Posted on 06/04/2010 11:44:43 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
Edited on 06/04/2010 3:28:23 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
With a judge's earlier ruling that Chicago Police Officer John Ardelean had been arrested and detained without probable cause, Cook County prosecutors today dropped all charges against him in a crash that killed two people.
The 36-year-old officer was charged with drunken driving and reckless homicide after his SUV broadsided a car on Thanksgiving 2007.
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With due condolences to the family, perhaps someone should point out that thousands of American’s have been killed by drunken illegals over the years and we hear not a PEEP out of the victims or media about “racism” or the unfairness of it all...
This is where our legal system (we don't have a justice system) has gone off the rails and punishes the victims and their families twice.
If cops error in an arrest then the cops must be taken to task, fined, fired, whatever is appropriate, while KEEPING the evidence. The evidence is not bad but it is treated as such because of official misconduct or incompetence.
The pendulum has swung way too far towards the criminals.
Miranda is in need of a review but given the "get out of jail free card" to be exploited by trial attorneys it is doubtful their lawyer buddies in congress will change the law.
So, if you’re not drink it’s okay to kill someone with your car?
There's no need to use the race card. The cop gets off in this situation, no matter who the victim is.
Exactly... Chicago’s gun ban notwithstanding.
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tie him to a chair and just keep pouring vodka into him until he’s comatose...
Must be nice. Joe six-pack would’ve been rotting in jail forever.
The prosecutors lied to the family and the judge must be corrupt. At some point some victim of a corrupt judge will be a target of street justice and I for one will be neither shocked or surprised.
Sickening.
He was convicted and got two years probation. He was booted off the force by the civilian oversight board, but he's suing, saying that it was improper for them to do that. Even if he wins, though, the felony conviction prevents him from getting his job back.
“A police supervisor at the district later ordered Ardelean to submit to a Breathalyzer, but Judge Thomas Gainer Jr. ruled in April that police had no probable cause arrest and detain him,let along force him to take the test, which did not show he was drunk”
I don’t know the case but it would seem that if he took a Breathalyzer and passed, that test should be much better proof than a very subjective “ he had bloodshot eyes and I smelled alcohol”. Am I missing something?
Well, in a society like that which we have become, isn’t that a natural response?
The police, conventional wisdom is that they are “to serve and protect”. Well, how much faith do you have that police can protect you from the criminally dangerous in today’s society? Frankly, it’s become obvious to many Americans today, that the only person that can defend you, is you.
This realization, might just be strong enough, where something gets done about it. Let’s hope so.
Amazing. I figured he got off scot-free.
Meanwhile Chicago has a $10,000 fine for any driver (sober or not) who hits (not necessarily even KILLS) a highway construction worker. And that does not prohibit further lawsuit and insurance settlements.
Blowing under the limit does not clear you of all charges. Blowing over the limit will help them to convict you.
And yet....
when MADD uses this case (and thousands more just like it) to illustrate the need to SIMPLY ENFORCE the DWI laws, they are called do-gooders and nanny staters who want to return to Prohibition.
“The prosecutors lied to the family and the judge must be corrupt. At some point some victim of a corrupt judge will be a target of street justice and I for one will be neither shocked or surprised.”
Probably already has happened, you just don’t hear about it since the ruling elite DO NOT want that type of thing publicized. But I am surprised that more “street justice” has not gone on. Things are changing though and that should worry everybody, the respect for the legal system in this country is going down rapidly. There is a tipping point on this kind of thing and once it’s reached it will make the Rodney King riots look like a walk in the park. Not good for anybody at that point.
No its not a natural response, its the response of a moron who will in the end hurt us all.
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