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Federal charges in NYPD firebombing case called draconian
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | June 23, 2020 | JIM MUSTIAN

Posted on 06/23/2020 9:30:24 PM PDT by artichokegrower

Dozens of former prosecutors are questioning the government’s handling of a case against two lawyers hit with charges that could put them in prison for nearly 50 years for torching an empty New York City police vehicle last month.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: arson; arsonists; colinfordmattis; felony; molotovcocktails; morganthau; morgenthau; nyc; rioters; uroojrahman
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Quoting a phrase often attributed to Robert Morgenthau, the former longtime Manhattan district attorney, Schechtman said the young attorneys were at worst guilty of “stupidity in the first degree.”

“It is one night where really fine people lost their way," Schechtman said. “One can lose one’s sense in a moment or even in an hour on an evening like this.”


Really fine people? Anyway stupid hurts

1 posted on 06/23/2020 9:30:24 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Only 50 years??? Needs to be life without parole.
Better yet: Neck, meet gallows.


2 posted on 06/23/2020 9:32:22 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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To: artichokegrower

It was mostly a peaceful firebombing. Besides, how could any attorney be expected to know that firebombing a police car was illegal?


3 posted on 06/23/2020 9:32:48 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: artichokegrower

“One can lose one’s sense in a moment or even in an hour on an evening like this.”

Sounds like a quote from a Lifetime movie.


4 posted on 06/23/2020 9:33:19 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: artichokegrower

Arson used to carry the death penalty.


5 posted on 06/23/2020 9:35:13 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: artichokegrower

Oldest defense line in criminal history:

“i didn’t know the molotov cocktail was loaded.”


6 posted on 06/23/2020 9:35:40 PM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: artichokegrower

The POTUS after Trump will pardon them.


7 posted on 06/23/2020 9:36:30 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: artichokegrower
“It is one night where really fine people lost their way,"


8 posted on 06/23/2020 9:37:14 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 32:12))
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To: artichokegrower

They need to be hung, drawn and quartered.


9 posted on 06/23/2020 9:38:43 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: artichokegrower

If 2 White people fire bombed an empty abortion clinic they would have been executed by now.


10 posted on 06/23/2020 9:38:50 PM PDT by Husker24
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To: artichokegrower

Why not execute them? Best solution for terrorists.


11 posted on 06/23/2020 9:42:18 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Workers)
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To: artichokegrower

What if there had been policemen sitting in those cars at the time? And they had been grievously injured or killed? Wanna then call that “one night where really fine people lost their way”? Really fine people don’t do stuff like that. Anal orifices do.


12 posted on 06/23/2020 9:43:36 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

#3. Re, “It was mostly a peaceful firebombing”.

A la Bill Paxton in “Aliens”, “but it was a dry heat firebombing”.


13 posted on 06/23/2020 9:51:02 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (??)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Or take responsibility. I’ve done things in my life that were pretty stupid and I paid a heavy price. I didn’t cry like a little girl.

I earned the repercussions. It’s called life.

John Gotti might have been a monster but at least when they threw him on the cell floor day after day right after chemotherapy and amnesty international wanted to step in, he told him to go to hell.

These two will cry to amnesty international on their knees


14 posted on 06/23/2020 9:51:06 PM PDT by dp0622 (The very future of tihe Republic is at stake. We no that makes sw know dems will do ANYTHING to win.)
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To: artichokegrower

I’d like to see a list of these idiots. Does anyone know if it has been posted online?


15 posted on 06/23/2020 9:59:57 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (??)
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To: artichokegrower

No. Draconian is charging the police in Atlanta with first degree murder when the peep tried to fire upon them with a taser.

Throwing the book at 2 communist insurrectionists that firebombed a police car as part of domestic terrorism is not draconian in anyway, shape or form.


16 posted on 06/23/2020 10:01:31 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: artichokegrower

If you can’t do the time ....


17 posted on 06/23/2020 10:17:16 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: artichokegrower

50 years, sounds right. Throw the book at them as an object lesson to others.


18 posted on 06/23/2020 10:23:03 PM PDT by Robert357
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To: Skywise

Nobody could say it any better than this, “Throwing the book at 2 communist insurrectionists that firebombed a police car as part of domestic terrorism is not draconian in anyway, shape or form.”


19 posted on 06/23/2020 10:29:54 PM PDT by Tomato lover (Faith can survive without freedom. But, freedom cannot survive without faith. Come quickly, Jesus)
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To: Rebelbase

even if you “loose one sense in a moment” you should at least know some limits of right and wrong.


20 posted on 06/23/2020 10:40:33 PM PDT by matt04
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