Rule #1 Don't Rob A Convenience Store With A Cop Standing Right Behind You

Intruder Calls Police: Intruder Calls 911, Afraid Homeowner Has Gun - KDVR

Intruder Calls Police: Intruder Calls 911, Afraid Homeowner Has Gun - KDVR

Sometimes the criminals make it too easy for the police

Teen gets 12-month sentence for minor offense - and thug gets probation for raping her

Sometimes there are cases where you really have to question whether the justice system even works anymore. There is no reason why this man should not be rotting in a jail cell with a roommate named Bubba after he admitted to raping multiple teenage girls. The Judge in this case needs to be removed from the bench if he thinks that probation is appropriate for this type of offense.

Teen gets 12-month sentence for minor offense - and thug gets probation for raping her
by Michael Daly

15-year-old Ashley had no inkling of what was to come on the day in 2005 when she was in Manhattan Family Court on a minor charge.

"You want to believe everybody's good, everybody wants to help you," she told me last week.

A hulking juvenile counselor named Tony Simmons led her in handcuffs from the girls holding area to the elevator.

She expected Tyson, as Simmons was called, to bring her up to the courtroom where she was scheduled to be sentenced for filing a false police report.

Instead, the elevator descended to the basement. The 42-year-old counselor pulled down her pants and raped her with calm, practiced precision that made him all the more terrifying.

"He knew exactly what he was doing," Ashley said. "Everything."

When he was done, Simmons pulled her pants back up and the elevator ascended to the courtroom. He raised an extended index finger to his lips in a mute command for her to say nothing.

"I was very scared," Ashley said. "I was terrified. He was a very large man."

Just moments after being violated, Ashley was seated next to her mother and before the judge. She was too shocked and terrified to report the attack.

"I knew I was just raped. I knew it wasn't supposed to happen," she recalled. "I didn't think anybody would believe me."

She kept silent as she was found to be a juvenile delinquent and sentenced to 12 months. She says her only crime was initially reporting to police she did not know who had jumped and cut her on the way to school.

Simmons continued to prey on teenagers in his custody until 2008, when a 15-year-old girl came forward to say he had sodomized her behind a locker in the girls holding area, which he stocked with condoms and cookies. Investigators believe the assaults go back a decade to the rape of a 13-year-old in the holding area.

"Just the tip of the iceberg," Assistant District Attorney Amir Vonsover said in 2008, when Simmons was indicted for three sex assaults.

On Sept. 27, Simmons appeared in court and pleaded guilty to raping Ashley and sexually assaulting two other teens.

He received probation.

"I got 12 months for a falsified police report and he got probation for raping me and the others," Ashley said on Friday. "It's just ridiculous."

Ashley says she was not told about the probation deal when she called Vonsover last week to check on the case. She had prepped to testify in the upcoming trial, but she was now told that Simmons had pleaded guilty.

"[Vonsover] said, 'You should be so happy,'" Ashley recalled. "I'm thinking, 'Great. He's definitely going to jail.'"

When she went online later, Ashley saw a news report that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance had blasted Judge Cassandra Mullen as "outrageously lenient" for giving Simmons probation.

In defense of the judge, the Office of Court Administration noted that the transcript of the plea shows that Vonsover offered no objection. He was insisting he had objected during an off-the-record sidebar. Court sources say Vonsover offered Simmons his cell phone to call relatives before taking the plea.

Ashley and her family feel the judge still bears some responsibility no matter what the prosecutor did or did not say. Ashley's mother-in-law asked, "I'm a nurse. If a doctor gives a wrong prescription, do I give it or do I question it?"

Ashley recalled what the investigators told her in 2008, after they contacted her and she finally recounted the rape.

"They said, 'Great! We have a definite case. He is going down, 100%.'"

She also remembered how she felt when she had to identify Simmons in a lineup.

