Our Say: Why Did Offender Get Endless Chances From the Courts?

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BERKMAN GATTON will get no second chances. After an active life, the 92-year-old spent his final months in a hospital, paralyzed and being fed through a tube - all because a drug addict and petty criminal had cut off a court-ordered ankle bracelet and was frantically trying to elude police.

For that matter, James Nichols, Mr. Gatton's stepson, probably isn't getting a second chance to get the sight back in one eye. He was in the vehicle with his stepfather on June 25, 2004, when it was hit by a tow truck driven by Michael Thomas Spears of Odenton.

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Our Say: Why Did Offender Get Endless Chances From the Courts?

Spears, however, got his second chance back in the 1980s. By this point, the number of chances he has gotten...

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