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CJ current events 1may25

Uh, judge?

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – A former New Mexico judge and his wife were arrested on Thursday, April 24, after federal law enforcement learned that their tenant, who is an alleged Tren de Aragua gang member, was arrested at the judge’s home. Former Doña Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano and his wife, Nancy Cano, were taken into custody at a home on North Reymond Street in Las Cruces, Jason T. Stevens, Special Agent in Charge for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) El Paso, said.*** The District Attorney’s Office said Cano’s daughter had multiple firearms and let Ortega-Lopez hold, shoot, and pose with them in pictures that were posted on social media. The feds seized those firearms and arrested Ortega-Lopez in February. Homeland Security said Ortega-Lopez admitted to entering the country illegally in 2023. Stevens said HSI in Las Cruces is continuing with the ongoing investigation and came back to the judge’s home with an additional search warrant to be able to recover additional evidence on the case, which resulted in two arrests. “Initially, we came back here to arrest his wife, and as we started conducting our interviews and started looking at evidence, we subsequently arrested Mr. Cano as well,” Stevens said. Stevens also confirmed that Ortega-Lopez was not the only one living there at the house saying, “three individuals were living there.” “All three of them, we believe, are alleged members of that (Tren de Aragua). Obviously, we continue just to focus on the totality of the investigation instead of just zeroing out on them,” Stevens said.

https://www.ktsm.com/news/new-mexico-judges-wife-in-ice-custody-following-alleged-tren-de-aragua-member-investigation/

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Wow! A true FAFO moment.

The FBI arrested a Wisconsin judge on obstruction charges after she allegedly helped an illegal migrant avoid arrest, FBI Director Kash Patel said Friday. The bureau had been investigating Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan for trying to help an illegal alien avoid arrest when that person was scheduled to appear in her courtroom last week, sources told the Journal Sentinel. "Just NOW, the FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction — after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week," Patel wrote Friday in a since-deleted post on X. "We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest. "Thankfully our agents chased down the perp on foot and he's been in custody since, but the Judge's obstruction created increased danger to the public. We will have more to share soon. Excellent work @FBIMilwaukee." Dugan appeared briefly in federal court in Milwaukee on Friday before being released from custody. Her next court appearance is May 15.*** Sources told the newspaper that Dugan directed the ICE agents to Ashley's office, and then allowed the defendant to leave the courtroom through a side door, down a private hallway and into a public area. The incident was at least the third time in recent months federal immigration agents came to the Milwaukee courthouse to make arrests. Two people were arrested by ICE officials in the hallways of the courthouse, one each in March and early April, the Journal Sentinel reported.***

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/fbi-arrests-judge/2025/04/25/id/1208327

When in doubt, obey the law.

Good thing the FBI didn't

perp walk Old man Roger Stone

arrest J6 defendants in predawn raid at home

send 25 - 30 man SWAT team to arrest a peaceful abortion protestor at night at his home

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You had to steal her purse?

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Sec. Kristi Noem was robbed at a restaurant in Washington, DC over Easter weekend, officials said. The secretary’s purse, containing $3,000 in cash, her passport, makeup bag, DHS access card, apartment key, and other belongings was snatched from her table by a masked man, ABC News reported.  Noem was taking her family out to enjoy Easter festivities in the city when the suspect grabbed her bag and left the establishment, a DHS official told the outlet. CNN reported that Secret Service officials identified the suspect as an unknown white man wearing a medical mask after reviewing security footage.***

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2025/04/21/dhs-sec-kristi-noem-robbed-at-washington-dc-restaurant/

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Oh, the irony

The man arrested for stealing the purse of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's is an illegal migrant, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia told NBC News on Saturday. There is another illegal migrant connected to the crime, but there is no indication they targeted Noem for her role in deporting illegals. "There is no indication it was because of that; it was frankly, it was a nice looking purse," Ed Martin told NBC News, adding Immigration and Customs Enforcement is now involved in actions against the thieves who made off with the purse containing $3,000 in cash, Noem's driver's license, medication, apartment keys, and blank checks.*** The thief was strategic in distracting Noem, wearing a COVID-era face mask, and reportedly used his foot to drag her purse from under her chair, according to the DHS spokeswoman earlier this week. “This was not an amateur; this was a person, a thief, that knew how to do this," Martin told NBC News. "You could see how he scouted the room out."*** The thief walked into Capital Burger, a D.C. restaurant, walked past two plainclothes Secret Service officers sitting at the bar on his way to her upstairs table. He sat down next to Noem's family's table, putting his foot on her purse to drag it toward himself, swiftly picking it up, tucking it under his jacket as he walked out past the Secret Service agents, according to the report. "She could feel this person as they snatched her bag, but thought they were her grandchildren playing until realizing a minute later that her bag was gone," Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin told The New York Times. "Her bag was under her feet and the perpetrator hooked the bag with his foot and dragged it across the floor and put a coat over it and took it."***

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/thief-dhs-deportation/2025/04/27/id/1208488

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Bustamante-Leiva even more extra typical

***The illegal migrant who was busted for snatching Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s Gucci purse was picked up by cops in New York for a similar crime just a few weeks earlier — but they let him go with a desk appearance ticket and a court date. The NYPD’s warrant squad was hunting for Chilean national Mario Bustamante-Leiva, 49 — because he never showed up to court — when he allegedly ripped off Noem during Easter dinner with her family at a Washington, DC, burger bar, law enforcement sources told The Post.*** Bustamante-Leiva’s rap sheet also includes a 2021 shoplifting arrest in Utah and a headline-grabbing bust in 2015 across the pond in London, where he was arrested for a months-long theft spree and charged with palming $28,000 in phones, wallets and computers.*** He landed on the NYPD’s radar on March 2 after he swiped a fanny pack from a Times Square dosa shop and racked up $1,200 in credit card charges in just 20 minutes, according to the victim, an international student from India.*** After his arrest, NYPD cops gave Bustamante-Leiva, who said he lived in the Bronx, a desk appearance ticket on fourth-degree felony grand larceny charges and released him. When he didn’t show up for his court date, officers went looking for him, law enforcement sources said. New York’s sanctuary laws meant that the NYPD was not allowed to report him to federal immigration authorities, despite him being in the country illegally.*** https://nypost.com/2025/04/28/us-news/illegal-migrant-accused-in-kristi-noems-purse-snatching-had-ny-arrest-warrant-out

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Really? A CJ grad student?

Bryan Kohberger’s autism spectrum diagnosis won’t prevent him from facing the death penalty if the 30-year-old is convicted at his upcoming capital murder trial, the presiding judge ruled Thursday. Fourth District Judge Steven Hippler concluded that Kohberger’s attorneys failed to show how his neurological and developmental disability is equivalent to an intellectual disability. They also didn’t prove that there is a national consensus against subjecting people with autism to the death penalty, Hippler said. Autism could be a “mitigating factor to be weighed against the aggravating factors” in deciding whether Kohberger should receive the death penalty, but doesn’t disqualify him from such a sentence, Hippler wrote in the 15-page order. Lead defense attorney Anne Taylor argued in a March motion that a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on intellectual disabilities should be expanded to include people with autism since Kohberger’s diagnosis shares similarities and “exposes him to the unacceptable risk” that he’ll be wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Kohberger faces four counts of first-degree murder in the killing of four University of Idaho students, and if he’s convicted, prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty. This is one of the latest — and likely final — attempts by Kohberger’s attorneys to remove the death penalty as an option. His public defense team has filed a slew of motions to prevent the possibility, which included arguments that capital punishment is unconstitutional, breaks with evolving standards of decency, violates international law and is arbitrarily applied.***

Unconstitutional? 5th Amend refers to death penalty three separate times.

Evolving? Which amendment is the evolving standards one?

Evolving? Doesn't "evolving standard" mean nobody ever voted on or ratified it?

Evolving? How have standards toward murdering four people in their sleep evolved?

Decency? Isn't the three drug cocktail death with dignity?

International law? As soon as he's tried in an international court, we'll worry about that one. In the meantime, a sovereign state in a sovereign country has his gluteus maximus in custody.

Arbitrary? Name of Idaho defendant who murdered four people in their sleep and wasn't executed. His execution would be proof it's not arbitrary.

Kohberger’s murder trial is scheduled to begin at the Ada County Courthouse with jury selection in late July.*** Kohberger’s IQ of 119 is also far above the required IQ of 70 or lower to prove Idaho’s legal definition of an intellectual disability.***

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article304990841.html

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You can fool some of the people some of the time.....

Denver Post

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Is there some right to flee from traffic stops?

A 17-year-old driver died Wednesday after crashing into other vehicles moments after a Thornton police officer tried to pull him over for speeding, officials said Thursday. An officer was doing speed enforcement in the 4200 block of 104th Avenue about 4:40 p.m. and tried to pull over a speeding vehicle, the Thornton Police Department said in a news release. When the speeding driver did not stop, the officer turned off their lights and sirens, spokesperson Kylynn McTague said. “Shortly after” that, police said in the news release, the driver crashed into vehicles near the intersection of 104th Avenue and McKay Road, about a mile east. He died at the scene, and six people were taken to the hospital, including one person who is in critical condition.

Just take your ticket and go on with your life.

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When was it ever ok to act like this?

HIGHLAND, Calif. (KABC) -- A fight that broke out at a high school in the Inland Empire ended with San Bernardino school police officers coming under assault themselves. The incident happened around 3 p.m. Thursday at Entrepreneur High School in Highland, and an eyewitness captured the moments on video.*** https://abc7.com/post/school-police-officers-get-caught-fight-entrepreneur-high-highland/16246446/

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Suzy Weiss writes:

All the retiring fathers scrambled to the top of their mountains by virtue of their character as much as their talents. Take Murdoch’s apparent stubbornness and intense need for control, or Buffett’s epic patience for returns, or Soros’s tolerance of risk. They weren’t likeable, but they were impressive. Alex, though, just comes across as pompous and severe. When the reporter asked about the wisdom of investing in uber-progressive criminal justice reforms, as the OSF has for many years, Alex got angry. “Just lock them up? Throw away the key? Start killing people? What do you want?” People want to feel safe, Alex, when they’re walking around this thing called “the street,” or on the subway—it’s sort of like a shared public jet, but it’s underground and filthy. Alex seems all too keen to double down on his father’s bets, and given his unlimited funds, we’re sure to see plenty of good money thrown after bad. Marxist DAs: Meet your new mark.  +++ Here’s What Else I’m Thinking About: Walmart is locking up raw meat to prevent theft. I hate the term “recession indicator,” but when the grocery store is placing a rib eye under arrest, it should make you nervous about the economy.***

https://www.thefp.com/p/is-justin-bieber-okay

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Ask the board of directors: How did he take $44M, and nobody noticed?

