Ex-felon arrested in one-punch death on Las Vegas sidewalk

[Teh One Who Knocks]

KEN RITTER - Associated Press


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LAS VEGAS (AP) — An man held in the one-punch killing of a California father of five outside a downtown Las Vegas lounge served prison time in Nevada, police said Monday.

James Michael Beach, 27, was arrested Sunday after police say he was identified in security videos leaving the sidewalk scene where Luis Campos, 45, was fatally injured early April 30. Beach also uses the name James Michael Garcia, according to police and court records.

Campos, a truck driver from the Los Angeles-area city of La Puente, had been in Las Vegas for a bachelor party with his brothers, relatives said. He did not regain consciousness before he was pronounced dead Thursday at a Las Vegas hospital.

His wife, Julie Campos, told reporters Monday their family has been devastated by what she and police say was an apparently unprovoked attack. The couple has two young children and were nearing their third wedding anniversary. Luis Campos had three children from a previous marriage.

"You never would have thought just one sucker punch would snuff his beautiful life out," Julie Campos said.

Police Lt. Dan McGrath said Campos was standing in line outside the Vanguard Lounge when Beach stopped while walking past, asked what Campos was looking at, and punched him.

Beach's attorney, Gregory Knapp, said his client didn't mean to kill Campos, and will plead not guilty to a murder charge.

"It was a horrible accident and Mr. Beach feels terrible," Knapp said of the 1:30 a.m. incident. "Words were exchanged on some level and a punch was thrown. There was no premeditation, no malice. You don't expect someone to die. It was spontaneous."

Beach was released from state prison in September 2014 after served more than four years for pleading pleaded guilty to attempted murder and battery with a deadly weapon in a November 2008 shooting. A 19-year-old man was wounded in the heart and another man was wounded in the groin, according to court records.

Beach's sentence was two-to-10 years. He was not on probation when he was arrested Sunday.

Knapp said Beach was doing construction work, is engaged to be married and has a child.

[RBP]

:rip:

Have fun in prison, asswipe.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

POS

[deebakes]

i'm becoming more and more convinced that reformation is a farce. anyone have evidence to suggest assholes in prison turn their lives around upon release? :?

[RBP]

3 IN 4 FORMER PRISONERS IN 30 STATES ARRESTED WITHIN 5 YEARS OF RELEASE

WASHINGTON – An estimated two-thirds (68 percent) of 405,000 prisoners released in 30 states in 2005 were arrested for a new crime within three years of release from prison, and three-quarters (77 percent) were arrested within five years, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today.

More than a third (37 percent) of prisoners who were arrested within five years of release were arrested within the first six months after release, with more than half (57 percent) arrested by the end of the first year.

These findings are based on a BJS data collection, Recidivism of State Prisoners Released in 2005, which tracked a sample of former prison inmates from 30 states for five years following release in 2005.

During the five years after release, prisoners in the study were arrested about 1.2 million times across the country. A sixth (16 percent) of released prisoners were responsible for nearly half (48 percent) of the arrests. About two in five (42 percent) released prisoners were either not arrested or were arrested no more than once in the five years after release.

The longer released prisoners went without being arrested, the less likely they were to be arrested at all during the follow-up period. For example, 43 percent of released prisoners were arrested within one year of release, compared to 13 percent of those not arrested by the end of year four who were arrested in the fifth year after release.

Among prisoners released in 2005 in 23 states with available data on inmates returned to prison, about half (50 percent) had either a parole or probation violation or an arrest for a new crime within three years that led to imprisonment, and more than half (55 percent) had a parole or probation violation or an arrest within five years that led to imprisonment.

Recidivism rates varied with the attributes of the inmate. Prisoners released after serving time for a property offense were the most likely to recidivate. Within five years of release, 82 percent of property offenders were arrested for a new crime, compared to 77 percent of drug offenders, 74 percent of public order offenders and 71 percent of violent offenders.

Released prisoners who were incarcerated for a violent, property or drug crime were more likely than other released inmates to be arrested for a similar type of crime. Regardless of the incarceration offense, the majority (58 percent) of released prisoners were arrested for a public order offense within five years of release. An estimated 39 percent of released prisoners were arrested within five years for a drug offense, 38 percent for a property offense and 29 percent for a violent offense.

Recidivism was highest among males, blacks and young adults. By the end of the fifth year after release, more than three-quarters (78 percent) of males and two-thirds (68 percent) of females were arrested, a 10 percentage point difference that remained relatively stable during the entire 5-year follow-up period.

Five years after release from prison, black offenders had the highest recidivism rate (81 percent), compared to Hispanic (75 percent) and white (73 percent) offenders.

Recidivism rates declined with age. Within five years of release, 84 percent of inmates who were age 24 or younger at release were arrested for a new offense, compared to 79 percent of inmates ages 25 to 39 and 69 percent of those age 40 or older.

The arrest of former prisoners after release increased with the extent of their criminal history. Within five years of release, 61 percent of released inmates with four or fewer arrests in their prior criminal history were arrested, compared to 86 percent of those who had 10 or more prior arrests.

Many inmates had multi-state criminal history records. About a tenth (11 percent) of prisoners had an arrest within five years of release in a state other than the one that released them, and nearly a quarter (25 percent) of the released prisoners had a prior out-of-state arrest.

