Posted on 08/11/2011 7:51:56 AM PDT by fabrizio
In a surprise move in a controversial case, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona is opposing a routine motion by the family of murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry to qualify as crime victims in the eyes of the court. The family asked to intervene as victims in the case against Jamie Avila, the 23-year-old Phoenix man who purchased the guns used to kill Terry. Such motions are routinely approved by prosecutors, but may be opposed by defense attorneys. However in this case, U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke argues because the family was not "directly or proximately harmed" by the illegal purchase of the murder weapon, it does not meet the definition of "crime victim" in the Avila case. Burke claims the victim of the Avila's gun purchases, "is not any particular person, but society in general."
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Just WOW!
How do these people sleep at night?
Can’t afford the ‘discovery’ phase.
Looks as if the fix is in.
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That’s the strategically best alternative for the government to take to protect itself. Get rid of the “victim”.
Having a victim is the first step towards prosecuting the perpetrator, who, in this case, is the chain of command above the ATF, which, of course, ends at the WH.
Incredibly morally wrong, but not surprising.
The Executive Branch is under the control of commu-islamo-nwo-fascist infiltrators.
How? They’re lawyers.
Never, never, NEVER underestimate the slime of the Cretin-in-Chief and “his people”.
Ping
I’m going to say banana republic ruling...because if I said what I’m thinking my post would be deleted.
DOJ is the perp
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Not only does the government have innumerable victimless crimes, and it prosecutes them vigorously, here it is found in a position of denying the status of a clearly identified victim, which is just backwards.
Let me ask the DOJ this: how can “society as a whole” possibly be harmed by this crime, if the family of the murder victim, in particular and to be specific, wasn’t?
Hope and change.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41495274/ns/us_news-security/t/mexico-drug-violence-not-emergency-white-house-says/#.TkPxic0TU6w dated 2/10/2011 seems to lead us all in the direction of thinking this particular US Attorney is, to say the least, “dirty”, and he, himself is in the daisy-chain of murderers and thugs who killed that Border Patrolman.
The entire AZ DOJ office should be escorted to the state border...in cuffs.
Well, the DOJ and ATF ain’t been doing nuthin’ to protect society in general or the public either, since they were furnishing the opportunity for the guns to go to Mexico via Gunwalker.
Sometimes I feel that our government is destroying the very basis of our freedom—life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
“Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
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