(OT) The Real Cool Hand Luke

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Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 20, 2014 - 07:18am PT
Notorious prison escapee Mark DeFriest took another step toward freedom Wednesday morning.

The Florida Commission on Offender Review voted to move his case to the full commission on Dec. 3, when all three commissioners will vote on whether to move up DeFriest's parole date by 60 months.

DeFriest is a Gadsden County native who first went to prison in 1979 on a 4-year sentence for taking his late father's tools before they were officially willed over to him. About a month into that sentence, he hopped a prison fence and hot-wired a friend's car, the first of his seven successful escapes in 13 attempts. Over the past 35 years, a series of other crimes has kept him behind bars, including crimes he's committed while out on escape. He's serving a 49-year sentence for stealing a car at gunpoint and another lengthy sentence for burglarizing a house.

Wednesday's decision was a change for the commission, which has delayed his parole date on multiple previous occasions for periods as long as 240 months, said DeFriest's attorney John Middleton. DeFriest, 55, currently has a parole date set in 2085.

Middleton said he was pleased by the decision and maintains his client is mentally ill and needs a transition program and a guided parole program rather than prison. He hopes to move up DeFriest's parole date to within the next year, enroll DeFriest in a transition program and then have the commission grant him conditional parole in another state.

"Mr. DeFriest has some mental health issues and what's happened here is there's been a collision between the correctional system and the mental health system," Middleton told commissioners Wednesday morning. "We're punishing him for being mentally ill."

DeFriest wasn't at Wednesday's hearing at the commission's office in Southwood. He is currently at an out-of-state prison since witnessing the death of a fellow inmate. He was represented by Middleton, his step sister and New York-based filmmaker Gabriel London, who made a documentary on DeFriest's life.

Some men you just can't reach.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 20, 2014 - 07:28am PT
Mr DeFriest's attorney is mentally ill.
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 20, 2014 - 07:46am PT
He's literally gone years without seeing the sun. Do some googling for the complete low down.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 20, 2014 - 08:03am PT
Anybody in Seattle can tell you that seeing the sun is over-rated.
two-shoes

Trad climber
Auberry, CA
Nov 21, 2014 - 04:32pm PT
This guy is a poster-child for the so many wrongs in our society!
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Nov 21, 2014 - 05:07pm PT
Dude is hardly in the same league as a guy with a vendetta against parking meters.

CHL never used a gun, but a pipe-cutting tool, right?
Ward Trotter

Trad climber
Nov 21, 2014 - 05:26pm PT
Congratulations , you've gotten more posts on this totally worthless OT subject than I did on my " Road Video " thread.
NutAgain!

Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
Nov 21, 2014 - 05:28pm PT
I can eat 50 eggs.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 21, 2014 - 05:29pm PT
Eat, or suck?
clinker

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
Nov 21, 2014 - 05:33pm PT
Congratulations , you've gotten more posts on this totally worthless OT subject than I did on my " Road Video " thread.

Your title sucks, The Real Cool Hand Luke grabbed my attention.
Ward Trotter

Trad climber
Nov 21, 2014 - 05:51pm PT
Next time my thread will be titled "Cool Hand Luke Road Video"
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 21, 2014 - 07:08pm PT
Congratulations ...

Ward, thanks, man.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Nov 21, 2014 - 07:12pm PT
Yeah, well I got sucked in thinking it might be about Luke Freeman, Werner's long-ago climbing mate, because he was cool, too.
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 21, 2014 - 07:13pm PT
Was he a hand?
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