These findings from the recidivism study on prisoners released in 2005 in 30 states and tracked to 2010 cannot be directly compared to the previous BJS study on prisoners released in 1994 in 15 states due to changes in the demographic characteristics and criminal histories of the U.S. prison population, an increase in the number of states in the study and improvements made to the quality and completeness of the nation’s criminal history records since the mid-1990s.

https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/press/rprts05p0510pr.cfm

[RBP]

i'm becoming more and more convinced that reformation is a farce. anyone have evidence to suggest assholes in prison turn their lives around upon release? :?

The problem with your question is the assumption that there are active attempts to prevent recidivism.

[deebakes]

The problem with your question is the assumption that there are active attempts to prevent recidivism.

it is a really sad situation, because based on your statistics, why should they be let out without some major change taking place to prevent repeat offenses? :idk:

[RBP]

it is a really sad situation, because based on your statistics, why should they be let out without some major change taking place to prevent repeat offenses? :idk:

The problem with your question is the assumption that prison doesn't increase the likelihood they will re-offend.

[deebakes]

it doesn't increase their chances, they already committed offenses to get them there in the first place :shrug:

[RBP]

it doesn't increase their chances, they already committed offenses to get them there in the first place :shrug:

These guys come out with no bearings on society, no support, no trust, no money, no skills. They put them on a bus back to the same shithole they left. The end result shouldn't be shocking.

[deebakes]

so how does one go about fixing this fucked up situation? :?

[RBP]

so how does one go about fixing this fucked up situation? :?

That's like asking how to fix generational welfare. Nobody has a fucking clue.

[deebakes]

you should run for congress rbp :tup:

[RBP]

:lol: Far too many skeletons in that closet.

[Griffin]

you kept them at home? :-s

[lost in melb.]

Hear, hear to this conversation. As psychologists, we are moving towards the angle of prevention. (support when they are young) Every dollar spent towards helping kids saves 100s when they are adults.

The main problem is parents can get in the way.

[perrhaps]

Hear, hear to this conversation. As psychologists, we are moving towards the angle of prevention. (support when they are young) Every dollar spent towards helping kids saves 100s when they are adults.

The main problem is parents can get in the way.


And therein lies the rub. All the programs in the world, and all of the money thrown at education in our inner cities are wastes of effort and limited resources if parents aren't willing or able to be role models.
Yet, when this type of statement is made, cries of racism are leveled, and every excuse in the world is made for the creation of even more programs and greater infusion of cash demanded to be given to our public schools. Well, I contend that when over two-thirds of Black children born today in the US are raised from birth in one-parent households, the future results are as predictable as they are lamentable.
When V.P. Quayle suggested the creation of orphanages back in 1992 to help end the endless cycle of crime and poverty resulting from lack of proper parenting, he was vilified. Well, looking at the results 25 years later, I can't help but wonder if he might have been right.

[RBP]

And therein lies the rub. All the programs in the world, and all of the money thrown at education in our inner cities are wastes of effort and limited resources if parents aren't willing or able to be role models.
Yet, when this type of statement is made, cries of racism are leveled, and every excuse in the world is made for the creation of even more programs and greater infusion of cash demanded to be given to our public schools. Well, I contend that when over two-thirds of Black children born today in the US are raised from birth in one-parent households, the future results are as predictable as they are lamentable.
When V.P. Quayle suggested the creation of orphanages back in 1992 to help end the endless cycle of crime and poverty resulting from lack of proper parenting, he was vilified. Well, looking at the results 25 years later, I can't help but wonder if he might have been right.

Just pointing out one overlooked issue. Buried in the "single mother" story line is a disincentive to poor people marrying. Benefits are determined by household income. If she marries him, she has to claim his income. If she does not get married, she keeps claiming single mom status and gets a LOT more money for her kids. Is it fraud or smart? Not judging, just saying it's a part of the statistics.

[deebakes]

there should be more sterilizations :shrug:

[perrhaps]

Just pointing out one overlooked issue. Buried in the "single mother" story line is a disincentive to poor people marrying. Benefits are determined by household income. If she marries him, she has to claim his income. If she does not get married, she keeps claiming single mom status and gets a LOT more money for her kids. Is it fraud or smart? Not judging, just saying it's a part of the statistics.


I see your point, but a better question is why are we throwing more money at her if she can't properly raise her child?

[RBP]

I see your point, but a better question is why are we throwing more money at her if she can't properly raise her child?

Because there's a difference between poverty and neglect/abuse? And despite the big picture numbers, they don't realistically get a lot of money. Not commenting right or wrong, just saying they struggle, even with welfare and food stamps.

It took me a long time to finally understand something. For a LOT of people, there is no decision making connection, I mean NONE, between economics and having children. They will look at you like you have 3 heads and will get pissed off at you if you make the following statement: "People shouldn't have children they can't afford". Does. Not. Compute.

[perrhaps]

Because there's a difference between poverty and neglect/abuse? And despite the big picture numbers, they don't realistically get a lot of money. Not commenting right or wrong, just saying they struggle, even with welfare and food stamps.

It took me a long time to finally understand something. For a LOT of people, there is no decision making connection, I mean NONE, between economics and having children. They will look at you like you have 3 heads and will get pissed off at you if you make the following statement: "People shouldn't have children they can't afford". Does. Not. Compute.



True Dat!