Georgia’s top NAACP official is calling for a state investigation into sentences given to two young white women in a recent bank robbery case. Edward DuBose says he’s asking the state attorney general to look into the so-called ‘Barbie bandits’ case in Cobb County. DuBose wants to know why the court gave the two women less jail time than two black men in the case. Last month 20-year-old Heather Johnston received 10 years probation for her guilty plea. 19-year-old Ashley Miller got two years in jail with eight years probation. The accomplices--both black--received harsher sentences. Michael Chastang was sentenced to 10 years behind bars for masterminding the scheme--bank teller Bennie Allen received five years in jail for the February 2007 bank robbery.
