You may recall the armed robbery of a Crossville Dollar General Store last year.  Three suspects were involved.  One of the robbers has been sent to prison.  The other two involved got a little different sentence.  Judicial diversion.  The story comes from Mike Moser writing for the Crossville Chronicle and it is a very interesting story indeed.

Chronicle Story:

Two brothers were shown the path to redemption in Cumberland County Criminal Court Friday — given a rare second chance — when they learned the six-year prison sentences they were facing were being diverted. 

Randall Tyler Roberts, 22, and Justin Allen Roberts, 19, pleaded guilty in March to armed robbery and agreed to up to a six-year prison sentence with the Judge Gary McKenzie to decide at a sentencing hearing how the sentences were to be served.

The judge could have ordered six years to serve, a split sentence of up to one year to serve followed by either house arrest supervision of community corrections or traditional supervised probation, or suspended sentence with supervised probation.

The options are straightforward; the decision, not so much.  FULL STORY HERE