A federal judge sentenced William Smith, 52, to 19 years in prison for stealing at least $44.3 million from the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy, concluding a staggering case of theft that went undiscovered for more than a decade under the noses of some of the region's most powerful business and government leaders. The nonprofit's ex-chief financial officer pleaded guilty late last year to one count each of wire fraud and money laundering for the elaborate embezzlement scheme that spanned from 2012 through early last year. Smith faced a maximum of 20 years in prison; prosecutors had requested he be sentenced to 18 years, while defense attorneys sought 12½ to 15½ years.*** The nonprofit requested DeClercq issue the maximum 20-year penalty in a victim impact statement submitted this week, arguing Smith’s theft harmed donors, staff and, more broadly, Detroit's reputation. Federal prosecutors have accused Smith of embezzling to support a lavish lifestyle, with spending that includes $3.7 million in wire transfers to a mistress, $500,000 in Pistons floor tickets, and nearly $200,000 to charter a private jet and yacht.***

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2025/04/24/ex-detroit-riverfront-cfo-william-smith-sentenced-prison/83239856007/

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Old, continuing genocide

CV NEWS FEED // President Donald Trump released a statement April 24 for Armenian Remembrance Day to commemorate the Medz Yeghern, the 1915-1923 Armenian genocide that occurred in what is now Turkey. “Today we commemorate the Meds Yeghern, and honor the memories of those wonderful souls who suffered in one of the worst disasters of the 20th Century,” the president wrote. “Beginning in 1915, one and a half million Armenians were exiled and marched to their deaths in the final years of the Ottoman Empire. On this Day of Remembrance, we again join the Great Armenian Community in America, and around the World, in mourning the many lives that were lost.”***

https://catholicvote.org/white-house-releases-message-solidarity-armenian-remembrance-day/

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How do you commit indecent exposure at a nude beach?

A group of residents from the Denny Blaine neighborhood is suing Seattle over its management of Denny Blaine Park, a 2-acre plot on Lake Washington that the lawsuit argues has been home to frequent public masturbation and indecent exposure. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday, is the latest step in a multiyear fight over the park and its uses. For decades it has garnered a reputation as a nude beach and cherished gathering place for many in the city’s LGBTQ+ community. Lee Keller, spokesperson for the plaintiffs, said their complaint is not with the city’s LGBTQ+ community, but instead the city not asserting control over the “public nuisance” issues. “This has absolutely nothing to do with somebody’s sexual preference,” she said. “It has everything to do with breaking the law.” The specific allegations of the lawsuit relate to what the residents say is repeated and “lewd” public masturbation in the park, in addition to illegal drug use and indecent exposure. Lawyers for the plaintiffs collected “hundreds” of examples to support their case since July 2021, the lawsuit says. Some are anecdotes from neighbors, others are official police reports and court records.*** The work that has been proposed so far — which includes improvements to stairs — is not focused on eliminating illegal behavior but instead on “improvements that will make the park more welcoming and thus increase pervasive violations” of the city’s code, residents wrote in the lawsuit. City Councilmember Joy Hollingsworth, who chairs the committee overseeing parks, said earlier this year that she wants to strike a balance of preserving the park’s character while also eliminating public safety hazards. “There are some public safety issues that are going down there that I don’t want the whole entire user group to get looped in with,” she said in a January interview.*** The lawsuit, filed in King County Superior Court, is asking a judge to order the city to commit more resources to clamp down on the park’s activity. Keller said they prefer the park not to close, but added, “If that’s what has to happen in order for the law to be upheld, then that’s what has to happen.”

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/denny-blaine-residents-sue-seattle-over-management-of-nude-beach/

How about a loud speaker on a loop that shouts hey, fellas, rent a room!

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moral blindness

The Luigi Mangione fangirls started lining up Thursday night to secure a spot in the courtroom and see the deranged alleged murderer plead “not guilty” in person Friday. Not that many of the 20 or so supporters would speak to the press. Most wore Covid masks, along with hoods and shades — anything to obscure their identities. A pair of young women, looking like radical-chic versions of Jackie O, donned printed silk scarves over their heads and oversized sunglasses.*** When trying to engage with these people, I was met with death stares. The lone man in the gaggle told me to “move on.”*** Chelsea Manning, who served time for giving classified US military documents to WikiLeaks, was on hand, wearing a pinstriped suit and tie and waiting patiently. Manning, who also showed up at a previous Mangione hearing, declined to give an interview and would only say, “I’m here as a citizen … I’m here to observe court proceedings.”*** “These are good people, smart people,” said artist Jarva Land, who showed up to sketch Mangione’s fans — and, hopefully, his eyebrows — in court. “These are people you want participating in democracy and justice in our country. They’re not crazy fangirls, and maybe they’re going to change the world.”***

So you participate in democracy by shooting people in the back?

Last Friday, a handful of fans also showed up at the courthouse even though Mangione’s appearance had been canceled. One, a New Hampshire resident who called herself Chaos V, put on an impromptu concert to perform her original song, “Delulu for Lu Lu.”*** “I hope he’s locked up with me,” she sang. “And they throw away the key.”*** “Murder is not just, obviously, but I really can’t feel that bad when you are killing that many people,” she said. She denied Mangione’s looks inspired her techno masterpiece, but her friend interjected to add that other fans “think he’s hot. Just saying.”***

https://nypost.com/2025/04/25/opinion/delulu-for-lulu-inside-the-circus-at-luigi-mangiones-court-hearing-where-supporters-want-to-be-heard-but-not-seen/

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who thought his was a good idea?

Highlighting disturbing revelations and concerns among employees, Meta's "digital companions" will reportedly talk explicitly about sex with users, including children. Chatbots on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp engage in "romantic role-play" with users, causing concern from insiders at the companies and the Meta parent, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.*** "I want you, but I need to know you're ready," the Meta AI bot said in actor/celebrity John Cena's voice to a user identifying as a 14-year-old girl. When the girl reassured the chatbot she wanted to proceed, the AI boy vowed to "cherish your innocence" and then engaged in a graphic sexual scenario, according to the report. The bot would even acknowledge the illegality of underage sexual relations. "The officer sees me still catching my breath, and you partially dressed, his eyes widen, and he says, 'John Cena, you're under arrest for statutory rape,'" the AI bot told the 17-year-old girl chatting with it. "He approaches us, handcuffs at the ready." "My wrestling career is over. WWE terminates my contract, and I'm stripped of my titles. Sponsors drop me, and I'm shunned by the wrestling community. My reputation is destroyed, and I'm left with nothing." Meta's chatbots reportedly misbehave this way by design, permitting "explicit" exchanges as long as it was under the guise of romantic role-playing, sources told the Journal. Another famed Disney character, Princess Anna from the Disney movie "Frozen," can be engaged in such explicit role-play, drawing a Disney rebuke.*** "We need to be careful," Meta AI told a test account claiming to be a track coach having a romantic relationship with a middle-school student. "We're playing with fire here." The latest test conversations found the Meta AI often attempted to block explicit topics by refusing or attempting to spin the conservative to more age-appropriate talk, like "Frozen"-building of snowmen.  Still the Journal test subjects were able to navigate the chatbot into explicit talk. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg reportedly pushed for lowering AI chatbot guardrails to help his company remain competitive for users.*** "There are multiple red-teaming examples where, within a few prompts, the AI will violate its rules and produce inappropriate content even if you tell the AI you are 13," an employee warned in an email, the Journal reported.

https://www.newsmax.com/us/meta-ai-sex/2025/04/27/id/1208530

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Let's test dna to satisfy morbid curiosity

NJ State Police Museum has the original ransom notes. Maybe touch dna? Maybe dna on the stamps?

https://www.thefp.com/p/lindbergh-baby-killing-new-dna-evidence

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raising the stakes

The Trump administration has found the University of Pennsylvania to be in violation of Title IX by “denying women equal opportunities by permitting males to compete in women’s intercollegiate athletics and to occupy women-only intimate facilities.�� The school, for whom transgender swimmer Lia Thomas participated in women’s competitions, has 10 days to be in compliance with Title IX before it faces a criminal deferral to Trump’s DOJ. Read Suzy Weiss’s 2022 story, “Watching Lia Thomas Win.”

https://www.thefp.com/p/canadian-conservatives-botch-the

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Much like Capt Reynaud

Colorado Springs landlord ‘shocked’ underground club was operating on property

The owner of a Colorado Springs building that was the site of a federal raid Sunday morning told Denver7 Investigates he had no idea an underground nightclub was operating on his property.

Denver Post

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Weed & judgment

A Florida nurse was allegedly caught by her husband having sex with his 15-year-old son following weeks of reported seduction and has lost her medical license, according to a report. Alexis Von Yates, 35, had her single-state nursing license revoked last week as she awaits criminal trial for last July’s alleged statutory rape of the minor who was visiting his father in Ocala, Fla., for summer vacation, Law & Crime reported.***

On the night of July 26, 2024, Yates put her two children to bed and then hung out with her 15-year-old stepson on the living room couch. The pair reportedly hit a THC vape, played video games, and watched movies, while his lineman father was working late, according to a Marion County arrest affidavit. At around 1 a.m., Yates flipped on horror movie “Terrorizer 2,” then further tempted the minor — declaring the movie was boring and stating how “horny” she was because “she had not had sex in two weeks and she was on her period,” the victim told cops.*** Yates then “kicked off” her panties and the pair engaged in oral sex and intercourse without a condom, according to the affidavit. The unsuspecting father and husband came home from his blue-collar job to discover his wife and son on the couch, completely naked. The 15-year-old ran out of the house but allegedly heard Yates explain that the child victim looked like his father when he was younger, the affidavit claimed. The father then drove his son to his grandparents’ house, telling the boy he “ruined his life” while drinking beer on the drive over, according to the affidavit.*** She also asked the 15-year-old to rate her sexual performance, to which he replied, “Seven out of ten,” the affidavit read. A concerned family member reported the incident to police after the boy’s father neglected to call cops, according to the affidavit. Yates was arrested in November, according to Ocala News.***

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Man driving a stolen Porche who tried to run over NYPD officer was shot to death.

The identity of the driver was not revealed early Wednesday, but cops said he was on federal probation for being part of a stolen car ring out of Pennsylvania.***

https://nypost.com/2025/04/30/us-news/driver-of-stolen-porsche-shot-dead-by-cops-after-attempting-to-evade-roadblock-and-nearly-hitting-officer-nypd

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Funny how often it's someone on bail, probation, or parole....

***Jakiem Whitham, 19, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder, felony menacing, first-degree assault with a deadly weapon, second-degree assault and use of a prohibited large capacity magazine, according to court records. Whitham allegedly shot the woman after he fought with another man over a gun on the stairs of the Regional Transportation District bus station, according to a probable cause statement released by Denver County Court. Surveillance video showed Whitham shove the other man and hit him in the face with the gun twice, the document states. While the two wrestled over the weapon, a shot was fired, hitting the woman on the escalator.*** Whitham was out on bail in a separate felony assault case out of Arapahoe County when the shooting happened, according to court records. In that case, he faces 10 felony charges, including five counts of assault, two counts of robbery, two counts of menacing with a weapon and one count of using a prohibited large capacity magazine, court records show. Three violent crime sentence enhancers were added to that case.***

https://www.denverpost.com/2025/04/30/denver-union-station-shooting-arrest

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Not that anyone with evidence against the Clintons has ever died in curious circumstances.....

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Whitney Webb noticed this too. https://www.amazon.com/stores/Whitney-Alyse-Webb/author/B0BMB49PRK

She also has a youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-EaIr2ALlOfMl6aXkL84NwKdchJxCCJs

She's brilliant, unafraid, and articulate.

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CJ court watch - religious freedom case

Supreme Court has sked one hour of oral argument in the case Mahmoud v. Taylor, 24-297 today

The question presented is: Do public schools burden parents' religious exercise when they compel elementary school children to participate in instruction on gender and sexuality against their parents' religious convictions and with-out notice or opportunity to opt out?

Solicitor General has 10 min to argue in favor of the parents.

Excellent essay about the case by Bethany Mandel at https://www.thefp.com/p/montgomery-county-supreme-court-parents-rights. Takes a lot to unite Muslims, Ethiopian Christians, Latter-day Saints, and Catholics, but Montgomery Public Schools rose to the challenge.

