They beat him, they bit him repeatedly, they drug him around the house by his ears, they taped his legs together, then his arms behind his back and left him to drowned in his own blood. After serving only three years in prison, they now walk among us as free people. How was this allowed to happen? I'll tell you. 

A series of mistakes, a judge sympathetic to the killers, a defense attorney with no conscious and a judicial system that doesn't see children as victims is how it happened. Throw in a little known law on the Ohio books called super shock probation and that's how these two vicious killers walked out of prison.  

If you've never heard of the super shock law, you're certainly not alone. It has crossed my mind more than once how this law was able to pass with so little knowledge by the public. I think it's one of those things they slipped in without anyone else knowing. Keep reading to learn what super shock is and how it works. After you've read it, I urge you to contact your congressman, your state senator and have this law repealed. 

Super shock probation allows a judge, at their discretion, to release convicted criminals from prison before they are even eligible for a parole hearing. How can that be you ask? Shock probation began as a scared straight sort of program in the mid 1970's. It was designed to give a person a taste of prison life in the hopes that they wouldn't want to go back. It was very seldom used for criminals serving long sentences. 

The law was changed, revised and added to when the lawmakers, in their infinite wisdom, added something called Super Shock Probation. Super shock probation said that a person need only server 90 days to be eligible for early release from prison. The prisoner could be let out at any time, no parole hearing was needed, no testimony, no nothing, only a judge to utter the words "let 'im go!" 

There are huge problems with super shock probation, the obvious one, criminals who should remain in prison are being let out early, but another problem, which I see as the main problem is this. Super shock probation does come with stipulations. One of those stipulations is that a criminal can only ask for super shock probation one time during the course of his sentence. If the request is denied, he can never ask for it again. Low life defense attorneys have however found a way around this little "problem".

Rather than risk a denial and forfeit any chance of another, the attorneys would "hint" to the judge that they were "thinking" of filing a petition for super shock probation for their client "so and so". The judge, who in my opinion is just as guilty of this miscarriage of justice as the scum bag defense attorneys, would let them know in no uncertain terms if they should or shouldn't make the request. If the attorneys heard something along these lines, " I don't think it's a good time for you do that." or "No, now's not a good time." The attorney knew not to file a request on the record.

The attorneys for Bourgeois and Bratton approached judge Miller about every six months and were told no. Personally, I think this in itself is a miscarriage of justice. It just goes to show that criminals can find a way around anything and I feel that the attorney's who defend them, are no better than the criminal themselves.