Posted on 03/16/2010 6:34:17 AM PDT by Zakeet
President Obama's judicial nominees are getting more dangerous with each White House announcement.
If you don't believe us, consider one judge's opinion that the "sexual sadism" of a multiple rapist-murderer was "clearly a mitigating factor" that argued against executing the murderer and perhaps even against convicting him in the first place. Or that a type of Megan's Law sex-offender registry should be overturned because it "stigmatizes nondangerous registrants." Even a child-porn convict should serve a sentence less than half as long as official guidelines suggest if his mental and emotional condition is fragile.
U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny of Connecticut, appointed by President Clinton, thinks all of this crazy nonsense and has so ruled or argued. Yet on Feb. 24, Mr. Obama nominated Judge Chatigny for promotion to a seat on the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Senate Judiciary Committee rushed to schedule his nomination hearing for March 10 before Republican objections delayed it.
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The worst case, though, was that of serial murderer Michael Ross, who abducted, sexually tortured and then killed women or girls ...
The judge said he had been convinced that "sexual sadism" was a mental disorder that made Ross as much victim as criminal. Said the judge about Ross: "He's at Cornell, he had this classmate, this petite Asian girl who is sweet, and he likes her, and he winds up killing her because he has this affliction, this terrible disease ... this awful, uncontrollable impulse to sexually brutalize this person he liked and then kill her. ... Michael Ross may be the least culpable, the least, of the people on death row."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
No, but just from short quoted portion in the opening paragraph that appeared under the heading, it seemed to me the Judge was thinking along these lines. Why emphasize “cute Asian girl”, like if the girl was not Asian, or not cute, then none of this every would have happened? I saw the list of his victims, and the rest were not Asian, and about half were teenagers, one girl was only 14.
Considering the number of repeat offenders, if they had been taken care of the first time around, the streets would be a lot safer.
Not only would it prevent them from doing it again, but it would send a message to others thinking of the same thing and might discourage some of them.
She may very well have been trained, but I don’t know of any state that allows a 14 year old to carry a concealed weapon.
All the training in the world isn’t going to help unless the people can actually use it when they need to.
Funny how a hundred years or so ago, when all kids knew how to use a gun by that age, that firearms never posed the danger to society that the gun grabbers warn us will happen if they’re unrestricted.
Idiots......
RE “14 year old girl ...carry”
My bad; misread the article/gir’s age.
The rest of my commentary still stands, though.
Both of my kids shot Expert at young ages.
Both will protect their lives by any means necessary now.
You’re right, of course.
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