Posted on 01/20/2006 1:22:41 PM PST by mafree
How close was the Wisconsin vote, anyway?
This doesn't quite pass the Smell Test.
Can the Republican Party of Wisconsin go after them for restitution or civil damages?
(I know nothing about the law and could't even pretend to be one on TV!)
bump
"Obviously the Rats got someone onto the jury -- either a die-hard Rat who doesn't care about the law, or an idiot they could manipulate."
Maybe they just found someone who could be bought.
When I heard the jury's first question about how to assign specific guilt to a defendant I knew their attorney's would be recommending a deal.
Remember when Johnny Cockroach brought in the Nation of Islam freaks to stand there in the courtroom.
That was a message to the black jurors.......
You are correct. I wonder how the average vandal would have been treated. Would they have been offered the deal or would they have been convicted. That is my problem. I do not like it when people are treated differently because of money, skin color or connections.
I'm not sure you can tie slashing tires to election tampering, even if you know that the tires were on vans which were going to be used to transport voters to the polls.
If you slashed the tires while they were picking up voters, such that a voter in the van no longer had access to the polls, you'd have a stronger case.
This was a "simple" vandalism case in state court.
"My goodness. Do Democrats never grow up?"
No.
And the sudden plea deal was because the DNC wanted this debacle out of the headlines.
Are they getting off easy or what?
Remember this is Wisconsin. Both the prosecutor and the judge were probably Democrats.
If I was a taxpayer in Milwaukee or was the boss of any of those jurors who I had to pay while they sat there I would be pissed.
They spent more money to take these guys to trial than they have to pay in fines.
What a freaking joke!
Boy, haven't seen you around here in a long time. What's up with that?
"DEMs cleared of charges" reads tomorrow's headline.
I care. If convicted of felonies they won't vote. Nor will they get real good jobs that require security clearences. These are ADULTS that CONSPIRED to commit criminal acts. Felony convictions would be a FIRST STRIKE in case they come to California where we have the 3 strikes law.
Howell appears to be the non-Black-Panther (or connected Leftist) in the bunch.
You expected anything else?
This was quite common in the overlooked newscycle of a national trend of Brownshirts for Kerry intimidating and vandalizing Conservatives. This went even father as it was a deliberate attempt to interfere with poll activity. As I suspect was the "power outage" at the GOP offices (in Pittsburgh I believe).
Socialists suck. End despotism now. Lock them up and make an example of them AND their parents.
Been very busy so sometimes I just lurk. Wassup with you?
I would think they could be charged with that at the FEDERAL level. Convict them of doing the deed first, then press for tampering with the election.
Your post gave me a new tagline. Thanks!
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