It's not often that a prison inmate will ask for more time added to his jail sentence but Eric Torpy has reason why he wanted to extend his.
Torpy was given thirty years in Oklahoma County for armed robbery but then added a rather strange request to the sentence.
We get more from Boston.com:
On October 2005, Torpy asked an Oklahoma County judge to tack on three more years to his 30-year prison sentence for armed robbery and two counts of shooting with intent to kill.Clearly his favorite Celtic should have been Robert Parish.
“He said if he was going down, he was going to go down in Larry Bird’s jersey,’’ Oklahoma District Judge Ray Elliott told the Associated Press back then. “He was just as happy as he could be.’’
But after sharing a 10-foot-by-15-foot cell at the Davis Correctional Facility for the last six years, Torpy regrets asking for the extra time.
“Now that I have to do that time, yes I do,’’ says Torpy. “I kind of wished that I had 30 instead of 33. Recently I’ve wisened up.
“That three is a big deal, you know? Three years matters.’’
Torpy will turn 33 this year and is not eligible for parole until 2033.
(Courtesy of Off the Bench)