Court Reinstates Calif. Man's Execution

AP ^ | 11/13/6

[SmithL]

The Supreme Court on Monday moved to reinstate the death penalty for a California man convicted of murdering a 19-year-old woman during a burglary.

Justices reversed an appeals court ruling that threw out Fernando Belmontes' death sentence because the trial judge misled jurors who were considering whether to give Belmontes the death penalty or life in prison. The 5-4 decision was the court's first since starting its new term in October.

Justice Anthony Kennedy said it was implausible to conclude that jurors failed to take all the evidence into account before settling on a sentence of death.

Belmontes beat Steacy McConnell to death with a dumbbell bar in the burglary of her Victor, Calif., home in 1981. He was convicted of the crime and sentenced to death, a decision upheld by state courts and a federal judge.

The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, however, twice commuted the sentence.

[SmithL]

I do so love seeing the 9th Circus getting smacked down.

[libs_kma]

Isn't the ninth Circus court of appeals the most overruled court in the USA?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

If there is ever another revolution in this country, it'll start because of the 9th Circus.

[mkjessup]

If there is ever another revolution in this country, it'll start because of the 9th Circus.

And hopefully it will begin with a bowtie party for the illustrious 'jurists' of the 9th Circus.

[Phsstpok]

If there is ever another revolution in this country, it'll start because of the 9th Circus.

The next "revolution" in this country will start as a form of intifada, probably centered in Dearbornistan, but with pockets of Jihadis rising up all over this nation, declaring Sharia and demanding submission from the infidels.  Look for 1968 type burning cities.  In some areas Nation of Islam American blacks will join in, but that will be extremely limited, IMO.  The rioting will spread to disaffected types from all of the balkanized groups, probably starting with La Raza types in the southwest and the anarchists will throw their Molotov cocktails into the ring to round things out.

And this time, unlike 1968, the police won't be able or willing to end the rioting.  In many large cities they'll simply refuse to leave their precincts unless they have shoot to kill authority and they won't get that.  The President will call out the National Guard, but that effort will be hampered because so many of those units are engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Governors in states not badly hit will try to refuse to surrender their National Guard units to go bring order to cities hard hit in other states.

At this point the average citizens, particularly those with military experience, will realize that it's up to them.  You'll see impromptu groups spring up in the hard hit cities and start counter strikes against the rioters.  In short order our cities will look a lot like Ramadi or Baghdad.  But one thing you can be sure of, if all of this happens, there will be a sufficient number of pissed off folks in Northern California who will go looking for the judges on the 9th circus and they'll quickly be set up as human shields against the advancing hordes.

Tin foil hat removed, for now.  Feel free to either snigger or shudder, as you think best. 

[geezerwheezer]

Are not most of the 9th district judges political friends of Pelosi, Boxer, and Fienstein? It takes a dumba$$ to appoint another dumba$$ to a judgeship, and I love it when the Supremes open a can of whupass on those clowns and overturn them again and again. Seems as though they are all too stupid to learn the constitution, and they waste lots of taxpayer loot.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I'll just lay in a few more bricks, thanks.

[Mr. Jeeves]

And hopefully it will begin with a bowtie party for the illustrious 'jurists' of the 9th Circus.

That's the sentiment of a Sunni Muslim, not an American.

[newzjunkey]

Crime happened in 1981. Nineteen-Eighty-One. A quarter century ago. Why is this human debris still respiring??

[mkjessup]

That's the sentiment of a Sunni Muslim, not an American.

Don't call our Revolutionary founders Sunni Muslims, or are you forgetting that the American Revolution was violent?

Your inane comment is the sentiment of someone who has lost their spine and is too willing to bend over and take it.

[Mr. Jeeves]

There are processes to remove bad judges. If they aren't being used, it is our elected representatives (and by extension, all of us) who are spineless.

Stop making moronic death threats against public officals - you are the kind who gives FR a bad name.

[gridlock]

Do they really think this mope could have become even more of a societal asset than that star of the literary firmament, Tookie Williams? They executed Tookie, didn't they?

[Deo volente]

I would wager that the odds of an actual execution occurring in California in the next four years are close to zero.

The "enlightened" voters of this state only last week elected Jerry Brown as Attorney General. He is totally against the death penalty, and will do everything in his power to stop it from being enforced.

There are also cases pending before the state courts challenging the entire procedure of lethal injection, and at the moment, all executions are on indefinite hold.

[RightWingConspirator]

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals motto: "What Constitution? We don't need no stinkin' Constitution, We am de law!"

[xarmydog]

Sending in the National Guard is a joke too.They will need ammunition which my money says they wont be issued any.

[mkjessup]

There are processes to remove bad judges. If they aren't being used, it is our elected representatives (and by extension, all of us) who are spineless. Stop making moronic death threats against public officals - you are the kind who gives FR a bad name.

Wise up Jeeves, and take a look at post #4 from EricInTheOzarks that I originally responded to, and consider the context:

"If there is ever another revolution in this country, it'll start because of the 9th Circus."

Now pay close attention to that word "IF", i.e. 'IF' as in 'hypothetical' as in a revolution is NOT taking place TODAY, ok?

Based on Eric's HYPOTHETICAL statement, I responded with the comment that such a revolution should start "With a bowtie party" for the 9th Circus.

You come along and jump up with your 'ohhh, ohhh, there are PROCESSES to remove bad judges' when the hypothetical situation under discussion would not lend itself to your nice neat 'processes'. In other words, you automatically leaped to the conclusion that I was advocating violence against jurists of the 9th Circus TODAY, when I was doing no such thing, I was responding to EricInTheOzarks, and if you want to engage in premature exasperation, why did you not respond to Phsstpok's post #6 which goes into a whole lot more hypothetical detail that should of offended your delicate sensibilities?

As for 'giving FR a bad name', that's quite amusing coming from you, considering that based on your own home page here at FR, you're on your 3rd handle now. Unlike you, I won't speculate why, but you ought to read the *context* of posts before you engage your pompous gland and make foolish assumptions.

We're done here. Your guitars are calling you.

AMF. [Adios My Friend] :|

[zendari]

wtf? Why is this guy still alive? Fix the damn system.