How Progressives Are Knocking Out Local
Judges Across the Country
Politico,
by
Ian Ward
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
9/3/2021 2:18:37 PM
On Feb. 28, 1991, 17-year-old Robert Saleem Holbrook sat before a judge in a Philadelphia courtroom waiting to learn if he would spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Thirteen months earlier, on the night of his 16th birthday, Holbrook had served as a lookout for a drug deal gone wrong that ended in the murder of one of the participants. Despite never laying a hand on the victim, Holbrook was charged with first-degree murder, a capital offense in Pennsylvania. Facing the death sentence, he entered a plea deal for general murder, hoping that the judge overseeing his case would settle on a third-degree murder charge
Reply 1 - Posted by:
TLCary 9/3/2021 2:36:38 PM (No. 903308)
FTA: "It was politics that had me sitting in that courtroom facing the death sentence at the age of 16."
Participating with drug dealers that murdered someone had nothing to do with it, "it was politics"! 16 is old enough to kill, and even though he is still breathing, Holbrook is the victim of something insidious. When will we ever stop this "political: jailing of people who participate in drug deals and murders? Now apparently. Isn't the new America grand?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 9/3/2021 2:43:38 PM (No. 903314)
Ian, get a clue! For your own safety if not for furthering your ''career in writing.'' George Soros, started buying up any Attorney General and many Asst. AG's as he could as far back as 2016. He had help and he bought a stable full of horses asses to call his own.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Laotzu 9/3/2021 2:53:31 PM (No. 903324)
Government can't wipe it's butt without screwing it up. The Lefty activists interested in freeing more evildoers in order to further destabilize our society are treating government's natural ineptitude and callousness as something unique to criminal justice. It will probably work. Don't expect any relief when it comes to your dealings with government, though. You're privileged.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Catfur27 9/3/2021 2:59:36 PM (No. 903327)
...by definition these criminals are not showing ANY respect for the law or their fellow citizens when they commit their crimes...YET....they want the enforcers of the law to be more on their side....???...boo hoo.
...if you can't do the time...don't do the crime
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
MickTurn 9/3/2021 3:45:41 PM (No. 903362)
Yea, right, you were a total scum criminal and YOU GOT CAUGHT...You should have been executed!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 9/3/2021 4:09:18 PM (No. 903389)
If these criminals manage to do this, crime will increase and more people will die.
Holbrook is evil.
He's a criminal and got what he deserved.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 9/3/2021 4:11:42 PM (No. 903393)
A partner in the crime of murder and he is the victim? Come on man. He was complicit. But now he is free. Justice for the victim, No.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Subsuburban 9/3/2021 4:53:33 PM (No. 903425)
Most, if not all trial court level judges, i.e., "working" judges are elected. Most crime in urban areas involves black perpetrators and black victims. One might therefore deduce that either there are more black urban criminals than victims who vote, or black urban criminals and victims both prefer lenient judges. As a white, law-abiding citizen of a very rural area, I am without an explanation for this phenomenon. Nonetheless, it seems accurate.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
OkieTom 9/3/2021 5:36:27 PM (No. 903451)
FTA: "In particular, activists are learning from the early experiences of progressive prosecutors including Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, Chesa Boudin in San Francisco, Kim Foxx in Chicago and Rachael Rollins in Boston, all of whom have assumed office since 2017. Now in power, many of these prosecutors are being met with fierce resistance from local judges, who object either to the substance or the method of their reforms. In Philadelphia, for example, local judges have repeatedly stymied Krasner’s efforts to reform the city’s parole and probation systems, arguing that Krasner’s reforms prioritize the needs of criminals over those of victims and the public."
# 2 is spot on. Thank God these Marxist/Progressives are still getting resistance from local judges, but now the Marxist's goal is to take over those judgeships, along with the DA offices.
God, please help us to stop this insidious evil.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 9/3/2021 5:53:06 PM (No. 903456)
In other words, judges shouldn't be elected by the unwashed masses.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Birddog 9/3/2021 6:00:17 PM (No. 903460)
“There’s definitely been pushback from the Democratic establishment,” Perez said. “There is a lot of [pressure] to continue to do politics the same way they’ve been done in Philly … but the problem with that is that the system prioritizes ‘How many favors have been done?’ and ‘When do I get my payback for the favors that I’ve done?’”
The key, Pfaff explained, is that this quirk of geography effectively neutralizes the electoral influence of suburban voters, who tend to support tough-on-crime candidates over their more reform-minded(weak on crime) challengers.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
john56 9/3/2021 6:48:02 PM (No. 903493)
Many of my lawyer friends tell me that many of the newer judges, especially those who are elected, basically failed at private practice.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
BarryNo 9/3/2021 6:53:00 PM (No. 903501)
Deserved execution. Though i don't agree with mandatory sentencing guidelines at that degree of penalty.
That said, there WOULDN'T BE mandatory sentencing guidelines at any level of justice if the judges were DOING THEIR JOBS!!
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