Leaving aside this particular individual's presumptive innocence or guilt...

"Years in the slammer" doesn't do it for me. Why should the State --i.e. all of us taxpayers-- pay to shelter, feed, and provide medical care for creepy people?

We need a whole different paradigm (excuse the buzzword) where there's some connection between crime and victim...and actual restitution. (And maybe actual rehabilitation.) We need the community involved...how does one pay back society for transgressions; how do we make victims whole? First off, we need to ask the victims...

Frank -- If the victim had both a gun and a phone in her pocket would it be her option as to which to use?

hold on. third degree robbery? so someone using a clearly deadly weapon (a car) to threaten, assault and rob people... obviously in a premeditated fashion (because he did it three times)... gets charged with third degree robbery? not to mention he threatened to kill her.

what is wrong with the DA?

someone using a clearly deadly weapon (a car)

People in this town dont usually consider a car a weapon (refer to recent incidents where a cop was in danger, and killed the suspect.)

But this guy should go away for a long time.
He should get an assault charge too...

The guy is an oxygen thief. I'd rather it be the time from a cell to the gurney.

People in this town dont usually consider a car a weapon

It really depends which way it's pointed.

Someone bumps into me and threatens to run me over with their car, and they'll see the business end of my CCW Glock. Simple answer.

If the choice is to be killed, or to have to defend your actions in court, I'll take my chances in court.

Is the implication being made that because he mugged a bicyclist that he deserves harsher punishment than your average garden variety mugger? By comparison, what should this guy get, assuming they catch him? Harsher? The same? Lighter?

How many years in the slammer should this creep get?

Six years. No, seven!

Five?

Is this a rhetorical question?

Consider buying one of these for the cyclist on your gift list.

The same as every other scumbag that commits the same crime.

Assuming he's eventually released, driver's license suspension of 1 year, 1 year prohibition from using any form of mass transit, and a free (used) bike from abandoned property inventory. Query, do we throw in a helmet?

Dave J--At first glance, I thought that scope was a handlebar-mounted gun of some kind. That would be the kind of give I would want.

Zeb--The outrage is because this coward attacked women in a very vulnerable position--on a bike--while operating a car, which can be very deadly. As a bicyclist and martial artist, I would love to have this guy attempt the same trick on me. He'd get a lesson in the art of Bikekwon-do. Nah, there's no such thing; I'd just beat the crap out of him, and that heavy U-lock I carry would come in handy, too.