"I lost my breath, to be honest," she said. "I stood there for about four or five minutes. I couldn't speak. I actually felt like my heart was going to stop in my chest."

While pondering Simmons' probation for the courthouse rape the day she got 12 months, Ashley notes that she actually served nearly three years.

She is not of the streets and that made her the target of kids who were. And, as the shock of the rape turned to anger, she often talked back to counselors.

"You say something, they throw you on the floor; 60 days, 90 days, 120 days added to your sentence," she said.

She was already an orphan and she had lost her adoptive parents as well by the time she was released. She nevertheless kept on track, getting a perfect score on her GED exam and enrolling in a professional program at a prestigious university.

"It's awesome! It's beautiful!" said Ashley, now 20.

True love helped her overcome trust issues that began with that walk to the elevator five years ago. She is married and has a son she named after Vonsover before she could even imagine Simmons getting probation.

She does not want her full name in the paper, lest Simmons try to track her down. She is not worried about her photo.

"I'm only scared of one man, and he already knows what I look like," she said.

MS Blog - Cheerleader Required to Cheer for Man Who Assaulted Her

This story is completely unbelievable. As a father and lawyer I am completly appalled by the decision of the court. Free speech was thrown out the window in favor of a convicted rapist. These Judges should be removed from the bench immediately.

Cheerleader Required to Cheer for Man Who Assaulted Her
October 15, 2010 by Caroline Heldman

If someone assaulted you, would you want to then cheer for his performance on a basketball court? A 16-year-old Texas high school student sure didn’t.

High school football star Rakheem Bolton and two others were indicted for sexual assault of a child–identified only as H.S.–at a post-game party in 2008. According to H.S.–a fellow student and cheerleader at Silsbee High–Bolton, football player Christian Rountree and another juvenile male forced her into a room, locked the door, held her down and sexually assaulted her. When other party-goers tried to get into the room, two of the men fled through an open window, including Bolton, who left clothing behind. Bolton allegedly threatened to shoot the occupants of the house when the homeowner refused to return his clothes.

In September 2010, Bolton pled guilty to a lesser charge of Class A Assault and was sentenced to one year in prison, a sentence that was suspended by the judge in lieu of two years probation, a $2,500 fine, community service and an anger management course.

Silsbee school officials had two responses to the incident. First, they urged H.S. to keep a low profile, such as avoiding the school cafeteria and not taking part in homecoming activities. With the support of her family, she refused to do so, rejecting the notion that she had anything to be ashamed of. Secondly, school officials kicked her off the cheerleading squad for refusing to cheer for Bolton. No kidding.

Bolton had been allowed back on campus during a brief period when one grand jury withdrew the charges before another grand jury reinstated them. During a basketball game, H.S. cheered for the entire team but refused to cheer “Rakheem” during his free-throws, so she was off the squad.

H.S.’s parents sued the school for violating her right to free speech, but an appeals court dismissed her case earlier this month. The bizarre reasoning: “In her capacity as cheerleader, [she] served as a mouthpiece through which the school could disseminate speech–namely, support for its athletic teams.” Not cheering for Bolton “constituted substantial interference with the work of the school because, as a cheerleader, [she] was at the basketball game for the purpose of cheering, a position she undertook voluntarily.” In other words, the “work of the school” is basketball, and H.S. was obligated to put on a robotic smile and cheer for the man who had assaulted her.

Ms. Heldman, the author of this article, has started a petition demanding that Richard Bain, Jr., the superintendent of schools, who ordered H.S. to cheer for her attacker to; 1) apologize to the victim; 2)establish a policy so that all rapists are expelled from school, and 3) acknowledge that the school district put basketball before the safety of its students. You can sign the petition here.

Tom Tancredo for Colorado Governor and Patrick Murray for 8th Congressional District in Virginia

I urge you to support both Tom Tancredo and Patrick Murray next Tuesday. These are two good men who are running in very tight races.



