Judge Dread: Meet the man who freed the man who shot the President

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | December 18, 2003 | Lowell Ponte

[Main Street]

U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman

[Consort]

[dennisw]

btttttttttttttt

[The Red Zone]

And now the would-be assassin who shot him is being unleashed only blocks away from the White House in which resides President George W. Bush, elected in 2000, a year ending in Zero.

Psst, President Bush, lay off those pretzels. They'll kill ya.

[Diogenesis]

"It is not like he shot a Democratic President or candidate like Robert Kennedy.
Who cares about Reagan, anyway?"

[shrinkermd]

I do believe this editorial misses the point. The issue is whether Mr. Hinckley is presently a danger to himself and others, not whether he should remain locked up forever.

It is a mistake to subvert mental health care into a system for continuing incarceration because the criminal legal system either failed (as in this case) or does not have appropriate remedies (such as in recidivist sexual offenders).

If you believe that Hinckley should never be released then you should find a legal remedy. Endlessly claiming someone is dangerous who is not is a false and dangerous way to keep someone in jail. The communists were notorious for using hospitals as an alternative to prisons with the very best of intentions. God forbid this should happen here.

As far as the past political actions of the Judge in question, it is hard to imagine a man of affairs without political opinions and experience. The real fault lies not in appointing this judge but in not appointing other (Republican) judges with political beliefs and experience --Bjork, Estrada and so forth.

[Diogenesis]

Letting such a premeditated shooter of a President go
is stupid, and is made ONLY to encourage others to attack non-Democratic Presidents.

The Magnificent Seven's only justice is for "just them" and the Clintons.

[G.Mason]

Lowell Ponte had a good article going until he got into that "ending in zero's" garbage.

The fact remains that there are many judges out there who are America's enemies.

Character does matter. That is why religion, the Boy Scouts, families, and anything wholesome are on their list of things to be destroyed.

[expatguy]

Someone please tell me this is a joke.

[Timeout]

Now THAT is definitely one o' them "metrosexuals".

[ovrtaxt]

Judge Bjork?!?

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Judge Dredd...?

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Clintonoid Judge Paul L. Friedman eagerly accepted the case of Democratic fundraiser Charlie Yah Lin Trie and threw out many charges against him. Trie later pled guilty after a federal appeals court overturned Friedman’s ruling.

BUMP

[WorkingClassFilth]

Quick! Somebody let Sirhan Sirhan out ASAP!

[Pharmboy]

Joe DiGenova (the US Prosecutor in charge of the Hinckley case) was on Imus this morning and said that in this case the judge was not at fault. He said the judge's "hands were tied" by the law. Joe clearly blamed congress for bad law (and BTW, he is no liberal).

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Quick! Somebody let Sirhan Sirhan out ASAP!

A very interesting idea. Let's see what Ted thinks about that.

[scotsman1]

The Iran-Contra trial a 'witchhunt'?.Oh,come on..............

[steve8714]

We open ourselves to tyranny when we call ourselves "a nation of laws". We are a nation of men who subject ourselves to the rule of laws for our common good. Nowhere in the Constitution is it written that the courts may rule us as they please.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

I do believe this editorial misses the point. The issue is whether Mr. Hinckley is presently a danger to himself and others, not whether he should remain locked up forever.

The point is intent!

Anyone who fires a gun at another person has the intention of killing that person.

The penalty for that outragious act, whether successful or not, should be death.

In my opinion, intending to kill, but missing the target is no excuse for a lesser penalty!!

[shhrubbery!]

Endlessly claiming someone is dangerous who is not is a false and dangerous way to keep someone in jail.

That's the justification for releasing the guy in Minnesota who probably killed Dru Sjodin, too.

If you believe that Hinckley should never be released then you should find a legal remedy.

What do you suggest? I think Republicans would like to abolish of the 'not guilty by reason of insanity' verdict (along with other legal reforms); but with trial lawyers in the Dims' hip pockets there's about as much chance for that as for the proverbial snowball in hell.

The real fault lies not in appointing this judge but in not appointing other (Republican) judges with political beliefs and experience --Bjork, Estrada and so forth.

Heh. Their names may derive from the same north Germanic root, but otherwise the similarities are... nil...