Daily Commentary – Friday, January 27, 2012 – Prospective Juror Ordered to Wear ‘I failed to appear for jury duty’ Sign

• 22yr old prospective juror disobeys judges orders and ends up having to wear a sign in front of the Lake County Courthouse

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Former Illinois Governor Rod “Blago” Blagojevich Sentenced to 14 years in Prison on Corruption Charges

As the band Chicago sang … “Hard to Say I’m Sorry” … especially when you are guilty as sin of doing things the Chicago Way.

“Everybody needs a little time away.”
I heard Blago say,
“From each other.”
“Even former disgraced governors need a holiday.
Far away, from each other”

Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been sentenced to 14 years in prison on corruption charges for trying to sell Barack Obama’s Illinois Senate seat to the highest bidder. Blago made a final plea to the court acknowledging his guilt and saying that he was “unbelievably sorry.” The plea fell on deaf ears as Blago received one of the longest for any politician in state history. And rightfully so.

Disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevich was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in prison after he made a final plea for leniency, acknowledging his guilt and saying, “I am unbelievably sorry.”

The sentence is the longest received by any Illinois governor and one of the longest for any politician in state history.

As stated at Michelle Malkin.com the culture of corruption continues in Illinois, it’s the “Chicago way”.

This makes four former Illinois governors convicted of crimes.

PolarCoug (h/t SteveEgg) tweets: “The new official slogan for the State of Illinois: ILLINOIS: WILL THE DEFENDANT PLEASE RISE?”

And from macguyinnc: The new official song for the State of IL: “Get Me to the Judge On Time.”

LA Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner Revokes Lindsay Lohan’s Probation

If you bet that Lindsay Lohan would screw up her probation from the last time she was in front of a judge … you are a winner. Lohan cuffed and lead out of court …

Problem child Lindsay Lohan finds herself on the wrong side of the law once again. This time Lohan’s probation was revoked by Los Angeles County Judge Stephanie Sautner. An angry judge read Lindsay Lohan the riot act for failing to preform community service, a stipulation of her probation, and taking sentence seriously. Judge Sautner stated that Lohan’s sentence of probation for a charge of theft was a gift. It would seem that the gifts might have run out for Miss Lohan.

An angry Los Angeles judge on Wednesday revoked the probation for Lindsay Lohan because she failed to perform community service, and admonished the troubled actress for failing to treat her sentence seriously.

At a progress hearing for Lohan, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner called her previous ruling of probation on a theft charge a “gift” and told Lohan, “there’s something called looking a gift horse in the mouth.”

Lindsay Lohan was led from the courtroom in handcuffs, then later posted a $100,000 bail and was allowed to go home. Lohan’s next court appearance will be on November 2, 2011 where it will be argued whether Lohan did, in fact, violate her probation. If it is determined that she did … Lohan could be headed back to the pokey.

Florida Court of Appeals Rejects Casey Anthony’s Appeal … Must Report to Probation Officer by Friday

CASEY ANTHONY LOSES PROBATION APPEAL …

Casey Anthony, the tot-mom who was acquitted of murdering her daughter Caylee Anthony, lost her appeal today as a Florida Court of Appeals stated that she must report to her probation officer by this Friday. The one year probation stems from the Ms. Anthony’s check fraud case.

An error was made on the written sentencing documents in that case, which allowed Anthony to serve her probation while in jail awaiting trial for murder. Judge Stan Strickland, who presided over the check fraud case, had intended for her to serve probation once she left jail.

This is hardly any consolation to the colossal blunder committed by the jury in Casey’s Anthony’s murder trial that allowed her to go free in the murder of her child. It was obvious that Casey Anthony and her defense attorneys knew what the intent of the probation was and she should not benefit from a clerical error. Hell, hasn’t Casey benefited from enough errors at this point? Casey Anthony should consider herself lucky at this point as in the game of life, she is playing with house money.

Her defense attorney, Jose Baez, said earlier this week that she had returned to Florida to await the fate of her probation appeal. A three judge panel on Florida Court of Appeals settled the issue today by rejecting her appeal.

Anthony was ordered earlier this month by Judge Belvin Perry to return to Florida by Aug. 26 to serve a year’s probation stemming from a check fraud conviction. Before her first degree murder trial, Anthony pleaded guilty to stealing checks from best friend Amy Huizenga during the time that Caylee was missing.

The Court of Appeals slapped down both Casey Anthony and her defense attorneys. Its just too bad that the jury in the Casey Anthony murder trial did not have the insight and where with all of these judges. They saw right through Casey and her defense attorneys.

In the written order filed by the Fifth District Court of Appeals today, the judges reprimanded Anthony and her defense team for turning the sentencing process into a “game.”

“The petitioner and her lawyers were well aware that her probationary placement was not to begin until her release from confinement. The petitioner may not, under these circumstances, take advantage of the administrative error of the Department of Corrections,” the order states.

