Posted on 10/20/2023 2:00:18 AM PDT by Libloather
A Maryland judge was killed in an apparent shooting at his home Thursday evening in what police described as a homicide.
Judge Andrew Wilkinson, 52, had served as an associate circuit court judge in Washington County since 2020.
He was found in the driveway of his home in the western Maryland city of Hagerstown around 8 p.m. after local police responded to a shooting on Olde Waterford Road.
Wilkinson was hospitalized but later pronounced dead, according to the county sheriff's office.
A state delegate said that police are still searching for the suspect, who has not yet been named. A motive for the shooting has not been released.
'Horrible news in Washington County tonight,' Neil Parrott, who represents Washington County, wrote on X.
'It appears that Judge Andrew Wilkinson was shot multiple times and has passed away. Police are actively searching for the murderer.'
'Please pray for our police and for Judge Wilkinson's family at this time.'
The Washington County Sheriff's Office has not released any further details about Wilkinson's killing.
'We are a courthouse of six judges,' Administrative Judge Brett R. Wilson, a colleague, told the New York Times. 'We all know each other very well.'
Born in Guam in 1971, he previously served as an assistant county attorney in Washington County from 2006 to 2012.
He also served as a member of the State Board of Law Examiners' Character Committee from 2006 to 2019.
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I would say that is where we are.
Fetal hogs and honey.
Feral!
I liv autocowrecked
Domestic law is the most dangerous type of law for an attorney to practice and the most dangerous for a judge to preside over.
An attorney I worked for was representing a divorce client and her husband showed up at the attorney’s office one day with a gun planning to kill him. Luckily, the attorney was at lunch and the guy didn’t take his anger out on the staff. (This was before I was employed there). The client’s husband was upset that the wife was awarded the Mercedes at the temporary hearing held earlier that day.
Anything west of Frederick and/or South Mt has always been western Maryland. Always.
“ Where does Western MD start?”
Rockville? /s
Surprised none of the leftwing foreign “judges” haven’t been taken out yet. American citizens should NEVER be ruled by foreign born Marxist. Looking at those filthy scumbags going after Trump. A day of reckoning is coming for all of them including those in the propaganda media. /spit
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
I am not so sure
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Fog causes many misdirections ……. IS certainty
Sounds like the judge made the right decision, certainly from a character standpoint.
https://twitter.com/MikeChillit/status/1715228804631629938
“The assailant is believed to be the father of several children who Judge Wilkinson had granted sole custody to the mother earlier in the day. “
I once met a judge who had received threats and always carried a gun.
We’re rapidly approachine the lawless stage in this country. In some areas... it’s happening faster than others
I think that's where we are and I expect to see more such things. I don't think a Bolshevik Revolution is in our future (feels like it's already happened) but people are going to wake up and realize that politics doesn't work anymore around here.
As long as we keep paying them to entertain us, that day of reckoning will never come.
Where has Salamander been? My mind is fuzzy but I think the last time I sent her a msg was when she was going through an end of life situation with a pet or family member? Or am I thinking of someone else?
Former Boston Mayor, Tom “Mumbles” Menino called Newton “Western Massachusetts”. Newton borders Boston. By that reasoning, Worchester is in the Midwest, and Springfield is in the Rocky mountains.
Based on preliminary reports coming out of Hagerstown, Washington County Circuit Court Judge Andrew Wilkinson awarded sole custody today of three children to his assailant’s wife.
Sounds like the kids were lucky, the judge, not so much.
I enjoined the American trucker rally in haggerstown. It appeared to be very rural.
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