I’ll be the first to admit that this JenaSix case is one of the strangest I have ever encountered. I started off in 100% support of the young men. My support slipped, however, when I saw two of the JenaSix profiling on a MySpace page with money hanging out of their mouths—money sent by citizens!

If that was not bad enough, two of them were at an awards ceremony dressed in loud clothing and sunglasses, acting like stars. It was all very inappropriate for young men in trouble. Then, we discover that their parents are driving around in expensive cars. Then we discover that the parents are not accounting for the bank accounts, yet have access to those accounts—money sent for lawyers!

I wish the young men well but I’m out of this mess:

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus called on Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco to pardon Mychal Bell and five other teenagers known as the “Jena 6.”

Congressional Black Caucus members want Mychal Bell and the other five teens of the “Jena 6″ to be pardoned.

Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee said in a letter to Blanco this week that Bell and the other teens have paid their debt to society and should be immediately pardoned.

“They and their families have suffered enough, as has the State of Louisiana and the town of Jena,” the letter reads.

Fourteen other members of the caucus joined Lee in urging Blanco to support releasing Bell, who was sentenced to 18 months in a juvenile facility on December 3 for his role in an assault last year on Justin Barker, a white student at Jena High School.

An e-mailed request for comment from Blanco was not immediately returned.

Bell pleaded guilty to a juvenile charge of second-degree battery in return for a deal that gave him credit for the 10 months he had already served. Without the deal, the 17-year-old faced being placed in a juvenile facility until his 21st birthday.

Source