Mike Rossi pleads guilty to hitting a cop- a felony, only gets probation

Acting like a tween is nothing new for Rossi. He takes more selfies of himself than most tweens do. Grow up already Rossi. By the way Rossi, with your driving record, you should stop taking selfies while driving.

Inconvenient Truth wrote:

Grow up already Rossi.

The irony

With the Via Marathon now defunct and his time locked in history, his records stands forever as a testament to his one great heroic act as a human being: cheating to get to Boston. Has lied about it for years, assaulted women others, and now is a convicted felon on parole. The spiral continues.

He has noted he is #savedbygrace on Instagram but hasn't publicly repented of his actions or asked to be removed from any results. No action, just more empty words.

https://imgur.com/5hQsu66

This guy had a criminal record for similar behavior, then he actually assaults police officers and he gets no jail time? That really does seem remarkable. Any LRC lawyers know if this is common and maybe not as remarkable as it seems?

Kalahari Kid wrote:

With the Via Marathon now defunct and his time locked in history, his records stands forever as a testament to his one great heroic act as a human being: cheating to get to Boston. Has lied about it for years, assaulted women others, and now is a convicted felon on parole. The spiral continues.

He has noted he is #savedbygrace on Instagram but hasn't publicly repented of his actions or asked to be removed from any results. No action, just more empty words.

https://imgur.com/5hQsu66

What a complete moron. He displays a defunct website and company name, which is fitting, given that he is essentially defunct. 30 years of being a lush karaoke dj. The above picture of him and his ex-wife shows he had more curves than she did. Guess that explains his identifying as Lydia Romero.

wow, that seems crazy wrote:

This guy had a criminal record for similar behavior, then he actually assaults police officers and he gets no jail time? That really does seem remarkable. Any LRC lawyers know if this is common and maybe not as remarkable as it seems?

It really depends on extenuating circumstances. Mental health situations tend to be treated differently. Nobody here knows what was brought up to the DA and judge. Whether the defendant sought mental health or substance abuse treatment. What the victims positions were to the court.

Probation is no joke. You can't leave your home county without permission. Can't associate with certain people without permission. Can't drink. Can do reactional drugs. Even a speeding ticket can sink you. Mess up and you're out of options. Probation can be a lot more productive for the defendant and society. Part of it may also hinge on remaining in treatment, employed, etc.

The desire to throw everybody in jail where COVID spreads like wildfire is also much less intense right now.

There was no defense due to mental health issues. In fact, there was no defense because there was neve a trial. Bad behavior is bad behavior. He was offered a plea deal but when it came time to plead guilty and take the plea, he chose a bench trial instead. In spite of the efforts by his attorney to get the felony charges reduced to lesser charges, Rossi at the last minute decided not to proceed with the bench trial (likely in part because he knew he had no defense, especially since there is police video, except for being a complete self-absorbed A-hole and drunk) and accepted a sweetheart plea deal for one of the two felony charges with no jail time.

While you make some valid points, this was not a case where he is a first time offender, or even second time offender. That is the problematic part. Each time, his actions have resulted in greater violence. In his 2017 arrest, the woman's whose face he tuned up was his now ex-wife's. Since she was too scared and didn't show up twice for the court hearing, the one in which Rossi couldn't even admit to a reporter that he was in fact the infamous Michael A. Rossi (ironic his middle initial begins with the letter "A", see above reference in parentheses), the case was tossed. Yes, probation can be productive under the right circumstances, but this isn't one of them and he is not the model "citizen" for it. The SCI prison population in PA is 36,977. The total number of deaths due to covid is 141, or 0.0039%. Hardly wild fire. There were a greater number and drastically higher percentage of those in nursing homes who died because of the governor and his inept secretary of health, R. Levine, and there were not criminals who hurt or affected the lives of others. Currently as of this morning, there are 34 active covid cases in the PA prison system. I am sure more active covid cases crossed the border illegally yesterday or were aboard the transport plan that left Afghan two days ago that had 640 people aboard, none of whom had masks on in the picture.

