Federal judge throws out piracy charge against six Somalis

CNN ^ | 8/17/2010

[markomalley]

A federal judge on Tuesday threw out a piracy charge against six Somalis in the April attack on the USS Ashland naval ship in the Gulf of Aden.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Raymond Jackson granted a motion by the defendants to dismiss the piracy charge. They still face other charges in the attack, in which one of their companions was killed.

Jackson noted that the Somali attackers never attempted to board the Ashland. He ruled that the U.S. government failed to demonstrate that any attack on the high seas amounts to piracy.

[markomalley]

I swear these courts have a death with for the US.

[ColdOne]

I swear these courts have a death with for the US. Yep.

[Mr Rogers]

Yep. They were just passing by, and wanted to show off the new guns they had bought...

Is gross stupidity a requirement to be on the federal courts?

[La Lydia]

Wonder if this judge goes on vacation cruises. A Clinton appointee. Much of our federal judiciary serves the interests of everyone in the world but the American people.

[icwhatudo]

"Well now mate...technically speaking... I never did manage to board the ship to pirate off any booty because they opened fire on me ship. Therefore E pluribus unum ad infitum we aren't pirates now...get it matey?"

[Tzimisce]

We’re never going to beat these people. :(:(:(

[skeeter]

Wow, this is unexpected.

And here I had reservations about bringing muslim terrorists to the US and trying them as criminals.

Extreme sarcasm off.

[Lancey Howard]

This race-hustling scumbag, Judge Raymond Jackson, is just another corrupt, America-hating p.o.s.
He was nominated by Clinton (surprise, surprise) in 1993.

[Psalm 144]

We’re never going to beat these people.

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Well, beating them is not the solution anyway.

Far too temporary as an influence.

[pnh102]

I wonder if this ruling is due more to the government not following rules of evidence-gathering in criminal trials as opposed to bias on the part of the judge.

This just makes the case that these pirates should have been made to walk the plank.

[ArmstedFragg]

This is why you don’t arrest them, you just hang them.

[hosepipe]

http://www.jtbf.org/index.php?src=directory&view=biographies&srctype=detail&refno=86

[skeeter]

Successfully attack and board a US ship = a pirate.

Unsuccessfully attack and fail to board a US ship = future resident alien welfare leach.

[Paladin2]

"This is why you don’t arrest them, you just hang them."

Good Point.

They are, after all, no better than a common horse thief.

[VeniVidiVici]

Maybe we can get the judge to invite some of his Somali brethren over for supper.

[WellyP]

SCUM BAG helping his “brothers”!!

[apocalypto]

Judge Raymond Jackson is mentally unhinged. Is there an appeal to this crazy man’s ruling?

[Valpal1]

Too funny, I think you have this judicial nimrod pegged.

[Valpal1]

Too funny, I think you have this judicial nimrod pegged.

[oldbill]

This judge is playing the race card.
He considers the pirates victims because they are blacks.