Cubs Lose to St. Louis 5-1 ouch
Sox beat the Tigers second day in a row 4-1
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Judge knows this is political suicide
Judge Steps down from Zimmerman case
SANFORD & Son, Florida — A day after being assigned the George Zimmerman murder case, Circuit Judge Jessica Recksiedler announced a possible conflict of interest that could force her withdrawal.Her husband is a partner at the law firm of Mark NeJame, who has been hired by CNN to provide analysis for the case, one of the most racially charged in the country.
The judge made the disclosure Friday, saying Zimmerman’s attorney or the special prosecutor might want her to step down.
No one has made that request yet, but Zimmerman’s attorney, Mark O’Mara, said he might do so next week. If he does, she’s almost certain to step aside.
NeJame acknowledged that Zimmerman called his office March 15, saying he needed a lawyer. NeJame declined, he said, largely because he has daughters ages 4 and 6, and several other businesses.
Two weeks later, he signed a contract with CNN, he said. Then, earlier this week, when Zimmerman inquired again through a friend, NeJame said he recommended O’Mara.
The judge’s husband, Jason Recksiedler, is a partner at NeJame’s firm, heading the personal-injury section, NeJame said.
If Jessica Recksiedler steps aside, Zimmerman’s bond hearing, which was scheduled for April 20, likely will be rescheduled.
The defendant is being held without bond in the Seminole County jail, charged with second-degree murder.
He’s the Neighborhood Watch volunteer who killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black 17-year-old, on Feb. 26 as the high-school junior walked through Zimmerman’s gated community.
Zimmerman told police he fired in self-defense after Trayvon attacked him. He’s expected to defend himself using Florida’s “stand your ground” law, which says a defendant is allowed to use deadly force if he has a reasonable fear of death or great bodily injury.
Recksiedler has had recent experience with that law. Two weeks before Trayvon’s death, she dismissed an aggravated-assault case against a 45-year-old Oviedo man after a “stand your ground” hearing.
Michael David Adkinson shot and wounded his neighbor, Raul Castro Rosa, on May 18. According to court records, after an argument, Rosa banged on Adkinson’s front door and window, went into the garage and banged on the interior door so hard that he left dents.
Adkinson then opened the door after having picked up a small handgun. Rosa saw it, charged him, broke a crutch over his head and tackled him, records say.
The gun then went off and a bullet ricocheted off a wall and hit Rosa in the shoulder, Adkinson told the police.
Robert Buonaro was Adkinson’s lawyer.
“She’s a smart judge,” he said Friday. “I’ve been doing this for 40 years. I was very impressed.”
Recksiedler, 39, has the least criminal-law experience among Seminole County’s felony-trial judges.
She was elected in 2010 and has been on the bench 15 months. Her assignment then and now has been felony cases.
She grew up in Seminole County, the daughter of a school administrator. She graduated from Florida State in 1994 with a degree in accounting and Stetson University College of Law in 1997.
She immediately went to work for the State Attorney’s Office in Orange-Osceola but stayed just nine months.
In private practice, she specialized in civil cases, including insurance defense work, and is a board-certified trial lawyer, meaning she’s an expert at jury trials.
“She’s doing a good job. She’s concise, and she runs a tight ship,” said Senior Judge O.H. Eaton Jr., the retired 25-year veteran whose spot on the bench she now holds. “I am very, very happy that somebody as qualified as she is decided to run for the job.”
Attorneys who appear regularly in her court were reluctant to talk for attribution, but she’s popular with many criminal-defense attorneys.
She currently is assigned one of Seminole’s most sensational first-degree-murder cases, that of Nioshka Bello, a young Casselberry mother charged with strangling her 2-year-old child with her bra in a fit of rage and despair.
Recksiedler recently found Bello mentally competent and ordered her returned to the Seminole County jail from a state mental hospital, where she was sent after a suicide attempt.
In another widely followed case, Recksiedler sentenced Pamela Hardy, an Altamonte Springs mother, to 11 1/2 years in prison for spanking a 9-year-old boy and his 6-year-old sister — children she had recently adopted. The siblings were spanked so hard and so often, they were left bruised and bloody.
Sarge'smusic break
This is when gangs were bad asses now it is just a bunch of wanabe's and pussies
The Animals Rising Sun
Spiderbait Black Betty original version done by Lynard Skynard
Disturbed land of confusion originaly done by Phil Collins
Disturbed Indistructible me
Cypress Hill Insain In the Brian
If this gets signed in to law Illinois law is nol and voided
National Right to Carry Reciprocity Act of 2012” introduced in U.S. Senate
Today, March 13, U.S. Senators Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) introduced S. 2188, the “National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2012.” The bill is the Senate companion to H. R. 822,which was approved by the U. S. House last November by a vote of 272-154.
S. 2188, like H.R. 822, would allow any person with a valid state-issued concealed firearm permit to carry a concealed handgun in any other state that issues concealed firearm permits, or that does not prohibit the carrying of concealed firearms for lawful purposes. A state’s laws governing where concealed handguns may be carried would apply within its borders.
Today 49 states either issue carry permits or otherwise authorize law-abiding people to carry firearms outside the home for self-defense. 41 states have fair “shall issue” permit systems that allow any law-abiding person to get a permit.