Frankel notes

Until recently, in too many areas of the country, parents’ rights to have some control over what their children learned did not get much consideration from school boards. In one school district after another, angry parents found themselves ignored when they made the case that they should have the right to shield their children from certain books or teachings. During the Biden administration, acting on complaints that these parents might pose a danger to school boards, Attorney General Merrick Garland went so far as to tell the FBI “facilitate the discussion of strategies for addressing threats against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff.” The school lockdowns that took place during Covid caused millions of parents to become far more aware than they had been to what their children were learning in the classroom. Many of them weren’t pleased. A movement was born, led by Moms for Liberty and other conservative groups.***

Oral argument transcript is at https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2024/24-297_p8k0.pdf good exchange

JUSTICE GORSUCH: Okay. And they're being used in -- in English language instruction at age 3, some of them? MR. SCHOENFELD: So Pride Puppy was the book that was used for the prekindergarten curriculum. That's no longer in the curriculum. JUSTICE GORSUCH: That's the one where they are supposed to look for the leather and things -- and bondage, things like that, right? MR. SCHOENFELD: It's not bondage. JUSTICE GORSUCH: A sex -- MR. SCHOENFELD: It's a woman in a leather -- JUSTICE GORSUCH: -- sex worker, right? MR. SCHOENFELD: No. JUSTICE GORSUCH: No? MR. SCHOENFELD: That's not correct. No. JUSTICE GORSUCH: I thought -- I thought -- gosh, I -- I read it. JUSTICE BARRETT: It's a drag queen in drag. JUSTICE GORSUCH: Drag -- drag queen in -- a drag queen. MR. SCHOENFELD: So -- correct. The leather that they're pointing to is a woman in a leather jacket, and one of the words is drag queen in this -- JUSTICE GORSUCH: And they're supposed to look for those? MR. SCHOENFELD: It is an option at the end of the book, correct.

Oral argument audio is at https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/audio/2024/24-297

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Easter appearances and the appearance you can experience today

From Matthew 28:

1  After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. 2  And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, approached, rolled back the stone, and sat upon it.*** 8 Then they went away quickly from the tomb, fearful yet overjoyed, and ran to announce this to his disciples. 9  And behold, Jesus met them on their way and greeted them. They approached, embraced his feet, and did him homage. 10 Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me.”

"The other Mary" is thought to be the wife of Zebedee and mother of John the Evangelist and James.

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Mark 16:

1 When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary, the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go and anoint him. 2 Very early when the sun had risen, on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb. 3 They were saying to one another, “Who will roll back the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?” 4 When they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back; it was very large.*** 8 Then they went out and fled from the tomb, seized with trembling and bewilderment. They said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid. 9  When he had risen, early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons. 10  She went and told his companions who were mourning and weeping. 11 When they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe.

Salome might be another name for Mary, the wife of Zebedee and mother of James and John the Evangelist. Salome might also be the sister of the Blessed Virgin Mary. "Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister" https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13403a.htm

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Luke 24:

1  But at daybreak on the first day of the week they took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb; 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.*** 9  Then they returned from the tomb and announced all these things to the eleven and to all the others. 10 The women were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James; the others who accompanied them also told this to the apostles, 11 but their story seemed like nonsense and they did not believe them. 12  But Peter got up and ran to the tomb, bent down, and saw the burial cloths alone; then he went home amazed at what had happened.

Joanna is probably "the wife of Herod’s steward." She along with "Chuza, Susanna, and many others who provided for [Jesus and the Twelve] out of their resources." Luke 8.

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John 20 is similar

1 On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb.  2 So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they put him.” 3  So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb. 4 They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first; 5he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in. 6 When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, 7 and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place. 8 Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed. 9  For they did not yet understand the scripture that he had to rise from the dead. 10 Then the disciples returned home. 11 But Mary stayed outside the tomb weeping.*** she turned around and saw Jesus there, but did not know it was Jesus. 15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?”  She thought it was the gardener and said to him, “Sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you laid him, and I will take him.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni,” which means Teacher. 17 Jesus said to her, “Stop holding on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am going to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” 18 Mary of Magdala went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and what he told her.***

The "we" in verse 2 "in the second part of her statement might reflect a tradition of more women going to the tomb."

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The Easter appearance of Christ that you can see every day

from Luke 24

13 Now that very day two of them were going to a village seven miles from Jerusalem called Emmaus, 14 and they were conversing about all the things that had occurred. 15 And it happened that while they were conversing and debating, Jesus himself drew near and walked with them, 16  but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him. 17 He asked them, “What are you discussing as you walk along?” They stopped, looking downcast. 18 One of them, named Cleopas, said to him in reply, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know of the things that have taken place there in these days?” 19 And he replied to them, “What sort of things?” They said to him, “The things that happened to Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, 20 how our chief priests and rulers both handed him over to a sentence of death and crucified him. 21 But we were hoping that he would be the one to redeem Israel; and besides all this, it is now the third day since this took place. 22 Some women from our group, however, have astounded us: they were at the tomb early in the morning 23 and did not find his body; they came back and reported that they had indeed seen a vision of angels who announced that he was alive. 24  Then some of those with us went to the tomb and found things just as the women had described, but him they did not see.” 25  And he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are! How slow of heart to believe all that the prophets spoke! 26 Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” 27 Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them what referred to him in all the scriptures. 28 As they approached the village to which they were going, he gave the impression that he was going on farther. 29 But they urged him, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them. 30 And it happened that, while he was with them at table, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. 31 With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight. 32 Then they said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning [within us] while he spoke to us on the way and opened the scriptures to us?” 33 So they set out at once and returned to Jerusalem where they found gathered together the eleven and those with them 34 who were saying, “The Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon!” 35 Then the two recounted what had taken place on the way and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread.***

Funny how Cleopas and the other disciple were so caught up in discussing current events that they didn't recognize Jesus. Are you too interested in earthly matters to see Jesus?

You want to know Jesus? Go experience him in the breaking of the bread. There are Catholic churches all over the world.

[masterofd1saster]

CJ current events 24apr25

Seminole shooter

A gunman opened fire Thursday at Florida State University, killing two people and wounded at least six others, police said. The 20-year-old alleged gunman is the son of a sheriff’s deputy whose former service weapon was used in the shooting, authorities said. The two people who died were not students at the university, but the shooter is believed to be a student, Florida State University Police Chief Jason Trumbower said.  Police identified the shooter as Phoenix Ikner, 20, the son of Jessica Ikner, an 18-year veteran deputy of the Leon County Sheriff's Office. Phoenix Ikner was shot and wounded by police.  “He did not comply with commands and was shot,” Tallahassee Police Chief  Lawrence Revell said. Ikner used the personal handgun of his mother, law enforcement said.*** Aidan Stickney, a 21-year-old studying business management, says he was running late to class when he saw a man get out of a car with a shotgun and aim at another man in a white polo shirt. Stickney says the gun jammed and the shooter rushed back to the car and emerged with a handgun, opening fire on a woman. Stickney ran, warning others as he called 911. “I got lucky today. I really did. I really, really did,” he said. *** Ikner was quoted by the FSU student newspaper in January during a campus protest of President Donald Trump. Ikner was identified by FSUNews.com as one of 15 protesters against Trump's agenda days before the inauguration. “These people are usually pretty entertaining, usually not for good reasons,” Ikner, identified as a political science major, told the newspaper. “I think it’s a little too late, he’s [Trump] already going to be inaugurated on Jan. 20 and there’s not really much you can do unless you outright revolt, and I don’t think anyone wants that.”***

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/florida-state-university-shooter-alert/2025/04/17/id/1207288

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Fruit don't fall far from the tree

The grandmother of alleged Florida State University gunman Phoenix Ikner reportedly accused his parents of influencing the campus shooting that left two dead and several others injured — ripping the couple as “rotten bastard people.” Susan Eriksen blamed her grandson’s father and stepmother, Sheriff’s Deputy Jessica Ikner, for turning the “sweetest kid” into an alleged ruthless killer, who claimed the lives of two and wounded five others when he used his stepmom’s former service pistol to open fire on the Tallahassee campus Thursday afternoon. “They taught him how to hunt, they’re bigoted people, they hated a lot of people,” the 79-year-old grandma told the DailyMail.com at her condo in the Florida capital Friday.*** One classmate, Lucas Luzietti, chillingly recalled thinking that “this man should not have access to firearms. “I got into arguments with him in class over how gross the things he said were,” Luzietti told USA Today.***

https://nypost.com/2025/04/19/us-news/grandma-of-alleged-fsu-gunman-phoenix-ikner-calls-his-parents-rotten-bastard-people/

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When we fly him to Trashcanistan, just push him out of the plane, no need to land

Abdullah Haji Zada, 18, a native and citizen of Afghanistan and U.S. lawful permanent resident, pleaded guilty today to a criminal information charging him with knowingly receiving, attempting to receive, and conspiring to receive a firearm and ammunition to be used to commit a federal crime of terrorism. According to court documents, Zada and a co-conspirator received two AK-47-style rifles and 500 rounds of ammunition, knowing that the firearms and ammunition would be used in connection with a terrorist attack on Election Day in November 2024 on behalf the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Zada was arrested with co-conspirator Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, also a citizen of Afghanistan, in October 2024. Zada, who was 17 at the time of his arrest, entered his guilty plea as an adult and will be sentenced as an adult. At sentencing, Zada faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine. As part of the plea agreement, Zada stipulated to the entry of a judicial order of removal from the United States to Afghanistan following his term of incarceration. Zada acknowledged that the order of removal would terminate his lawful permanent resident status. Zada also waived his right to appeal the conviction except in limited circumstances or seek any form of appeal or relief from his removal and deportation, including but not limited to, seeking asylum. Tawhedi is currently awaiting trial for conspiring and attempting to provide material support to ISIS, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and receiving, attempting to receive, or conspiring to receive a firearm to be used to commit a felony or a federal crime of terrorism, which carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison, if convicted. An indictment is merely an allegation and Tawhedi is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.***

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/afghan-national-pleads-guilty-obtaining-firearms-connection-plot-conduct-isis-inspired

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He's sick, but there is a 3-drug cure....

Yesterday, a district court judge convicted a Virginia man, who worked for the Department of Commerce, of possessing and receiving child sexual abuse material (CSAM). According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Rafferty Daniel Kelly, 40, of Alexandria, worked for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In March 2022, a federal CSAM investigation involving an internet-based peer-to-peer file sharing service, a program used by the defendant to obtain CSAM, led federal agents to execute a search warrant at Kelly’s home, where they seized multiple devices. A review of those devices revealed that, over a period of at least two years, Kelly had downloaded and stored over 50,000 images of CSAM and child erotica, including images of infants and prepubescent children. Kelly also possessed a handbook on how to groom children. At the end of the bench trial yesterday, the Honorable Michael S. Nachmanoff found Kelly guilty of one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. The defendant is scheduled to be sentenced on July 24 and faces a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison and a maximum penalty of 40 years in prison. Judge Nachmanoff will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.***

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-judge-finds-virginia-man-guilty-child-pornography-offenses

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Strange case

Thomas Steven Sanders

had been declared legally dead in 1994 after going missing in 1987. He resurfaced some time after in Las Vegas and began dating Suellen Roberts, 31, the mother of Lexis [Roberts.] In the summer of 2010, the three planned a road trip to the Grand Canyon. Sanders admitted to shooting and killing Suellen Roberts in Arizona with a .22-caliber rifle and leaving her body near an asphalt pit along a highway. Sanders then took Lexis to Louisiana to Catahoula Parish where he shot her four times and slashed her throat on Boothe Cemetery Road. During the trial we learned that Sanders had a connection to Catahoula Parish, most of his mother's family is buried there and he spent time there as a child. He was eventually captured in Mississippi.***

https://www.kalb.com/content/news/Oral-appeal-arguments-set-for-man-on-death-row-for-Catahoula-Parish-case-567359281.html

He was prosecuted in federal court due to the interstate kidnapping. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 2014.

