Posted on 08/18/2016 2:16:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I agree. Also, if the judge accepts the guilty plea, and he later claims coercion it’s back to square one. He certainly can’t claim coercion on a not-guilty. The judge seems to be buying insurance on the eventual verdict by outmaneuvering his counsel.
“”They’re entitled to justice,” Walkley said of the victims and their families””
Victims?? Who are the others?
Actually, I see her point. If she accepts the guilty plea and the perp is later found to be mentally incompetent, his conviction gets overturned, and he is back out on the streets. Better to be safe than sorry.
The Powers-That-Be want Nolen found insane. If he pleads guilty and is sentence, then it makes Islam look a little less “peaceful”
Seriously, what makes you think they took his voting rights away?
Turn the bastard loose and let him kill some else. Sooner or later someone will put a bullet in his sorry ass. The Courts are all for the criminal today. No one gives a damn about the innocent victim.
They should have done that the first time.
She did the right thing.
Put the MF before a jury of his peers so they, citizens of Oklahoma, can sentence his butt to death after a fair trial.
She wants to dot every I and cross every T, in order to reduce any grounds for endless appeals.
He will be convicted.
Perhaps she was referring to the witnesses of the crime.
“”Perhaps she was referring to the witnesses of the crime.””
Perhaps but I would hope a judge would be more capable of expressing that sentiment instead of calling witnesses “victims”....Who the heck knows today what anyone means about anything? We’d be better off not even questioning the crazy things we see and hear. I know I would.
She should be forced to host the poor dear in her home while he waits for his assessment. Same with parole boards. The heck with halfway houses. If parole board members vote to release them surely the released criminal would pose no threat. Better to have the judges and parole board members test that theory before the public is endangered.
And by a woman, so he doesn’t get his virgins.
Thanks. I was hoping that someone with legal knowledge would weigh in.
Yes. Dot every “I” and cross every “T”.
The deity of the appellate court....
No sense having a trial that had a high certainty of being overturned....
Proceed carefully to ensure not only a fair trial, but one that is appeal proof...
Sure hope the Judge was right and he gets his...for murder and NOT "workplace violence."
This seems like a sharp judge. It is also better to do this on the front end rather than on a remand from an appellate court.
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