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6M17HAZLE.JPG Barry A. Hazle Jr.

1 posted on 04/17/2010 8:48:10 PM PDT by SmithL
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Burrell, Garland Ellis Jr.
Born 1947 in Los Angeles, CA

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U. S. District Court, Eastern District of California
Nominated by George H.W. Bush on August 1, 1991, to a new seat created by 104 Stat. 5089; Confirmed by the Senate on February 27, 1992, and received commission on March 2, 1992. Served as chief judge, 2007-2008.

Education:
California State University, Los Angeles, B.A., 1972
Washington University in St. Louis, M.S.W., 1976
California Western School of Law, San Diego, J.D., 1976

Professional Career:
U.S. Marine Corps, 1966-1968
Deputy district attorney, Sacramento, California, 1976-1978
Deputy city attorney, Sacramento, California, 1978-1979
Deputy chief, Civil Division, U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of California, 1979-1985
Business litigator, Stockman Law Corporation, 1985-1986
Senior deputy attorney, Sacramento, California, 1986-1990
Chief, Civil Division, U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of California, 1990-1992

Race or Ethnicity: African American

Gender: Male

2 posted on 04/17/2010 8:48:26 PM PDT by SmithL
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his parole agent sent him back for being an atheist

I would think that even believers would be alarmed by this intrusion of government in personal religious decisions.

3 posted on 04/17/2010 8:59:08 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Conservative Bostonian, atheist pro-lifer, outnumbered by the clueless)
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The judge had a point. If I had to go through counseling, I sure as heck wouldn’t want to be obliged to be under the sway of a Muslim counselor, who would let me go if I banged my head on the floor a few dozen times and shouted “Allah Akbar!”, or send me back to jail if I refused.

And the way things are going, you know that is going to happen—or worse. A lot of these counselors have “control issues”, which can be a major problem if they have you on a leash. I can rightly imagine several Christians I know having fantods as soon as one such counselor decided to pull some New Age bulldada on them.

Heck, I know one woman who was so disgusted with a counselor that she and her husband gave up their US citizens and migrated to New Zealand. He seemed to think that he was a counselor “with benefits”, and that turned into a he said-she said ugly court fight.

No, I think the judge had a point.


4 posted on 04/17/2010 9:02:53 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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program based on Alcoholics Anonymous. Almost ALL rehab programs are based on the 12 steps, because it works better than any other program before or since.

Yes.. it mentions GOD, or a HIGHER POWER. It is so far from a Religious Organization.

Good Luck Mr. Hazle with your quest.. but be forewarned.. you’ll probably die with a needle in your arm.


5 posted on 04/17/2010 9:14:12 PM PDT by gwilhelm56 (Obama ... Mein Kampf is NOT a Textbook!!)
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Have to agree with the ruling here... you cannot force someone to submit to religious beliefs with which he does not agree.


10 posted on 04/17/2010 9:52:58 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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Yet another drug dealing criminal scumbag figures out how to game the system and get a taxpayer funded payday out of pretending that his “rights” were violated. They should have left this drugged up p.o.s. in prison and never should have given him parole in the first place.

If the courts give him a big chunk of taxpayer money he will just use it to pay for his next drug deal. This scumbag is not a victim, his rights were not violated. He is just one more sleazy punk who has learned to take advantage of the screwed up system.

11 posted on 04/17/2010 9:54:32 PM PDT by detective
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[When Hazle was first convicted of methamphetamine possession, he was placed on probation rather than sent to state prison. . .allows drug offenders three chances to stay clean before they’re sent to prison. . .Hazle had failed the court-mandated drug tests twice, according to court documents provided by his attorneys. After failing the second drug test, officers came to his house to give him a summons to appear in court. They found an unopened bottle of whiskey. . .Officers then arrested Hazle, treating the discovery of the whiskey as his third offense. . .]

Apparently the terms of this guy's original probation required that he remain drug/alcohol free for the period of his probation. That didn't work for Mr. Hazel. A term in prison for many addicts is the best rehabilitation program they can experience because its stark reality ends their denial and forces them into hard choices.

AA is legally and medically defined as a “religious” course of treatment because the terms “God” and “higher power” are used in its therapy and literature. However, AA stresses that the meaning of these terms is totally subjective and that “God” can be any entity the individual chooses from Jesus Christ to Yahweh or Allah, to a group of people, a garden gnome or a door knob.

Alcoholics and drug addicts are egocentric. The exercise of seeking a “higher power” outside themselves helps them move from an ego centered world, where the addict is God, to a community centered world where recovery is possible through the interaction with others.

California is not the Bible Belt. The success of AA, NA and more secular therapies, that rely on spiritual exercises as a path to recovery, is the likely benchmark used by the department of corrections.

Untreated drunks, junkies, meth-heads, etc. will always lay the blame for their pathological behavior on everyone and everything but themselves.

http://www.redding.com/news/2008/sep/29/redding-many-sues-state-over-religious-drug-treatm/

19 posted on 04/18/2010 11:44:40 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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