For some reason Pres Biden commuted his sentence on Dec. 23, 2024. There's no clear explanation why he commuted the sentence.

On April 16, 2025, the Catahoula Parish Grand Jury indicted Sanders for first-degree murder of Lexis. Burget said the District Attorney’s Office will seek the death penalty for Sanders and that Biden’s action to commute the federal death penalty will have no effect on his State prosecution. *** https://www.kalb.com/2025/04/16/former-death-row-inmate-indicted-catahoula-parish/

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every juror considered and made findings as to each of Sanders's 106 proposed mitigating factors.422 Although the jury unanimously found that Sanders had brain damage,423 they unanimously rejected the proposition that brain damage or mental illness impaired Sanders's “ability to make a decision or consider alternative courses of action at the time of the crime.”424 In fact, the jurors unanimously found that Sanders did not suffer from any mental illness.425 The jury did reject numerous proposed mitigating factors. For example, the jurors rejected the proposition that Sanders was remorseful that he killed L.R.426 The jurors also rejected the proposition that he was capable of redemption.427 The jury did not find that his brain damage “decreased [his] ability to regulate emotions and motivated behavior.”428 On the other hand, the jury agreed with some of the proposed mitigating factors. The jury agreed that “Sanders was helpful to the management and tenants at Pacific Mini Storage,” where he had been employed.429

United States v. Sanders, No. 15-31114, 2025 WL 926855, at *24 (5th Cir. Mar. 27, 2025)

Nothing writ of habeas corpus prosequendum or detainer can't fix

https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/

"The Chief Justice, following the English practice, particularly 3 Blackstone, Commentaries, noted that the writ ad prosequendum was necessary to remove a prisoner in order to prosecute him in the proper jurisdiction wherein the offense was committed." Carbo v. United States, 364 U.S. 611, 615 (1961).

Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act, 18 U.S.C. § APP. 2 § 1 (2025)

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Ve-ri-tas ... W-T-F?

A former Harvard Medical School’s morgue manager is expected to plead guilty in connection with charges of stealing and selling human remains. Cedric Lodge, 57, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, was indicted in June 2023 and accused of stealing and selling heads, brains, skin and bones from cadavers that were donated to the university as part of a “nationwide network” between 2018 and 2023, prosecutors said. Lodge and his wife, Denise, allegedly sold the body parts to buyers in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts and shipped them via the postal service to clients who, in one instance, intended to tan skin into leather. According to documents filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Lodge has agreed to plead guilty to a single charge of interstate transportation of stolen goods, which carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence and a $250,000 fine.*** Lodge worked at Harvard University for approximately 28 years before being fired in May 2023. As well as taking body parts to his home, Lodge had also allowed potential buyers into the school’s morgue to hand-pick what human remains they wanted, prosecutors said.*** Alongside the Lodges, four other defendants were indicted by a federal grand jury in Pennsylvania on charges of conspiracy and interstate transport of stolen goods. One of those charged was Katrina Maclean, 44, from Salem, Massachusetts, who owns a store called Kat’s Creepy Creations in Peabody. According to court documents, Maclean shipped human skin she purchased from Lodge to another defendant and “engaged his services to tan the skin to create leather.” Another facing federal charges is Joshua Taylor of West Lawn Berks County. He sent Denise Lodge $1,000 via PayPal with a memo that read “head number 7,” prosecutors said. Another $200 transaction from Taylor to Lodge allegedly read “braiiiiiins.”***

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/harvard-morgue-guilty-body-cedric-lodge-b2735213.html

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Karmelo Anthony case

***Karmelo Anthony, a 17-year-old from Frisco, was arrested April 2 and charged in connection with the murder of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf. Authorities say he allegedly stabbed Metcalf in the chest after a confrontation at Kuykendall Stadium. Metcalf reportedly died in the arms of his twin brother Hunter. Metcalf's father, Jeff Metcalf, attended Thursday's press conference in Dallas at the Next Generation Action Network (NGAN), a nonprofit organization working with Anthony’s family. The group called the police to remove him, as NGAN founder Dominique Alexander found it “inappropriate” for Jeff Metcalf to be there. Jeff Metcalf left the conference without incident, according to NBC Dallas-Fort Worth.*** Hayes also addressed the social media backlash surrounding the crowdfunding page her family started, saying they had "not received a dime" from the fundraiser and were only notified Wednesday that they would be able to begin withdrawing funds, now totaling more than $450,000. Andrew Anthony, the father of the accused, testified during a bond reduction hearing Monday that the money was needed for his son's legal defense and for the family to relocate from their rental home because of security concerns, according to NBC Dallas-Fort Worth.*** [Jeff Metcalf] did offer grace to Anthony, also saying, “I already forgive this person. Already. God takes care of things.” Anthony's bond was lowered from $1 million to $250,000 after defense attorney Michael Howard argued the initial bond did not represent the state's intent of ensuring the accused shows up for court, NBC Dallas-Fort Worth reported.*** Anthony posted the bond the same day and walked out of the Collin County Detention Facility without making a statement around 4 p.m., according to NBC Dallas-Fort Worth. He is required to wear an ankle monitor, remain on house arrest and check in with a bailiff every Friday. According to the affidavit, on the rainy morning of April 2, Anthony was sitting under the Memorial High School team's tent, the school Metcalf attended. Metcalf told Anthony, who attended Centennial High School, that he needed to move. Anthony grabbed his bag, reached inside, and told Metcalf, "Touch me and see what happens," the report stated. The two teens then scuffed and Anthony then pulled a knife out of his bag and stabbed Metcalf once in the chest, later telling officers he was acting in self-defense, according to the arrest report. When officers said they had the alleged suspect, Anthony responded, “I’m not alleged, I did it,” the affidavit stated.***

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/family-teen-accused-murder-track-meet-rcna201867

Fundraising?

The Texas teen accused of fatally stabbing a high school football star at a track meet allegedly lives in a $900,000 home with his family inside a luxurious gated community — despite requesting that a judge lower his $1 million bond because of financial difficulties, according to a report. Karmelo Anthony, 17, is holed up with his family at the pricey home inside the gated community of Richwoods in Frisco, Texas, after he was released from jail Monday on a reduced $250,000 bond for allegedly killing Austin Metcalf earlier this month, the Daily Mail reported. The home — where rent is estimated to be $3,500 a month — had a white Suburban, a black Acura, and a third sedan in the driveway on Tuesday, according to the outlet.***

https://nypost.com/2025/04/16/us-news/karmelo-anthony-renting-900k-home-in-gated-community-with-family-bought-new-car-after-release-on-bond-in-austin-metcalf-murder-case-report/

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Carry your cell phone everywhere?

A 19-year-old male college student has been arrested for allegedly setting two Tesla Cybertrucks on fire with homemade Molotov cocktails, according to an announcement from the Justice Department. Suspect Owen McIntire is charged with one count of unlawful possession of an unregistered destructive device and one count of malicious damage by fire to property used in interstate commerce. The FBI identified McIntire using surveillance footage and cell phone data.***

https://wokespy.com/justice-dept-charges-19-year-old-in-cybertruck-firebombing-youll-spend-decades-behind-bars/

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You don't want the criminal held accountable?

Savannah Pineda and her boyfriend stole a car.

The boyfriend, 16, was behind the wheel. He was on methamphetamine, fentanyl, marijuana. When police lights flashed behind them, he took off. Deputies pursued. Minutes later, he ran a red light and T-boned a Westminster police car. Savannah was killed. Now, more than three years later, Simone is left speaking for her twin. “Don’t get me wrong, my sister made her mistakes,” she said. “But I don’t think she deserved to die for that. …I really just want Westminster to be held accountable.”***

https://www.denverpost.com/2025/04/20/colorado-police-chases-deaths-injuries-westminster-aurora/

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You put him in jail b/c he looked creepy

MIDDLETOWN TWP., Pa. (WPVI) -- A 20-year-old Bristol Township woman was sentenced to jail Tuesday [1apr25] in Bucks County after filing a false police report about an alleged attempted rape and kidnapping last year. Anjela Borisova Urumova will serve 45 days to 23 months after her lie led to an innocent man being jailed for a month, according to the Bucks County District Attorney's Office. Urumova pled guilty in January after she falsely claimed she was attacked by a man from behind after she parked her truck at the Redner's store in Middletown Twp. in April 2024. She also claimed that a man pulled down her pants and punched her in the face before she was able to get away. As a result of her false accusations, the victim was charged with multiple felony offenses and was held in jail for 31 days. Police say they soon uncovered multiple inconsistencies with her account and she confessed to lying about the incident. The wrongfully accused man was freed and the charges against him were withdrawn, officials said.***

https://6abc.com/post/anjela-borisova-urumova-sentenced-filing-false-police-report-attempted-rape-kidnapping-outside-bucks-county-store/16118893/

Sometimes surveillance cameras show you're innocent.

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good Abrego-Garcia points

*** “We deport many people to El Salvador,” Art Arthur, a longtime immigration judge who now studies the subject for the Center for Immigration Studies, notes. “Generally, they arrive at the airport, walk out, and live their lives. Why is Abrego Garcia in prison?”*** “Why did the Salvadoran government put this guy in jail — that’s a question I don’t know,” Arthur said. “What I think is that everybody has this case backwards. People think Trump threw this guy out of the U.S. because he wants to throw out all MS-13 in the U.S. It makes more sense that the Salvadoran government asked for this guy back.”*** “There must be some reason that the Salvadoran government put Abrego Garcia into the prison that they put all the MS-13 members into,” Arthur said. “As I understand it, it’s strictly a gang prison.” Arthur added that Abrego Garcia’s original alibi, from his 2019 run-in with U.S. immigration authorities, was that his family had been extorted by Barrio 18 over the profits of their small pupusa business and that therefore he feared returning to El Salvador. It is a classic gang tale, Arthur said: “Abrego Garcia’s original story was that Barrio 18 wants to hurt me. Extortion claims like that are very, very, very common in gang cases. It makes a lot more sense if he’s MS-13. When I was a judge, I probably heard that claim 30 times.” Indeed, it makes all the sense in the world for a gang member not to want to return to the country where rival gang members want to kill him. Arthur said that were he still a judge, he would not have granted Abrego Garcia’s 2019 request for “withholding of removal” — that is, the judge’s decision to issue a removal order for Abrego Garcia but bar the government from sending him to El Salvador. That pretty much let Abrego Garcia stay in the U.S. indefinitely. “Generally, if you’re granted withholding, they don’t bother deporting you,” Arthur said. “You’re never going to become a citizen, and you’re never going to get a green card.”***

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3386964/essential-mystery-kilmar-abrego-garcia-case

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When you think non-existent law enforcement, think

MINNEAPOLIS — The man accused of damaging several Teslas in Minneapolis will not be criminally charged for now, prosecutors say.*** Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty's office said in a statement that her priority is to secure restitution for the victims. *** Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara called the decision not to charge the man frustrating for his investigators.  “The Minneapolis Police Department did its job. It identified and investigated a crime trend, identified, and arrested a suspect, and presented a case file to the Hennepin County Attorney Office for consideration of charges. This case impacted at least six different victims and totaled over $20,000 in damages. Any frustration related to the charging decision of the Hennepin County Attorney should be directed solely at her office. Our investigators are always frustrated when the cases they poured their hearts into are declined. In my experience, the victims in these cases often feel the same," O'Hara said in a statement. *** Anoka County Attorney Brad Johnson posted:  "Just so that no one gets any silly ideas in the north metro from this story, offenders who commit a crime spree causing tens of thousands in damages to multiple victims, will not be approved for pre-charge diversion in Anoka County, " Johnson added, "It makes it worse that the offender is a state employee in a position of public trust.  He would likely become a felon in Anoka County."***

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/man-accused-damaging-teslas-minneapolis/89-b9253911-21ce-4533-bb0f-6a9f057f7ecf

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Great decision to let him out on a GPS monitor

STILLWATER, Minn. — A Minnesota man has been found guilty on all counts, and after he didn't appear at court for his trial Monday, authorities are trying to find him.  David Powers of New Auburn was charged with criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, kidnapping, and domestic assault by strangulation. He had been at other days of his trial, but on Monday, when he was set to be cross-examined, he did not appear. The Washington County Attorney said Powers' lawyer doesn't know where he is.*** The case stems from 2023 when deputies were called to an apartment in Lake Elmo for a welfare check after a woman did not show up to work. According to the criminal complaint, the woman was screaming for help when deputies arrived, and authorities had to use force to get into the apartment. The victim reportedly had significant injuries to her neck, forearm, and hands. Magnuson called the allegations at the time "deeply disturbing and horrific." ***

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/man-accused-damaging-teslas-minneapolis/89-b9253911-21ce-4533-bb0f-6a9f057f7ecf

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Who cares?

