It's a tragedy, but I couldn't help think that this:
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Documents released this morning by the Arkansas Parole Board show police slaying suspect Maurice Clemmons was supposed to remain in prison there until at least 2015, but won his release by claiming he'd changed while behind bars.
Clemmons' appeal for clemency was granted in May 2000 by then-Gov. Mike Huckabee, who commuted Clemmons sentence and made him immediately eligible for parole.
Clemmons wrote in an appeal to Huckabee that he'd been sent to prison after an extended crime spree that started in 1989 when he was a teenager — and that he was a different person now.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...emency01m.html
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. . . . . . sounds an awful lot like Hi McDunnough at his various parole board hearings in Raising Arizona
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- Have you learned anything, Hi?
- Yes, sir. You bet.
- You wouldn't lie to us, would you, Hi?
- No, ma'am, hope to say.
OK, then.
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and then the next time . . . .
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Well, Hi, you done served your 14 months. And seein' as how you never use live ammo, we got no choice but to return you to society. These doors are gonna swing wide.
- l didn't wanna hurt anyone, sir.
- Hi, we respect that. But you're just hurting yourself with this rambunctious behavior.
- l know that, sir.
OK, then.
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. . . . . . and then the next time . . . . .
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They got a name for people like you, Hi. That name is called ''recidivism.''
Repeat offender! Not a pretty name, is it, Hi?
No, sir. That's one bonehead name. But that ain't me anymore.
Are you just tellin' us what we wanna hear?
No, sir, no way.
Cos we just wanna hear the truth.
Well, then l guess l am tellin' you what you wanna hear.
Boy, didn't we just tell you not to do that?
Yes, sir.
OK, then.
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http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_s...ript-coen.html
Sad for the officers. But this guy should never have been released.
This is really going to be an albatross around Huckabee's neck as well.
Cowperson