Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Patricia Nuñez has expressed deep remorse over her decision to turn loose cop killer Tyrone Howard.
Posted on 10/24/2015 6:53:11 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Patricia Nuñez has expressed deep remorse over her decision to turn loose cop killer Tyrone Howard.
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......
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”.
“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.
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.
Yes let’s intimidate the judiciary. Because who cares about judicial independence. Am I right?
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.
And to think there are idiots out there who think people are incarcerated for their first drug offense.
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.
at least she said she was sorry....I’ll give her that....
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