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Judge who signed off on treatment deal for suspected cop killer says she is ‘truly sorry’
FoxNews ^ | October 24, 2015 | staff

Posted on 10/24/2015 6:53:11 AM PDT by Leaning Right

One of the New York judges who helped send a suspected cop killer to rehab instead of jail five months ago said Friday that the deadly shooting "breaks her heart" and that she is "truly sorry."

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Patricia Nuñez told The New York Post that she will address the issue further at a Nov. 12 court date for the suspect, Tyrone Howard.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: judge; nunez
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To: The Cuban
Wow. Blaming a judge for a defendants killing of a cop months after a court disposition...

I see your wow, and raise you a wow.

I don't blame you for not reading the whole article. I rarely do that myself. But this is no ordinary defendent. He has a violent, gun-related past. Please note my post #1:

"He would have been the last person in New York City I would've wanted to see in the diversion program," Police Commissioner William Bratton said.

21 posted on 10/24/2015 7:40:49 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: The Free Engineer
We actually have a few FReepers who apparently agree with that. I went back and forth with them for a couple days this week. They're upset because convicted criminals have to pay the costs of providing them phone calls. "It's so unfair! Waa waa waah."
22 posted on 10/24/2015 7:48:25 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. ~ Þ)
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To: IronJack

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Patricia Nuñez has expressed deep remorse over her decision to turn loose cop killer Tyrone Howard.

23 posted on 10/24/2015 7:52:42 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: The Free Engineer
The judges seem to think that the purpose of the criminal justice system is to “help” the criminal rather then helping non-criminals by removing the dangerous from society.

Rehabilitation verses confinement...Hmm.

Rehabilitation is based on the theory that the criminal element is a person not criminally inclined for life, and that it just takes the right process or processes to straighten out the mind of the convicted person.

Rehabilitation has been a long standing position of the justice system, unless your crime is so horrendous, so sociopathic it overrides their liberal mental illness...

The possible rehabilitation of criminals which justifies their liberalism overrides the weight of protecting the general public...

...and people wonder why the hard core progressives think nothing of putting AGW deniers into prison is actually something said out loud......

24 posted on 10/24/2015 7:53:55 AM PDT by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: The Free Engineer

The judges seem to think that the purpose of the criminal justice system is to “help” the criminal rather then helping non-criminals by removing the dangerous from society.


I look at it as being much like ‘stockholm syndrome’. Psychologists, ‘social workers’ and many lawyers believe that their #1 function is to ‘help’ those they come in contact with. When you deal with ‘Crazy people’, ‘dindonuffins’, drug addicts and those who just plain don’t want to work or blame everything that went wrong in their lives on the ‘man’, the ‘System’ or the ________, they lose perspective from their lack of contact with the real people, the ones who don’t need help.

And when they lose that contact with ‘normals’ they become a hostage to their emotions and come to believe or even think like those they do come in contact with the most.

And that leads to things like this killing. When the proper ‘normal’ response would have been, “lock the bum up and throw away the key” instead of “I need to help this poor man and ease his troubles”.


25 posted on 10/24/2015 7:55:41 AM PDT by The Working Man
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To: Leaning Right
>>"breaks her heart" <<
She should have just cackled and said "what difference does it make?"
26 posted on 10/24/2015 7:57:10 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Leaning Right
This is a Fing judge? Corrupt mind and not fit to be a dog catcher.
27 posted on 10/24/2015 8:04:21 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: The Free Engineer

“The judges seem to think that the purpose of the criminal justice system is to “help” the criminal rather then helping non-criminals by removing the dangerous from society.”

Best comment on this thread! And there needs to be a more positive mechanism for relieving these idiots of their robes when they are shown to be incompetent.


28 posted on 10/24/2015 8:04:56 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: The Cuban

It would have been better if the perp had killed the judge. Then watch how vindictive the judges would be for killing one of their own.

The judge is not sorry for releasing this violent criminal. She is sorry it sullied her reputation and judgment. Yes! The judge should have been fired or removed. That might make other judges think twice about playing with innocent people’s lives.


29 posted on 10/24/2015 8:37:20 AM PDT by GilGil
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To: Leaning Right

Yes let’s intimidate the judiciary. Because who cares about judicial independence. Am I right?


30 posted on 10/24/2015 8:39:52 AM PDT by The Cuban
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To: The Cuban
Well, you do have a point. The judiciary must be able to act without worrying about their every move being scrutinized for possible errors.

Suppose a junkie nodding off on a park bench is arrested for drug possession. He has a non-violent past, and the prosecutor recommends alternative sentencing. The judge does so, and later the junkie kills someone. I would not fault the judge in that case.

But this case is different. The defendant had a history of gun possession. The prosecutor recommended against leniency. The judge disagreed. The judge went against common sense IMHO, and it is fair to call her out on it.

31 posted on 10/24/2015 8:55:59 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: Leaning Right
At 30, Howard has been arrested more than two dozen times since he was 13 and sentenced to state prison twice since 2007 for drug possession and sale. One term came after he tried unsuccessfully for drug court in a 2011 case charging him with smoking PCP while carrying 22 bags of crack cocaine. Howard eventually pleaded guilty to drug possession.

And to think there are idiots out there who think people are incarcerated for their first drug offense.

32 posted on 10/24/2015 10:14:40 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Obama = Harper - Mercer)
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To: canuck_conservative

It probably not the first or last time she’ll have blood on her hands. These days, apologies aren’t worth the breath to say them.


33 posted on 10/24/2015 10:22:08 AM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: GreyFriar

at least she said she was sorry....I’ll give her that....


34 posted on 10/24/2015 11:17:53 AM PDT by cherry
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