Felon Rhonda Renee Sutton Bryant Is About To Cheat The System Again

Look at Rhonda Renee Sutton Bryant smiling for her celebrity *cough* prison photo: 

One would normally expect a more somber expression considering the gravity of her actions and the consequences. It comes off as creepy and disrespectful, to me.

When Bruno Mars smiled for his mugshot, he later said that he was intoxicated. 

Justin Bieber’s goofy grin after his DUI arrest feels flippant and dismissive.

I’m not accusing Bryant of intoxication while her photo was taken, only of poor taste. You can think up your own story behind the smile and leave a comment if you like.

Please read the letter below and help stop Bryant from cheating the system again by writing a letter as soon as possible to 

Governor Pat McCrory

1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601 

http://www.patmccrory.com/contact

Dear Gentle Reader,

Allow me to remind you about my husband, Jeremy, a highly decorated sergeant major who honorably served more than 20 years in the Army, including nine overseas deployments, whose career ended because a habitually drunk and high driver, speeding 45 in a 25 in the wrong lane in a residential neighborhood near an elementary school, maimed him in our front yard on a sunny Saturday morning while I watched him nearly die, pinned between vehicles, in the most excruciating pain of his life, as his blood flowed into the gutter for about an hour. We spent more than two years living at Walter Reed hospital enduring a slow and painful recovery.

It took 17 months to put Rhonda Bryant in jail, for Felony DWI, convicted of NCGS 20-141.4 (a3) in which she was sentenced the “maximum” of 16-29 months. At that time we didn’t know that Bryant has been charged with DWI at least four times, plus open container and numerous other driving infractions.

Criminals work down their sentences, with 9 months not counting because they are set aside for probation. When we inquired with the State why she was getting out of jail early, August 5, 2015, they claimed that she earned 125 days. We found out that inmates convicted of DWI are not eligible for Earned Time according to the NC Department of Public Safety prison policy [Earned Time Credits .0113(f)(7) Page 6]. 

Then we were told that Bryant is not in jail for DWI, but for bodily injury. NCGS 20-141.4 is defined under NCGS 20-4.01.(24a)b. as an offense involving impaired driving, along with 20-138.1 (impaired driving) and 20-138.5 (habitual) in the same subset. The state, however, refuses to accept that Bryant is in prison for felony DWI, and the bill put forth by the General Assembly to enact 141 almost 10 years ago began, “AN ACT to strengthen the laws against impaired driving by increasing the punishment for felony death by vehicle and creating the offense of felony serious injury by vehicle.”

The state authorities are stuck on an erroneous interpretation of 141 by saying it is not a DWI because 138 is an element of the statute. Also the state claims that no agency has authority or jurisdiction to interpret it correctly in order to keep Bryant in prison.

I disagree. If you care about public safety and criminal accountability by holding Bryant in prison for the full extent that the law prescribes for such offenders, then please contact Governor McCrory and let him know how you interpret the laws as written, that they are unambiguous (clear), that Bryant is in jail for felony DWI, and she is not entitled to Earned Time per prison policy. Remember that Bryant gave Jeremy a life sentence to live a challenging and difficult life as a triple amputee.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely, Jenny Bruns

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/offendersearch.do?method=view

http://www1.aoc.state.nc.us/www/calendars/CriminalQuery.html

From Bryant's sentencing transcript, pp 43-44 Judge Claire Hill said: In the case of Rhonda Renee Sutton-Bryant, 13 CRS 53766, the defendant having pled guilty to felony serious injury by vehicle, a Class F felony; misdemeanor driving while impaired; and, a plea of responsible to driving left of center: The Court...makes the following judgment...turning to the driving while impaired, the Court arrests judgment on this misdemeanor as it is an element of the offense of felony -- felony serious injury by vehicle. The Court arrests judgment in that misdemeanor. Turning to 13 CRS 53766, Count I, felony serious injury by vehicle, consolidate the infraction into that for judgment...The Court finds that a motor vehicle was used in the commission of the offense, and this conviction shall be reported to the Department of Motor Vehicles.

BRYANT'S DRIVING RECORD SHOWS NOTHING ABOUT WHAT SHE DID TO JEREMY 

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