I would be willing to bet that this argument works for this crook. The only thing stupider in California than Hernandez is the voters!

Ignorance of the law is always a sure fire successful defense when liberals/socialist get caught in a felony.

No se nada.

Sounds like your standard democrat.

#4 That´s the first thought I had too.

Let´s hope he´s to stupid to pay his lawyer, too.

The scandal of Bell is of epic proportions.

People belong in prison.

Ignorance and stupidity is the defense of every con man ever indicted. If that was a good reason for innocence all the jails would be empty. It´s a good thing he´s a twofer a Democratic and a minority chances are good he´ll get off or just get a slap on the wrist. A Republican doing the same thing would get hard time. Two tier justice in the country has arrived and is here to stay with Obama then Hillary in the WH.

What poster 9 said. The USA is in a quick transition to banana republic status, as the rule of law means nothing to democrats. Consider that john corzine (D) stole $1.2 billion in customer money from MF Global with impunity, the “justice department” refused to prosecute the black panthers for voter intimidation, refuses to enforce the defense of marriage act, refuses to enforce immigration laws. What’s more, obama violated the war powers act in Libyan intervention, and nullified contracts of Chrysler bond holders when he took over the auto industry. On the other side of it, Skooter Libby´s life was destroyed, even though he committed no crime, and the late Senator Stevens was destroyed by corrupt federal prosecutors who paid no price for their wrong doing. This is an incomplete list, as I´m sure other posters can add to it.

Exactly what law did he break? I didn´t know it was illegal to accept pay for having a "job" even though the work wasn´t overly taxing.

#11, I believe that they significantly raised their own salaries. It wasn´t like there was some authority who "hired" them at a specific rate and that they would necessarily go through that authority to get a raise. Besides, from the article:
"The average salary for part-time elected officials at other California cities of similar size was $4,800." That sort of tells you something, doesn´t it?

Is there a clue somewhere that will tell the difference between the last picture and one that results from a Mexico City drug cartel sweep? How can you tell the difference?

"Your honor, my client is a moron"...

Used to, people wouldn´t own up to being stupid, but the Dems sure don´t mind. I guess it´s because they know their fellow Dems are just as stupid and will continue to keep them in office and excuse them for everything.

With a Democrat constituency, anything is possible.

Does anyone know if the population of Bell is mostly Hispanic? Just curious as to how this uneducated man with a hispanic last name got elected. No bueno!

...and he´s the smartest guy in town.

How stupid was the person that hired him ?

This is multiplied all across this country and into DC.

Maybe he is dsylexic and thought he was only paid 000001$/year.

If the stupid defense works, we´ll be seeing it tried all over the country. Indict Barry first, Peelousy second.