Political Wisdom: Could Tancredo Provide the Final Big Upset?
By Gerald F. Seib

In an upsetting kind of year, there are bound to be more surprise upsets when votes actually are counted next week. So this is a good time to look ahead in an attempt to figure out where those final upsets might pop up.

Bryan Curtis on The Daily Beast offers up one potential shocker: Immigration hawk Tom Tamcerdo, running as a third-party candidate, could win the Colorado governor’s race:

Let’s stipulate that at least one wild and inexplicable event will occur on Election Night. Here’s a nominee: Tom Tancredo, a man whose immigration rhetoric was so rough that he was banned from the Bush White House, becomes governor of Colorado.

We feel fantastic,” Bay Buchanan, Tancredo’s campaign manager, said Tuesday. “We’ve gone from 14 points in August to the low 40s now. It’s a climb of nearly 30 points in a couple months.”

This is Posturing Week in American politics, and all numbers tend to be highly bogus. But in a year in which immigration has captured the public imagination, the notion of Governor Tancredo is gaining currency. An October 25 Public Policy Polling survey showed Tancredo three points behind the Democratic candidate, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper. That tracks with a Republican poll last week that showed Tancredo trailing by just one point among likely voters. A Denver Post poll from the weekend showed Hickenlooper with a 10-point lead.

John Rossomando of the Daily Caller suggests another potential upset coming out of the blue:

Democratic Rep. Jim Moran’s 8th Congressional District is considered the second bluest district in Virginia, and the 19-year incumbent has consistently demolished his GOP challengers, but internal polling conducted by his current GOP opponent’s campaign suggests this year could be different.

Republican candidate Col. Patrick Murray’s most recent internal numbers from the last four days show Moran leading with 32.3 percent compared with Murray’s 29.7 percent. 30.5 percent are shown to be undecided.

The Murray campaign’s internal numbers also suggest Moran has high negatives (you can read more about why the anti-gun, anti-semetic Moran needs to lose this race below). A Sept. 22 poll conducted by McLaughlin & Associates found Moran’s support at below 50 percent ̶ with only 42 percent of those polled rating him as good or excellent and 41 percent rating him as fair or poor.

Meanwhile, there’s one race that was defying conventional wisdom because the vulnerable Democratic incumbent seemed to be in pretty good shape. Now, Michael Ames of Politics Daily says that picture may be changing:

The Idaho congressional race that had been defying national trends seems to be finally conforming. A new Mason-Dixon poll sponsored by seven Idaho newspapers shows conservative Republican challenger Raul Labrador pulling into a statistical dead heat with incumbent Blue Dog Democrat Walt Minnick. The poll has Minnick leading Labrador 44 to 41 percent, a seven point tightening since the last Mason-Dixon survey in mid-September.

The poll spells out explicitly what many insiders have been saying about this race for months — regardless of Minnick’s wide leads in fundraising and name recognition, the freshman Democrat is an endangered incumbent in one of the most conservative districts in the country.

Virginia Democrat Disparages Military Members  

A Virginian congressman facing a tough political battle for reelection made comments about his opponents qualifications that have resulted in a backlash against his own campaign and political party.

During this election cycle, when Democrats are facing a potential tidal wave of opposition, Democrat incumbents are disparaging their opponents while boasting about their own service with statements they believe will resonant with voters fed up with the Washington, DC status quo.

The strategy is to diminish the achievements and service of their opponents while puffing up their own. And they are kicking honesty and integrity to the wayside. For example, Nevada Senator Harry Reid, the current Senate Majority Leader, said during a television interview that had it not been for him, there would have been a worldwide economic depression. Of course, MSNBC host Ed Schultz, a staunch progressive and decidedly partisan television commentator, did not ask Reid to explain how he achieved his miraculous feat.

Unfortunately, the whoppers don't stop at the U.S. Congress. On Sunday, President Barack Obama told the American people that Congresswomen Nancy Pelosi is the best Speaker of the House who ever served.

