Loughner's Attorneys Seek to Halt Forced Medications [AZ Shooter Jared Loughner]

Attorneys for Jared Loughner, accused shooter of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others, have filed an emergency motion to block federal authorities from forcibly medicating their client with anti-psychotic drugs.

The motion, filed Friday in Tucson, Ariz., federal court, argues that the Justice Department is making "an end run" around Mr. Loughner's right to contest such treatment by misusing the rules governing administering such drugs.

According to the Friday court filing, federal officials took this second route by declaring the defendant a danger to others. This claim only came after Mr. Loughner refused to be medicated in an attempt to restore him to competency, the filing said.

The government's dangerousness claim came from Mr. Loughner having twice thrown a plastic chair within his cell, where he is held alone, and once spit on his attorneys, during his nearly six months of incarceration, the defense filing said. The chair incidents were so minor prison officials "saw no need to even write up a report" on them, the filing said.

Earlier this month, the government held an administrative hearing at the Missouri prison, the filing said. Mr. Loughner's request to have his attorneys called as witnesses was denied. The staff representative appointed for Mr. Loughner apparently didn't offer any testimony or evidence on his behalf, it added.

The Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman said she couldn't comment on whether prisons officials have started forcibly medicating Mr. Loughner.

The issue of when drugs can forcibly administered and what procedure should be used for determining their use in individual cases "is an issue just begging to be litigated," said Vanderbilt University law professor Christopher Slobogin. He said the 2003 Supreme Court decision left open a number of questions on this front, including what conduct constitutes a danger to others.

When they dispense justice instead of following the law……your government will pick the “winners” and the “losers.”

AG Eric Holder honors former boss AG Janet Reno.

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Elian Gonzalez: When Eric Holder Earned His Spurs

Nov 19, 2008-- NRO Confirming Fears ……………In any other time, [Eric] Holder would simply be an uninspired choice. But these are not ordinary times — we face a serious, persistent threat from Islamist terrorists. At the same time, Democrats have expressed outrage over both the alleged politicization of the Justice Department and the reckless disregard of its storied traditions. For these times, it is difficult to imagine a worse choice for AG than Eric Holder.

Much has been made, and appropriately so, of Holder’s untoward performance in the final corrupt act of the Clinton administration: the pardons issued in the departing president’s final hours. Of these, most notorious is the case of Marc Rich, an unrepentant fugitive wanted on extensive fraud, racketeering, and trading-with-the-enemy charges — but granted a pardon nonetheless thanks to the intercession of his ex-wife, a generous donor to Clinton’s library and legal-defense fund.

Holder’s role was aptly described as “unconscionable” by a congressional committee. He steered Rich’s allies to retain the influential former White House counsel Jack Quinn (Holder later conceded he hoped Quinn would help him become attorney general in a Gore administration); he helped Quinn directly lobby Clinton, doing an end-run around the standard pardon process (including DOJ’s pardon attorney); and he kept the deliberations hidden from the district U.S. attorney and investigative agencies prosecuting Rich so they couldn’t learn about the pardon application and register their objections.

There’s more. In 1999, over the objections of the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons, and prosecuting attorneys, Holder supported Clinton’s commutation of the sentences of 16 FALN conspirators. These pardons — of terrorists who even Holder has conceded had not expressed any remorse — were issued in the months after al-Qaeda’s 1998 U.S. embassy bombings, when the Clinton administration was pretending to be the scourge of terrorism. The commutations were nakedly political, obviously designed by Clinton to assist his wife’s impending Senate campaign by appealing to New York’s substantial Puerto Rican vote.

Equally noxious were the stealthy pardons of Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans — Weather Underground terrorists associated with Obama’s friends Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn — issued on the same day as the Rich pardon. Rosenberg and Evans had been serving decades-long sentences for bombings targeting American government facilities. With Holder again helping to circumvent the pardon process and to evade objections from prosecutors, the terrorists’ jail terms were commuted just weeks after the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole.

Under Holder’s stewardship, moreover, the Justice Department chose, in the Dickerson case, to oppose its own prosecutors and seek reversal of the conviction of a bank robber whose voluntary confession had been elicited without Miranda warnings. Taking the Justice Department’s signal, the Supreme Court overruled the lower courts and vacated the conviction, upending 30 years of precedent which had held that Miranda was not part of the core Fifth Amendment guarantee. Thanks to this ruling, rendered in the comfort of pre-9/11 complacence, terrorists tried in civilian courts — which is where Obama and Holder want them to be tried — will enjoy a powerful argument against the admission of critical confession evidence……..

Hi. Love the joke.

I know this is an “odd” thread but it just struck me that the prosecutors are so intent on keeping Loughner “manageable.”

Needless to say I am very leery about this as the Left, along with the local Tucson police chief, tried to pin this man’s actions on the Tea Party — just as Clinton tried to pin Oklahoma City on Rush Limbaugh.

So Loughner is being tugged at from his lawyers who want him to expose his mental disorder for his defense and the State that wants him not a “danger to others” (what the hell does that mean? They don’t drug disorderly people on those “jail” shows. They restrain them and bag their faces).

I’d like to know more about Jarad Loughner, his associations, his history and not just give him “happy” drugs before the State shuffles him off to a mental asylum like they did Reagan shooter, John Hinckley.

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