Posted on 01/14/2006 6:19:28 AM PST by NYer
It has a big impact. It seems that most governors have national election desires, or they want good natonal PR for their states.
That would be a good question to put to those 'touchy feely' types on TV.
It's a 'touchy feely' perspective question they could understand.
It's Vermont that allows gay marriage and their judges reflect that left-leaning sentiment. The people may speak by NOT voting him in on the next election day, but the governor must intervene now and use all legal means at his disposal to kick Cashman off the bench ASAP.
And Cashman will have blood on his hands.
Cashman is the type of judge that a President Kerry would have nominated to replace William Rehnquist, if he had won in 2004.
Elections do matter.
You may want to rethink that comment. We are all part of the United States, what happens in one State can and will effect other States. It's just a matter of time before this loser serves his meager 60 days and then decides to come to your State, do you have children, better hide them and then call the Gov of Vermont and support the decision to remove the clown judge.
the next DIMRAT Supreme Court nominee...lol
Howard Dean, Patrick Leahy, Jim Jeffords, and Bernie Sanders should have caused that a LONG time ago.
Why is it that almost every White male moonbat over the age of 35 seems to have the same male-pattern-baldness, lozenge--lensed eyeglasses, dippy little beard, and look of perpetual indignance on his face?
This judge looked way too much like the guy out in California that raped and murdered that little girl and got the death sentence. I forget his name but this guy looks just like him (in MHO). Also, what is this guy pro-child molester?
From what I heard on Fox about an hour ago. Another guy who is a friend of the rapist also raped this child. He is presently on bail.
Same judge?
From what I heard it sounded like it, but I could not swear to it.
He could face up to life in prison if convicted. Kimball's case is not being handled by Cashman but by Judge Michael Kupersmith.
Seems like the state of Vermont has crisis in their judiciary.
No one is asking this idiot judge to change his opinion because of "some negative sentiment". We want him to change his opinion because his opinion WAS WRONG!! Good grief, this judge is sick!
Jeffrey Amostoy, former Chief Justice of Vermont, Howard deans "pocket rocket" who referred a question of equal treatment for same sex unions from the VT SC to the Vermont Legislature, , which resulted in Vermonts Civil Union Law, and a huge pile of campaign money from California Gays for Deans screaming run at the Dem nomination for president, (NO SURPRISE ), supports Judge Cashman:
www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2006/01/14/former_chief_justice_praises_judge_edward_cashman/
Former chief justice praises Judge Edward Cashman By Christopher Graff, Associated Press Writer | January 14, 2006
MONTPELIER, Vt. --Former Chief Justice Jeffrey Amestoy has praised Judge Edward Cashman as a "competent, caring and conservative trial judge."
Amestoy, who stepped down as chief justice in 2004, wrote in an opinion piece for Vermont newspapers that "of all the waters a judge must navigate, sentencing is by far the most challenging."
Amestoy is living in Germany while his wife, a teacher, is on sabbatical there. "From this distance it is difficult to assess the merits of Judge Cashman's decision in the Hulett case, but I doubt it would be any easier to evaluate the appropriateness of the sentence, even if I had my former vantage point.
"It is easy to determine whether a sentence is popular or unpopular, but considerably more difficult to discern whether it is `right' or `wrong,'" Amestoy wrote.
At issue is the sentence that Cashman gave Mark Hulett in a sexual abuse case. Critics say the sentence provides too little jail time to serve as adequate punishment. Cashman's emphasis was on providing treatment for Hulett so that he would not be a repeat offender.
Amestoy, a Republican who served as attorney general from 1985 to his appointment in 1997 as chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, said that he had pushed unsuccessfully as attorney general for the Legislature to enact sentencing guidelines.
"Sentencing guidelines that preserve the discretion of the court to depart from the guidelines in appropriate cases - and provide the judge with the opportunity to explain his or her reasons for departure from the guidelines - would provide sentencing fairness, preserve judicial discretion, and contribute to greater public understanding of a court's sentencing rationale," he wrote.
"In the instant case, for example, such a sentencing guideline approach would have enabled Judge Cashman to place his reasoned explanation for the sentence on the record at the time of sentencing, rather than in response to a motion for sentence reconsideration and the swirling public criticism."
Amestoy went on to say that while sentencing reforms are an important discussion, the issue at the heart of the Cashman controversy "is whether Vermonters value an independent judiciary.
"A judge who must first think of the popular response to his or her decision is not an independent judge," wrote Amestoy.
"Judicial independence is a value easily honored in the abstract but more difficult to applaud when one disagrees with a decision. But, of course, it is then that it most needs to be sustained."
HEY I just rfemebered the Canadian Solution: LOWER THE AGE OF CONSENT FROM 16 to 14! Then pedophiles just have to get the little girls to say " Yes!"
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