Judge: Man Is Too Short for Prison

A judge said a 5-foot-1 man convicted of sexually assaulting a child was too small to survive in prison, and gave him 10 years of probation instead.



His crimes deserved a long sentence, District Judge Kristine Cecava said, but she worried that Richard W. Thompson, would be especially imperiled by prison dangers.

The Smoking Gun report is here, whilst you can view some other amusing mugshots here.