Probation revoked for UNC murder suspect. Your thoughts?

Probation revoked for UNC murder suspect. Your thoughts?
Posted: Today at 10:15 a.m. Updated: 21 minutes ago Raleigh, N.C. — Probation was revoked Thursday for a man charged in the March 5 shooting death of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's student body president Through his attorney Rudy Renfer, Demario James Atwater, 21, admitted to violating his probation stemming from a Feb. 16, 2005, conviction of felony breaking and entering and larceny. He was on 36 months' probation for that conviction when he was convicted in Granville County on June 28, 2007, for possession of a firearm by a felon. That put him in violation of the terms of his release. Atwater also entered an Alford plea to charges that he violated his probation in Granville County. The judge ordered those prior suspended sentences activated, putting Atwater back in jail for 20 to 25 months. Renfer said Atwater did not think he was still on probation at the time of his Granville County conviction because probation officers from Wake County had not been in contact with him. It was a lack of supervision, he said, that caused Atwater not to pay fines, do community service or report to school or work because no one was making contact with him to tell him what to do. "They let him fall off the face of the probation map," Renfer said. It's called personal responsibility. That's something that Mr. Demario James Atwater obviously doesn't comprehend. ( o _ 0 )
Other - Society & Culture - 1 Answers - 2008-05-01 09:21:50

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Makes me wonder once again what it is that makes people think that they are not responsible for their own lives. It's always someone else's fault. The school, the government, the people in the community name it and they blame it. The things gone wrong in their lives is because of the "system" and not because they couldn't be ar*ed to take control of their own lives and do something about it. Why can't people just face the facts and why do they think that they don't have personal responsibility to begin with. Where did they get the idea? (*grrr*)