CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A transgender lady who looted a bank trying to be sent back to jail communicated an adjustment in heart, and a thoughtful judge sentenced her Wednesday to six years in a government ladies' jail, far not exactly the 20 years she could have gotten.
Linda Thompson, 59, told the court that whatever sentence U.S. Area Judge Nancy Freudenthal passed on would approve of her, yet she trusted yet to get a business driver's permit and get a vocation driving a truck.
"Nobody truly needs you to kick the bucket in jail," Freudenthal said. "There's more out there than hanging out in guardianship."
Thompson apologized to a teller at the U.S. Bank office in Cheyenne she looted in July. The teller and other bank representatives sitting in the gathering of people declined to address the court.
"My expectation was not to hurt you. My expectation was to backtrack to jail. I'm sad you must be a piece of that," Thompson told the lady.
In the wake of burglarizing the bank, Thompson tossed a portion of the money into the air and attempted to give some away. She sat down and sat tight for police to arrive.
She conceded in August. Amid Wednesday's to some degree upside down sentencing procedures, her lawyer, David Weiss, recognized the wrongdoing wasn't harmless in light of the fact that Thompson — who is chunky, stands well more than 6 feet tall and has a profound voice — was forcing as she gave the bank employee a hint showing she had a weapon.
"Spending her life in guardianship is a cop-out," Weiss told the court. "Consistently in jail is the same. Each issue she has with the framework she knows how to arrange."
Government prosecutor Stuart Healy concurred, including: "I don't think anyone in this court can envision the affliction Linda has experienced in this life to arrive."
Weiss and Healy concurred Thompson ought to be sentenced at the low end of government sentencing rules, and she was.
Thompson was discharged from jail in Oregon in June in the wake of serving time for theft, a wrongdoing likewise roused by a longing to come back to jail. She told Freudenthal she jumped on a cargo prepare to Cheyenne in any expectation of looking for some kind of employment despite the fact that she experienced issues getting the photograph distinguishing proof she required for the business driver's permit she needed.
She advised police she made plans to come back to jail in the wake of being assaulted in a recreation center. On Wednesday, be that as it may, Thompson communicated idealism she could finish treatment for liquor mishandle and land a position "contorting a controlling wheel" after her next discharge.
"It's urging to me you have solid, particular thoughts regarding how you could function," Freudenthal advised her. "It's confident and idealistic, and I truly welcome you sharing that."
Thompson was included in a 2007 narrative, "Coldblooded and Unusual," about the issues that imprisonment in men's detainment facilities exhibit for detainees who recognize as female. In the film, Thompson depicted mutilating herself after Idaho jail authorities wouldn't give her hormone medicines.
An effective claim against the Idaho Department of Corrections in the long run got her the medications, as per the film.
She had gone to jail in Idaho for taking. Her failure to look for some kind of employment since she recognized as female and dressed like a lady drove her to take electrical wire and offer it as scrap, Thompson said in the narrative.
"What am I expected to do to survive? I can't work. I'm not permitted in a sanctuary. I'm not permitted in a safeguard mission," she said in the film. "Yes, it's off-base. I know I shouldn't have done it. In any case, gracious well. I'm not going to lie about who and what I am."
Thompson served time in Washington state and Oregon after her detainment in Idaho. In the film, she said she kept on being rejected for work in western Wyoming's gas fields.
She additionally was not able get the hormone treatment she had gotten in jail, she said in the film.
"I wasn't on my pharmaceutical so I was truly getting into the self-destructive contemplations," she said in the narrative. "I deliberately got myself captured and sent back to jail, so I would get back on my solution."
Thompson has been getting sure hormone medications amid her late authority as a wellbeing measure in view of her self-mutilation, Weiss said.
Linda Thompson, 59, told the court that whatever sentence U.S. Area Judge Nancy Freudenthal passed on would approve of her, yet she trusted yet to get a business driver's permit and get a vocation driving a truck.
"Nobody truly needs you to kick the bucket in jail," Freudenthal said. "There's more out there than hanging out in guardianship."
Thompson apologized to a teller at the U.S. Bank office in Cheyenne she looted in July. The teller and other bank representatives sitting in the gathering of people declined to address the court.
"My expectation was not to hurt you. My expectation was to backtrack to jail. I'm sad you must be a piece of that," Thompson told the lady.
In the wake of burglarizing the bank, Thompson tossed a portion of the money into the air and attempted to give some away. She sat down and sat tight for police to arrive.
She conceded in August. Amid Wednesday's to some degree upside down sentencing procedures, her lawyer, David Weiss, recognized the wrongdoing wasn't harmless in light of the fact that Thompson — who is chunky, stands well more than 6 feet tall and has a profound voice — was forcing as she gave the bank employee a hint showing she had a weapon.
"Spending her life in guardianship is a cop-out," Weiss told the court. "Consistently in jail is the same. Each issue she has with the framework she knows how to arrange."
Government prosecutor Stuart Healy concurred, including: "I don't think anyone in this court can envision the affliction Linda has experienced in this life to arrive."
Weiss and Healy concurred Thompson ought to be sentenced at the low end of government sentencing rules, and she was.
Thompson was discharged from jail in Oregon in June in the wake of serving time for theft, a wrongdoing likewise roused by a longing to come back to jail. She told Freudenthal she jumped on a cargo prepare to Cheyenne in any expectation of looking for some kind of employment despite the fact that she experienced issues getting the photograph distinguishing proof she required for the business driver's permit she needed.
She advised police she made plans to come back to jail in the wake of being assaulted in a recreation center. On Wednesday, be that as it may, Thompson communicated idealism she could finish treatment for liquor mishandle and land a position "contorting a controlling wheel" after her next discharge.
"It's urging to me you have solid, particular thoughts regarding how you could function," Freudenthal advised her. "It's confident and idealistic, and I truly welcome you sharing that."
Thompson was included in a 2007 narrative, "Coldblooded and Unusual," about the issues that imprisonment in men's detainment facilities exhibit for detainees who recognize as female. In the film, Thompson depicted mutilating herself after Idaho jail authorities wouldn't give her hormone medicines.
An effective claim against the Idaho Department of Corrections in the long run got her the medications, as per the film.
She had gone to jail in Idaho for taking. Her failure to look for some kind of employment since she recognized as female and dressed like a lady drove her to take electrical wire and offer it as scrap, Thompson said in the narrative.
"What am I expected to do to survive? I can't work. I'm not permitted in a sanctuary. I'm not permitted in a safeguard mission," she said in the film. "Yes, it's off-base. I know I shouldn't have done it. In any case, gracious well. I'm not going to lie about who and what I am."
Thompson served time in Washington state and Oregon after her detainment in Idaho. In the film, she said she kept on being rejected for work in western Wyoming's gas fields.
She additionally was not able get the hormone treatment she had gotten in jail, she said in the film.
"I wasn't on my pharmaceutical so I was truly getting into the self-destructive contemplations," she said in the narrative. "I deliberately got myself captured and sent back to jail, so I would get back on my solution."
Thompson has been getting sure hormone medications amid her late authority as a wellbeing measure in view of her self-mutilation, Weiss said.
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