Attorney O's Midnight Musings: Connecticut Law » Burglar http://ireneolszewski.com/ctlawblog Law Offices of Irene C. Olszewski, LLC Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:17:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 An 80-Year-Old Career Criminal http://ireneolszewski.com/ctlawblog/2010/02/25/an-80-year-old-career-criminal/ http://ireneolszewski.com/ctlawblog/2010/02/25/an-80-year-old-career-criminal/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:06:50 +0000 Irene C. Olszewski, Esq. http://ireneolszewski.com/ctlawblog/?p=750 I am always intrigued by the “strange” headlines I read in the online news media. Those stories are the ones that I just can’t resist at least peeking at because they’re usually good for a laugh. At the very least, they cause me to shake my head in wonder or disbelief. The following is one of those stories. Here’s a quick excerpt. The link to the full story appears at the end of this post.

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[Doris] Thompson, whose criminal record stretches back to 1955, pleaded guilty Wednesday to taking about $1,400 from the Children’s Medical Group in suburban Torrance.

[Thompson] called Deputy District Attorney Paulette Paccione “sweetie” and told the judge “God bless you” as he sentenced her to three years behind bars.

“She just likes to steal,” Paccione said Thursday. “It’s just been her occupation, I guess, for years and years and years.”

Read: 80-Year-Old Burglar To Judge: ‘God Bless You’

[Source: WFSB.com]

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