A while back I blogged about a drunk who wanted the police to take him to jail rather than a place to dry out. Along those lines, here's another person who demanded to be locked up, except this time it didn't happen:
A Kanawha judge has denied a request from a young Raleigh County woman who asked to go to jail rather than spend two years on probation and do some community service.Duke did not.
Victoria Lynn Summers, 22, of Beckley, convicted in magistrate court last spring of driving under the influence, appealed her sentence to circuit court of seven days in jail. At that time, she didn't want to be behind bars, telling Bloom she was in nursing assistant school, looking for a job and caring for her two-year-old son.
But on Thursday Summers said she has now changed her mind, and asked Judge Duke Bloom to change his.
Although it sounds odd, it's not completely unheard of. Federal convicts are required to serve a term of supervised release (essentially like probation) after being released from prison. If you violate a term of your supervised release, you can get sent back to prison and put on another term of supervised release. It's not uncommon for a client who has violated his supervised release (particularly for the second time or more) would rather do more prison time if it means not being "on paper" anymore.
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