Former Judge James "Where's the milk?" Morley.
Posted on 11/15/2010 5:08:03 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Sue Aitken called the police because she was worried about her son, Brian. She now lives with the guilt of knowing that her phone call is the reason Brian spent his 27th birthday in a New Jersey prison last month. If the state gets its way, he will be there for the next seven years.
Aitken was sentenced in August after he was convicted of felony possession of a handgun. Before his arrest, Aitken, an entrepreneur and owner of a media consulting business, had no criminal record, and it appears he made a good-faith effort to comply with New Jersey's stringent gun laws. Even the jurors who convicted him seem to have been looking for a reason to acquit him. But the judge gave them little choice. Aitken's best hope now is executive clemency. He is petitioning New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for a reprieve this week.
Aitken, born and raised in New Jersey, moved to Colorado several years ago. In Colorado he married his now ex-wife, also originally from New Jersey. The two had a son together. When the marriage dissolved, Atiken's wife and infant son moved back to New Jersey. Aitken eventually decided to move back as well in order to be closer to his son. Beginning in late 2008, he took the first of several trips between the two states, a back-and-forth process that involved selling his house in Colorado, moving his possessions across the country, and finding a job and a new place to live back east. Until he could find a new apartment, he stored his belongings at his parents' home in Burlington County.
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Well, the one good thing about this sorry story is that Judge Morley is jobless. We should instead have a law that allows idiot judges to be sent to Singapore to get their asses caned. They can fly back immediately following the caning. YES. 13+ HOURS. SITTING./s;)
“Morley (who lost his job when Gov. Christie declined to reappoint him in June because of rulings in unrelated cases)”
I suspect these are two of the unrelated cases:
http://www.politickernj.com/tags/james-morley
Morley sounds like he’s not only got a God complex, but like he’s also kind of a perv, too.
Thank you Governor!
Assholes! How they could destroy this guy’s life on these grounds is criminal in and of itself. It’s like one grand conspiracy involving a sitting judge.
Former Judge James "Where's the milk?" Morley.
I wonder if the Governor can intervene ...
Couldn’t Gov. Christie pardon him?
He could, and it sounds like that’s what Aitken is hoping for. Hope it comes to pass, because it’s insane that this guy is facing seven years in prison.
He should never have consented to searching his car. They had no charges and no warrant.
another reason to give the state of NJ a wide berth...
Simple, don't vote to convict.
MEANWHILE, Just across the border from The People’s Republic of Zoo Jersey ——
The Pennsylvania House, this afternoon, passed a bill giving the state’s citizens the right not to retreat from assailants.
The 161-35 vote for HB 1926 follows a 45-4 vote made Oct. 14 in the state Senate. It now goes to Gov. Ed Rendell, an outspoken opponent of self-defense rights, for his signature.
The margins in both house would be enough to overturn any veto, however.
The bill says that a person employing protective force may estimate the necessity thereof under the circumstances as he believes them to be when the force is used, without retreating, surrendering possession, doing any other act which he has no legal duty to do or abstaining from any lawful action.
"Battle of Athens" time. This crap has got to stop.
The judge should not only be jobless, but should sit in jail for the same amount of time as the person he caused to be falsely convicted. Denying the jury information about exemptions and not allowing testimony about a potential exemption is the same thing in my mind as perjury.
The fellow can be pardoned by the governor, but I’m sure he would prefer to have the conviction thrown out and be expunged from the record.
Simple, don't vote to convict.
Exactly. Unfortunately, the judge in this case probably did everything he could to keep the jury from being fully informed, because if they were, they would know that they can nullify Tyrannical law via acquittal, despite the letter of the law.
Instead, this jury was apparently bullied and intimidated by the judge, and Tyranny consequently prevailed...
I assume you're including Aiken's mother in that blanket but particularly apt description?
Wonder how she's sleeping these days...
It says the jury was looking for reasons to acquit him. They should have used jury nullification. All FReepers should acquaint themselves with this legal right of a juror. Just search “jury nullification.”
Perfect scenario for “jury nullification.” In effect saying, “Judge, we don’t think you’re dealing straight with us on the how this law should work, so we the people, in this case, nullify your view of the law and assert our own. Not guilty. You don’t like the result, take it up with a higher court.” Better yet, if enough cases defy the statute as presented by the court, the statute is effectively overturned. True. Powerful stuff, not used nearly enough.
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