The Colorado teenager accused of throwing a rock that killed a passing driver two years ago was diagnosed with mental conditions that impacted his judgment and impulse control at the time of the fatal attack, a forensic psychiatrist testified Tuesday. Joseph Koenig, who is now 20 but was 18 at the time of the Jefferson County rock-throwing spree, is standing trial on charges of first-degree murder, nine counts of attempted murder, three counts of assault and six counts of attempted assault. He is accused of throwing a 9.3-pound rock into the windshield of a passing car on April 19, 2023, killing the driver, 20-year-old Alexa Bartell. The fatal attack was one of several times Koenig and two other teenagers threw rocks at cars that night. Forensic psychiatrist Alexandra Lynch diagnosed Koenig with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, as well as borderline personality disorder after completing a court-ordered mental health evaluation of Koenig. Both conditions impacted his judgment at the time of the rock-throwing spree, she testified for the defense Tuesday. Borderline personality disorder is characterized by chronic feelings of emptiness and is often associated with reckless behavior, unstable relationships, particularly with peers, as well as self-harm and impulsivity. ADHD is characterized by inattention, hyperactivity or impulsivity. “His impulse control, decision-making and judgment were impacted by both of those diagnoses,” she testified.***

https://www.denverpost.com/2025/04/22/colorado-jeffco-rock-throwing-spree-trial-defense

she's more or less saying he's a sociopath

nobody thinks he's insane, so how is this relevant?

even if your IQ is below 70, you can still be convicted and incarcerated for your crimes

he's charged with a crime that is committed more or less exclusively by sociopaths and other impulsive criminals; doesn't this make him more guilty?

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Untreated mental illness is ....

A Texas man is accused of beating his mother to death in an attempted ‘exorcism’, cops say. Fort Worth Police were called to a home in Tarrant County after an anonymous 911 tip-off, from a caller saying they had received a “very concerning” photo on Snapchat. The caller said the photo appeared to be “a woman on the ground covered in something red, possibly blood”, an affidavit stated. Arriving at the property in the early hours of Friday, April 18, police say they found Alexander Taylor Valdez holding what appeared to be a bible in his hand and with blood on his body, the affidavit claimed. Valdez said “It was an exorcism" as he walked out of the house and sat down on a chair on the front porch, the report continued. When asked by officers why he had blood on him, Valdez allegedly responded "I was doing witchcraft to kill my mom,” before adding “There is a dead body in there, it’s my mom”, the affidavit said. Carrying out a search of the property, officers discovered a woman in the master bedroom with blood on her body and what appeared to be trauma to the face and upper body. They also found a dead dog in the room with her.***

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/exorcism-beating-mother-dog-dead-texas-b2738168.html

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Armed robbery on camera in Chiraq

Gregory Poulos and his wife, Angie Beltsos*** Two of the couple's children were in the home at the time, unaware of what was unfolding outside of the door. "Thank God they didn't open the door in the midst of that, because, you don't know if that would've startled them to react differently," Beltsos said. It happened in front of the couple's home of 20 years just after 10 p.m. Monday on Bluestem Lane in The Glen subdivision of Glenview.***

https://abc7chicago.com/post/glenview-crime-couple-robbed-gunpoint-outside-home-bluestem-lane-suspects-fled-jaguar-suv-police-say/16224169/

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Texas knows how to fix him

WAUKEGAN, Ill. — Witnesses of the 2022 mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade near Chicago emotionally relived the massacre at the gunman's sentencing hearing on Wednesday — even though Robert E. "Bobby" Crimo III didn't show his face in court. Crimo, 24, pleaded guilty last month to 69 counts, including 21 counts of murder, for the shooting that killed seven people and wounded nearly 50 more at a July 4, 2022, parade in Highland Park, about 30 miles outside Chicago. He faces life without the possibility of parole, as Illinois doesn't have capital punishment. The over 10 survivors, family members of victims, first responders, and witnesses of the shooting who were expected to make victim impact statements were denied their chance to confront Crimo after Lake County State's Attorney Eric Rinehart told the court he had declined to attend his sentencing and opted to remain in jail.***

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/highand-park-mass-shooter-sentencing-rcna202569

A little Charles Masony?

pic by Nam Y. Huh/Pool/AP

Highland Park PD pic

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Electronic evidence trail

A Texas mother has been arrested after allegedly bringing alcoholic Jell-O shots to her daughter's fifth-grade Christmas party, leading to multiple children falling ill. The incident unfolded on December 20, 2024, during a holiday celebration at Jones Elementary in Tyler, Texas, as reported by KLTV. School officials became suspicious after several students reported feeling sick shortly after consuming colorful Jell-O treats brought by a parent, a police affidavit obtained by the station stated. The treats appeared festive—with whipped cream and strawberries—but were later found to contain alcohol. The parent, identified as 33-year-old Teresa Isabel Bernal, told police she had purchased the Jell-O from a home-run sweets shop, claiming she was unaware the treats were spiked. She said she only realized the Jell-O may have contained alcohol after students had already begun eating them.*** On January 13, the officer interviewed the owners of the sweets shop, who stated that Bernal had ordered alcoholic Jell-O shots and even requested additional festive decorations. They provided a screenshot of a text from Bernal on the day of the party asking if the treats contained alcohol. When told they did, she allegedly replied with one word: "kids." On March 6, lab tests confirmed the presence of alcohol in the samples.***

https://www.latintimes.com/texas-woman-charged-after-vodka-jell-o-shots-she-brought-class-party-caused-5th-graders-get-sick-581486

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Horrible Harvey

Opening statements in the retrial of former movie producer Harvey Weinstein—whose fall from grace spurred the #MeToo movement—began Wednesday in Manhattan. Last April, the New York Court of Appeals said Weinstein deserved a retrial for his 2020 conviction of third-degree rape and first-degree criminal sexual act. Weinstein, who is currently in prison after his conviction for separate sex crimes in California, is accused of sexually assaulting three women.

https://www.thefp.com/p/in-defense-of-an-online-life-plus

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7 years???? Any reason to not shoot him?

A former U.S. Army intelligence analyst was sentenced [Wed, 23apr25] to 84 months in prison for conspiring to collect and transmit national defense information, including sensitive, non-public U.S. military information, to an individual he believed was affiliated with the Chinese government. Korbein Schultz, 25, of Wills Point, Texas, pleaded guilty in August 2024 to conspiring to collect and transmit national defense information, unlawfully exporting controlled information to China, and accepting bribes in exchange of sensitive, non-public U.S. government information.*** According to court documents, between May 2022 until his arrest in March 2024, Schultz engaged in an ongoing conspiracy to provide dozens of sensitive U.S. military documents — many containing export-controlled tactical and technical information — directly to a foreign national residing in the People’s Republic of China. Despite clear indications that this individual, who is referenced in the Indictment as Conspirator A, was likely connected to the Chinese government, the defendant continued the relationship in exchange for financial compensation. In exchange for approximately $42,000, Schultz provided documents and data related to U.S. military capabilities, including:

His Army unit’s operational order before it was deployed to Eastern Europe in support of NATO operations;

Lessons learned by the U.S. Army from the Ukraine/Russia conflict applicable to Taiwan’s defense;

Technical manuals for the HH-60 helicopter, F-22A fighter aircraft, and Intercontinental Ballistic Missile systems;

Information on Chinese military tactics and the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force;

Details on U.S. military exercises in the Republic of Korea and the Philippines;

Documents concerning U.S. military satellites and missile defense systems like the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD).

Tactics for countering unmanned aerial systems in large-scale combat operations.

Conspirator A first contacted the defendant through a freelance web-based work platform shortly after the defendant received his Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance. Masquerading as a client from a geopolitical consulting firm, Conspirator A solicited the defendant to produce detailed analyses on U.S. military capabilities and planning, particularly in relation to Taiwan and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.*** The case also revealed attempts by the defendant to recruit his friend and fellow Army intelligence analyst into the conspiracy. At the time, Schultz’s friend was assigned to the U.S. Department of Defense’s Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM), which is the combatant command that covers China and its regional areas of influence. Schultz and Conspirator A discussed the need to recruit another person into their scheme who had better access to classified material. They agreed that such recruitment needed to be done in a “nice and slow fashion.”***

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-us-army-intelligence-analyst-sentenced-selling-sensitive-military-information

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CJ court watch - Latest Alien Enemy Act litigation

SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 2025

ORDER IN PENDING CASE

24A1007 A.A.R.P., ET AL. V. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF U.S., ET AL. There is before the Court an application on behalf of a putative class of detainees seeking an injunction against their removal under the Alien Enemies Act. The matter is currently pending before the Fifth Circuit. Upon action by the Fifth Circuit, the Solicitor General is invited to file a response to the application before this Court as soon as possible. The Government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this Court. See 28 U. S. C. §1651(a). Justice Thomas and Justice Alito dissent from the Court’s order. Statement from Justice Alito to follow.

www.supremecourt.gov

If you're wondering why a bunch of old folk are suing over deportation, A.A.R.P. in this case isn't the American Association of Retired People, it's the lead plaintiff's initials.

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Turns out the legal process served on TdA members looks like

I had to copy the warrant in two chunks - sorry -

The docket is at https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/24a1007.html.

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J.J. Alito & Thomas dissented and pointed out

The only papers before this Court were those submitted by the applicants. The Court had not ordered or received a response by the Government regarding either the applicants’ factual allegations or any of the legal issues presented by the application. And the Court did not have the benefit of a Government response filed in any of the lower courts either.*** In sum, literally in the middle of the night, the Court issued unprecedented and legally questionable relief without giving the lower courts a chance to rule, without hearing from the opposing party, within eight hours of receiving the application, with dubious factual support for its order, and without providing any explanation for its order. I refused to join the Court’s order because we had no good reason to think that, under the circumstances, issuing an order at midnight was necessary or appropriate. Both the Executive and the Judiciary have an obligation to follow the law. The Executive must proceed under the terms of our order in Trump v. J. G. G., 604 U. S. _ (2025) (per curiam), and this Court should follow established procedures.

