Posted on 02/05/2020 5:24:10 PM PST by karpov
In October 2018, Wilmer Maldonado Rodriguez stepped in to protect two boys who were being threatened by members of the MS-13 gang on Long Island, officials said. In return, the gang members stabbed Mr. Rodriguez repeatedly and hit him in the head with a bat.
Despite the vicious assault, Mr. Rodriguez agreed to testify against the gang members, who were charged with assault and witness intimidation as a result of the attack, officials said.
On Sunday, Mr. Rodriguez was found beaten to death, and by Wednesday, his killing became a flash point for opponents of a series of criminal justice changes enacted by the New York State Legislature in 2019 at the urging of progressive lawmakers.
Since the start of the year, when the changes took effect, police officials and prosecutors in New York State have mostly focused their criticism on an overhaul of the bail laws, which they said was allowing criminals to go free.
But the killing of Mr. Rodriguez, 36, turned attention to a change in the state’s so-called discovery law, which governs when prosecutors must turn over information about their investigative findings.
The murder came several weeks after a judge ordered prosecutors to disclose Mr. Rodriguez’s identity to lawyers who represented his alleged attackers, as called for by revisions to the discovery process generally requiring that such information be shared within 15 days of a first court appearance. New York previously let prosecutors wait until the eve of trial to turn over the material.
Madeline Singas, the Nassau County district attorney, said that being forced to identify Mr. Rodriguez well before trial had hampered the authorities’ ability to protect him — ultimately costing him his life.
“This courageous man was prepared to testify against alleged assailants at an upcoming trial
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The only good ms-13 member is a dead ms-13 member.
In Arkansas if you start talking to an old timer about the Clintons they'll take a quick look around to see if anybody might hear them before they say anything.
This is an international terror group which is protected by ‘progressive politics’
This is part of Obama's plan for America:
Obama’s statement in an October 2008 campaign visit to Columbia, Mo:
...we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.
This is an interview by Bill O’Reilly.
Bill completely was owned by Obama as BO'R ‘s last statement was “...I think — I — you know, I know you think maybe we haven't been fair, but I think your heart is in the right place.”
So, MS13 is using fear to 'buy influence'
NY lets them back on the streets no matter what they do.
They use machetes to hack people up
Plus the cut heads off of people.
Plus they torture and rape people.
Yet they are given sanctuary by progressive dem Politians.
This is the “army” Obama was referring to on the campaign trail back in 2008.
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Yep, part of it.
What a coincidence!
This was one of the plots of “Reckless,” Season 10, Episode 13 of Blue Bloods. Erin, the Assistant DA couldn’t protect a witness because the defense attorney had the information of the crime victim and there was fear the perp would have access to it. There was discussion in the episode about how the law and changed in NYC and it was causing witnesses to think twice about testifying against criminals.
What is the Mexican mob using to buy influence?
Votes for Democrats
“What is the Mexican mob using to buy influence?”
The Baby Boomers who became college professors.
Time to list every Democrat in the State Assembly/govt who voted for this deadly law change, as well as judges who don’t exercise the extraordinary powers they have to prevent these types of disclosures on the grounds tha they endanger the witness - with this gentleman’s death being the precedent.
When are New Yorkers going to revolt and destroy the Cuomo mafia govt and the State Assembly which is as corrupt and Marxist as any in America?
>> Whose side are they on?
Certainly not on the side of a mature civilization.
Thanks 8Man I remember that.
Anything to NOT agree with Trump, even to the point of cannonizing vicious ANIMALS that torture and slaughter innocent people
“The murder came several weeks after a judge ordered prosecutors to disclose Mr. Rodriguez’s identity to lawyers who represented his alleged attackers”
If the lawyer told his clients, he ought to be disbarred and jailed. Why didn’t Mr. Rodriguez get the protection Blowy gets. Should he have also told prosecutors he saw Trump spit on the sidewalk once.
Sad.
It sure didn’t take long.
and the American people cannot hear the deep state operative’s (whistle blower) name. Go figure
this wont stop until a family member of some scumbag big dem politician is raped and murdered.
kind of surprised to see this in the NY Slime
I hate when a Furor Erupts.
The last time a Furor Erupted, France got invaded, England got bombed, and we had to invade North Africa, Italy, and France...
Nope. They will still justify it if they hate Trump enough since the majority of the victims are not their own.
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