CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A transgender lady who ransacked 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. Region Judge Nancy Freudenthal passed on would approve of her, however she trusted yet to get a business driver's permit and find an occupation 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 workers sitting in the group of onlookers 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 on the grounds 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 demonstrating 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 torment 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 subsequent to serving time for theft, a wrongdoing likewise roused by a craving to come back to jail. She told Freudenthal she bounced on a cargo prepare to Cheyenne in any desire for looking for some kind of employment despite the fact that she experienced issues getting the photograph recognizable proof she required for the business driver's permit she needed.
She advised police she set out to come back to jail subsequent to being assaulted in a recreation center. On Wednesday, be that as it may, Thompson communicated confidence she could finish treatment for liquor mishandle and land a position "turning 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 hopeful, and I truly welcome you sharing that."
Thompson was included in a 2007 narrative, "Pitiless and Unusual," about the issues that imprisonment in men's penitentiaries introduce for prisoners who recognize as female. In the film, Thompson depicted maiming herself after Idaho jail authorities wouldn't give her hormone medications.
An effective claim against the Idaho Department of Corrections in the long run got her the medicines, as indicated by the film.
She had gone to jail in Idaho for taking. Her powerlessness 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 an asylum. 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. Be that as it may, 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 considerations," 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 guardianship as a wellbeing measure due to her self-maiming, Weiss said.
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Linda Thompson, 59, told the court that whatever sentence U.S. Region Judge Nancy Freudenthal passed on would approve of her, however she trusted yet to get a business driver's permit and find an occupation 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 workers sitting in the group of onlookers 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 on the grounds 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 demonstrating 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 torment 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 subsequent to serving time for theft, a wrongdoing likewise roused by a craving to come back to jail. She told Freudenthal she bounced on a cargo prepare to Cheyenne in any desire for looking for some kind of employment despite the fact that she experienced issues getting the photograph recognizable proof she required for the business driver's permit she needed.
She advised police she set out to come back to jail subsequent to being assaulted in a recreation center. On Wednesday, be that as it may, Thompson communicated confidence she could finish treatment for liquor mishandle and land a position "turning 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 hopeful, and I truly welcome you sharing that."
Thompson was included in a 2007 narrative, "Pitiless and Unusual," about the issues that imprisonment in men's penitentiaries introduce for prisoners who recognize as female. In the film, Thompson depicted maiming herself after Idaho jail authorities wouldn't give her hormone medications.
An effective claim against the Idaho Department of Corrections in the long run got her the medicines, as indicated by the film.
She had gone to jail in Idaho for taking. Her powerlessness 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 an asylum. 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. Be that as it may, 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 considerations," 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 guardianship as a wellbeing measure due to her self-maiming, Weiss said.
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