Posted on 06/01/2016 10:17:14 AM PDT by Cyberman
...Snow declared that Arpaio, his Chief Deputy Jerry Sheridan, Lieutenant Joe Sousa, and former executive chief Brian Sands were guilty of civil contempt for the MCSO's defiance of the judge's orders arising from the civil-rights case Melendres v. Arpaio, in which Arpaio and his agency were found to have committed widespread racial profiling against Latinos in Maricopa County. In a 162-page "Findings of Fact," Snow ruled that Arpaio, Sheridan, and others at MCSO "willfully" and "intentionally" thumbed their noses at the court's dictates and were dishonest with the court and the monitor appointed to watch over the agency.
The purpose of Tuesday's hearing was to discuss remedies for the civil contempt violations and the possibility of referring Arpaio and others to the U.S. Attorney's Office for Arizona for criminal contempt charges, which could carry prison sentences.
During the hearing, Snow said he was considering four individuals for criminal contempt referrals: Arpaio; Sheridan; the former head of the MCSO's internal affairs unit (known as the Professional Standards Bureau), Captain Steve Bailey; and longtime attorney for the MCSO Michele Iafrate....
In its response to Snow's recent findings, the ACLU, which represents the plaintiffs, asked Snow in a memorandum to refer Arpaio and Sheridan to the U.S. Attorney for investigation and possible prosecution for perjury, obstruction of justice, lying to the monitor, and other federal crimes. The ACLU also requested that the sheriff personally be fined $300,000 as part of a civil remedy. ACLU attorney Cecillia Wang raised these issues again at the hearing, flatly stating that "perjury was committed" by Arpaio and Sheridan during their testimony last year....
(Excerpt) Read more at phoenixnewtimes.com ...
Havpng read this http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/judge-snow-arpaio-committed-perjury-criminal-referral-to-come-8338270#! I smell RATs at hand.
If most of the crime in an area is committed by one demographic group and the statistics support that, at what point does “good police work” degrade into “profiling”? It seems to me that’s a pretty slippery slope that attorneys could bandy about for some time.
Yeah, no big deal, Sheriff Joe.
It's just a corrupt Uniparty blackrobe.
Just bring more guns.
See Leftist Word Games.
Bull$#!t. Political intrigue not a crime on Arpaio’s part. Arrest the arresters.
That was the only thing we got Clinton on. If not for Perjury, Clinton wouldn’t have even gotten an impeachment.
Judge Snow’s wife Cheri made comments to longtime acquaintances Karen Grissom, her husband and son, to the effect that the judge was intent on destroying Sheriff Arpaio. The sheriff hired an investigator to look into the claims, and Sheriff Arpaio says they were substantiated
Snow is a Uniparty thug.
We've seen what Uniparty thugs like Mitt Romney do when the Uniparty's power is threatened.
“using the Constitution as a leftist version of Mad Libs”
NWO in full tilt.
So if the county is like 85% Hispanic then how could it be discrimination? (not sure what the ethnic makeup of his country is but just asking).
Neither Judge Snow nor wife Cheri Snow have denied that she made the comments. Snow refused to recuse himself.
Time for the good sheriff to call up the militia...deputize a good size posse for when they come to arrest him. The only other alternative is to submit to the nonsense.
PFL
Scandal? Yes, Arpaio has been “investigated” for civil rights violations numerous times and was certain that the Justice Dept. and others were colluding to remove him from office. He attempted to prove it, but apparently lied to the judge about it. What’s ironic about this is that he’s right, as evidenced by Judge Snow, the US Attorney and the ACLU.
It frustrated the hell out of Eric Holder that Arpaio, a very conservative Republican, was elected as the Sheriff of Maricopa County, a predominantly Democratic area.
Ludicrous charges. Even if Arpaio or his deputies flat out admitted they were profiling “hispanics”, “hispanic” is not a race, so that would not be “racial profiling”.
"The U.S. Census Bureau defines the ethnonym Hispanic or Latino to refer to "a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race"
http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-04.pdf
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