<center> [attachmentid=1758] <br> Martin Heidgen</center>
Martin Heidgen is serving something like an 18 year prison sentence for “vehicular homicide” when, as we indicated previously, there doesn’t appear to be any crime called “vehicular homicide” in the New York State Criminal Code (in addition, it has been reported that the appeals courts have repeatedly reversed convictions of vehicular homicide on the grounds that the New York State Legislature must first act to actually make vehicular homicide a crime).

Unhappy with Martin Heidgen spending a mere 18 years in prison for a crime that doesn’t even exist in New York State, Prosecutors filed additional charges against Martin Heidgen claiming that Heidgen tampered with evidence when a DNA test on a swap of Martin’s mouth showed the presence of DNA from another man. Personally, I think it is more likely that Suffolk County fucked up the DNA test than that Martin Heidgen held another man’s DNA in his mouth long enough to corrupt a DNA test.

The point is that Martin Heidgen was driving drunk and one of the people killed as a result was a little White Girl.

Reportedly, Robert Chambers served a longer prison sentence for murder than is “the norm” in New York State. As I recall, the average prison sentence in New York for murder is 5 years. I think Robert Chambers served 15 years in prison.

It has been reported that Blacks serve far longer prison sentences when the victims of their crimes are White than when the victims of their crimes are Black.

I could go on, but,

The point is that a Criminal Proceeding is a matter between The State and the Accused(s). The fucking family of the dead guy has nothing to do with a Criminal Prosecution.

The only reason that The Family of The Victiim is now part of almost every Prosecution is because Prosecutors are Elected Officials and The Mob Mentality.

The Mob on Long Island wanted Martin Heidgen in prison for 25 years or dead because he killed a little White Girl.

The family of Jennifer Levin (more specifically, Jennifer Levin’s mother) has made it her life’s mission to hound Robert Chambers for the rest of his life.

I have a very deep suspicion that if Jennifer Levin had been Black and NOT Jewish, that Robert Chambers would not have spent 15 years in prison.

The Family of Bryan Kocis

So far, The Family of Bryan Kocis is clearly NOT trying to rally a Public Out Cry calling for the death penality for whoever is convicted of Killing Bryan Kocis (even if such a thing was actually possible in Bryan Kocis’ case).

When The Community in Luzerne County started to loudly ask why Bryan Kocis could wasn’t listed as a Sex Offender, the Family of Bryan Kocis re-hired the lawyer who defended Kocis in Kocis’ 2002 child molestation trial. Bryan Kocis’ family seems more defensive than offensive at this point.

<center> [attachmentid=1757] <br>Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan<br>Protecting Americans from the White Trash that couldn’t get into Big Law</center>
There should never be any question in the minds of the public as to whether or not The State has clean hands. The State, especially a state that has a death penalty, should be above suspicion, the public should never have to even entertain the notion that Judges and Prosecutors have unclean hands … Somewhere along the line, Criminal Justice in America became a business. Somewhere along the line, cops, prosecutors and Judges became just so much White Trash trying to figure out a way to make next month’s rent.

Prosecutors and John Gotti Tactics

The ongoing joke among some folks in Law is that Good Looking Hot Shot Top Tier Law School Graduates end up at Big Law Firms with staring salarys in the six figure range. On the other hand, the ugly fat reject Law School Grads who went to shit law schools end up slumming as government prosecutors sending 15 year old Black and Hispanic kids to prison. As I recall, Guiliani’s salary as a Federal Proesecutor was somewhere in the $45,000 per year range. The ongoing joke among some folks is that the only way a Goverment Lawyer could beat a Private Lawyer with the same “ways and means” is if the Government Lawyer has the Judge helping him.

It appears that the prosecution strategy of preventing a deep pocket defendant from being able to mount the defense strategy of his choice STARTED with the prosecutions of John Gotti. After several failed attempts to convict John Gotti on Murder and Racketeering charges, The State had to get Gotti’s Hot Shot Lawyer, Bruce Cutler, disqualified before The State was able to win convictions againt John Gotti.

Judge Lewis Kaplan, The State and UNCLEAN HANDS

The purpose of this post to consolidate all of the links on the web relating to Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan dismissing criminal judges against employees of KPMG. Judge Kaplan dismissed all criminal charges against the KPMG employees because the Judge concluded that Federal Prosecutors had gone too far in making it difficult for the defendants to be able to afford the legal counsel of their choice. In the KPMG case, it was alleged that federal prosecutors actually threatened KPMG with criminal charges should KPMG pay the legal expenses of the accused KPMG employees.

BLOOMBERG
The Justice Department ``foreclosed these defendants from presenting the defenses they wished to present and, in some cases, even deprived them of counsel of their choice,” Kaplan wrote in a 64-page opinion. ``This is intolerable in a society that holds itself out to the world as a paragon of justice.” Bloomberg

WALL STREET JOURNAL LAW BLOG
Reading over yesterday’s “KPMG for Dummies” post, we we were struck by the early guilty plea of David Rivkin (pictured), one of the original 19 defendants in the KPMG tax-shelter prosecution. In March 2006, Rivkin pleaded guilty to conspiracy and tax evasion charges and agreed to cooperate against the other defendants. The 43-year-old presumably hoped his plea deal would result in a lenient sentence and eventually let him get on with his life. WSJ

WALL STREET JOURNAL EDITORIAL
In back-to-back articles — an editorial from the entire editorial board yesterday and an op-ed by one of its members today — the WSJ editorial page thinks that the government should move on. “Rather than dragging them through another year or more of appeals, Mr. Gonzales should send a message about due process to other prosecutors by closing down the case,” said Tuesday’s editorial. WSJ

In the news today is a ruling from the Appellate Court over Luzerne County Courts stricking JOINT TRIALS for two men involved in a Murder Case. TimesLeader

If, as The State alleges, Harlow Cuadra says statements that incriminate Joseph Kerekes in the Black’s Beach Tapes, it appears, based on a recent ruling in Luzerne County, that Harlow Cuadra’s statements and the Black’s Beach Tapes cannot be used against Joseph Kerekes at trial UNLESS HARLOW CUADRA TESTIFIES AGAINST KEREKES at Joseph Kerekes’ trial. And, as a result of the above, one would then conclude that,

1. Joseph Kerekes’ jailhouse interview statements against Harlow Cuadra can not be used at a trial against Harlow Cuadra UNLESS JOSEPH KEREKES TESTIFIES AGAINST HARLOW CUADRA at Harlow Cuadra’s trial.

2. Possibly, the Black’s Beach Tapes cannot be used against Harlow Cuadra unless “the other people in the tape” and “the people who produced the tape” are available for cross-examination by Cuadra’s attorneys at Cuadra’s trial.

In Luzerne County, Paul Weakley and Hugo Selenski are facing murder charges. Paul Weakley led police to the bodies of the vitcims and detailed certain aspects of Selenski’s alleged role in the deaths.

State law allows prosecutors to use Weakley’s statements, in full, against Weakley. But they would not be able to use them against Selenski at his trial unless Weakley testified, because Selenski’s attorneys would be unable to cross-examine Weakley about the statements. TimesLeader