Posted on 07/14/2015 12:48:14 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
NEW YORK At a hearing Monday in Manhattan in which he ruled filmmaker Dinesh DSouza must continue community service for four more years, U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman said he considers DSouzas violation of federal campaign-finance laws to be evidence of a psychological problem and ordered further counseling.
DSouzas defense counsel Benjamin Brafman provided evidence to the court that the psychiatrist DSouza was ordered to see found no indication of depression or reason for medication. In addition, the psychologist DSouza subsequently consulted provided a written statement concluding there was no need to continue the consultation, because DSouza was psychologically normal and well adjusted.
But Judge Berman, who was appointed by Bill Clinton, disagreed, effectively overruling the judgment of the two licensed psychological counselors the U.S. probation department had approved as part of DSouzas criminal sentence.
I only insisted on psychological counseling as part of Mr. DSouzas sentence because I wanted to be helpful, the judge explained. I am requiring Mr. DSouza to see a new psychological counselor and to continue the weekly psychological consultation not as part of his punishment or to be retributive...
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The domestic marxists since 2008 believe they can operate unfettered.
Not for long.
“Can he appeal this ruling?”
You know he pleaded guilty (UGH!) don’t you?
Do you realize that he plead guilty? How many of us, given his connections and resources, would have taken seen this political crime as an opportunity to demonstrate his love for the country? Actions speak far louder than words no matter how eloquent the word. He had a chance to be a real hero.
Instead he copped a plea and threw himself at the mercy of the court.
With his conviction he set a horrible precedent, a stare decisis for a new form of political crime that opens the door to much, much worse. Read the other comments here for an inkling of what those could be.
And with each new woe the judge throws his way is another bad precedent set. Ugh!
Yeah, I know that. But I dont know the law. So hes stuck with this decision I take it?
Yes. And us too.
He will remain relatively well off. And he may even sell more books and movies because so many look at him as a martyr. It would be better for us were that true. Then he might have become angry enough to put up a fight while he initially had standing. It was then that he had a chance to help all of us who are less well-off.
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