Another murderer treated leniently in Lexington Black lives don't really matter in Lexington

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From WKYT-TV, because the Lexington Herald-Leader ignored the story:

    Suspect in killing of Lexington teen pleads guilty

    Malachi Jackson, from WLEX-TV. Click to enlarge.

    By WKYT News Staff | Published: Jan. 19, 2022 at 2:12 PM EST

    LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – The suspect in a Lexington murder case has pleaded guilty.

    According to the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office, Malachi Jackson pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree manslaughter, second-degree assault, and first-degree criminal attempt to commit robbery.

    Police say Jackson shot and killed Kevin Olmeda, 15, on Garden Springs Drive in 2018. They believe the shooting stemmed from a drug-related dispute. Olmeda was a student at Lafayette High School.

    Jackson had been facing a murder charge.

    The commonwealth attorney says the recommended sentence is 15 years for manslaughter, 10 years for assault, and five years for criminal attempt to commit robbery.

We have previously mentioned the Fayette County Commonwealth’s Attorney, Lou Ann Red Corn, and noted her office’s acceptance of lenient plea bargain arrangements. And, Malachi Jackson, who was 16 at the time, killed 15-year-old Kevin Olmeda, purportedly over a drug dispute. Young Mr Jackson was arrested the night after the shooting, and has been locked up since May 23, 2018. This means that he has already served 3¾ years behind bars.

“Murder is not usually an entry-level crime. If you can’t lock up perpetrators of so-called “minor” offenses then you’re going to have a lot more murders. Nobody seems to care, as long as it’s just people killing each other in the ghetto, but then a UCLA student gets murdered, and some people start paying attention.” — Robert Stacy McCain.

First degree manslaughter is a Class B felony, carrying a sentence of 10 to 20 years, with a mandatory 85% of the sentence which must be served before parole is granted. The Commonwealth’s Attorney recommended 15 years on the manslaughter charge, 10 years on assault, and five years for attempted robbery. If the judge accepts those recommendations, and sets the sentences to run consecutively, Mr Jackson could be out after serving 15½ years, 3¾ of which have already elapsed. If the judge elects to have the sentences run concurrently, Mr Jackson could be out after serving 12¾ years, or just nine more years, when he would be only 31 years old.

In nine more years, Kevin Olmeda will still be stone cold graveyard dead.

Why did Lou Ann Red Corn go along with a plea bargain? Why didn’t she just laugh in Mr Jackson’s attorney’s face and take him to trial for murder? Murder is a capital offense in Kentucky, though, since Mr Jackson was a minor at the time he killed Mr Olmeda, the death penalty would not be on the table. However, the potential sentences could be life without parole, 25 years to life, or 20 to 50 years behind bars. Miss Red Corn could have seen this miscreant locked up until he was an elderly man.

Instead, she has opened the possibility that he could be back out on the streets as young as age 31.

I’ve said it before: black lives really don’t matter in Lexington, and Mr Olmeda’s black life was snuffed out when he was just 15 years old. Does Lou Ann Red Corn not care about that?

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