Glenn Alvin Reed turned down a plea bargain that would have sent him to prison for 15 years for stealing a cell phone. Taking his chances with a jury, he received a 99-year sentence instead.

Reed, 31, was convicted as a habitual criminal because he had prior felony convictions for injury to an elderly person and robbery, which bumped the minimum sentence from five to 25 years. He also had 15 misdemeanor convictions dating to 1991.

Reed testified during both phases of the trial, swearing and telling jurors he didn't care if they sent him to prison for life.

"There's things I choose to do, like, if I go in a store and choose to take a Snicker's bar," Reed testified. "If you catch me, you catch me. If not, I'm going to go home and eat it up and go on about my business, dog."

Maybe it was those comments that got him the extended sentence. Maybe it was his flipping off the retired Texas Ranger he had tried to rob a few years before (the Ranger overpowered him and took him into custody). Or maybe it was the fact that, when caught with the phone by the phone's owner, Reed than aussaulted him.

Frankly, Glenn Alvin Reed is too stupid to live, and I suspect the jury would have given him the needle to put him out of society's misery. Given that was not an option, I think 99 years is not a bad option -- especially since, if I recall the law on parole in this state, the earliest he will be eligible for a parole hearing is sometime after his seventieth birthday.

Smooth move, dumbass.

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