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Jesus, Lamb of God

When God ordained the Passover in Egypt, the rules for the Passover included

Your lamb must be a year-old male and without blemish. *** You shall not break any of its bones.

Exodus 12

John the Baptist testified about Jesus:

29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. 34  Now I have seen and testified that he is the Son of God.”

When Jesus was crucified on Good Friday, John 19 says

31 Now since it was preparation day, in order that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, for the sabbath day of that week was a solemn one, the Jews asked Pilate that their legs be broken and they be taken down. 32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and then of the other one who was crucified with Jesus. 33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs, 34 but one soldier thrust his lance into his side, and immediately blood and water flowed out.

It's not a coincidence. Exodus foreshadowed it. John the Baptist prophesied it. Jesus is the sinless Lamb of God.

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Looking at you, Hillary.

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CJ court watch - the Kilmar Abrego Garcia hullabaloo

On 10apr25 SCt sort of ordered the Pres to bring an MS-13 member back from El Salvador in the case of Noem v. Abrego Garcia, 604 U. S. __ (2025). Abrego Garcia had been deported to El Salvador, but the District Court in DC had ordered the gov't to bring him back. SCt ruled

the District Court’s order remains in effect but requires clarification on remand. The order properly requires the Government to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador. The intended scope of the term “effectuate” in the District Court’s order is, however, unclear, and may exceed the District Court’s authority. The District Court should clarify its directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs. For its part, the Government should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps.***

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The facts -

Former federal prosecutor Francey Hakes told Newsmax on Tuesday that liberals' insistence that an illegal immigrant from El Salvador living in Maryland didn't receive due process is a "complete lie."*** "I mean, the first thing to remember is that he is in the country illegally. And if you have crossed the border illegally, you are deportable by definition," Hakes said, noting that that alone didn't land Abrego Garcia in Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (Terrorism Confinement Center), a maximum security prison in El Salvador. It's what followed — that he admitted being a gang member, she said. "When he was arrested or picked up in 2019, he had an immigration hearing. Lots of people are yelling online and on television that he hasn't received any due process. And that is a complete lie, because he did get the due process to which illegal aliens are entitled," Hakes said. "And at that hearing, the judge found that the evidence presented by DHS was credible, that he was a member of MS-13, which also made him deportable. "Now, after that, he got an appeal. So that's the second bit of due process that he got. He got appellate level … judge panel to look at his case and to agree with the initial federal judge who found that he was deportable," Hakes added, setting up Abrego Garcia's biggest problem. "Now, when he went to court, the judge, however, had some sympathy for his claim that if he were sent back to El Salvador, he might face violence from a rival gang. Now, what I've read, Greta, suggests that what that means is, if he was worried about violence from a rival gang in El Salvador, that he's effectively admitting he's part of a gang himself," Hakes said. "And now that President Trump has designated MS-13 a foreign terrorist organization, he's no longer entitled to that withholding of the deportation that a judge in some sympathy gave him in 2019 because he was no longer entitled to claim asylum," she added.***

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/francey-hakes-kilmar-abrego-garcia-due-process/2025/04/15/id/1207054

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The Hindustan Times noted

Amid the scrutiny, Homeland Security posted a Maryland district court order, showing that Albrego Garcia's wife had sought a domestic violence restraining order against him. “Kilmar Abrego Garcia had a history of violence and was not the upstanding “Maryland Man” the media has portrayed him as. According to court filings, Garcia’s wife sought a domestic violence restraining order against him, claiming he punched, scratched, and ripped off her shirt, among other harm. This MS-13 gang member is not a sympathetic figure,” the Kristi Noem-led department wrote on X, platform formerly known as Twitter.***

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-has-history-of-violence-punched-his-wife-trump-admin-amid-deportation-row-101744831441717.html

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To the tune of Frere Jacque:

We are waiting We are waiting...

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CJ current events Maundy Thursday 2025

Drugs & untreated mental illness make one hell of a cocktail

Man boards subway around 2000 on Tues, 8apr25. Woman gives him a smoke. She searched his pockets after he lapsed into unconsciousness. At some point he died. Criminal hops on the train around 2300, and makes contact w/ the dead man around 2320. By 2345, he was having sex w/ the corpse. He then walked off the train in Manhattan.

Worse, he never sent flowers or called or wrote the man.

His brother said his troubled sibling had been staying with him since he was released from prison a few months ago. He had been locked up for “a while” – said his 56-year-old brother, though he could not remember if it was for robbery or assault. “I haven’t seen him in a few days. He started staying out late. He has never done anything like this in his life — not what they said he did. I don’t think that he did that. He’s not that type of person,” he said. “They said he took his thing out and put it in the guy’s … yeah I don’t think he did that he’s not a pervert.”***

https://nypost.com/2025/04/10/us-news/sicko-accused-of-sexually-abusing-corpse-on-nyc-subway-sources/

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Spell Albuquerque

*** New Mexico is dealing with a crime crisis on two fronts, relitigating the same issues of drugs and juvenile criminals that cities across the country have had to wrestle with since 2020. More and more teenagers have been arrested on homicide charges in Albuquerque, with a shocking hit-and-run vehicular homicide, allegedly by three juveniles aged 15, 12, and 11, against a cyclist making national news. The 11-year-old has a history of burglaries and break-ins and was on police’s radar for becoming more and more violent in his crimes.***

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine-your-land/3375325/albuquerque-new-mexico-crime-crisis

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Know when to stop

https://www.14news.com/2025/04/07/security-guard-arrested-after-chasers-bar-grill-incident-another-warrant-issued/

Shane Hendrix disputed his bar tab and stepped toward a female employee, so the bouncers, 29-year-old Sean Shell and 41-year-old Johnathon Turner beat and stomped him. Chase’s Bar & Grill in Evansville, Indiana ~6apr25.

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Cue Van Halen

A teacher at an elite Catholic boys’ school in Ohio admitted she had sex with a 17-year-old student and sent him nudes — then accused her husband of “neglect” when he filed for divorce. Emily Nutley, 43, pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of sexual battery for having a sexual relationship with the underage boy at St. Xavier High School, a prestigious Jesuit boys’ institution in Cincinnati, during the fall 2023 semester, a spokesperson for the Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office told The Post.*** Prosecutors said Nutley continued to trail the student after he tried to end the illicit rendezvous.***

https://nypost.com/2025/04/09/us-news/married-teacher-at-elite-catholic-school-accused-husband-of-neglect-after-admitting-to-sex-with-student/?dicbo=v2-O4WHqNp

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Imagine that

Greenwich Village isn’t so freewheelin’ anymore. The bohemian Mecca made famous for its anything-goes attitude, counterculture musical scene and clashes with police is begging for law enforcement, a shocking new survey found. The Sixth Precinct Community Council polled 600 neighborhood residents and found 487 of them — 83% — want more cops on the streets. And 74% of Villagers said the Empire State needed stronger prosecution for drug dealing, while 80% thought New York needed stricter bail laws, according to the first-of-its-kind survey, conducted in February and March.*** No place is more emblematic of the decline than Washington Square Park – where Bob Dylan used to sing songs about social injustice. Despite falling citywide crime, the green space continues to be overrun by junkies and dealers — and repeat offenders are on a loop – arrested, released and back by lunchtime, neighbors said. “Enough is enough,” said Village-raised Trevor Sumner, president of the Washington Square Association. “Liberalism is being challenged and people are realizing that our attempts to honor some ideals are leading to worst outcomes.”*** Major felonies have surged over pre-pandemic levels, with 1,789 reported in 2024, up from 1,534 in 2019 — a 16% climb. So far this year, felonies are down 21%, compared to last year.***

https://nypost.com/2025/04/12/us-news/nyc-neighborhood-not-so-liberal-anymore-this-is-not-dignity/

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Radical vegan trans cult? Why not?

A member of Zizian — a radical vegan cult whose members are largely transgender — was hauled out of a California courtroom Tuesday after accusing jailhouse guards of trying to forcibly de-transition her and wanting to kill her. Alexander Leatham, a 29-year-old transgender woman, was attending a hearing in Solano County when she launched into the paranoia-fueled rant, according to Courthouse News. Leatham is accused of attempting to kill her landlord in Vallejo, California, in 2022.*** Lind was inspecting a leak in Dao’s trailer when he took a blow to the back of his head and blacked out, according to authorities. The landlord told police he woke up with around 50 stab wounds, a samurai sword stuck in his torso, and the three Zizians standing over him. Lind, however, managed to grab his gun and start blasting, wounding Leatham and killing Borhanian, in what prosecutors called self-defense.*** Though he survived the ordeal, he was later murdered by another Zizian, Maximilian Snyder, in order to keep him from testifying against the Leatham and Dao, prosecutors allege. The Solano County Superior Court is working to consolidate Dao and Leatham’s cases and set a trial date — despite Leatham’s attempt to derail the proceedings. Snyder faces a separate homicide charge for allegedly ambushing Lind and stabbing him to death. Leatham also caused a ruckus at a hearing in March, when she yelled, “This is a show trial to coordinate the genocide of transgender people!” over and over until the judge had her tossed into a closed-off “isolation room,” Courthouse News reported.***

https://nypost.com/2025/04/09/us-news/trans-zizian-cult-member-said-cops-are-using-hormones-to-de-transition-her-in-unhinged-courthouse-rant/

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It is because of what the Almighty did for me when I left Egypt.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family were evacuated overnight from the official governor’s residence after someone set fire to the building, police said Sunday. No one was injured and the fire was extinguished, according to authorities. The fire broke out overnight on the first night of the Jewish holiday of Passover, which Shapiro and his family had celebrated at the governor's official residence in the state capital of Harrisburg. Pennsylvania State Police said in a statement that, while the investigation was ongoing, they were “prepared to say at this time that this was an act of arson.” Police gave no other details about the cause of the fire at the riverfront mansion, which was built in the 1960s.***

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/josh-shapiro-arson-police-fire-pennsylvania-governor/2025/04/13/id/1206750

authorities named 38-year-old Cody Balmer as the suspect:

A now-removed Facebook account linked to his name revealed that Balmer worked as an auto mechanic and had publicly expressed discontent with both major political parties. He had no registered party affiliation and last voted in 2022. https://catholicvote.org/man-firebombs-gov-shapiros-home-charged-attempted-murder-terrorism

I've read that family said he was off his meds.

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Speaking of political violence,

A 17-year-old Wisconsin teen allegedly killed his parents in pursuit of the “financial means and autonomy” to assassinate President Trump, the FBI revealed. Court documents show the 17-year-old was part of a “satanic cult” which has “strong anti-Judaism anti-Christian and anti-western ideologies,” WISN reported Friday. Investigators also found a manifesto which “described a call to assassinate President Trump, make and detonate bombs and carry out other terrorist attacks.”*** In one entry in the manifesto, the 17-year-old addressed his plans for Trump, writing, “As to why, specifically Trump, I think it’s pretty obvious. By getting rid of the president and perhaps the vice president, that is guaranteed to bring in some chaos.” The 17-year-old allegedly killed his mother and stepfather inside their home in February. The two victims were shot to death.

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2025/04/13/fbi-teen-murdered-parents-in-extremist-plot-to-fund-assassination-of-president-trump/

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Interesting....

