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Judge Offers Defendant A Side Of Service With Her Prison Time

All in all, she shouldn't have wasted that rice.

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Safe food delivery at home during coronavirus covid-19 epidemicWorking in restaurants can change a person. Before law school and being a paralegal, I spent a lot of time washing dishes in the back of a Jersey restaurant. If you thought getting yelled out by your senior attorney was bad, try working a rush hour where every customer craving a burrito acts as if they’re a rainmaker. It’s about the same amount of stress with an hourly rate much closer to $8 than $120. Experiencing that on a day to day can offer perspective — that’s why a judge is giving a defendant the option of restaurant work over some jail time. From ABA Journal:

An Ohio woman who threw her Chipotle order at an employee can avoid part of her jail sentence if she works at a fast-food job, a judge ruled last week.

Judge Timothy Gilligan of Parma, Ohio, sentenced 39-year-old Rosemary Hayne on Nov. 28 to six months in prison, with three months suspended. But he said Hayne could avoid two months in jail if she worked at least 20 hours per week at a fast-food restaurant for two months.

Not only was the battery recorded, the judge explained his reasoning behind his decision:

It’s nice to see some implementation of restorative justice out in the wild. That said, if Rosemary ends up throwing food from the other side of the counter, I don’t imagine that will go too well for her. Keep up the faith though — empathy can go far. On the bright side, she’ll have a really good answer during the interview process on why she wants to work in fast food:

Woman Who Threw Chipotle Order At Employee Can Reduce Jail Sentence By Getting Fast-Food Job [ABA Journal]

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s.  He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.

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