felony case in Chartion county.
He also has numerous other charges, old and new.
Just how many breaks is due to this felon??
Also Gray Hair, it does revert back to the judge when he hands out 120 day shock sentences over and over to the same felon. It also is on the judges back when he setences everyone to concurrent terms in which they get no extra time for their multiple crimes.
Now bring on the attack because Gumby commented and we don't like what he says because it's not politically correct. I love left wingers...
Gray Hair: Thanks for chiming in. I appreciate your clarity.
Aikman8 I have no doubt what you say is 100% correct. Missouri's prison system is overcrowded and for each new inmate arriving at an intake center, some other inmate must be released. My comment was that deciding who is paroled and when is a function of the Department of Probation and Parole, not the sentencing Judge. Hope this helps. GH
gray hair ... what about the overcrowding in missouri prisons and these people getting 15%, 35%, or 85% of their actual sentences, depending on whether the word "assault" is in the conviction.
that info comes from someone who works for the d.o.c. ... would like your input.
Gumby, you disappoint me. Being a recent law school graduate, you surely know that once a defendant is sentenced, it is up to the Board of Probation and Parole when he/she will be released, not the Judge. The reason the Judge makes clear to a defendant that no one can make any promises as to how long he/she will actually serve is to keep the defendant from filing an ineffective assistance of counsel motion claiming his/her lawyer told him/her they would only do a certain amount of time on the executed sentence. Just interested in your matriculation. GH
Gumby: The sentence was handed down as 7 years and that is a fact. As he does in each and every case where the sentence is to DOC, the judge made clear to the defendant that no one can make any promises about how much (or how little) of the sentence will actually be served. He doesn't know, I don't know, and I'm darn sure you don't know.
Another concurrent sentence handed out by Judge Rolf. The article is very misleading, the defendant will not do anywhere near 7years in D. O. C., he will be out in 2-3 at the most.
Just waiting on the next election!