California man sentenced to 7 years in prison for threatening daughter's boyfriend

[ShyGuyInChicago]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/08/02/2011-08-02_california_man_sentenced_to_7_years_in_prison_for_threatening_daughters_boyfr ien.html

An overprotective California dad was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for hanging "dead or alive" wanted posters for his 20-year-old daughter's boyfriend.Domingos Jose Oliveira, 49, hung the posters around Grossmont College in El Cajon after his daughter brought home new beau Sean Kirk, 33. The posters offered a $3,000 bounty for the death of his daughter's boyfriend.
Oliveira may have had reason for concern - Kirk is a registered sex offender who was convicted of committing "lewd and lascivious acts with a 14- or 15-year-old,"according to 10News.
"I think he was looking out for his daughter," Oliveira's lawyer, Michael Earle, told the TV station. "As most people, any father would. I mean what father wants his daughter dating a registered sex offender?"
Prosecutors said the protective father broke the law when he hung the signs, charging him with solicitation of murder in March. He was also charged with a hate crime and with making threats against his daughter, accusing him of scaring her and her boyfriend with a series of text messages and phone calls.
The charges carried a maximum 11 years in prison.
Despite the argument that Oliveira was just doing what any protective father would do, he was found guilty on two of the three charges last month.
The jury deadlocked on the third charge.

[TheMatrix]

Oh wow.
That dad took it just a tad too far with those posters, but shouldn't that daughter check the sex offenders list before dating?

[Magus]

Cali has gone real soft. What the fuck is that. Seriously, what the fuck.

[SosbanFach]

That's utterly ridiculous! 7-11 years? Really?

[Amnesiac]

That's utterly ridiculous! 7-11 years? Really?

Not at all. By putting up these posters, he's basically attempting to hire a hit-man – it says, right there in the article, that one of the charges was "solicitation of murder". He deserves all of the 7 years he's gotten; he's a piece of shit who is obviously a threat to his daughter and her boyfriend. The sex offender charge isn't relevant here; he had absolutely no reason to put those posters up.

[Bougainvillea]

Oh wow.
That dad took it just a tad too far with those posters, but shouldn't that daughter check the sex offenders list before dating?

Because that's obviously the first thing you do when you first start to date someone.

[UnknownError]

Lmao, he did go a bit far with the posters. But still, I think they knew he was a sex offender? I wouldnt think she'd still go out with him.

[SosbanFach]

Not at all. By putting up these posters, he's basically attempting to hire a hit-man – it says, right there in the article, that one of the charges was "solicitation of murder". He deserves all of the 7 years he's gotten; he's a piece of shit who is obviously a threat to his daughter and her boyfriend. The sex offender charge isn't relevant here; he had absolutely no reason to put those posters up.

I get that, obviously, but that long? He'd probably get that long for personally attempting murder in the UK, and while I feel that sentences here are too soft, seven years for posters seems a little OTT. Maybe three or for would be more suitable.

[Neptune]

He went way to far by putting up the posters. How old is the daughter? If she's over 18, let her be. If she gets in trouble with the guy, that's her problem. He was threatening the guy so yes, he should be in jail.

[dead]

This.Is.Funny.

[Sith Lord 13]

Not at all. By putting up these posters, he's basically attempting to hire a hit-man – it says, right there in the article, that one of the charges was "solicitation of murder". He deserves all of the 7 years he's gotten; he's a piece of shit who is obviously a threat to his daughter and her boyfriend. The sex offender charge isn't relevant here; he had absolutely no reason to put those posters up.

If anyone took those posters seriously, they're seriously ill. They're not the most appropriate thing, but I still think 7 years is way too harsh. Probation and community service, maybe.