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  Princeton man gets five years in incident that killed Child Three. Written
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  by Tom Collins This article is being read by an automated voice
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  brought to you by Everlet. A Princeton man was sentenced Wednesday to
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  five years in prison for charges stemming from the Mother's Day incident
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  in rural Dupu case, during which a three-year-old was killed by police
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  gunfire. When offered a chance to speak, 42-year-old Anthony D Rodriguez stood
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  in a Bureau County courtroom and said he wasn’t in his right
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  mind when he held the victims at knife point, prompting police to
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  open fire when he refused multiple orders to release the captives. I'm
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  sorry for everything that happened, Rodriguez said. But the show of remorse
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  wasn't enough to persuade a judge to give him any reduction in
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  sentence. Rodriguez faced two to five years in prison for aggravated unlawful
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  restraint. He also was convicted of misdemeanor, assault, and domestic battery. But
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  Circuit Judge Gino Cafferini rejected calls for a mid range sentence. I
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  can't say the defendant's conduct will not reoccur, Cafferini said. As previously
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  reported, Rodriguez refused to release a woman and two children when so
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  instructed by responding police. Police entered and fired, striking and killing three-year-old
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  Damian Camacho. The events all were captured by police body cameras. Cap
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  Afferini reviewed a 17-minute segment before sentencing on Wednesday. Bureau County State's
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  attorney Daniel Anderson asked
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  for the full five years, citing the potential harm to the other
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  victims, as well as the avoidable death of the three-year-old. Rodriguez also
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  had a 2003 conviction for attempted murder out of Cook County There's
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  no reason not to ask for the maximum sentence, Anderson said. In
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  response, public defender Eric May asked for three years. May agreed the
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  question isn't whether punishment rather that probation was called for. It clearly
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  is, but nonetheless cited mitigating factors favoring a shorter sentence. He recommended
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  three years. May argued that Rodriguez's record was distant, and save for
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  the Cook County conviction nonviolent. While incarcerated, he said, Rodriguez was diagnosed
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  with multiple mental health disorders that had a major role in the
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  restraint case. But Cafferini called the overall circumstances egregious and
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  cited evidence that Rodriguez wouldn't comply with any court imposed conditions. He
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  noted that Rodriguez's past prison term was dotted with disciplinary infractions, and
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  that Rodriguez, while awaiting trial in La Salle County jail, repeatedly refused
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  to take his psychotropic medication. And with any sort of compliance the
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  judge noted Damien Camacho would be alive.