Iran Sentences US Hikers Shane Bauer & Josh Fattal to 8 Years as Spies

The Iranian kangaroo court has spoken …

The two American hikers, Shane Bauer & Josh Fattal, who were arrested on July 31, 2009 near Iran’s border with Iraq, along with a third American Sarah Shourd, by the Iranian regime  have been sentenced in Iran to 8 years as US spies. They were convicted for for espionage and illegal entry.

“In connection with illegal entry into Iranian territory each was given three years in jail and in connection with the charge of cooperating with American intelligence service, each was given five years in jail,” a state TV website said, quoting what it called an informed judiciary source.

They have 20 days to appeal, it said.

The affair has compounded tensions between Tehran and Washington, which have had no diplomatic relations since the storming of the U.S. embassy after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

There was no immediate comment from U.S. officials.

Thankfully, Sarah Shourd was freed on $500,000 bail in September 2010,  returned home and never returned back to Iran. What will be the reaction of the Obama Administration to the sentencing? Sorry, Obama was to busy on vacation to respond to two Americans being unjustly imprisoned.

Obviously, this was a hard line message by Iran to test the Obama Administration … but all that came from the State Department was that they restated the U.S. appeals for their release, “It is time to reunite them with their families.” I guess its better than an Obama apology.

Oh the irony, a regime like Iran enforcing their borders, but Barack Obama thinks that its perfectly ok for illegals to come across the border as long as they commit no crimes. Maybe after his Martha’s Vineyard vacation, Obama can share his executive order providing backdoor amnesty to illegals.

UPDATE I: Iran turns US hikers into Hostages.

Is it 1979 all over again … a weak US Democrat President residing over a failed US economy and an Iranian regime politicizing the capture and detainment of Americans.

The politicized verdict once again underscores the Islamist regime’s twisted sense of “justice,” which is meted out against Iranians as well as foreigners to advance the interests of a ruthlessly brutal regime. The show trial of the hiker/hostages is one more slap in the face of the Obama Administration, whose eager rush to engage Tehran has produced no tangible results.

Obamacare: 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Strikes Down Obama’s Individual Mandate as Unconstitutional

INDIVIDUAL MANDATE OF OBAMACARE RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL BY THE 11TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS …

In the battle against Obamacare and its unconstitutionality, this is the big one. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the individual mandate in Obamacare is unconstitutional. Twenty six states, that include Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, are battling Barack Obama as to whether the US government has the right to force Americans to buy health care insurance.

Previously in January 2011, Judge Roger Vinson ruled on Obamacare and struck the entire law finding that the mandate could not be severed from the rest of the law. The 11th Circuit ruled that the mandate was unconstitutional, however, they did not throw out the entire law, finding that the mandate could be severed. This hardly makes sense with regards to severability.In any event, this is headed to the SCOTUS.

That last part makes little sense, since the law had no severability clause in it. Kill one part, you kill it all has been the theory. Kicking out the mandate but leaving the rest intact makes things even messier, in my opinion.

The Court’s opinion can be read HERE.

Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion has highlighted  many of the major points of the Court’s opinion.

We first conclude that the Act’s Medicaid expansion is constitutional. Existing Supreme Court precedent does not establish that Congress’s inducements are unconstitutionally coercive, especially when the federal government will bear nearly all the costs of the program’s amplified enrollments.

Next, the individual mandate was enacted as a regulatory penalty, not a revenue-raising tax, and cannot be sustained as an exercise of Congress’s power under the Taxing and Spending Clause. The mandate is denominated as a penalty in the Act itself, and the legislative history and relevant case law confirm this reading of its function.

Further, the individual mandate exceeds Congress’s enumerated commerce power and is unconstitutional. This economic mandate represents a wholly novel and potentially unbounded assertion of congressional authority: the ability to compel Americans to purchase an expensive health insurance product they have elected not to buy, and to make them re-purchase that insurance product every month for their entire lives. [...]

Obviously, Obamacare is headed to the US Supreme Court and most likely right before the 2012 Presidential election. This will be disastrous for Democrats and Obama reelection bid in 2012. Democrats ran from the Obamacare issue in the  2010 midterm elections as no Democrats wanted to embrace the fact that they rammed government sponsored healthcare down the throats of Americans and signed into law with no GOP votes a law that forced Americans to buy healthcare. Obamacare is hated by the American people and an overwhelming majority want it repealed. Presently, the polls at Real Clear Politics have only 38.8% in favor and 50.6% opposed. Good luck to Democrats dealing with this headache during the 2012 elections, a situation that they brought about themselves by going against the will of the American people. There will be retribution by We the People in 2012.

As reported at the Gateway Pundit via the AP, the White House disagrees with the 11th Circuit court’s decision. That’s it Barack, you keep touting Obamacare, you run on that in 2012, I am sure the American people will embrace it.

Obama adviser Stephanie Cutter says the White House strongly disagrees with an appeals court ruling Friday that struck down the insurance requirement at the center of a law.

She says the White House is confident that ruling will not stand.

Polygamist Sect Leader Warren Jeffs Found Guilty Sexual Assault on Two Minor Child Brides … Prophet? He is a Convicted Pedophile

Finally justice is served …

Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs has been  found guilty by a Texas jury of child sexual assault.The crimes took place as a result of two young female followers he took as child brides in what his church calls “spiritual marriages.” Of course spiritual marriages is code for raping young girls.