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There was no defense due to mental health issues. In fact, there was no defense because there was never a trial. Sometimes bad behavior is bad behavior because of bad, immature people. Repetitive bad behavior should result in consequences. Sadly. this just reinforces to him that bad behavior is okay and demonstrates to society that some people get way too many breaks when others get none, many times for lesser offenses. He was offered a plea deal but when it came time to plead guilty and take the plea deal, he chose a bench trial instead. In spite of the efforts by his attorney to get the felony charges reduced to lesser charges, Rossi again changed his "mind" at the last minute and decided not to proceed with the bench trial (likely in part because he knew he had no defense, especially since there is police video of his assault, except for being a complete self-absorbed A-hole and drunk) and accepted a sweetheart plea deal to one of the two felony charges with no jail time.

While you make some valid points, this was not a case where he is a first time offender, or even second time offender. That is the problematic part. Each time, his actions have resulted in greater violence. In his 2017 arrest, the woman's whose face he tuned up was his now ex-wife's. Since she was too scared and didn't show up twice for the court hearing, the one in which Rossi couldn't even admit to a reporter that he was in fact the infamous Michael A. Rossi (ironic his middle initial begins with the letter "A", see above reference in parentheses), the case was tossed. I bet she regrets not testifying in 2017.

Yes, probation can be productive under the right circumstances, but this isn't one of them and he is not the model "citizen" for probation. The SCI prison population in PA is 36,977. The total number of deaths in these prisons due to covid is 141, or 0.0039%. While any death due to covid or any disease is sad, it hardly is a wild fire situation. There were a greater number and drastically higher percentage of those in nursing homes who died in PA (and NJ and NY) because of the governor and his inept secretary of health, R. Levine who put covid infected people into these nursing homes, and the residents of these nursing homes were not criminals who hurt or affected the lives of others. Currently as of this morning, there are 34 active covid cases in the PA prison system. Again, not a wildfire situation. I am sure more people crossed the border illegally yesterday and will today that had/have covid or were aboard the transport plane and had covid that left Afghanistan two days ago that had 640 people aboard, none of whom had masks on in the picture.

Mike Rossi essentially admits to cheating. Not much different than OJ's book, If I Did it.

https://i.imgur.com/ZCmcI5v.jpg

After reading the article about Mike Rossi, I can't understand why such an aggressive and very angry person is still not in prison? Personally, in my opinion, if a person does not respect either the law or the rights of people, he should not be in society. Such a person is not only psychologically unbalanced, but also dangerous for society. Why hasn't such a person been sued yet? For example, if I was attacked by an incomprehensible man, I would definitely sue him and ask for compensation for moral and physical damage. Such people need to be punished so that they can understand their mistake and stop doing bad things to others. By the way, I advise you to read https://ucmjdefense.com/military-sexual-assault-defenses-mistake-of-fact-explained-by-a-military-defense-lawyer.html to know more about the mistakes that people make in court.

slow jogger wrote:

It's crazy isn't it. Like if when the school said his kids absences were unexcused and he just said okay fine he probably would be living a totally different life. Even if he had just sent the letter to the principal to argue that the kids got an educational experience from going to Boston instead of school, it probably would have ended right there and his life would have just continued as it was. Instead he decided to post something to go viral, and his life has spun out of control.

All these years later every time this guy slips up LetsRun comment board catches it.

The lesson he actually taught his kids and maybe all other kids should be, stay off social media.

Yeah, it's called karma. He cheated, celebrated himself for it, and then had to double down on his bull$hit by seeking more attention by posting his crappy "how dare they!" letter on facebook. And then attacked anyone and everyone who wouldn't buy his cheating, liess, and denials. He did it to himself 100%.

Florida Man wrote:

Sounds like the guy is/was battling some intense demons, and this incident was his coming to Jesus moment. For 99.9% of Americans, life really can't get much worse than DV and assaulting a police officer.

Actually it could. Most would be held accountable for that assault, but for some mysterious, unknown reason...mike wasn't....hmmmm sounds about white.