Prosecutors only care about one thing: obtaining a conviction. They would sell their own children down the river if it put another notch in the win column.
Jury nullification was in order.
Zoo Jersey should be expelled from the USA
I’d be hard pressed to speak to either the mother ever again.
Aitken remains a criminal thanks to the trial, and Crhistie remains a Rino blowhard.
In this day and age of "Nifonging" prosecutors and militarized police agencies, law abiding citizens have WAY more to fear from government and "law enforcement" than criminals do.
Why does Christie get a pass because he commuted the sentence when a full pardon was in order?
I feel for the mother; she clearly didn't plan to cause harm to her son.
But the fact is that anyone in New Jersey who wishes to do harm to another person has an easy path to take due to these laws.
Law abiding citizens in New Jersey ought to be very concerned about this and should do something before they find themselves caught up in the labyrinthine mess that constitutes Garden State gun regulations.
And some can’t understand why so many of us despise the pigs.
“Putting Brian Aitken in prison wouldn’t have made New Jersey any safer.”
And given demographic realities, the more NJ gun owners who move out of the state, the less safe those who are left will be. The ultimate aim of the anti-gunners in NJ is a state where gun ownership is outlawed. It will become like Chicago, where the rate of firearm-related crime is high. But the clueless liberals who banned guns to be safer will never think that they were wrong. In my opinion these people have blood on their hands.
Commutation,not a pardon from the closet gun grabber.
Every American should be a fully informed juror:
The Fully Informed Jury Association is an asset to American freedom.
'Felon' used to mean 'bad person who needs to be locked away from society', but now it includes people who kill a seagull with a rolled up newspaper that tried to eat their ice cream at the beach, a dirt biker that runs over a desert tortoise, or some slob who pours his used motor oil down a storm drain. I'm sure that in some states, they'd make Dick Cheney or Michael Moore a felon just for being alive.
It's not necessary that you actually serve the sentence of a felon, only that the government 'felonizes' you through a plea deal.
What this poor bastard did in New Jersey is in no way illegal in my state.
Point is, until this is settled someday, stay out of nanny states. They're usually crime holes anyway.
Why does the author seem to think the two groups (officials and criminals) are disjoint? A citizen's biggest fear should be of criminals (like the judge in this case) who are on the state's payroll.
I’ve read this story numerous times. The part I don’t get is why the limpwristed jury decided to convict him when they knew it was wrong. Those people are just as much to blame as the police, prosecutor and judge. The citizens of this country are lost. This country is lost.
Bears repeating. The police are NOT on your side.
Unfortunately that is New Jersey...Most of us who do not live there can throw rocks at all the infringements that are vehemently supported and enforced by all levels within that state...
As a gun owner you are not going to get any sympathy or pass, based upon commonsense and honest objective analysis from those same entities...
They have a good start with Christie, and again, unfortunately, gun ownership is not on his top ten list of things he needs to get done in that state...
Actually come to think of it the guy got off pretty well with the governor giving him this commutation...But I seriously doubt he’ll get anywhere with the courts to espunge (clean up) his record...
Hind sight is always twenty-twenty, and for the longest time those of us who pay attention to a lot fo gun ownership news and issues know New Jersey is absolutely hostile to gun owners from the viewpoint of the legislature and the courts, and most important the law enforcement side of the equation...
Its been a long time developing into such an oppressive sub-culture within this country, and it is going to take a long time, if at all, to change it to being something attractive for anyone like us to want to move, or even visit that state...
The judge in this case may be unemployed, and rightfully so because of a whole plethra of offensive rulings against many other people, and not just this guys case...But the system is still in place, and unless the governor is willing to take the PR hit, he will have to get on prime time and explain to those in the judicial system in that state and explain to them that this oppressive nature this state exemplifies is no longer acceptable at any level of that system...
New Jersey will always be someplace I will not like going to if I have to or not because they do not respect my individual right to keep and bear arms per the state law, and even the US Constitution...
But this is just my opinion...
Yes, JURORS are there to do the JUDGE's bidding. D'oh! Tools.