Posted on 12/22/2010 4:13:46 AM PST by marktwain
Brian Aitken, the New Jersey gun owner whose seven-year sentence for gun and ammunition possession was commuted yesterday by Gov. Chris Christie, will appeal, his lawyer has stated. The commutation does not expunge his conviction, and as such, Aitken is currently prohibited from owning firearms.
I asked Aitken’s attorney Evan Nappen if there were any plans to try for pardon with full restoration of rights or some other strategy to effect the same, and if he had any statement for public consumption he'd care to make.
His reply:
Our next step is to win the appeal to vindicate Brian. I am confident of our success.
Nappen expanded on the reason for his confidence:
To my knowledge, this is first time in the US a Governor has commuted a prison sentence for a gun charge which was pending an appeal. The fact that the Governor did this extraordinary action speaks volumes to the "peril" of Jersey's gun law and the danger one can face from a judge who stops the jury from even considering the mere slivers of law which allow for legal gun possession in NJ.
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If he had been pardoned, he would not be able to appeal because there would be no “case or controversy” that would give him stanmdimg in court.
This was cleverly coordinated with the governor so that he would have a commuted sentence now, and a court victory and complete exonneration later. Then Christie can pardon him if the courts ultimately ignore the constitution.
This case has been a travesty from the moment of Brian’s detention. The travesty has been compounded at every turn by libard elitists posing as lawyers and judges. This judge in this case needs to be held responsible for the economic disaster he has visited upon this man, and should be made to serve the sentence he so egregiously imposed.
It they are not held accountable, they have no reason to stop their madness.
Right-wing blogger Hal Turner gets 33-month prison sentence
Blogger wrote that 3 Chicago-based judges ‘deserved to be killed’
December 21, 2010|By William Lee, Tribune reporter
A right-wing Internet radio host and blogger was sentenced to 33 months in prison Tuesday for calling for the killings of three Chicago federal appellate judges on his Web site last year.
Hal Turner, of New Jersey, was convicted in August by a federal jury in Brooklyn of threatening to assault and kill the three judges on the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago. Two earlier trials had ended with the juries deadlocked.
Meanwhile, leftist scumbags who openly advocated assassinating President Bush and even made a movie about it, are walking around free.
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