As a condition of her 18 months of probation, she must enter drug treatment. If she violates probation, she goes to jail for one to six years, and - the judge said - "closer to six."
Read about it here in Medill Reports: "Good Luck, Ms. Green."
Friday, June 11, 2010
Anna Green Given Probation, Drug Treatment, Last Chance
As a condition of her 18 months of probation, she must enter drug treatment. If she violates probation, she goes to jail for one to six years, and - the judge said - "closer to six."
Read about it here in Medill Reports: "Good Luck, Ms. Green."
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What a joke 300 arrests and she gets probation.
ReplyDelete“Sending her to the pen has done nothing,” Mandell said."
ReplyDeleteI fully agree sending her to the pen has done nothing. I would also agree all the years she's received social services in Uptown has done nothing as well. Many of the social services never got it that their help only enabled her to continue her drinking and prostituting.
You can't help someone unless they want help.
ReplyDeleteWe need to realize not everyone that gets help will clean up.
She needs to be in an institution 24/7.
“Sending her to the pen has done nothing,” Mandell said."
ReplyDeleteProbably not for her, but what about the rest of the community? Is there a point where you have to admit defeat on rehabilitation and start worrying about the rest of the community affected by her acts?
She will either turn her life around, or pay her debt to society, while her "customers" are free to consort with other ladies of the evening...
ReplyDeleteIt was time to admit defeat 200 arrests ago.
ReplyDeleteIn other news, I had the honor of seeing Pookie go wee on the side of my building.
ReplyDeleteYes, the blog comment about Pookies' death-by-overdose was greatly exaggerated. She lives! She poops!
ReplyDeleteBut, I still say she isn't drinking as much and seems on the upswing. Let's hope for her sake and ours.
I think the life of drugs, drinking and prostitution paid off well for her but we are the ones who got the sentence of the law having her right back in our neighborhoods to once again continue her acts.
ReplyDeleteI doubt Ms. Green is the only fist-swinging, drug dealing, dysfunctional hooker in Uptown. And who were these unhappy residents who attended her trial? The wives and girlfriends of Ms. Green's customers?! Aside from the number of times Ms. Green has been arrested, this story is rather unremarkable.
ReplyDeleteDaily Grunt, that's the whole point. 300 arrests.
ReplyDeleteDaily Grunt... While she might not be the only notorious Uptown prostitute, she's the only one I've ever had to repeatedly call 911 on for her oral performances near kids' schools multiple times in the 6 o'clock - 7 o'clock AM hour while I was walking my dog. She's also the only one whose "boyfriend" followed me to intimidate me from calling the cops on her. This story is very remarkable to Anna's neighbors.
ReplyDeleteYes. And most of the arrest are probably for selling what rightfully belongs to her. It's not like Ms. Green murdered 300 people, or even 3, for that matter. And as far as her aggravated assault charges go, I'm willing to bet she racked those up fighting off tricks who wanted freebies, and rival drug-dealers, who wanted to steal her stash.
ReplyDeleteI get it. Being arrested 300 times is excessive. But if the number of arrests, outweighs the seriousness of the offense(s), then a lot more people should be making front page news.
Mmm... I wonder how many people in Uptown have 300 parking tickets.
Seriously. When it comes to people who need to be evicted from Uptown, this chick doesn't even crack the top 100.
DG, if there's an arrest 301, you can go to court to support her. Those of us who have been threatened with violence by Anna, who have watched her sell drugs outside our homes, and who had been woken up at night by sex in our alleys, thanks to Miss Green and her clients, who reward by sharing a glass pipe of crack with her, rejoice in her absence and hope for her recovery.
ReplyDelete“Here is a woman who is a poverty victim. What does she have?” he said. “She has no skills. She can’t work, and the only way she can make money to stay alive is by prostituting.”
ReplyDeleteThe quote implies stopping her from committing public oral sex will cause her death because it's impossible to support herself any other way.
Anna Green has experienced victimization, but the worst victimization is when she's released from all accountability for her behavior.
The courts don't want to deal with her so they just dump the problem on Uptown.
ReplyDeleteThanks, judge. Can you give us your address so we can point her to your back alley and you kid's schools?
Judge Sacks: “Here is a woman who is a poverty victim. What does she have?” he said. “She has no skills. She can’t work, and the only way she can make money to stay alive is by prostituting.”
ReplyDeleteOh, here comes the victim excuse.
"She has no skills." She can't make a living --- or even stay alive -- without spreading her legs and opening her lips for money. Judge, you don't need special skills to make beds, wash floors, clean toilets and a hundred other jobs that people perform in this community to subsist. Perhaps Anna has no work ethic, but if she can perform manual labor, she can work. If she can't, one of the the hundred social service agencies in the neighborhood and the Dept of Human Services would have hooked her up to SSI disability by now.
"The only way she can make money to stay alive is by prostituting." Oh really? Does the judge apply that same reasoning to others who commit crimes because they don't find the free federal food stamps, free city shelters, free transitional housing, free State LINK program medical care, and free state cash allowance up to their high standards? While admittedly not sufficient to fuel drug use, many in this neighborhood scrape by crime-free on these subsistence benefits.
Under the Judge's reasoning, does he use his own legal precedents to excuse those who rob, murder, or assault to get more money for their drug use?
Come on, judge. Get with it. And, stop offloading the problem onto the neighbors in Uptown.
BTW, short of putting Anna in jail and stronger than having her voluntarily agree to go to drug treatment under a plea agreement, Judge Sacks could have and should have used the civil committment process for persons who are a danger to themselves and others. Then, she could be forced to stay in the treatment program.
Judge Sacks, wake up and pick up the phone and call Judge McGann to see how it's done. The law changed 6 months ago.
Actually, Truthbearer, it was her attorney who said all those things. Judge Sacks was ready to send her to jail. He's old school and a law-and-order guy. Mandell represented Anna pro bono, and he's the one who said all those things about her not having a choice except to prostitute herself.
ReplyDeleteWell guess what...anna was arrested again. She is in the county her court date is tomorrow the 16th.
ReplyDeletei saw anna green a month ago and she is now clean and sober
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