Comments Thread For: Clifford Etienne Nearly Killed in Prison, Given Transfer

[Weltschmerz]

I believe he won't be out on parole according to the original sentence... Locked up for life.

[The Hammer]

[Sweet Jones]

Something tells me the Louisiana painting scene isn't the hardest scene to get into. Like getting into the Alabama chapter of Mensa.

Here's some of his ****.







http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/clifford-etienne

To each his own, I guess. Checked out the site and some of those paintings are very intriguing. Might pick up a print myself.

[PhillyBox11]

Shame about Clifford. Paintings are unbelievable.

[robbyheartbaby]

Damn his work is tight, I wonder if you can purchase it, shame he had a rubbish chin but still fought some good fights. Too common a story to throw it all away and spend life rotting away in prison.

[tgoodm10]

Something tells me the Louisiana painting scene isn't the hardest scene to get into. Like getting into the Alabama chapter of Mensa.

Here's some of his ****.







http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/clifford-etienne

Are you downplaying the quality of his work?

His paintings are awesome.

[Beercules]

Damn 105 years doe.

[Eastcoast]

I remember hearing about Ettiene when he was a high school football player who was heavily recruited then went to prison where he learned to box. He's been institutionalized from an early age.

http://sports.e spn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=2498005

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Former heavyweight boxer Clifford Etienne, who learned to fight while serving a prison sentence, has been sentenced to a century-and-a-half behind bars for a crime spree that included an attempt to shoot two police officers.

Etienne was convicted in March of attempted second-degree murder and several other charges after forcing his way into a Baton Rouge check cashing business and stealing more than $1,900 last August.

He tried to hijack one car with two children inside, then hijacked
another with two children inside before wrecking the second
vehicle.

Police said Etienne tried to fire at the police officers who
responded, but his gun jammed.

Jurors rejected his lawyers' argument that Etienne did not know
what he was doing because he was high on drugs and suffering from brain injuries sustained from boxing.

State District Judge Wilson Fields sentenced Etienne to 150
years, with no chance of parole, on Thursday.

Etienne, a former high school football star in Louisiana, was
paroled in 1998 after serving 10 years for attempted armed robbery.

He then became a professional boxer, nicknamed the "Black
Rhino." In 2001, Etienne signed a multifight deal with Showtime,
but his career ending soon after a 49-second first-round loss to
Mike Tyson in February 2003.

In January 2004, then-Louisiana Gov. Mike Foster denied a pardon
to Etienne.

[doninlouisiana]

Damn he tried to rob, kidnap, and kill a police officer?

Crazy ish...

You can get 99 yrs here in Louisiana just for robbery alone, Napoleonic Law.
(Only place in the US like it that I know of)

Sad deal when a young man throws it all away for something ******, just wasted talent

[Redd Foxx]

Are you downplaying the quality of his work?

His paintings are awesome.

Indeed! I majored in art and that is fantastic. Not specifically for the brush work, but for the choices made in composition.

Having just spent a week in Louisiana I think it would be completely ignorant to say that the art market there is easy to get into. There's a multitude of artists there competing to get what they can to survive. In fact, I don't think I've been to another city, aside from Los Angeles, that had such a surplus of artists struggling to make it, working odd jobs, begging, etc. And, the talent of the average starving artist in NOLA far exceeds that found in Los Angeles.