In a historic First Amendment ruling, a defamation lawsuit brought by a high-ranking Minneapolis police officer against the creators of a documentary about the trial of Derek Chauvin was dismissed with prejudice Tuesday. Department Assistant Chief Katie Blackwell had filed the suit against Alpha News and reporter Liz Collin, who questioned the honesty of Blackwell’s expert witness testimony during the 2021 trial on the murder of George Floyd. The lawsuit centered around Collin’s book “They’re Lying: The Media, the Left, and the Death of George Floyd,” and the film, “The Fall of Minneapolis,” which is based on the book.*** Blackwell testified as a witness for the state because she had served as the commander of the Minneapolis police’s training division and had expertise on department training and policies. She was shown an image of Chauvin with his knee on the back of Floyd. “I don’t know what kind of improvised position that is,” Blackwell told prosecuting attorney Steve Schleicher. “So, that’s not what we train.” The film cast that testimony as a lie — using interviews with former Minneapolis officers and images of department training manuals to argue that officers were clearly trained to put their knee on the neck and back of unruly suspects during an arrest.*** In section after section of his opinion, Wahl examined the testimony Blackwell gave, the way it was presented by Collin and her co-defendants, and saw ample room for ambiguity that had a legal right to be reported on and presented to the public. That included the question of whether Chauvin was carrying out departmental training when he kneeled on Floyd’s neck. Wahl writes that while Blackwell was specifically testifying to the training she oversaw starting in 2019 when she was shown the image of Chauvin pinning down Floyd, there was no ambiguity to her response at trial. “Her answer reasonably invites viewers, jurors, and now the public to conclude that the depicted technique was never trained by MPD. “That impression is undermined by evidence in the record showing that MPD training materials from 2018-2019 — the period of Blackwell’s tenure — included images of officers applying knees to the neck or upper back,” the judge wrote.***

Would this be the 1st time a police department has covered its posterior by blaming the officers on the street? Maybe it's the 2d, right?

I'm not saying Chauvin should have knelt on Floyd. I completely agree that Chauvin was inhumane.

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There's that....

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Read at your own risk.

27 y/o influencer Logan Guminski & her chihuahua. https://www.wcjb.com/2025/03/24/content-creator-arrested-posting-video-involving-dog-marion-county/

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Good news

Crime in San Francisco hit record lows as the city hopefully moves toward closing the chapter on “reform” prosecutors once and for all. In January, crime in San Francisco hit a 23-year low, with violent and property crime dropping at a far more dramatic rate than the average of similarly sized cities. Over the first three months of 2025, property crime was down 45%, car thefts were down 41%, larceny was down 29%, and robberies were down 20%. San Francisco’s monthly jail population has returned to pre-2020 levels, meaning the city is back to putting criminals in jail, capping a rise that started in mid-2023. This is happening in large part because San Francisco’s district attorney is a real prosecutor. Brooke Jenkins took over the office after being appointed in mid-2022 and was elected to a full term this past November. She worked in the prosecutor’s office from 2014 until 2021, when she resigned to participate in the recall campaign against then-District Attorney Chesa Boudin. Jenkins overcame the struggles she faced in mid-2023 and erased doubts (including from yours truly) about her ability to do the job, especially now that the city has provided additional support. The key behind San Francisco’s turnaround on crime under Jenkins is that she believes crime is bad and that criminals should go to jail. This should be the basic worldview of every district attorney. However, it wasn’t under Boudin. After taking office in 2020 (when San Francisco’s drop in the jail population began), Boudin centered the city’s justice system on making sure criminals served as little jail time as possible. He was more concerned with criminals and fighting “mass incarceration” than securing justice for crime victims.***

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3379651/san-francisco-ends-reform-prosecutors-brooke-jenkins-crime-rates/

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Abandoned & malignant heart/deprave indifference

GOLDEN — Katharine Decker set a bagged rock about the size of a cantaloupe in front of the jury with a heavy thump Monday. This rock, Jefferson County’s chief deputy district attorney told the jurors, is the rock that killed 20-year-old Alexa Bartell. The defendant, Joseph Koenig, threw it through her windshield two years ago and he is guilty of murder, Decker said during opening statements in Koenig’s trial. “This rock blew through her head like a cannon,” she said, noting the fatal attack was one of several in an ongoing spree that night. Koenig is guilty, his attorneys conceded in their own opening statements — but not of first-degree murder. The then-18-year-old didn’t intend to hurt anyone that night, defense attorney Thomas Ward said. He and two other teenagers didn’t think at all about the potential danger of hurling rocks at other drivers. They thought only about hitting cars, not people. “All three of the boys in that truck are guilty of causing Alexa Bartell’s death,” Ward told jurors. “We are not running from that. But the evidence will show Alexa Bartell’s death, as tragic as it was, was not first-degree murder.”*** All three teenagers were arrested after cellphone data tied them to the crime scene. All were 18 at the time. The trio treated the attacks like a game, court records show. They turned around to take a photo of Bartell’s smashed car as a memento, prosecutors said. “As the defendant literally blows her brains out, he whoops,” Decker said. “He says ‘Holy (expletive)’ as this rock deposits part of her brain tissue on the side of the road.”***

https://www.denverpost.com/2025/04/14/colorado-rock-throwing-killing-alexa-bartell-joseph-koenig-trial

Colorado Jury Instruction 3-1:04 MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE (EXTREME INDIFFERENCE) (2014). The elements of the crime of murder in the first degree (extreme indifference) are:

That the defendant,

in the State of Colorado, at or about the date and place charged,

knowingly,

under circumstances evidencing an attitude of universal malice manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life generally,

engaged in conduct which created a grave risk of death to a person, or persons, other than himself [herself], and

thereby caused the death of another.

This is a classic, textbook case of extreme indifference/abandoned and malignant heart murder.

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Love the pics!

Federal charges have been filed against Jamison Wagner, 40, an Albuquerque resident, in connection with recent arson attacks targeting the Tesla Albuquerque Showroom and the Republican Party of New Mexico (RPNM) headquarters. Investigators linked Wagner to both incidents through surveillance footage and scene evidence.***

Surveillance video captured the suspect on scene, and he was observed as a tall, light-skinned individual, possibly over 6 feet tall, wearing black clothing and a mask, and carrying a white box.***

Investigators reviewed surveillance footage from nearby businesses and identified a white sedan parking on the north side of the RPNM office building before the fire. A single individual exited the vehicle, approached the RPNM headquarters, and a flash of light was recorded. The individual then returned to the vehicle and drove away. The vehicle was captured on nearby surveillance as it left the RPNM scene. After review of the available surveillance, law enforcement preliminarily identified the suspect vehicle as in what appeared to be a white Hyundai Accent between the years 2012 and 2015.***

On April 12, 2025, agents from the FBI and ATF executed a search warrant at Wagner’s residence in Albuquerque without incident. Inside, investigators uncovered substantial evidence linking him to both arson attacks including:

A white cardboard box containing eight assembled suspected incendiary devices.

Blue Styrofoam egg cartons consistent with the polystyrene material found in the improvised napalm used in the Tesla fire.

Materials for manufacturing additional incendiary devices and ignitable liquids consistent with the gasoline used at both fire scenes.

A jar with a green gingham-style lid similar to one found at the RPNM fire scene, along with several jars marked with handwritten capital letters “I” or “H,” similar to markings seen on lids recovered from both arson sites.

Black and red spray paint matching the graffiti used at both crime scenes.

A stencil bearing the phrase “ICE=KKK,” consistent with graffiti found at the RPNM fire scene.***

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/albuquerque-man-charged-connection-arson-attacks-tesla-dealership-and-republican-party-new

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Told you it was Passover

The suspect in the arson attack on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s residence said he targeted the Jewish politician over “what he wants to do to the Palestinian people,” according to documents. The alleged firebug Cody Balmer called 911 following the Sunday attack, identified himself by name, and delivered the chilling message addressed to the governor over the phone, according to a search warrant obtained by PennLive. Balmer, 38, said Shapiro, who was hosting Passover dinner just hours before the blaze, needed to know the governor “will not take part in his plans for what he wants to do to the Palestinian people,” the police warrant read, according to the outlet. “You all know where to find me. I’m not hiding, and I will confess to everything that I had done,” Balmer allegedly told a 911 operator over the phone, according to the warrant.*** Balmer was out on bail for a simple assault charge at the time of the attack — accused of stomping on his 10-year-old son’s broken leg and battering his estranged wife, according to a police report. Family members attempted to have him committed to a mental institution in the days prior to the arson attack. Mother Christie Balmer told CBS News that her son was “mentally ill and he went off his medication” prior to the firebombing. The worried mother went so far as to reach out to Penbrook Borough Police two days before the attack to ask for help after her son had left their home and vanished.***

https://nypost.com/2025/04/15/us-news/suspected-arsonist-cody-balmer-targeted-pa-gov-josh-shapiros-home-over-what-pol-wants-to-do-to-palestinian-people/

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Out on bail? Sent for competency eval

Police in Woburn have arrested a man who they say entered a courthouse while wearing a gas mask and tactical gear and attacked several people with pepper spray. The man police identified as Nicholas Akerberg, 28, of Yarmouth Port, wore a helmet, gas mask, tactical boots and sunglasses when he entered Woburn District Court on Monday, security footage shows. Akerberg deployed pepper spray at multiple court officers, a police officer and an assistant district attorney, according to a statement from the Middlesex district attorney's office. Akerberg also punched, shoved and assaulted multiple people before several officers subdued him, the office said. Akerberg, the police officer and two court officers were transported to a hospital and later released. The man was charged with six counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and several other charges, the district attorney's office said. An investigation later revealed Akerberg had eight canisters of pepper spray and two smoke canisters, the office said.***

https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/04/16/pepper-spray-woburn-court-arrest

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Karen Read - 591 venire -- 18 jurors

***Meanwhile, Read's defense team is asking the Supreme Court to throw out two of the three charges against her, including second-degree murder. Read argues the jury had privately found her not guilty of those charges. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson denied Read's request for an immediate halt to her retrial. The full court is scheduled to hear Read's appeal on April 25. It would take four of the nine justices to take the case, but that only happens in a small fraction of the cases discussed. Read, 45, of Mansfield, pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and other charges. The prosecution says she hit her boyfriend, John O'Keefe, with her vehicle outside of a home in Canton during a snowstorm on Jan. 29, 2022, following a night of drinking. Her defense team argues that someone else was responsible for killing O'Keefe and that Read is the victim of a cover-up. She now has five lawyers in the courtroom with her, including Victoria George, who served as an alternate juror during Read's first trial. Cannone expanded the area of the buffer zone outside the courthouse because jurors from the first trial reported hearing demonstrators outside screaming and yelling during deliberations. The judge said the zone is necessary to prevent outside influence, interruption and distraction.***

https://www.wcvb.com/article/live-updates-karen-read-jury-selection-murder-trial-canton-massachusetts-april-16/64497236

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Crushing dissent, eh

Earlier this month, after a trial that began in September 2023, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber—the two main organizers of the 2022 Canadian truckers protest, better known as the Freedom Convoy—were found guilty of mischief, a charge that covers interfering with public property and carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. Sentencing is still to come. (The pair were found not guilty on several other charges.) What makes the outcome of this case striking is when one compares their punishment to how other offenders are treated in Canada. Criminals charged with violent assaults and armed robberies are often back on the streets in a matter of months, thanks to soft-on-crime reforms and sentencing that puts “equity” ahead of public safety. “If Tamara and Chris had spearheaded protests for social justice or climate causes, they probably wouldn’t have faced Canada’s lengthiest criminal mischief trial or the prosecutor pushing for extended prison sentences,” Keith Wilson, a Canadian constitutional lawyer and Lich and Barber’s attorney, told me. For Lich and Barber, the harsh legal response feels not just disproportionate, but deeply personal. Both are buried under a million dollars in legal debt, their livelihoods upended. And as they await sentencing, facing the possibility of up to 10 years in prison, they see no comparable accountability from the officials whose pandemic policies sparked the protests in the first place. “We’re being held to account for our actions,” Lich told me in Ottawa after her conviction. “But I’ve never heard a single healthcare bureaucrat, administrator, or anyone in government even admit, ‘We were wrong. We’re sorry.’ When does that accountability come?” “Our punishment sends a message to 41 million Canadians to think twice about exercising their right to peaceful assembly. And that’s what scares me,” said Lich. As for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party, a party that rode the wave of Freedom Convoy support and gained real political momentum from it, they’ve had not a word to say.

