Posted on 01/24/2018 11:58:46 PM PST by LouieFisk
Judge Rosemarie Aquilina read his statement, contempt dripping from her voice, before she glares at him, dangles the page, and drops it in disgust. “I just signed your death warrant,” she crowed later in sentencing him to 40-175 years.
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It would be absolutely surprising if there was not an attempt to vacate the verdict based on this.
I hope she says that to all convicted murderers or rapists also...hey judge...your honor....dont gloat.in your courtroom...you’re supposed to be blind...im surprised she didnt strut about...did some high fives...wiggled her nether parts...and spiked the death warrants...put the clown away...next...
I’m sorry she said that. I wold like to see him revived each time he dies and thrown back in to serve his 300 years as a zombie.
It would be absolutely surprising if there was not an attempt to vacate the verdict based on this.
I thought the same thing when I heard it.
Still....
It purports to be the text of a death sentence handed down by a judge of the U.S. District Court in the New Mexico Territory in 1881. A note introduces the text as a verbatim transcript of the sentence and says that is was read in Taos in an adobe stable serving as a court. The judge is not named.
The sentence:
“Jose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales, in a few short weeks it will be spring. The snows of winter will flee away, the ice will vanish, and the air will become soft and balmy. In short, Jose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales, the annual miracle of the years will awaken and come to pass, but you won’t be there.
“The rivulet will run its soaring course to the sea, the timid desert flowers will put forth their tender shoots, the glorious valleys of this imperial domain will blossom as the rose. Still, you won’t be here to see.
“From every treetop some wild woods songster will carol his mating song; butterflies will sport in the sunshine, the busy bee will hum happy as it pursues its accustomed vacation; the gentle breeze will tease the tassels of the wild grasses, and all nature will be glad, but you. You won’t be here to enjoy it because I command the sheriff or some other officers of the country to lead you out to some remote spot, swing you by the neck from a knotting bough of some sturdy oak, and let you hang until you are dead.
“And then, Jose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales, I further command that such officer or officers retire quickly from your dangling corpse, so that vultures may descend from the heavens upon your filthy body until nothing shall remain but bare, bleached bones of a cold-blooded, bloodthirsty, throat-cutting, murdering son of a bitch.”
After that, she said later on:
“Our Constitution does not allow for cruel and unusual punishment. If it did, I have to say, I might allow what he did to all of these beautiful souls—these young women in their childhood—I would allow someone or many people to do to him what he did to others.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/larry-nassars-victims-deserved-a-judge-like-rosemarie-aquilina.html
Again, I believe most people agree with the sentiment, but it just gives him more ammo for at least a sentencing appeal. Irresponsible.
“I wold like to see him revived each time he dies and thrown back in to serve his 300 years as a zombie.”
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It’s pretty certain, given the number of counts against him, that he will die in prison. There’s no escaping that, even if this judge’s speech comes back to bite her.
The first time I read that my Dad had sent it to me as a joke. A local feature writer in the local newspaper had ran across it and it was printed. That was in about 1977. I was at sea on a six month deployment and got a good laugh when I read it. I found it again a few years ago and downloaded it to my computer. I had just read it again when I saw your post.
BTW some attribute it to Judge Rice and some Roy Bean.
I’ve heard it attributed to Judge Bean.
“It was a very, very unwise remark. “
Perhaps, but it was the truth! And I believe that this judge was personally moved by the depth of the depravity this creep showed. In a time when far too many of our judges have no moral compass, it was refreshing to read. For me, I give her a thumbs up.
"At his sentencing, Judge Melville B. Gerry was said to declare: “Stand up, you voracious, man-eating son of a bitch, stand up! There was seven democrats in Hinsdale County and you up and ate five of them. God damn you, I sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you are dead, dead, dead, as a warning against reducing the democratic population of our state!”
It's untrue, but shows the slippage in the judiciary language skills.
Some years back, the U of Colorado student body noted that a plaque had been hung, naming the student cafeteria as the "Alfred Packer Memorial Hall"
It took some days for Packer to be identified...
Wow! LOVE this!
I was stationed in Del Rio, for 9 years, and visited the Whitehead Museum, where Judge Roy Bean is buried. It has a few interesting things, but I didn’t think it was worth visiting more than once.
Her conduct was unprofessional
That is why the doctrine of harmless error was contrived. The greater damage may be to the judge’s prospect for advancement.
It doesn’t matter. The judge could have given him probation and Nassar is still spending the rest of his life in jail.
The ethics on both her statements are off-the-charts abominable.
So the only thing preventing her from assigning convicts to be actually an in-fact raped as punishment is the 8th? If that - and not the fact that behaving in such a manner undermines the very idea of justice under law - is all that restrains her, she is a grossly inappropriate individual to be judging others.
Looks like a complete drunk in the publicity photo too.
If she would have said “after” may G-d have mercy on your soul, would that be more tempered and not get her into this legal morass.. BTW, I know kids going to the school, I hear through the grapevine, they are perplexed and not happy that the school is under the microscope from the perspective they are just going their now, this was in the past etc etc because of this dirtbag, and that is not to exonerate him, I am sure that is not their intent, and that word isn’t even strong enough to describe him...
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