The head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints stood stone-faced as the verdict was read. Jeffs, who acted as his own attorney, stood mostly mute for his closing argument, staring at the floor, for all but a few seconds of the half hour he was allotted.

At one point he mumbled, “I am at peace,” and said no more. The only noise in the courtroom was the creaking of wooden benches brimming with spectators.

Warren Jeffs represented himself in his trial which not only proves the age old adage that when one represents them self they not only have a fool for a client, but some times a pedophile as well. Jeffs stood silent during his closing argument.

How absolutely sick that Waren Jeffs would try and hide behind freedom of Religion in order to sexually assault female minors. Jeffs’ got one thing right, God will seek revenge; however, it will be Jeffs who faces God’s judgment and a special life time of eternity in the 7th level of Hell.I hardly think that God appreciates it when you implicate God in the following, “instructing young women on how to please him sexually — and thus, he told them, please God.”

Prosecutors used DNA evidence to show Jeffs fathered a child with a 15-year-old girl and played an audio recording of what they said was him sexually assaulting a 12-year-old. They also played audio recordings in which Jeffs was heard instructing young women on how to please him sexually.

Good grief, this man taped the rapes of minors and called them training sessions.  It took the jury of 10 women and two men just 3 1/2 hours to return a guilty verdict, Jeffs faces a possibility of live in prison. I guess its safe to say that we can rest assured that it was not the Casey Anthony jury that heard this case. Had it been, they would have thought that it was George Anthony who might have assaulted the two child brides and not Jeffs.

Warren Jeffs, what a creepy little, evil man who will now get his and exactly what he has coming to him. A note to the FLDA, Jeffs is not a prophet, he is a pedophile.

What Are the Odds … Lightening Strikes Tree at Caylee Anthony Memorial Sight on Day Casey Sentenced & to be Released from Jail Next Week

Is it sign from above … You Betcha!

On the very day that tot mom Casey Anthony was sentenced by Judge Belvin Perry for the 4 counts of lying to police that after time served will see her getting out of jail July 13 17 … there was a sign from above of displeasure of the juries decision.  On the very day that Casey Antony is only sentenced for four misdemeanors of lying to police rather than for the murdering of 2 year old Caylee …a tree at the memorial where the remains of Caylee Anthony was found was struck by lightening. I am thinking that many in Heaven are none to happy and have interesting ways of showing their feelings.

“It could be a sign from the angels that they aren’t happy with what’s happened,” said 40-year-old Keyla Lugo of Orlando, who has visited the memorial in the Chickasaw Oaks subdivision twice this week. “It’s a sad day for Orlando, for Caylee and for justice. The rain, the lightning, the storm — it’s the heavens indicating they aren’t happy.”

Coincidence? A sign? You make the call. What are the odds of such an act occurring? Some one upstairs does not seem to be too happy with the recent turn of events in the Casey Anthony murder trial. This act of nature reminds me of the the Natalee Holloway case in Aruba when Natural Bridge collapsed following the disappearance of the Alabama teen on “One Happy Island” as the Man upstairs was none too happy with that situation either.

The Dana Pretzer Show On Scared Monkeys Radio – Tuesday June 28, 2011 – Special Guests: Blink from Blink on Crime & Robin Sax Discussing the Casey Anthony Murder Trial of Death of Caylee Anthony

LISTEN TO THE DANA PRETZER SHOW ON SCARED MONKEYS RADIO

Tonight Dana welcomes special guests:

• Crime Blogger Blink, the editor in Chief of Blink On Crime provides updates,  analysis and the latest goings on in the Casey Anthony murder trial. Get the latest on the trial of the tot mom and the death of Caylee Anthony … Competence, Chloroform and Kronk, Oh My.

• Robin Sax – Former ADA, attorney and author and all around great legal analyst will be providing legal insight, analysis and will be  discussing the many aspects of the Casey Anthony murder trial.

Bad Day for Blago … Rod Blagojevich Found Guilty & Convicted on 17 of 20 Counts of Corruption

BLAGO GUILTY ON 17 OF  20 COUNTS OF CORRUPTION … BYE, BYE BLAGO.

The only person who was stunned following the juries verdict today was former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was … Rod Blagojevich. Blago was convicted by a jury today on 17 of 20 counts of corruption. He will be going away fro quite some time.  They convicted Blagojevich on all 11 counts on the sale of the U.S. Senate and all three counts on the shakedowns of Children’s Memorial Hospital and a racetrack executive.However, why is anyone surprised, Blago was just doing it the Chicago way.

Saying he was “stunned,” Rod Blagojevich was uncharacteristically tight-lipped today after a jury convicted him on 17 of 20 counts of corruption against him.

Holding his wife’s hand, Blagojevich spoke in a somber tone to a crush of reporters in the federal courthouse. “Patti and I obviously are very disappointed in the outcome. I, frankly, am stunned. There’s not much left to say other than we want to get home to our little girls and talk to them and explain things to them and try to sort things out. And I’m sure we’ll be seeing you.”

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