Culturally Incompetent. Now the latest get out of jail free card.
Posted on 10/19/2017 1:41:19 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
MANCHESTER — A judge has ended efforts to reinstate a domestic-violence prosecution against Augustin Bahati, the Congolese refugee deemed culturally incompetent to stand trial earlier this year.
Circuit Court Judge Kimberly Chabot said she wouldn’t grant city prosecutors a do-over of the case and dismissed the misdemeanor charges against Bahati, 33: four counts of domestic violence and one of sexual assault.
The city’s top prosecutor on Tuesday ruled out an appeal.
“All I can say is we made a decision not to appeal,” said acting City Solicitor Emily Rice.
The Bahati case came to light in late June, when New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon MacDonald raised issues with prosecutions of domestic violence cases in Manchester. MacDonald’s inquiry led to the abrupt retirements of the top two lawyers in the City Solicitor’s Office and attorney general oversight of some office operations.
Earlier this year Bahati avoided trial after the assistant city solicitor in charge of the domestic violence unit — Andrea Muller — accepted a psychologist’s findings that he lacked the cultural competency to participate in the American justice system.
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Culturally Incompetent. Now the latest get out of jail free card.
Then he is culturally incompetent to remain in the United States.
Deport his ass.
Now.
L
yup
Then deport him, immediately. What nonsense. Culturally incompetent.
where is he going back to? I did n’t see where he was from.
” Andrea Muller — accepted a psychologist’s findings that he lacked the cultural competency to participate in the American justice system.”
Just like Affluenza was a real defense. Snake oil psychology for sale in the court house.
I saw Manchester and thought “what chumps those Brits are for allowing themselves to be invaded and then allowing their women to be beaten and raped”. Then I saw in was in the US and just shook my head in rage and disgust.
Congo........................
Why not just decriminalize domestic violence and sexual assault? I’m sure that this not the first ‘culturally incompetent’ moron to enter a courtroom. (I kid)
He’s probably more the rule than the exception in a lot of America.
And yet......
Refugee who had charges dismissed took class on U.S. legal system
MANCHESTER — Augustin Bahati, the Congolese refugee who had domestic violence charges against him dismissed for reasons of cultural incompetency, participated in a class that taught him about the legal system and domestic-abuse laws, a refugee resettlement group said Monday.
Newly arrived refugees are enrolled in cultural orientation classes held in their own language, said Jeffrey Thielman, president and chief executive of the International Institute of New England.
“They have to go through a cultural orientation program. They have to pass an assessment, they have to show competency,” Thielman said.
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The judge in this case will doubtless echo the judge in that case where a rapist was granted joint custody with the victim’s child: “Why didn’t somebody tell me?”
The prosecutors should be fired for incompetence. The judge rightly denied a do over. Double jeopardy is unconstitutional. However, Mr. Culturally Incompetent should be deported .
unfit to stay in the US...
immigration incompetent...
he doesn’t understand the immigration process...
Or the infamous Twinkie Defense that got a double homicide reduced to manslaughter.
Yeah, I picked up on that. But....
You can be sure that if this was a white man, the DA would have found the time and means to prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law.
thanks. and yeah, go the hell back.
Ah yes the double entendre ‘Twinkie” defense!
lol Poor Harvey Milk
I wonder what all the vagina hat wearing feminazis think of this?
Then he doesn't belong here!!!!
DISGUSTING! Our judiciary needs an enema!!!
I wonder what all the vagina hat wearing feminazis think of this?
He is a member of two protected groups, black and an immigrant. Therefore, all is good.
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