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2 men sentenced in Sarah Palin lawyer harassment case
AP/New Haven Register ^ | 6-8-12

Posted on 06/10/2012 7:01:33 PM PDT by STARWISE

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The Christys, of McAdoo, Pa., pleaded guilty in January to making harassing phone calls to Palin's attorneys. Attorney John Tiemessen testified that the men's calls threatened Palin and attorneys. Both Christys apologized Friday for their actions.

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In Friday's sentencing, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Burgess ordered Shawn Christy to spend up to six months at the Scranton residential facility, where a bed will become available in mid-July. Christy wanted to return to his parent's home, where he had been living until his arrest last year.

"Why can't I go home now?" he said.

"Because I'm not letting you go home," Burgess said, prompting Christy to ask what was the judge's reason for imposing the order.

"It has to do with consequences," Burgess said. "It's part of the consequences for your behavior.

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"I understand my behavior, and I understand this is ridiculous," Christy said. A short time letter, Burgess called for a short recess after blurts from Christy.

Burgess ultimately said Christy could stay with his parents at their McAdoo home until a bed at the residential facility becomes available.

After the sentencing was completed, Tiemessen said Christy's behavior in court was consistent with what he and others had witnessed in the past two years, including hundreds of calls from the Christys to his law firm's offices in Fairbanks and Anchorage.

"I've seen dozens and dozens of such little outbursts and worst," Tiemessen. "It just the first one Judge Burgess has seen."

(Excerpt) Read more at nhregister.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: lawyers; palin; palinattacks; pds; pms; sarahpalin
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To: VeniVidiVici

If Obama had a son and father, they’d look like this.


21 posted on 06/10/2012 8:24:40 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: VeniVidiVici

Gaydar went of the scale...


22 posted on 06/10/2012 8:28:49 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over...)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

ping


23 posted on 06/10/2012 8:30:35 PM PDT by mountn man (Happiness is not a destination, its a way of life.)
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To: STARWISE

In a letter submitted to Lack with last week’s filing, Craig Christy also notes Palin’s recent purchase of a part-time home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He says he wants Palin to release the address so a support group called “Stand Strong Shawn Christy” will “not violate any protective order if we are protesting or campaigning in Scottsdale, AZ.”

Craig Christy also alleges a conflict of interest by the magistrate, saying Lack is a former staffer of late former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens and that Palin “photographed multiple times” with him during her political career.

Palin and a friend, Kristan Cole, originally obtained restraining orders against Shawn Christy last year, stating in court documents that he threatened them, said he was buying a one-way ticket to Alaska and sent a receipt for a gun purchase.

Palin also has said she feared Christy’s parents because they believe she and the teen traded sexual messages two years ago.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/20/craig-christy-shawn-christy-sarah-palin_n_905287.html


24 posted on 06/10/2012 8:32:32 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: STARWISE

The Daily Beast’s Diane Herbst provides a fascinating (and/or confusing and/or infuriating and/or incredibly sad) interview with Karen Christy, the wife of Craig Christy and mother to Shawn Christy. According to Ms. Christy, the root of this fiasco is none other than Willow Palin, Sarah Palin’s second eldest daughter, who made headlines of her own for writing a slur-laden Facebook rant.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/wife-and-mother-of-sarah-palins-alleged-stalkers-speaks-out/

In 2009, she says, her son began receiving text messages and phone calls from “who we believe is” Willow Palin. She says that Sarah Palin would also send him texts from time to time, and that some of these texts were sexually explicit in nature. However, Karen maintains that she does not know exactly what these alleged text messages said.

Karen says that the restraining orders placed by Palin’s people resulted in her husband losing two jobs. The family found themselves strapped for cash and frustrated at not being able to “communicate with legal officials involved with the restraining orders,” so Shawn flew to Alaska to “do some law research.” This is the trip Palin referred to in her testimony.


25 posted on 06/10/2012 8:36:21 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl

Sheesh ... they’re incorrigible, intractable and relentless thugs. Wonder if they were being paid by Soros/ACORN type operatives/networks for their ‘labors.’ Otherwise, what would be the incentive of 20 something thugs for such crazy, obsessive criminality?


26 posted on 06/10/2012 8:37:16 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: kcvl

“...they believe she and the teen traded sexual messages two years ago.”

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They don’t “believe” that for a minute.

They are nothing but hate-filled, Communist thug criminals.


27 posted on 06/10/2012 8:37:48 PM PDT by EyeGuy (Armed, judgmental, fiscally responsible heterosexual.)
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To: VeniVidiVici
Kid looks like he came from the shallow end of the gene pool.

Yes, and clearly with insufficient chlorine.

28 posted on 06/10/2012 8:59:18 PM PDT by Bob
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To: STARWISE

Comeuppance?! Wha-a-a-a-at? He gets to run home to mummy, and that’s comeuppance?


29 posted on 06/10/2012 9:02:23 PM PDT by Tucker39 ( Psa 68:19Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits; even the God of our salvation.KJV)
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To: STARWISE; fatima; South Hawthorne; SunkenCiv

Ping!
(Are these some of James Carville's "Alabama" folks?) </sarc>

30 posted on 06/10/2012 9:11:51 PM PDT by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Looks like a bleached chimp.


31 posted on 06/10/2012 9:20:40 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they were.)
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To: shelterguy

/We hope bubba get’s to comfort you...


32 posted on 06/10/2012 9:21:02 PM PDT by richardtavor
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To: shelterguy

/We hope bubba get’s to comfort you...


33 posted on 06/10/2012 9:21:02 PM PDT by richardtavor
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To: STARWISE
"Why can't I go home now?" he [Shawn Christy] said.

This pampered little pr!ck better not get into any kind of trouble that would put him into a real prison.

34 posted on 06/10/2012 9:30:09 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
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To: STARWISE
"Why can't I go home now?" he said.

"Because I'm not letting you go home," Burgess said, prompting Christy to ask what was the judge's reason for imposing the order.

"It has to do with consequences," Burgess said. "It's part of the consequences for your behavior."

"I understand my behavior, and I understand this is ridiculous," Christy said.

Oh, how I wish the Judge at that point would have said,

"Well, let's make it more rediculous for you then. I find you in contempt and sentence you to twelve more months at the detention facility, to run squestnially after your first sentence."

"Is that rediculous enough for you, or would you like more?"

AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY
http://www.jeffhead.com/crossroads.htm

35 posted on 06/10/2012 10:21:27 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free, never has been, never will be (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: classified

All leftists have a screw loose.


36 posted on 06/10/2012 11:03:50 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: STARWISE

“Both Christys apologized Friday for their actions.”

Only because the prosecution had them dead to rights and they were hoping the court would ameliorate their sentences. If it hadn’t been for that, they would have bragged about it to everyone they met.


37 posted on 06/10/2012 11:08:11 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: kcvl

Lost two jobs, yet they had money for plane ticket to Alaska and huge phone bills. Huh? Who paid for that? Doesn’t anybody ask follow-up questions?


38 posted on 06/11/2012 12:47:23 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: STARWISE

Thank you for the ping SW :)
Nice news, indeed ;)


39 posted on 06/11/2012 2:47:10 AM PDT by Bikkuri (Choose, a communist, socialist or Patriot)
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To: EyeGuy

Know big deal. [smiles]


40 posted on 06/11/2012 2:48:13 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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