Posted on 12/28/2024 1:56:21 AM PST by Libloather
Disgraced ex-Sen. Bob Menendez has asked to postpone his upcoming sentencing until after his cancer-ridden wife’s trial wraps up because the overlap “is too much to ask of any man.”
The 70-year-old New Jersey Democrat who was forced to resign following his conviction this summer is scheduled to learn his fate on Jan. 29 where he will face what could amount to a term of life imprisonment.
But his wife Nadine Menendez, 57, is slated to go on trial in the same case on Jan. 21 and his sentencing falling in the middle of her trial runs the risk “of poisoning the proceedings against” her because of media coverage, Menendez’s lawyer wrote in a letter to a judge Thursday.
Nadine — who was originally slated to go on trial at the same time as her husband — was granted a postponement after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, for which she had to undergo treatment.
Bob says he wants to be present throughout her trial to continue providing her with “emotional and physical support” and since it will “take a tremendous emotional toll on both Senator Menendez and his family,” his lawyer Avi Weitzman’s letter says.
“To ask him to face sentencing during the criminal trial of his wife, who is also in the midst of an ongoing battle against a life-threatening disease, is too much to ask of any man,” Weitzman wrote.
Weitzman said that federal prosecutors refused to agree to a postponement until after Nadine’s trial, which could last through March, wraps. Rather, they only agreed to move up Bob’s sentencing to before her trial starts.
But Weitzman says that if the sentencing takes place earlier, the media coverage runs the risk of “tainting the jury” in her case.
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It kind of reminds me of the British joke.
Two judges were up on trial for drunk driving. The first judge, upon trying the second judge, winks and gives the judge a day in jail.
The second judge tries the first judge and, upon having tried him, sentences him to three years of hard labour. The first judged protests, “I only gave you a day in jail.”
That’s right, but this is the second case of this offense before this court and I will use the second case as an example for those who come before this court with this offense.”
Bob: No one cares what you think. Grow a pair and live with your decisions.
It’s cute that he thinks he’s a man.
Anyhow, no breaks for either of them. Don’t do the crime if you won’t do the time.
“ But Weitzman says that if the sentencing takes place earlier, the media coverage runs the risk of “tainting the jury” in her case.”
Pure gold.
EC
Bob!
You are or rather were, a Democrat politician.
You, better than most, should know that the process is part of the punishment.
Improper evidence was put on a computer?.
More gold bars show up in somebody’s shoes?.
Put his criminal ass in prison,NOW.
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