Remorseful husband who robbed bank to escape wife is sentenced to home confinement

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[QUOTE][B]A remorseful 71-year-old man who robbed a Kansas City, Kan., bank last September and told police he hoped to land in prison to escape his wife told a federal judge Tuesday that heart surgery had left him depressed and unlike himself when he committed the crime.[/B]

Though Lawrence John Ripple pleaded guilty to bank robbery in January and could have spent up to 37 months in prison, his attorney and federal prosecutors asked a U.S. District Court judge for leniency. That request was supported by the vice president of the bank and the teller whom Ripple frightened, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Sheri Catania.

U.S. District Court Judge Carlos Murguia sentenced Ripple on Tuesday to six months of home confinement after public defender Chekasha Ramsey and Catania cited Ripple’s health issues, remorse and unlikeliness to reoffend.[/QUOTE]

[URL]http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article155936879.html[/URL]

[Akvai]

Home confinement in the same house as his wife, I suppose? Those heartless bastards!

[KhroyaenSkrafhar]

lmao at 71 and after a heart surgery, he seems pretty young in his body

[TheTalon]

I thought we had a thing about cruel and unusual punishment. I'd appeal!

[sir whoopsalot]

[quote]He suffered from depression after undergoing a quadruple bypass heart surgery in 2015, [/quote]

Fuck me, quad bypass.

Good thing this turned out the way it has.

[Geel]

Is there any information on [i]why[/i] he wanted to escape his wife?

[assclown]

Isn't leaving your house while under house arrest a crime? Seems like he has a second chance.

[27X]

It's a crime unless your probation officer approves your excursion.

[Shift28]

Was she abusive?