This is why Presidential and Gubernatorial pardons need to exist with very, very few limitations.
The pardon is a check against blatant miscarriages of justice.
This is why Presidential and Gubernatorial pardons need to exist with very, very few limitations.
The pardon is a check against blatant miscarriages of justice.
"For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then he felt good about feeling bad about feeling good about it and, satisfied, drove on into the night."
-- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy --
Good and hard.Originally Posted by blues
Not all states have elected DA's and that's the way it should be in my opinion. Alaska, Connecticut and New Jersey do not.
While several of the metro-Atlanta counties are large enough to be their own judicial circuit for Superior Court, most of the counties in GA are part of multi-county judicial circuits. The county where I work is part of a two county circuit. Unfortunately, the other county outnumbers us 3-1 and has radically different politics. Whoever wins that county wins the circuit wide races.
We are facing the very real possibility of getting a very left wing entertainment lawyer as our next DA.
GA did change its law recently so that a DA must bring an indictment within one year of the incident if it involves LE. Previously, an officer who was the subject of the indictment could be present in the grand jury room, hear all of the evidence, and then make an uncontested statement at the end of the presentation. Now, the officer can no longer be present, and they are subject to cross examination. The court must produce a transcript of all testimony.
I had an ER nurse in a class. I noticed she kept taking all head shots. Her response when asked why, "'I've seen too many people who have been shot in the chest putting up a fight in the ER." Point taken.
Does straight ticket voting contribute to electing these types of far left prosecutors? If so, many who pull that one handle are not examining candidates. I'm guilty of that and have helped elect a few idiots. Of course, I endorse universal suffrage but sometimes wonder where it will take us. I fear change that I know is coming. Many will welcome it. Eventually nobody will know the difference. The forum has gun owners who voted for Hillary and will happily embrace Biden and Harris. People have different assumptions and operate in vastly different ways. They draw dissimilar conclusions when viewing the same data. One thing that means is that large numbers of interest groups compete for limited resources. At school and in my city job, I observed a loud beating of drums that our diversity is our strength. Once I asked this question. I asked how might diversity be a restraining force in achieving goals? It was an honest question. I got 5 ass chewings. Then I asked permission to express myself and not be written up for insubordination, and received it. I told my supervisor that he was full of shit because his party line did not allow certain questions. I retired a few months later. Years before I had a nervous sociology teacher who had had several nervous breakdowns. I asked one question that put him back into the state lunatic hospital for the insane.
This is literally war on cops.
#RESIST
It appears to have been orchestrated. The momentum is too great and too many things have dovetailed to work in concert for the war to be coincidental. Questioning or commenting differently about systemic racism brings about the same type responses as would questioning the New Testament's account of Jesus and the Resurrection in a 1950's Primitive Baptist Church meeting.
I've tried to resist commenting, but in the MA case, a SWAT officer fatally NDed into a prone, complying, non-suspect. His safety was off and his finger pulled the trigger. He rode a desk for a while but it was largely glossed over because the officer was an otherwise good guy in a small town, where being a good dude carries more weight than a dead citizen.
I'm not outraged it gets a second look. I don't know if the other cases are similar but small town New England is not exactly accountability central.
Sadly, I reference that case - Stamps v. Town of Framingham - every time I teach an AR class.
FWIW, the judges concluded that his finger was on the trigger. I still strongly suspect that the trigger caught on his SWAT kit.
- It's not the odds, it's the stakes.
- If you aren't dry practicing every week, you're not serious.....
- "Tache-Psyche Effect - a polite way of saying 'You suck.' " - GG
The suspect "rammed" the car then ran on foot and was shot in the back.
Was the officer injured in the ramming, was the suspect armed? Was the suspect a threat to to others as he was running away?
I would like to hear more about the case.
I don't suspect this would be condoned in my area of operation so perhaps there is more to it.
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