Posted on 11/15/2010 5:08:03 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Sue Aitken called the police because she was worried about her son, Brian. She now lives with the guilt of knowing that her phone call is the reason Brian spent his 27th birthday in a New Jersey prison last month. If the state gets its way, he will be there for the next seven years.
Aitken was sentenced in August after he was convicted of felony possession of a handgun. Before his arrest, Aitken, an entrepreneur and owner of a media consulting business, had no criminal record, and it appears he made a good-faith effort to comply with New Jersey's stringent gun laws. Even the jurors who convicted him seem to have been looking for a reason to acquit him. But the judge gave them little choice. Aitken's best hope now is executive clemency. He is petitioning New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for a reprieve this week.
Aitken, born and raised in New Jersey, moved to Colorado several years ago. In Colorado he married his now ex-wife, also originally from New Jersey. The two had a son together. When the marriage dissolved, Atiken's wife and infant son moved back to New Jersey. Aitken eventually decided to move back as well in order to be closer to his son. Beginning in late 2008, he took the first of several trips between the two states, a back-and-forth process that involved selling his house in Colorado, moving his possessions across the country, and finding a job and a new place to live back east. Until he could find a new apartment, he stored his belongings at his parents' home in Burlington County.
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Mr. Aitken will eventually have his conviction thrown out, just like accused day-care-molester Margaret Kelly Michaels who served eight years in prison on an equally absurd set of “facts”. But he will never be compensated for the injustice he has suffered. That’s Jersey!
If a law is sufficiently complicated that people have trouble complying with it, it should be repealed.
I agree with your emphasis. Look, the woman has been inundated by Liberal B. S. I was thinking the same thing, but I’ll cut her some slack. I’m sure she’s realizing what an enemy the state is about now. This is actually an excellent object lesson to everyone.
That is an insane story. The crime shouldn’t even be a crime in light of McDonald, and yet it still reads like a conspiracy to make him look guilty. I hope he gets released and the law changed.
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