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Bobby’s Crime & Punishment
Adapted from freebobbybostic.com

Bobby Bostic

    In the winter of 1995, Donald Hutson and I were walking down a street. We saw some people and decided to rob them. There were five people in this crowd, but we only robbed two of them. One victim was shot but not injured. About 30 minutes later, we committed another robbery. We also took this victim’s car and drove a few blocks away.
    I was charged with 17 counts from these incidents.
    A jury found me guilty of all counts. The jury recommended 30 years for three robberies, 15 years for the first-degree assaults and kidnapping, and 5 to 10 years for the attempted robberies and armed criminal action charges. The final decision was left to the judge: Run the sentences concurrently for a 30-year sentence or consecutively for a total of 240 years. The judge chose 240 years. He said, “Mr. Bostic, you will die in the Department of Corrections.”
    Two hundred and forty years was cruel and unusual punishment, the equivalent of life without parole. I was only 16 years old and no one was injured in my crime. Several months after I was sentenced, my adult co-defendant (he was 18 years old) was sentenced to 30 years for his crimes. He goes home in 8 years.

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