The honorable judge George Korpita. I stood in front of this man many many times. I once lived in his town as he liked to call it, one of many towns where he was the municipal court judge. He never sent me to prison but that's only because he doesn't have the authority. He can only give you a maximum of 354 days. One day shy of a prison sentence. Yea anything under a year is considered county time served at the counties jail where you were arrested. Anyway yea Mr. Korpita I remember always handled DWI cases first. I swear it seemed like he took joy in doing his job, always with that same smile like in the picture above. I was a regular in his court room as well as a few others. See I used to hustle in New York, and New Jersey, in Dover New Jersey. I had family lived near by there and I lived there once as I said. I stayed in near by towns as well through out years but had my block in Dover. I introduced Dover to curb side hustling, serving cars and we kept runners and look outs. A New York structure in a small urbanized suburban town. It was a gold mine but that's a whole other story.Korpita sent me to jail every chance he got. He also put me on every fucked up program they had. He always included a hefty as fine he knew you weren't ever going to pay, but it was a guarantee that you would be back again and again he was a thorn in my ass let me tell you. And he always had something to say. He hated if you called him man, or bro I remember him chewing people out if they called him anything other than your honor.The last time I saw this man he had me transported from Garden State Prison in Bordentown, NJ. I was serving 3 years for possession of weed, yea fucking weed. But I was also waiting to get extradited to New York. I was facing 10 years there for a trunk full of charges ranging from drug possessions, to theft and attempted arm robbery. Anyway I am led into Korpita's court room in prison uniform shackled, handcuffed and chained up. He say's you owe me $6000.00, when am I going to get my money? I laughed and said in about 10 to 15 years. He said he didn't think so. He said he wanted his money so he was going to sentence me to serve $20.00 per day, meaning everyday I served was $20.00 towards what I owe. I was hell, no problem thinking the states, any sentence lower than a current sentence already imposed will be served concurrently, meaning I don't do one extra day over what I was already serving. I said you're telling me, if I take this deal I won't owe you shit? I won't have to look at your face ever again? Ring me up I said and get me the fuck out of here. My grand total was 330 days. 300 for the $6,000.00 and 30 days contempt of court for my mouth.Well here I thought I got over on Korpita, but he got the last laugh that time. Seeing the sentence was for payment of fine due, the state stopped my prison sentence for 330 days after which my prison sentence of 3 years would resume, it was a nightmare.Here we are over a decade later, who do you think is laughing now? And people say there is no God, come on. Like I said in my blog about Arnold Schwarzenegger, God hands out the toughest sentences. When I roll in to grab a morning coffee the other day, I couldn't believe it, I was in shock. I ain't laugh for real, I did and do feel for the guy. It's tough waking up, rock bottom, realizing you been a total asshole all your life. That's saying he realizes it, he may just keep on thinking all these towns he presided over are his for real. The best part of this story is, he was quoted as saying to the arresting officer, "I'm a judge bro, think you can cut me a break?". I thought of all the times people said that to him, "bro, please cut me a break". He would say first off, you are not my bro, well there you go. I'm going to pray for this man for real. From the Frontlines yo. Peace. "X"
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another great blog post.
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