{"id":2413,"date":"2007-06-15T09:21:18","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T17:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/06\/the_judge_just_had_a_vision_of_a_great_t-shirt_free_the_sapphic_septet.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T12:42:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T17:42:13","slug":"the_judge_just","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/the_judge_just.html","title":{"rendered":"The Judge Just Had A Vision Of A Great T-Shirt: &#8220;Free The Sapphic Septet&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06152007\/news\/regionalnews\/brawl__bawl_regionalnews_laura_italiano.htm\">Maybe in eleven years she&#8217;ll be scared straight<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The pint-sized ring leader of a gang of seven rampaging lesbians collapsed shrieking in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday as a judge sentenced her to 11 years in prison for the brutal beat-down and stabbing of a man who promised to turn them &#8220;straight&#8221; in Greenwich Village last summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Noooo!&#8221; 4-foot-11, 95-pound Patreese Johnson wailed after learning her startling sentence &#8212; the highest several defense lawyers had ever heard of for a nonfatal stabbing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No!&#8221; she sobbed. &#8220;Please! Nooooo!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, 20, fell to the courtroom floor and was carried out kicking and screaming.<\/p>\n<p>She and her three co-de fendants, who were also sentenced yesterday, were convicted of second-degree gang assault during a sensational trial in April.<\/p>\n<p>Renata Hill, 25, was sentenced to eight years in prison; Venice Brown, 19, got five; Terraine Dandridge, 20, got 31\/2.<\/p>\n<p>The gang&#8217;s remaining three women are serving six-month prison terms after pleading guilty to lesser charges in the attack on Queens filmmaker Dwayne Buckle, 29.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson had been additionally convicted of first-degree gang assault for stabbing Buckle in the gut, and could have received anywhere from five to 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>The women claimed they attacked Buckle in self-defense after he lunged at them during an argument in which he allegedly said sex with him would turn them straight.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video belies that story, the prosecutor said in court.<\/p>\n<p>It shows at a brief lull in the brawl &#8212; and then the seething, Sapphic septet striking anew.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/the_unluckiest.html\">The Unluckiest Guy On The Face Of The Earth<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe in eleven years she&#8217;ll be scared straight: The pint-sized ring leader of a gang of seven rampaging lesbians collapsed shrieking in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday as a judge sentenced her to 11 years in prison for the brutal beat-down and stabbing of a man who promised to turn them &#8220;straight&#8221; in Greenwich Village last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}