Posted on 04/05/2010 10:46:03 AM PDT by AuntB
Three illegal immigrant gang members who faced the death penalty for murdering a Maryland man last summer have been spared by the nation’s chief law enforcement officer who has ordered prosecutors not to seek the maximum punishment.
Attorney General Eric Holder intervened on behalf of the El Salvadoran gangbangers by directing federal prosecutors handling their conspiracy and murder case to rule out the death penalty, according to a Virginia-based news web site that broke the story this week. The three illegal immigrants are members of a notoriously violent street gang called Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) that has spread throughout the country like the plague.
Last summer they robbed and murdered a man in Virginia as part of a conspiracy to extort money from his prostitution business. A few months later the illegal alien gang members were indicted with federal racketeering and murder. Federal prosecutors indicated that they would seek the death penalty and a court-appointed attorney for one of the defendants was dismissed because he lacked the proper certification for trying a death penalty case.
Just a few weeks ago, defense attorneys prepared jury questionnaires that alluded to the death penalty and eliminated jurors who might discriminate against Latinos. But as the May trial approaches, Holder stepped in and ruled out the death penalty. He refuses to explain the last-minute order claiming that that the attorney general’s decision-making process and final decision involving the death penalty is confidential.
Court documents cited in the news report say that Holder “authorized and directed” the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Neal McBride, “not to seek the death penalty” against the illegal immigrants. McBride subsequently filed a corresponding court document (Government’s Notice of Intent Not to Seek the Death Penalty) making it official.
This is hardly the first controversy involving President Obama’s attorney general. Holder ignited public outrage when he granted civilian criminal trials to several 9/11 terrorists—including mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed—in New York City and he actually filed a motion to reverse the jury convictions of a bribed U.S. Senator (Ted Stevens) who was found guilty of seven felonies.
Holder has also refused to investigate a fraud-infested community group (ACORN) that’s been criminally charged in various states and he dropped charges against the militant Black Panthers for intimidating voters during the 2008 presidential election. The attorney general also refused to criminally charge an Obama cabinet nominee, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who withdrew amid a pay to play corruption scandal.
Holder’s storied career at the Justice Department actually dates back to his days as Bill Clinton’s deputy attorney general, best known as the guy who orchestrated the last-minute pardons of two jailed domestic terrorists and a fugitive financier. Holder also coordinated the violent Miami raid on the house of a Cuban boy’s (Elian Gonzalez) family. Along with his boss, Attorney General Janet Reno, Holder ordered heavily armed federal agents to illegally break into the home of Elian’s relatives to take the boy on Good Friday in 2000.
The irony of the parallels does not escape me when you compare the methods used by the Obama Administration to ram socialized medicine down our throats to the methods used by MS13 when they...say...knock over a liquor store
Minority jurors will not convict on a death sentence .
If you were a Klan Grand Dragon up for a lynching, I’m sure they’d find it in them. Not that I’d blame them.
Hey, jla, the title of this thread says nothing about these gangbangers being Hispanic. But it turns out they are. I wouldn’t know that unless I visited the thread to see if it fits my ping list. I guess that also makes me racist, doesn’t it...?
Have I gotten my point through to you yet?
It is unfortunaed that EH is our AG.
LOL!
I think that should do it.
Yeah. I saw it while doing the ping list just now, and couldn't pass up the chance.
Got bumped off the Internet last night due to a power outage during a pretty good storm, so we decided to hit the sack. This morning, here comes another front while getting ready to to to the high school for our Key Club chapter meeting. Luckily, the timing was right and I made it between fronts. But more's a comin'...
Here’s one Holder missed.
Liberian teenager pleads guilty in rape case
[snip]PHOENIX —
Mar. 30, 2010
A teenage Liberian refugee charged in the gang-rape of an 8-year-old girl in Phoenix last summer pleaded guilty in the case Tuesday, authorities said.
Maricopa County prosecutors said the 15-year-old boy, who was transferred from adult court to juvenile court last week, pleaded guilty to sexual assault, kidnapping, three counts of sexual conduct with a minor and one count of attempted sexual conduct with a minor. He will remain in detention until an April 27 hearing.
The Associated Press is not naming the teen because of his age. He was 14 at the time of the July assault and had been the only one of four boys charged as an adult. All the children involved are refugees from the war-torn West African nation of Liberia.
Prosecutors said the girl was lured July 16 to an empty storage shed at a west Phoenix apartment complex with the promise of chewing gum. The oldest boy admitted holding the victim down while he and three other boys - ages 9, 10 and 13 - sexually assaulted the girl, according to authorities.
Liberians worldwide are watching the case, and many are concerned about how they will be perceived because of the attack. Rape was a common practice during the country’s 14 years of civil war, but Liberia now has some of the strictest laws against the crime in all of Africa.
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