Oh, My: Killer Pleads Guilty to Murder in Exchange for Light Sentencing $41.70 in Fast Food, Incuding Buckets of Fried Chicken, Pizza, Calzones and Lasagna

Tremayne "X-tra Crisp-E" Durham:
An appetite for self-destruction.

Before you laugh, note that I said "buckets," not a bucket. He's not a fool or anything.

Durham was sentenced Wednesday to life behind bars with a chance for parole in 30 years after pleading guilty last month to aggravated murder for Adam Calbreath’s brutal slaying.

Multnomah County, Ore., Judge Eric Bergstrom agreed to the unusual plea deal - which included buckets of fried chicken, pizza and lasagna - because it saved the expense of a trial and possible appeals. A murder trial could have cost the county about $4,000, officials said.

Durham’s insatiable need for greasy food - which included gorging on KFC and Popeye’s chicken, mashed potatoes, coleslaw, carrot cake, along with a pizza, two calzones, lasagna and ice cream - cost Oregon taxpayers only $41.70. Bergstrom signed off on the deal, and the killer downed the food in two sittings...

After a long wrangling over the terms of the plea deal, prosecutors and Mr. Durham agreed on one count of aggravated murder with a side of Super Size assault.

That last paragraph is made up, but the rest is all too real.

Thanks to MattM.

posted by Ace at 05:39 PM

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