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Former Oakland fast food robber Clarence Esteen, 31, had his sentencing revised by Pamela Price, the district attorney for Alameda County. Esteen allegedly held up three separate victims in an hour.
The maximum sentence that Esteen faces is fifteen years in jail. According to the district attorney, that term could be increased to 30 years in prison due to his past convictions.
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According to the complaint, Esteen allegedly had an altercation with a McDonald’s employee on July 5 in the 6600 block of San Pablo Avenue.
The lawsuit stated that thirty minutes after that, Esteen allegedly went to a Papa John’s restaurant a few blocks away and confronted the cashiers, demanding payment.
A short while after that, on the same block as the Papa John’s, Esteen allegedly went into Cassave Restaurant and Taqueria, where he allegedly demanded payment from the employees.
The Oakland court handed down a five-year sentence to 16-year-old Esteen for robbery in 2009, plus an extra 25 years to life for a firearm enhancement.
Following a motion by the district attorney’s office in May, the court reduced his sentence from 25 years with a gun enhancement to 10 years, bringing the total to 18 years. According to the district attorney’s office, Esteen managed to serve 15 years out of a 30-year sentence, with an additional three years deducted for good behavior.
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In this case, the court did not require the district attorney to provide reentry advice. The most important things that were suggested for Mr. Esteen were that he should stay in transitional housing for a year, undergo cognitive behavioral therapy for six months, go back to school to get his diploma or prove that he has already done so, participate in a program for college technical education or trade school while he was there, and be subject to drug testing for a year.
See was announced to have been freed from prison on June 24 by the Alameda County District Attorney’s office.