RAISED BY DA STATE!!!

Re:Prince Rashid A.K.A Derrick Burton # 672621
RAISED BY THE STATE !!!
Dear Board Members, Friends, Family and etc.
Please approve Derrick Burton parole this is a petition on behalf of his freedom!!

Looking at the nature of the crime and time period that he was sentence to jail. I do not agree with the fact that he should be in prison for his entire sentence. He was sentence at the age of 14 and now he is 32 years old. And due to the fact that he does not have a life sentence he will be release from prison in the year 2013.

According to the statements that were made this child reaction was an act of an emotional and distress child and not a man He was a baby, and like any child he reacted and a foolish way, that causes him to be punished for 17 years of his life.

My heart goes out to the victim family because I too know how it feel to lose some one that you love and adore and to have them taken off the earth on the behalf of some one else it is devastating. At the same time when this happen to me I did not want to forgive and I wanted that person to suffer forever but I realized that's not my decision to make it is up to God and not me. I don't have the right to judge anyone future. The way I feel this has gone beyond what right and what wrong.

The young man has suffer more than we can possibly imagine he commit the crime at age 14 and been in prison for 17 years I think that he should be let go and if not now definitely later. How can you keep him in prison when he has done half of his time and more? Are you keeping him there because of the politics or the protesting? I know that you have released plenty of offenders who have committed crimes similar or more intense than this one.

I know how the family feel but parole is to give a person a second chance in life and I feel like it is over due don’t you? A child who never experiences anything and also has a family who misses and loves him as well. I think that he will be all right and I feel like he has been punished more than the next person who has committed a crime at a much older age as he. He has lost his life and I feel like he have done a life sentence already. No childhood, emotional distress, you probably had kids of your own let me ask you guys a question.

What if your child who has done this same crime what would you want to happen would you prefer 18 years or 30? Do you feel like they have learn a lesson through out all them years? Do you think that it right to keep your child for 22 years from age 14 to 32 can you honestly say that this person has not changed. I know I have changed through out the years can you say Mr. Burton is the same person he use to be at the age 14.

I don’t think so. It happens to the best of people and could have been your child and his same shoes. Parole is about giving people second changes in life so please take this in some thought process and look at this case on all possible levels. Please help up free a man that has been in prison since 14 years old.

He is an loving and respectful man who has grown up to be a lovely person this child has been thrown in jail as a young boy and has went through all the heartache in pain from the accident and the way he has been treated through out his life in prison this petition is to help the parole board consider Prince Rashid freedom form the state of Texas.