Girl In Golf-Club Attack Over Boy To Go Free

[The Straight Story]

Girl In Golf-Club Attack Over Boy To Go Free

POSTED: 6:07 pm EST March 9, 2006
UPDATED: 6:59 pm EST March 9, 2006

The family of a Central Florida teen who suffered brain damage after being beaten by a golf club-wielding girl was outraged Thursday after learning the attacker will soon be set free, according to Local 6 News.

Andrea Ross was 16 years old when she beat Mistie Caldwell in the head in 2004 during a fight over a boy in Titusville, Fla.

Caldwell was diagnosed with brain damage after the attack and will have to be on medicine for the rest of her life, Local 6 News reported.

Thursday, she begged a judge to keep Ross locked up.

"She almost murdered me," Caldwell said. "If someone tried to kill your son or daughter you would want them to stay in jail a little longer than 14 months."

http://www.local6.com/news/7858939/detail.html

[FreedomAngel82]

1. Wow only fourteen months?

How did that happen??? I'd be very afraid to knowing someone is going to come after me. :\

[The Straight Story]

2. The judge was probably a golfing fan....

Who knows why so little time, maybe because they need more room for pot smokers and people that smoke in bars.

[Radio_Guy]

3. Judge is probably a rethug

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Office of the State Attorney, 18th Judicial Circuit (approx. 10 yrs.)
Law Office of Burk & Meyer

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JUDICIAL HISTORY:
Elected Circuit Judge, 18th Judicial Circuit of Florida, 1994
Served in the civil/family division for 2 1/2 years
Serving in the felony division — July 1, 1997 to present

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The Tiger Bay Club
Brevard County Association of Chief's of Police
Knights of Columbus
Our Savior's Catholic Church, Cocoa Beach, Florida
Director of the Law Library at Viera, Florida
Rotary Club
Kiwanis Club
Brevard County Bar Association Judicial Liaison Committee
Inns of Court, Vassar B. Carlton Inn

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Salary: $139,497 as of 8/1/05
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Next Election: November 7, 2006
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