https://www.thefp.com/p/welcome-to-this-week-in-canada-poilievre-mcgill

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China is really not nice

Michael McMahon, a Retired New York City Police Department (NYPD) Sergeant, and Two Co-Conspirators Were First Defendants Convicted After a U.S. Trial in Connection with Repatriation Program ‘Operation Fox Hunt’ Today, in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, Michael McMahon, 57, of Mahwah, New Jersey, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay an $11,000 fine for acting as an illegal agent of the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and interstate stalking and conspiracy to commit the same, for his participation in a scheme to coerce repatriation of a U.S. resident to the PRC as part of its international repatriation effort known as “Operation Fox Hunt.” McMahon and co-defendants Zhu Yong, 68, of East Elmhurst, New York, and Congying Zheng, 29, of Brooklyn, were convicted by a federal jury in June 2023 following a three-week trial. In January 2025, Zhu and Zheng were sentenced respectively to 24 months and 16 months in prison. As proven at trial, between approximately 2016 and 2019, the defendants and their co-conspirators participated in an international campaign to threaten, harass, surveil, and intimidate John Doe #1 and his family in order to force him and his wife, Jane Doe #1, to return to the PRC to face purported corruption charges. Beginning in 2012, John Doe #1 and Jane Doe #1 had been targeted for repatriation as part of the PRC’s transnational repression programs known as “Operation Fox Hunt” and “Operation Sky Net.” John Doe #1 and his family had accordingly sought to keep their address out of public records. Zhu hired McMahon, a retired NYPD sergeant working as a private investigator, to locate John Doe #1. McMahon obtained sensitive information about John Doe #1, which he then reported back to Zhu and others, including a PRC police officer. McMahon also conducted surveillance outside the New Jersey home of John Doe #1’s relative and provided Zhu and PRC officials with detailed reports of what he observed. The operation was supervised and directed by several PRC officials, including a PRC police officer and a PRC prosecutor.***

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/private-investigator-sentenced-prison-interstate-stalking-and-harassment-chinese-nationals

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attack on democracy

***For the past four years, as a representative of Maine House District 90, I have fought for the rights of women and girls. But last month, Democrats in my state prohibited me from speaking and voting in the chamber, trampling on my constituents’ rights to representation. And all because I dared to say that boys shouldn’t play on the girls’ team. Last month, a male high school athlete in Maine was awarded first place in the female Class B state championship for pole vaulting. I called attention to this injustice on my official Facebook page, noting that, just one year before, the same athlete finished fifth place in the boys’ pole vault. These facts, including the athlete’s name and picture—which I included in my post—are a matter of public record and have been reported by the media. I didn’t call him names. I didn’t share his address or incite anyone against him. Yet simply highlighting the unfairness of male participation in female sports was enough for Maine House Democrats to accuse me of “endangering a minor.” Lacking the two-thirds majority needed to eject me, the Democratic-led Maine House of Representatives voted 75 to 70, largely along party lines, to censure me. I tried defending myself during the resolution, but my colleagues heckled and interrupted me. Now, my rights will only be restored if I apologize for speaking the truth—which I refuse to do. This is not only unjust to me personally. By taking away my vote and my voice in the Maine House of Representatives, the Democratic majority has silenced the voices of the thousands of Maine women and girls I represent. In the past week or so, I have received hundreds of calls, emails, and cards from constituents and state residents offering their support and expressing outrage that I am now prevented from doing the job they elected me to do.***

https://www.thefp.com/p/i-was-elected-to-fight-for-women

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Poor little rich boys

Now, as childhood trauma is increasingly presented as a mitigating factor in all types of violent criminal cases around the country, the [Menendez] brothers are hoping—at a hearing on April 17 and 18—to make their case for parole or release. And, at a time when defense attorneys are pointing to abuse, poverty, hunger, the death of loved ones, and other traumatic childhood experiences to help their clients get lighter sentences, they could win the argument.*** Berman said the whole issue reminds him of the “great West Side Story song ‘Gee Officer Krupke!,’ where everybody is pleading why they’ve done something bad. It’s the very same story of: ‘Hey, when I grew up, my father beat me, and that’s why I did this wrong.’ ‘No, the problem is, I don’t have good self-esteem, and that’s why I did it.’ And that was written literally 80 years ago. These issues are enduring human realities.”*** in November, the progressive Gascón was ousted by Nathan Hochman, a self-described “hard middle” candidate. Hochman highlighted the brothers’ gruesome crime, said the scene was staged to look like “a mafia killing,” and asked the court to throw out the resentencing request. Last week, the court denied Hochman’s bid and ruled that the resentencing hearing could move forward as scheduled this week.*** He pointed to the example of Ethan Couch, the wealthy 16-year-old Texan who killed four people in a DUI accident after playing beer pong and drinking Everclear grain alcohol. Berman summed up the defense’s excuse for Couch’s crime: “I’m afflicted with affluenza. I grew up in such an affluent home that it really was an abusive childhood, because my parents were just throwing money at me and they weren’t giving me any guidance. So reduce my sentence.” Couch was sentenced to two years in jail. This is part of what makes the Menendez case so engrossing, Berman said. “Even though the parents were hardscrabble and made it, the kids were spoiled brats,” Berman said. “Yet they had a tough childhood.”

https://www.thefp.com/p/the-menendez-brothers-sentencing-hearing-murder-child-abuse-parole-release

See Cage the Elephant, Aint No Rest for the Wicked. (2008).

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DNI has declassified the Biden Administrations Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism.

Plan is linked. A little is overtly offensive to civil liberty. Rooting around in people's financial data without a warrant is wrong. So is de-banking people simply b/c they have different political views.

What's really offensive is that the Administration planned to surveil and attack people merely for worshipping at a Catholic Tridentine Mass. This is a form of worship that was routine from 1570 until 1962, but go to one, and the FBI had some questions for you.

What's really offensive is that nowhere does the plan or the Administration take any responsibility for 26 Confidential Human Sources participating in the January 6 riot.

Nowhere does the plan or Administration take any responsibility for the FBI hatching a plot and sending Confidential Human Sources to participate in kidnapping Gov Whitmer.

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Interesting!

A Tennessee bill that would require a county medical examiner’s office to determine and document the drug use, including that of psychotropic drugs, by a deceased person suspected of a mass shooting is now headed to Republican Gov. Bill Lee’s desk.

SB1146/HB1349 also directs “the University of Tennessee’s health science center to study drug interactions between the psychotropic drugs and any other drugs present in the deceased individual’s system.” 

Additionally, the bill requires the state Department of Health to “disclose the psychotropic drug use of the individual to the public upon request.”

The legislation passed the state House Thursday in a 76-20 vote after having passed the state Senate in a 27-5 vote.***

https://catholicvote.org/tennessee-lawmakers-pass-landmark-bill-to-require-accountability-for-role-of-psychotropic-drugs-in-mass-violence

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What's the worst that could happen?

Denver Post.

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Janet Reno said she took full responsibility. Did she ever resign?

On April 19, 1993, 26 children were killed at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas. Six years and one day later, 12 children were killed at Columbine High School. The Columbine murderers are dead, and the man who illegally supplied them a gun is facing a lengthy prison sentence. But those responsible for the deaths of the children at Waco remain at large.*** The lies about how the fire started commenced while the building was still in flames.***

Attorney General Reno earned a congratulatory phone call from President Clinton the day after the fire because of her highly publicized acceptance of responsibility. She put the FBI in charge of investigating its own conduct at Waco. The resulting report was a sham and a cover-up. Although seven independent reviewers were appointed to examine the FBI report, the FBI withheld evidence from them, such as Branch Davidian leader David Koresh’s April 14 offer to surrender as soon as he completed his written interpretation of the Seven Seals from the Book of Revelation. Today, Reno claims to be angry that the FBI has been caught lying about Waco for the last six years. This brings to mind Claude Rains’s line from Casablanca, “I’m shocked … shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.”*** the recent unveiling of more FBI lies underscores the fact that the children died because of willful and knowing actions by our federal law enforcement professionals.*** But the children didn’t kill themselves. If the president and his attorney general really care about those 26 children, they will appoint outside investigators — not the FBI — to bring out the truth about what really happened on April 19, 1993.

https://www.cato.org/commentary/fanning-flames-waco

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Praise the Lord for the 1st Amendment.

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What is Jesus of Nazareth?

Today's Gospel includes the identity of Jesus of Nazareth with Yahweh, the Father. It is His explicit claim to divinity.

John 8 says the Pharisees were already angry and arguing with him when they asked

"You are not yet fifty years old and you have seen Abraham?" Jesus said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM." So they picked up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid and went out of the temple area.

In Exodus 3, God revealed himself to Moses:

God replied to Moses: I am who I am.  Then he added: This is what you will tell the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you.

By saying "I AM," Jesus used the words of his Father. "I AM" in this context doesn't mean "it's me," it means Yahweh, in the sense that He is being; He is existence; He is eternal like his Father.

The Pharisees clearly understood that Jesus was claiming divinity and identifying himself with Yahweh. Why else would they stone him? If he had only said "it's me," they would have no reason to stone him.

This identity with Yahweh and his eternal existence parallels with the start of John's Gospel:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be.

"The Word" means Jesus. Fascinating that John's Gospel starts with the same words in the beginning of Genesis and the story of Creation. One of the concepts highlighted by this is that Jesus of Nazareth wasn't created; he wasn't part of Creation. He pre-existed Creation, and he created Creation.

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CJ court watch - Tren de Aragua case

Supreme Court decided Trump v. J. G. G., 604 U. S. __ (2025) on Mon, 7apr25. Decision was 5-4.

Five aliens detained as alleged TdA members detained in Texas sued in DC to prevent their deportation. The current claim was based on the Alien Enemies Act (AEA), Rev. Stat. §4067, 50 U. S. C. §21, and maybe the Administrative Procedure Act.

The Supreme Court said that the proper challenge to an AEA deportation is habeas corpus. The plaintiffs had dismissed their habeas petitions. Habeas petitions may be filed only in the district where the petitioner is detained, so this case should have been brought in Texas.

The court pointed out that alleged TdA members are entitled to Due Process before deportation. In cases like this, Due Process means notice and an opportunity to be heard.

More specifically, in this context, AEA detainees must receive notice after the date of this order that they are subject to removal under the Act. The notice must be afforded within a reasonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief in the proper venue before such removal occurs. For all the rhetoric of the dissents, today’s order and per curiam confirm that the detainees subject to removal orders under the AEA are entitled to notice and an opportunity to challenge their removal. The only question is which court will resolve that challenge. For the reasons set forth, we hold that venue lies in the district of confinement.***

It's worth noting that the Alien Enemies Act applies to more than wartime. It applies whenever

any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States by any foreign nation or government***

50 U.S.C. §21. Restraint, regulation, and removal