How do you feel about Prosecutors Gone Wild (Johnny Sutton)?
In this case we see an example of a law with a very high minimum sentence and no room for judicial discretion. It goes hand in hand with things like 'three strikes' laws which can send you to jail for relatively minor offenses which happen to qualify as felonies because a legislator wanted to convince voters he was a law and order hardass. Perhaps the greatest excesses are the inflated sentences applied to drug offenses where the 'criminals' ought to be going to rehab, not doing hard time.
Something is out of whack in our legal system. The wrong people are getting prosecuted and the wrong crimes are getting punished, often to serve a political agenda or the ambition of a prosecutor. We've got a higher proportion of our population in prison than any other western nation. Maybe it's time for our legislators to stop worrying about things like illegal immigration and start focusing on punishing real crimes and real criminals and clearing some of the poorly conceived laws off the books. On the other hand, they're the same people who wrote all the bad laws and launched the War on Drugs, so they'd probably just make things worse.
Only new thing here is the take that Sutton was trying to shift blame for his excesses to the folks at DOJ "headquarters".
Should there have been a headsup to someone in Washington to check through Sutton's travel vouchers going back over the last 5 years?
Things to look for: (1) how far from the airport to home, (2) how much spent on taxis around "noon" or 5 PM (mealtimes), with reference to where he was at the time, (3) recurring visits while in transit to spots where he had no current casework.
All of these things might seem to be minor, but a recurring pattern will frequently reveal the individual doing them does not have sufficient integrity to be doing the job he's paid for.
Oh, yeah #3 is almost always a situation where the traveler is diverting from the most expeditious route to stop off and see a girlfriend (his wife doesn't know about).
I'd kind of like to know where he parks his car when he goes to work. Is it in a designated spot at a federal courthouse or other government building, or has his office rented supplemental parking in a private garage? Then, what vehicle is he parking there ~ is it his own or is it owned by the govenment.
So many things to check, so much time to do the job, so much, so much ~ and in the end we can find out if Sutton is a crook which I suspect I suspect he is.
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(On Lou Dobbs just now) at an earlier event today(?)GWB called him(Sutton)"his good friend from Texas" that he's "known for a long time" and that "a jury of their peers" judged the border patrol agents "on the evidence given"...that perhaps others should not judge the jury's verdict without knowing all of the facts of the case.
This exchange followed a question from an audience member who basically said that in view of the widespread support for the two border patrol agents does that pretty much assure a commutation by the President, GWB basically said NO it doesn't.
Take that for what it's worth.
They don't belong in that position. They are dangerous!
George Bush said today that Sutton is a 'very dear friend from Texas' and a fair man. This was in response to a question as to whether he would pardon the border patrol officers. He was trying to talk about something else altogether, but people wouldn't let him...
The sentence was way too harsh. Sutton is a friend of president Bush, so I believe that he was carrying our Bush's request to make an example out of overly zealous border patrol agents. Bush wants the border patrol to be lax and allow as many illegals into the country as possible, because the corporate elite who made him president demand cheap labor! Bush should be impeached!
crook, typical politically driven pinhead, I could use a worse form of grammar to define that piece of work.
ya we need to completely revamp our "justice" system
I totally agree
time for cop-cams too - just like the red-light cams now monitoring us - we need cop-car-cams to monitor their every move while on our dime
are you just now realizing that prosecutors and some times judges are not as honest or above board as so many Americans believe?most prosecutors become prosecutors to further their political careers, just think about what a prosecutor said in Ga, about 2 years ago, his political platform was that he had 99 % conviction ratio during his career, yet the supreme court ruled long ago that a "prosecutors job was not merely to gain a conviction, but to see that justice was done," yet you see very day where a prosecutor will prefer charges against anyone they can as the prosecutor did in Ill, he put 47 men on death row, after an investigation it was proved he lied, had the police to lie, and knew some of these men were not guilty, so his punishment, they made him the states Attorney General, hmm horrible punishment ?this has happened so many times I don't see how any juror could pass a guilty verdict against anyone knowing how crooked they are and how much of the evidence is tainted, but. then Americans are pretty stupid to begin with,
They Agents should have been charged with a 'botched delivery' of pot. That would have been more like it. We're dealing with the biggest industry in the world against the border issue.
They are heros and it deeply disturbs me that my fellow American brothers are in jail sitting in the spot that should be reserved for drug smugglers or illegal aliens.
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