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On March 7, 2019, a court camera in Cleveland filmed a 24-year-old hear a judge sentence him to 43 years in prison for two home robberies. Nobody was killed. Nobody was shot.
He answered the judge with one obscene word, and the room exploded.
His name is Robert Howse. In September 2018 he was on parole after more than five years in prison for another home invasion. He was wearing a GPS ankle monitor. He said he owed $1,500 for drugs.
On September 12 he broke into the home of a 70-year-old woman and hid under her bed. When she found him, she locked herself in the bathroom and called 911.
Two days later, on September 14, in Gates Mills, Ohio, he was waiting in the barn of Joe Jurevicius, a former NFL receiver who won a Super Bowl with Tampa Bay. Jurevicius walked out after dinner to turn off the lights. Howse held him at gunpoint for more than 30 minutes and made him open his safe. To avoid leaving fingerprints, he put on Jurevicius's own Super Bowl gloves. Jurevicius offered him his Super Bowl ring. Howse turned it down.
Then he walked him toward the house, where his wife and kids were, and threatened to shoot him. Jurevicius ran inside, locked the door and hid with his family, holding a gun, until police came.
Howse pleaded guilty in January 2019.
In the video below, Judge Nancy McDonnell reads the sentence. 43 years. Howse curses at her. Deputies grab him and wrestle him out while he screams. His family starts shouting at the deputies. One woman insults the judge on her way out. The courtroom is cleared.
A man who walked out of prison on parole was back in a stranger's home within months. This time the judge made sure he wouldn't get another chance soon.
Was 43 years justice for a repeat offender who terrorized two families, or way too much for a robbery where nobody got hurt?
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Finesse2Tymes speaks on the Yella Beezy and Mo3 case, saying you can’t live a gangster lifestyle without expecting consequences 😬👀
“A lot of you nggas ain’t never did no time so you think it’s impossible for you, you think you can carry switches and shi, you think you can back door nggas and nothing ain’t gonna happen”
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Matt Barnes made about $35,000,000 in the NBA, and his mom died the night she told him to go play his game. When a former teammate started dating his ex-wife and hanging around his twin boys, the fight that followed cost him $64,409. Now he admits he went to therapy for sex addiction.
In the video below, Matt Barnes explains how he went from going after Derek Fisher to asking him to help raise his sons.
"Baby, go play in your game. I'll be here when you get back." She died that night. He tried to play the next day and spent the whole season in the clouds.
It all started in the 80s. His parents partied, his dad sold drugs, and Matt promised his mom he would get her out the moment he got paid. The money finally came with Golden State. She got sick at the start of the season and was gone in 26 days.
He says his dad never taught him how to love a woman. His first marriage ended, and months later his old teammate was with his ex and around his kids. Barnes went to the house. "Some of it dumb."
What took the anger out of him was his twins. "We love Derek."
So at a flag football game he called Fisher over and told him to be a father figure and teach them right from wrong. They apologized and shook hands.
Today he is in counseling for his childhood and for an addiction to sex.
Did losing his mom break something in Matt Barnes, or was it the thing that finally made him fix it?