This past week, Rep. Jim Moran, the longtime Democrat incumbent in Virginia’s 8th district, unleashed a firestorm of controversy when he disparaged the service of millions of troops and veterans. Moran diminished the value of their service by implying that the sacrifices and service our troops give while on active duty did not count as “public service” in the same way that elected officials are public servants.

The statement shocked and offended millions of veterans around the country as well as patriots who all agree that military service is a more pure and essential public service than being a politician, according to Betty Presley of Move America Forward Freedom PAC.

Moran was at a private meeting with other Democrats, deriding his opponent, Republican Patrick Murray, when he said this:

“What [Republicans] do is find candidates, usually stealth candidates, that haven’t been in office, haven’t served or performed in any kind of public service. My opponent [Murray] is typical, frankly." n reality, Colonel Patrick Murray is a 24-year U.S. Army Veteran. And most Americans will agree a veteran with a decades-long record of defending our country deserves better.

After enrolling in the Reserve Officers Training Corp (ROTC) program at Oklahoma State University, Murray graduated as an officer in the US Army and went on to train as a tank commander and later, an intelligence officer. Murray has been deployed to Russia, Belarus, Bosnia, Yugoslavia, Kosovo, and most recently Iraq as part of the Bush Surge -- a successful military operation that Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden claimed as their own.

"Murray has been an outstanding soldier and his life of PUBLIC SERVICE has been marked by selflessness and dedication," said Presley.

"What’s more of a PUBLIC SERVICE? Spending 24 years defending your nation, or 20 years (that’s how long Jim Moran has been in congress) behind a desk taxing hardworking Americans and spending their money?" Presley asks.

Prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Moran told an antiwar audience in Reston, Virginia, that "If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this. The leaders of the Jewish community are influential enough that they could change the direction of where this is going, and I think they should."

Daron Nickens attempted abduction girl: Homeless man accused of trying to abduct girl gets house arrest, probation

Really. Why the hell isn't this guy spending the next 10-25 years in prison! This Judge needs to be recalled immediately because the next child might not be so lucky and be able to get away from this sicko.

Daron Nickens attempted abduction girl: Man accused of trying to abduct girl gets house arrest, probation - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

A 19-year-old man on Thursday pleaded no contest to trying to abduct a

10-year-old Altamonte Springs girl who was on her way to school.

Daron Nickens Jr. was sentenced to six months of house arrest and four

years of probation.

His sentence calls for him to be placed in a 12-month residential

treatment program.

The girl was on her way to a school bus stop May 4 when Nickens put his

hand on her shoulder and tried to steer her in another direction. He told her he

had a gun but she ran away.

At a hearing Thursday, Nickens entered his plea in this case and a no

contest plea in another, a felony battery. The sentence in that case was the

same. Both will run concurrently.

Nickens has already spent 170 days in the Seminole County Jail.

He was homeless at the time of the attempted abduction.

Fleeing Suspect Picks Wrong Place To Hide Out

You have to love dumb criminals sometimes they make it so easy for the police that you almost feel bad for them, not.

Fleeing Suspect Picks Wrong Place To Hide Out

A man involved in a crash Wednesday afternoon sped away before sheriff's deputies arrived. He did choose a rather peculiar place to hide, the Douglas County Sheriff's Department.

Deputies got their man partly because of where the suspect hid and partly because of a good Samaritan. "I saw the oncoming car go over the line and hit this car coming the other way,” said Paul Gonzales Jr.

That's when he pulled his car over to see if he could help, but he wasn't prepared for what the driver accused of causing the crash did next. “He started the car right up again and took off.”

So Gonzales did the same, chasing the suspect. “Information came out that there was a suspect vehicle in a hit-and-run on Blondo Street, was heading north of Maple Street at that time,” said Douglas County Sheriff’s Department Capt. Russ Torres.

