Posted on 10/23/2019 11:22:12 PM PDT by knighthawk
A convicted killer and reputed gangbanger was released without bail following a gun bust in The Bronx — by a judge who critics claim owes her job to political connections, The Post has learned.
Shakeil Chandler, 32, served an eight-year prison term for manslaughter in a 2006 shooting in Queens before being paroled in 2014, records show.
On Oct. 4, the reputed Crips gang member was busted when cops responded to an electronic “ShotSpotter” report of gunfire and found a group of people — including a wounded victim — outside 1331 Beach Ave. in Soundview at about 1:50 a.m., law-enforcement sources said.
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She’s just what you’d expect and she can nullify jury decisions?
Not good.
Sounds like a tyrant to me.
Leftists judges hate us, folks and they know the killers they release will kill the people the judge hates.
Your government is your enemy, folks. This judge is a perfect example of the deep state in action.
JoMa
The “judge” is black, for anyone who might wonder, so racial preference surely couldn’t have entered into her decision. /s
Someone should tweet this to Trump’s Twitter feeds...
When he was hauled into court later that day, Bronx prosecutors sought to have him held on $75,000 bail, court records show.
But Bronx Criminal Court Judge Jeanine Johnson freed Chandler without bail — even though the complaint noted his 2009 guilty plea in the slaying of 16-year-old Mario Young in Far Rockaway, Queens.
Johnson cited a recommendation to free Chandler without bail by the New York City Criminal Justice Agency, a nonprofit city contractor, and noted that he “has full custody of his child,” according to court records.
Law enforcement sources were outraged.
Judicial candidate got off easy for DWI bust when politician intervened
By Mary Kay LingeOctober 20, 2018 | 10:35pm
https://nypost.com/2018/10/20/judicial-candidate-got-off-easy-for-dwi-bust-when-politician-intervened/
Jeanine R. Johnson, 39, running unopposed for a slot on Harlem’s 10th Municipal Court, got off easy after a DWI bust in 2014 when her boss, then-Assemblyman Keith Wright, intervened.
And she’ll have Wright, now Manhattan’s Democratic Party leader, to thank for her elevation to the bench, critics say.
“The party leader can just make the judges,” said judicial activist Gary Tilzer. “It is as ugly as you can imagine.”
Johnson blew a .113 blood-alcohol level and was charged with reckless driving, resisting arrest, and driving while intoxicated after cops saw her swerving erratically as she left a Harlem bar at 4 a.m., police sources told The Post at the time.
She allegedly refused to get out of her car, threatened to get the officers in trouble by calling NYPD brass, and dropped Wright’s name as they took her into custody. She was Wright’s chief of staff at the time.
Wright tried to get his staffer out of trouble by sending a letter to the judge overseeing her case.
She eventually avoided a criminal record by pleading guilty to driving with ability impaired – a violation, not a crime — and disorderly conduct. She paid a $300 fine and agreed to a 90-day license suspension, The Post reported.
Four years later, in September, Johnson ran unopposed in the 10th District’s primary. Johnson has no Republican opponent in the general election next month.
Most wannabe civil court judges submit to an interview with a party-organized judicial screening panel before seeking the public’s approval in a primary election.
“There was no screening for Jeanine Johnson,” said longtime Manhattan Democrat Alan Flacks. “There was a selection panel of one person, Keith Wright. And no one was allowed to run against her.”
A post on the party’s website listed 12 candidates who earned the screening panel’s “highly qualified” rating on May 1. Johnson’s name is not among them.
She earned her law degree from Howard University in 2003 and immediately became a state assembly aide, first to Brooklyn assemblyman N. Nick Perry, then to Wright.
Her upcoming gig on the bench comes with a $193,000 salary and a 10-year term.
Wright has been trying to get his former aide a new taxpayer-funded job ever since he left the Assembly in 2016 to make a bid for Congress, an effort he lost to Rep. Adriano Espaillat.
The county leader nominated Johnson to become a commissioner on the city Board of Elections, a cushy perch that controls scores of patronage positions, that year. But the City Council blocked the move.
“She could grow in the job,” Flacks said of her imminent judgeship. “But at whose expense?”
Getting communist judges and prosecutors into local municipalities is one of Sorosis’s plans. Upsetting the rule of law is a priority for Sorosis.
I suppose one might say that the 2 men got off lucky. In Germany in the 1930's, they would have been shot for defending themselves when attacked by members of the Hitler Youth. And it is coming here as soon as the Democrat Party regains political power.
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