Posted on 02/18/2008 7:15:33 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084
A Westbury Village justice wants courtroom security beefed up because of the hate mail and "crazy" e-mails he has received since he dismissed a driving without a license charge against an undocumented immigrant.
One note - posted at freerepublic.com - suggests, "Let's hire an AIDS-infected hooker ... male for [the judge's] daughter ... female for his son ... and let he/she/them be infected with AIDS, so he can rule in hopes of opening up another dialogue on the suffering in Africa."
"I have gotten some bizarre communication," said Justice Thomas Liotti, who in a written decision last week asked for a metal detector and court officers either outside or inside the courtroom. "This is crazy - absolute nonsense.
"We need security in our village courts. Otherwise, we could fall victim to some of these nuts who want to take matters into their owns hands," Liotti added.
The justice came under fire from conservatives in December when, in a 26-page decision, he kicked out a driving without a license charge against Rafael Quiroga-Puma.
Liotti, also a private lawyer with a Garden City office, said the immigrant's inability to legally obtain a driver's license under state law violated his equal protection rights because it kept him from mounting any defense to the traffic infraction. Quiroga-Puma still faces charges of driving without insurance, but Liotti said he would excuse the man from future court appearances.
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Congratulations, you’re famous now.
I would have commented that the judge would likely change his opinion if his son or daughter was injured by a drunken illegal.
The whole AIDS-Hooker thing makes no damn sense.
First I’ve heard about it. This judge sounds like a nut-case himself, so who knows what he makes of the emails he gets.
The hooker thing was probably on his mind.
Here’s the thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1942692/posts
No sign of that post, but #9 was in fact pulled at some point.
It wasn’t me, either. I don’t say mean things about judges, even moonbat judges like this one, who claims that he is improving “traffic safety” by giving a free pass to an illegal alien with no driver’s license and no insurance, so he can go out and put lives at risk again.
You’re slipping. lol
The Judge wrote that.....maybe.
How dare you question the high and mighty judiciary you peasant!
About that hooker, can we take a vote before actually doing it? And no, not for the decision, which might have been right for all we know, but for the 26 pages of legal mumbojumbo gibberish that it took to reach it!
Well “people” like him endanger society though they are supposed to protect it via the laws. He will suffer no consequences when this illegal kills someone...
I would just say that this particular judge is legislating from the bench. In effect, he said “yes, I know it’s against the law to drive without a license, but I don’t agree with this law so that’s that.”
It's too bad that one of that contingent has now tarred us all with that brush.
I sure would like to know if the poster of post #9 was a regular, or a disruptor.
This ruling directly assists the thugs.
Someone should be looking very closely into this guy's financial and social arrangements.
I missed this story the first time around. Does this "judge" also believe that the inability of a blind person or a young teenager or an unqualified driver who can not pass a driver's license exam to legally obtain a driver's license under state law violates their equal protection rights?
Is this "judge" a foolishly incompetent buffoon or merely a Democrat (but I repeat myself)...
uh, so the judge needs a bodyguard because somebody on FR said something??? At what point do you think this crackpot started reading FR?
Maybe he can call the Mexican consulate and they can send over some people to stand outside his house and watch for Americans.
Sounds like the judge took the law into his own hands when he ignored the violations made by the illegal driver.
I guess a "Village Justice" sits at so lofty a position that he is angered that the hoi polloi would have the temerity to question his taking the law into his own hands.
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