That suspect, 28-year-old Jason Ainsworth, ended up at the Douglas County Sheriff's Department. "I noticed a car sitting in front of our property annex that had severe damage to it,” said Capt. Torres, who was pointed in the direction of the suspect by Gonzales.

"I won't say it was a lengthy foot chase, but I did run after him and he probably realized the futility of the situation and he gave up at that point." Something that’s not normally in a day’s work for a sheriff's captain. “Normally I sit behind my desk and go to meetings and that's probably the extent of my day."

Ainsworth was booked for felony charge of leaving the scene of an injury accident and a misdemeanor charge of refusing to be tested for drunk driving. He sustained a minor hand injury, either as a result of the accident or from a scuffle with a witness after the accident.

Unemployed Gamer Runs Girlfriend Off Road to Get His PlayStation Back

I don't know what's sadder that he ran his girlfriend off the road for the Playstation or that he did with her Porsche.

Unemployed Gamer Runs Girlfriend Off Road to Get His PlayStation Back

Colleen Frable became so angry her unemployed boyfriend was spending the day playing video games, she decided to break his habit by taking the PlayStation with her to work Friday, she told Lehigh Township police.

Police said her live-in boyfriend, Darren Suchon, 42, became so enraged that he followed Frable's vehicle from their home near Palmerton on Route 248 to Lehigh Township, where he forced her vehicle off the road and rear-ended it while driving her 1996 gold Porsche sports car, all in an effort to get the video game system back.

Suchon, of 88 Hahns Dairy Road, Lower Towamensing Township, now faces a host of charges, including simple assault, reckless endangerment, harassment, disorderly conduct, reckless driving and driving with a suspended or revoked license. He was sent to Northampton County Prison under $25,000 bail.

In an interview with police after the chase, Suchon told officers he was mad his girlfriend took the PlayStation and "didn't know what the big deal was."

NJ Mom Recognizes Census Worker as Sex Offender

10% unemployment and the Federal government is hiring sex offenders. What a great background check they must have run to allow this to happen.

Media Still Can’t Bring Themselves to Call Chandra Levy Suspect an Illegal Immigrant | NewsBusters.org

But its okay because if our Attorney General won't call terrorists followers of "Radical Islam" why should we expect any better from the MSM.
Media Still Can’t Bring Themselves to Call Chandra Levy Suspect an Illegal Immigrant | NewsBusters.org

Convicted Criminal Running for Sheriff

Its almost impossible in Massachusetts for a regular citizen to own a firearm. However, if you are a convicted murderer and your records were sealed because you were a juvenile you can work as a correction officer and run for Sheriff. You see the Liberals don't have problem so long as you are reformed. I don't have a problem with sealing juvenile records in general but it shouldn't allow you to be able to enforce the law when you have already shown that you will take an innocent life.

Girls ordered to spend weekends with sex offender father-

All I can say is thank God its not America but Australia where this Judge lives.

COURT has ordered two young girls to spend weekends with their sex offender father provided he puts a door on their bedroom they can lock.


Judge Robert Benjamin, in the Family Court's Hobart branch, ruled that the girls "need some protection from (their father), particularly at night".

However, the risk of sexual abuse was "diminished when they are awake and alert".

Judge Benjamin said that the father, who was convicted of downloading child pornography, must have an "adult friend" stay with him when the girls stayed overnight.

He added that until the youngest turned 14, the girls must "share the same room so they can have the mutual support of one another".