In contrast to dire predictions from anti-gun groups, Right-to-Carry laws have been enormously successful. Interstate reciprocity will serve as a fundamental protection of the right to self-defense by providing people with the ability to protect themselves not only in their home states, but anywhere they travel where carry concealed carry is legal.
Contrary to the false claims of some, these bills would not create federal gun registration or gun owner licensing, nor would they allow any federal agency to establish a federal standard for a carry permit or impose gun control restrictions of any kind.
These bills would have no effect on permitless carry laws, currently on the books in Arizona, Alaska, Wyoming and Vermont, that allow concealed carry without a permit. In addition, Vermont residents would be able to take advantage of S. 2188 and H.R. 822 by obtaining a permit from one of the many states that offer non-resident permits.
Please contact your U.S. Senators today and urge them to cosponsor S. 2188. You can call your U.S. Senators at 202-224-3121 or send them an email by clicking here.
“National Right to Carry Reciprocity Act of 2012” introduced in U.S. Senate
S. 2188, like H.R. 822, would allow any person with a valid state-issued concealed firearm permit to carry a concealed handgun in any other state that issues concealed firearm permits, or that does not prohibit the carrying of concealed firearms for lawful purposes. A state’s laws governing where concealed handguns may be carried would apply within its borders.
Today 49 states either issue carry permits or otherwise authorize law-abiding people to carry firearms outside the home for self-defense. 41 states have fair “shall issue” permit systems that allow any law-abiding person to get a permit.
In contrast to dire predictions from anti-gun groups, Right-to-Carry laws have been enormously successful. Interstate reciprocity will serve as a fundamental protection of the right to self-defense by providing people with the ability to protect themselves not only in their home states, but anywhere they travel where carry concealed carry is legal.
Contrary to the false claims of some, these bills would not create federal gun registration or gun owner licensing, nor would they allow any federal agency to establish a federal standard for a carry permit or impose gun control restrictions of any kind.
These bills would have no effect on permitless carry laws, currently on the books in Arizona, Alaska, Wyoming and Vermont, that allow concealed carry without a permit. In addition, Vermont residents would be able to take advantage of S. 2188 and H.R. 822 by obtaining a permit from one of the many states that offer non-resident permits.
Please contact your U.S. Senators today and urge them to cosponsor S. 2188. You can call your U.S. Senators at 202-224-3121 or send them an email by clicking here.
A win for the NRA
Illinois Supreme Court ruled on Cook County's violation of 2nd Amendment
The justices said it wants Circuit Court to hear evidence on whether assault weapons get the same Second Amendment protections as handguns. They ruled the lower court's dismissal of the Second Amendment argument was improper.
Cook County banned the sale or possession of assault weapons in 1993. The ordinance included details of what constituted an assault weapon and examples of banned guns, but it was aimed at “high-capacity, rapid-fire” rifles and pistols. The law was expanded in 2006 to ban large ammunition magazines.
The ban was challenged by three Cook County residents who said they had perfectly valid reasons to own the prohibited weapons, from hunting to target shooting to personal protection. They argued that the law was too vague and too broad, with little connection to the goal of increasing public safety.
The Circuit Court ruled the ordinance was constitutional, as did the state appeals court.
Then the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Chicago ordinance that essentially banned handguns. It held that the Second Amendment establishes a fundamental right to possess a handgun for self-defense.
The Illinois appeals court reviewed the case in light of the new federal ruling but still found the Cook County ban was constitutional. But the Illinois Supreme Court says the issue needs a closer look.
The key question is whether high-capacity, fast-firing weapons should be considered ordinary guns that get full Second Amendment protection or treated like machine guns and other special weapons that can be restricted.
In an opinion written by Justice Mary Jane Theis, the high court said it was too early in the case to say conclusively whether assault weapons, as described in the ordinance, should fall within the scope of the Second Amendment. At this point in the case, neither side has been able to argue sufficiently to come down either way in the case, justices said.
A 68 year old Vet Killed in Nov and this has not gottin as big as Zimmerman
68 Year Old Marine who served in Viet Nam
How is it this media curcuis make sure the whole nation herd about Trayvon but a man who served his country is not on the media's nose. A civilian shoots and kills a gang banging thief and he sits in jail, but a team of police officer's who responded to a medical alert violated the 4th amendment and shot and killed a Marine after the Marine had stated leave me alone I am ok I set it off by mistake I was in bed yet the police still refused to listen to the Devil Dog. It is amazing that these officer's where not gunned down. I can see why the state of Indiana passed the law to were you can kill a police officer. below is the law
Which means if this vet was in Indiana when these cops forced themselves in to his home in violation of the 4th Amendment this Marine could have killed at least 2 or 3 cops before they killed him and it would have been all on tape like his murder was. Indiana passed this law because 13 homes where hit by police in serving a warrant and all 13 times the police had the wrong house so when they were slamming the door the home owner thought he was about to have his or her home invaded grabbed the firearm to protect the family and were gunned down by police. Once police realized they were at the wrong house it is to late they have committed homicide. Yes according to the law it is justified but Indiana had to put a stop some where and give the people a reasonable ground to fight back. When police are wrong they cover it up and that makes the good cops look bad when they are not. Below is a link to a video of the Marine's son speaking to the press
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)