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2011-07-20 -Lurid Crime Tales-

9th Circuit Panel Overturns Conviction For Presidential Death Threat

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Posted by Anonymoose 2011-07-20 08:54|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 This may have a hidden meaning, especially in California. It the Spanish language, there is an imperfect verb form in common use, which says approximately says:

"Somebody should do something about that."

It arose as a kind of defensive speech in old Mexico, because if you said "I should do something about that", you could get shot, and if you said "He should do something about that", *he* could get shot.

So, by excusing this lout, this panel of the 9th Circuit could be setting up a judicial excuse for bad Mexicans to hide behind when they make violent threats.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-07-20 09:18|| 2011-07-20 09:18|| Front Page Top

#2 It all depends upon what the mean of 'is' is.
Lawyers: Those who can take the 5 percent of the gray area of the law and make it 95 percent.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-07-20 09:38|| 2011-07-20 09:38|| Front Page Top

#3 That 9th circus needs to be broken apart. It is the worst Judicial body in the US save the DOJ.

Posted by newc 2011-07-20 11:13|| 2011-07-20 11:13|| Front Page Top

#4 2008: [Jesse] Jackson was caught Sunday during a break before a live interview on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor" whispering to a studio guest that he would like to castrate Obama.

I guess Jesse set the standard for hold harmless in this sort of thing.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-07-20 13:10|| 2011-07-20 13:10|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't know, sounds to me like the 9th circuit made a good call here, for a change.

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-07-20 14:41|| 2011-07-20 14:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Anonymoose:

Judge Reinhardts spouse is Ramona Ripston, executive director of the American Civil Liberies Unions Southern California affiliate.

You're thinking of Judge Vaughn Walker who is gay. Walker was nominated to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan and renominated by George H. W. Bush (not the 9th circuit court of appeals).

Posted by Clomoper 8922 2011-07-20 15:07|| 2011-07-20 15:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Reinhardt is well known as an hard left activist judge.

Posted by Iblis 2011-07-20 17:02|| 2011-07-20 17:02|| Front Page Top

#8 I expected, from the headline, that it'd be open season on Bush. Imagine my surprise when I read it was OK to threaten The One.

Oh, wait! I get it! It's a trap!

Posted by Bobby 2011-07-20 18:25|| 2011-07-20 18:25|| Front Page Top

#9 IANAL, but I seem to recall a Supreme Court decision from the Lyndon Johnson era where somebody said something about shooting Johnson. The Supreme Court ruled that it was protected free speech, since it was "obvious" that the defendant did not actually plan to kill Johnson, and he wasn't urging people to do so.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2011-07-20 18:33|| 2011-07-20 18:33|| Front Page Top

#10 [SGT. SCHULTZ here].

OTOH, pragmatically POTUS BAMMER = ANY SUCCESSOR is at risk come "2012" as Radical Islam continues to expands its Jihad outside of AFPAK [read, CONUS-NORAM, Americas] + espec GOES NUKULAAR.

And now theres "OWG/GLOBAL CALIPHATE" HAPPINESS, thanks to consequences of the well-meaning Jasmine movements.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-07-20 20:35|| 2011-07-20 20:35|| Front Page Top

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