A Family Court counsellor said that the girls, aged ten and eight, "are at an age and maturity when awake, dressed and together it would be unlikely the father would act inappropriately toward them".
http://www.news.com.au/national/girls-ordered-to-spend-weekends-with-sex-offender-father/story-e6frfkvr-1225840653601

Stupid Crook - When you jump bail do not list new address and place of work on facebook page

Crego back in Lockport; held on $1 million bail : Yahoo - Local News : The Buffalo News

Open carry deters armed robbery in Kennesaw

There has been alot of talk in the news lately about how Starbucks allows lawful citizens to openly carry firearms in their stores. Starbucks has stated that it believes that as long as it is legal they have no right to ban parties from their stores who chose to carry a gun for self protection. Here is a story which shows why more companies should follow Starbucks lead:

Two customers displaying holstered pistols deterred an armed robbery in a Kennesaw Wafflehouse recently. There is some debate raging in Georgia about whether people should conceal their holstered handguns while in public....

http://www.examiner.com/x-5619-Atlanta-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2010m2d18-Open-carry-deters-armed-robbery-in-Kennesaw?cid=email-this-article

Orange County couple faces a fine and possible jail time for not having a lawn

This story is so enraging. A couple decided to get rid of their lawn because they were wasting water. Mind you this is in a part of the country, which is being devastated by drought. The Has replaced their lawn with native plants and herbs, which are drought resistant, and mulch. However, the City of Orange cited them for violating a city ordinance requiring that at least 40 percent of the yard be landscaped with live plants.

At a time when Southern California cities fine people for overwatering their thirsty lawns, the Has said they've saved hundreds of thousands of gallons of water and drastically lowered their water bill. The couple went from using 300,000 gallons of water a year to 54,000, but city codes are specific, requiring 40 percent of the yard be landscaped with live plants. Wood chips don't qualify.

The case against Quan and Angelina Ha could be dropped without fine or penalty, officials said Tuesday hours after the pair was arraigned on charges of violating city ordinances when they removed their lawn to try to save water.The Has said Tuesday that dropping the lawsuit would not resolve the underlying issue: The city must encourage more water-saving measures among residents. Angelina Ha said her husband planned to petition the City Council to change the law."I'm taken aback that the city would kind of make us plant something that would take up water resources, Quan Ha said. "We just mainly wanted to use less water."

 

Florida grandmother jailed 15 days for suspended license - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

Florida grandmother jailed 15 days for suspended license - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

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I Knew Chicago Was Corrupt But This Is Ridiculous

I don't normally read the NY Times but the following article is a must read for every American.

Prosecutors Turn Tables on Student Journalists
By MONICA DAVEY

EVANSTON, Ill. — For more than a decade, classes of students at Northwestern University’s journalism school have been scrutinizing the work of prosecutors and the police. The investigations into old crimes, as part of the Medill Innocence Project, have helped lead to the release of 11 inmates, the project’s director says, and an Illinois governor once cited those wrongful convictions as he announced he was commuting the sentences of everyone on death row.*

But as the Medill Innocence Project is raising concerns about another case, that of a man convicted in a murder 31 years ago, a hearing has
been scheduled next month in Cook County Circuit Court on an unusual request: Local prosecutors have subpoenaed the grades, grading criteria, class syllabus, expense reports and e-mail messages of the journalism students themselves.

The prosecutors, it seems, wish to scrutinize the methods of the students this time. The university is fighting the subpoenas.http://tiny.cc/NYTimes762

Why is the prosecutor's office investigating the students? There is no reason to try to impeach the credibility of the students which is what the prosecutors are attempting to do. The students gathered facts and it is for a judge to determine whether the new evidence warrants a new trial. It seems to me that the prosecutor's office is more concerned with its public image rather than the fact that a man may have been wrongly convicted of murder and spent the last 31 years of his life behind bars. Now if you've read my previous posts you know I lean very far to the right and might be confused by my rant. But the fact of the matter is that we cannot have a free society if we don't enforce the law fairly. Mistakes will be made because the justice system is made up of human beings who are fallible but when we make a mistake we need to rectify it quickly and not shoot(although handguns are illegal in Chicago so maybe a piece of railrod tie is more appropriate) the messenger in the back as the Cook County DA is attempting to do.

* Who by the way went to jail himself on corruption charges shortly after he commuted the death sentences.

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