Will James White come back to life in 8½ years?

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Even in a conservative state like Kentucky, we have some soft-on-crime prosecutors!

    ‘Remorseful about what happened.’ Lexington man facing murder charge takes plea deal

    by Jeremy Chisenhall | Thursday, January 6, 2022 | 10:04 AM EST

    Dontate Burruss, photo by Fayette County Detention Center.

    A Lexington man has accepted a plea deal in a 2020 deadly shooting which will see him serve 10 years behind bars.

    Dontate Lamont Burruss, 48, pleaded guilty to manslaughter after previously being charged with the murder of James White outside the Motel 6 on Newtown Court in June 2020. Burruss was sentenced on Thursday to 10 years in prison without the possibility of probation.

    “Mr. Burruss has been from the very beginning, day one, remorseful about what happened,” Burruss’ attorney, Bonnie Potter, said in court Thursday. “ … He has accepted responsibility.”

There’s more at the original, though the photo of this convicted killer was not part of it.

Mr Burruss had been locked up for 527 days since his arrest on August 28, 2020. With credit for time already served, Mr Burruss will be back out on the streets in a shade more than 8½ years, just before his 56th birthday.

According to the Fayette County Detention Center records, Mr Burruss was charged with first degree manslaughter, first degree robbery, and a probation violation, which means he had been convicted in the past. The jail record on Mr Burruss shows six previous mugshots, dated January 10, 2020, August 21, 2019, January 4, 2019, November 9, 2017, February 8, 2017, and July 7, 2015. This is not a guy who simply made a very bad mistake; this is a man who has been a career criminal! Yet Fayette Circuit Judge Thomas L. Travis requested ‘mediation’ in this case due to ‘complex issues.’

What’s ‘complex’ about it? He shot a man, and the man died! Yet this career criminal is going to see daylight, as a free man, sometime around July 29, 2029, while James White will still be stone-cold graveyard dead. Mr Burruss made a self-defense claim at some point, but his self-defense occurred as he was robbing his victim. That’s murder during the commission of a felony!

There is no reason to have any confidence that someone with Mr Burruss’ record will ever be not a criminal upon his release; why would anyone, Judge Travis included, want to give him a lenient sentence?

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