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Petition: Impeach judge who issued 60-day incest sentence
FoxNews.com ^ | 10-20-2016 | FoxNews.com

Posted on 10/20/2016 10:57:58 AM PDT by servo1969

An online petition calling for the impeachment of a Montana judge over the sentencing of a 40-year-old man to 60 days in jail after he pleaded guilty to raping his 12-year-old daughter has more than 30,000 signatures.

The man was sentenced to the jail time, plus a 30-year suspended prison term last week as part of a plea deal with prosecutors. District Judge John McKeon gave the man credit for time served, meaning he would spend only an additional 43 days in jail as long as he met the conditions of his probation. The plea agreement had recommended a 25-year sentence.

The case drew parallels to the case of the Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner, who was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced in June. Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky drew outcry when he sentenced Turner to six months in jail and ordered him to register as a sex offender for life. Prosecutors had asked for a six-year sentence.

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He said that evaluation found the defendant could be safely treated and supervised in the community. McKeon also notes the victim's mother and grandmother asked that the defendant not be sentenced to prison.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Montana
KEYWORDS: incest; mckeon; pedophile
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To: PCPOET7

my brother lived in a Indian village up in Alaska and he said it was real bad in that village everyone knew and only occasionally would there be an investigation and that only happen when you had a 12 year old show up pregnant at the hospital


Could be. I can see a judge not wanting to come down hard on a POC and risk being called racist.


21 posted on 10/20/2016 12:48:08 PM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: servo1969

Hellary would say it’s too harsh a punishment.


22 posted on 10/20/2016 12:51:42 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: servo1969

He’s still getting more than the rapist of a 12-year old HRC defended, who’d put the kid into a comma for 5 days. HRC get that jerk of for time served, less than this jerk’s time.


23 posted on 10/20/2016 1:02:36 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Changes)
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To: DoughtyOne
Prosecute the judge as an accessory after the fact. He is helping the guy escape justice. That is a crime.

He's not "helping the guy escape justice," he just has a different view of justice than you do. Unless there is some evidence of bribery or other corruption, impeachment (or possibly recall) is the only available option, and even that might be a stretch, unless he violated some law regarding minimum sentencing.

I'm not sure what the process is for removing a county judge in Montana (or if he's appointed or elected), but I doubt disagreement over sentencing is valid reason for impeachment (although it might suffice if he's subject to recall.) A previous poster says he's about to retire; if that's true, I doubt anyone will expend the energy to remove him.

24 posted on 10/20/2016 1:11:35 PM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: Gil4

Well..., I’m not sure what is reasoned in that neck of the woods, but 60 days for raping your own twelve year old daughter?

Prosecute the judge. If that isn’t a criminal act, then our judicial system is really screwed up.

Your comments sound reasoned, but this does go beyond the pale. And I don’t think this is just my opinion BTW:


25 posted on 10/20/2016 1:47:31 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (19 days: Until Presdient Pre-elect becomes President Elect Donald J. Trump. Help is on the way!)
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To: blueunicorn6

Thanks for that information.


26 posted on 10/20/2016 2:53:32 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: Gil4

Generally speaking, impeachment can be done for just about any reason.

High crimes and misdemeanors means crimes and misdemeanors in high office - period. It does not - not - mean high (as in lofty) crimes and misdemeanors (after all, a high misdemeanor would be like a towering hillock - an oxymoronic absurdity).

A misdemeanor (bad face) is by definition a small thing, and letting a serial pedophilia rapist off with virtually no time served is far, far above that low bar!


27 posted on 10/20/2016 2:59:14 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: servo1969

You folks in Montana should be up in arms about this.


28 posted on 10/20/2016 3:46:52 PM PDT by jch10 (Stand strong! we have a country to save!)
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To: dp0622

My guess is this decision was far more economic than anything else... There is usually far more to any story than headlines... And most of the real story never gets told.

I had to guess, and not defending but guessing, poor rural family with other extenuating circumstance and putting him away would likely destitute an already struggling situation. Don’t know, but guessing this isn’t just some pedophile judge being lenient... Not condoning it, at all... But betting there is more to this.


29 posted on 10/20/2016 3:56:45 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay

That would be a horrible situation, if they need his income to survive.

Because he will keep raping the girl and it sounds like ma and grandma will look away.

The BEST stepfather I ever knew worked with me at an investment bank.

The father was hispanic and disappeared to his native home and my friend stepped right up.

He died of cancer at 40. Figures.


30 posted on 10/20/2016 5:36:00 PM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: dp0622

Again I am not defending the situation at all, and my conjecture could be completely off, but I just doubt this is just some judge being lenient to a pedophile.


31 posted on 10/20/2016 5:45:15 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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