3 Strikes rally update
Here's a WTNH clip of Marilyn Bartoli talking about the upcoming "3 Strikes" rally that she's been organizing. Attendance is expected to number in the 1,000s. (To see the video, click on the icon of a videocamera... it's right below the headline.)
The rally is scheduled to begin at 7pm on Wednesday at Bartlem Park. As well, there's a capital budget meeting scheduled to begin at 7:15pm in Town Hall.
In deference to people in town who are interested in both, on Thursday I requested that the capital budget meeting be delayed until 7:30pm, or even 8pm. No word yet on whether this will happen.
As previously mentioned by Redtown, here is the March 30, 2005 state House roll call vote on capital punishment. A yes vote was in favor of abolishing capital punishment. A no vote was in favor of keeping it available as an option.
Tim White
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Despite Rep. Vickie Nardello's opposition to the death penalty, fortunately it's still in place to deal with these two child rapist-murderers and others like them.
Appeals of a capital sentence should be streamlined to one year maximum when there is NO DOUBT of guilt. This 25 years of appeals nonsense is a $$$racket of defense lawyers and does not serve justice.
Ms. Nardello will disagree, but she's out of touch with the voters on these issues.
We need a 3 strikes law, and the laws we already have should be strictly enforced.
Jose Carranza, the gang member arrested for the Newark massacre, is an ILLEGAL ALIEN. He had been previously arrested for using a stolen social security number, yet authorities allowed him to stay in the U.S.
Carranza was then arrested for armed assault and released on low bail. He was arrested again -- for sexual assault on a 5 year-old -- and was he was freed again on low bail!
He could have been deported the first time, and held without bail after his subsequent arrests as an obvious safety risk. But liberal judges seem intent on unleashing these monsters upon society.
And their liberal friends in the legislature are intent on enabling them. Rep. Vickie Nardello not only voted to abolish capital punishment, but she also voted to hand out state benefits to ILLEGAL ALIENS who are trespassing in our state.
Until we vote out these criminal enablers and begin to strictly enforce the laws, the criminals will continue to have free reign.
I believe Rep. Nardello would have offered in-state college tuition for Mr. Carranza. But we've been told keeping psychopaths in jail is just too expensive
Here's a liberal lawyer from Bethany pontificating evidently about how we can't execute anyone who murders a white family
White Like Us?
NormPattis
Let’s face it, the home invasion in Cheshire is national news because the victims were upper-middle class and white. Now a group of urban activists are asking where the outrage is over senseless killing or poor people and people of color in our urban areas. What’s A Black Death Matter?
This would be a powerful mitigation theme in any death penalty trial of the defendants in the Petit family murders.
http://federalism.typepad.com/crime_federalism/2007/08/white-like-us.html
By the way, if Three Strikes isn't the asnwer, why did the voters in California vote overwhlemingly to keep it?
People are looking at these recent murders as concrete examples of why we need capital punishment, 3 strikes, and strict enforcement of immigration laws.
People want to know where their legislators stand on these issues. Are they part of the problem, or part of the solution? These are valid questions in the wake of these preventable tragedies.
8:35 doesn't say why he thinks 3 strikes is not the answer. But it's evident to most people that repeat violent criminals are not going to magically rehabilitate. They need to be kept off the streets.
We are in agreement on enforcing the immigration laws by deporting illegal aliens. They're trespassing, pure and simple.
"White Like Us" --
Norm Pattis' website, refered to above, links to an even more lunatic leftwing site called Undercurrents.
The cadre of posters on Undercurrents addresses the Petit murders in terms of capitalism, the proletariat, racism, Iraq, Bush, etc etc. They're unabashedly Marxist.
http://hartfordimc.org/blog/2007/07/26/murder-and-revenge/#comments
With friends like these, it's no wonder death penalty opponents have so few.
Now I think that a crime victim from a less affluent part of Norwlak deserves our attention. Thankfully she lived. But look at the record of the suspect...who was let back out on the street by our "criminal justice" system
Convicted Murderer Charged in Home Invasion
By Teresa Errico
A convicted murderer recently released from prison was arrested Monday morning in connection with a July 28 home invasion in which an elderly woman was stabbed.
Jerry B. Mitchell, 48, of 36 Butler St. was charged with first-degree robbery, first-degree assault, assault on a victim over 60 years old, first-degree burglary and fourth-degree larceny
http://www.norwalkcitizen-news.com/topstories/ci_661
http://www.jud.state.ct.us/external/supapp/Cases/AROap/AP94/94AP81.pdf
JERRY MITCHELL v. COMMISSIONER OF
CORRECTION
(AC 25491)
Lavery, C. J., and Bishop and Peters, Js.*
Argued September 20, 2005—officially released March 14, 2006
While serving sentence two, the petitioner was given
a furlough from Gates Correctional Institution in late
May or early June, 1983, and then was listed as ‘‘absent
without leave . . . or escape from his furlough’’ on
June 6, 1983. On June 27, 1983, the petitioner was readmitted
to the respondent’s custody and listed as
‘‘escapee returned with new charges’’; he subsequently
was convicted of felony murder for a crime committed
on June 24, 1983.1 On March 2, 1984, the petitioner was
sentenced to forty years to serve (sentence three).2
Rather than murder a murderer to prove that murder is wrong, why not let him suffer and let us learn? How does someone do something so awful? Someone raised in Cheshire? Let's study the murderers
This is why we need Three Strikes You're Out sentencing:
Convicted Murderer Charged in Home Invasion
By Teresa Errico
Norwalk- A convicted murderer recently released from prison was arrested Monday morning in connection with a July 28 home invasion in which an elderly woman was stabbed.
Jerry B. Mitchell, 48, of 36 Butler St. was charged with first-degree robbery, first-degree assault, assault on a victim over 60 years old, first-degree burglary and fourth-degree larceny.
Well, duh, do you suppose this convicted murderer should not have been released in the first place?
Do you suppose the judges and the laws are too liberal?
Rather than murder a murderer to prove that murder is wrong, why not let him suffer and let us learn? How does someone do something so awful? Someone raised in Cheshire? Let's study the murderers.
Murder is the taking of innocent life. Execution of a murderer is not "murder", it's justice. The difference is guilt versus innocence.
Their psychology can be studied pre-mortem and post-mortem. Studying them is not a valid reason to spare capital punishment.
And when all the psychology is said and done, they still CHOSE to do evil. Emotional disturbance doesn't mean they didn't know the difference between right and wrong.
Wednesday night's capital budget meeting should be moved to 7:30 or 8 so some of us can make it to both Bartlem Park and the meeting. It shouldn't matter how Council members stand on 3 Strikes. This is a matter of courtesy for those attending this major event in town. Who makes the decision about changing the meeting time, anyway?
Why not consider 1 strike in a case like this? Fry the creeps and make the lawyer from Bethany be a witness.
Wonder why violent crime is taken so lightly in this state?
The Chairman of the Judiciary Committee isn;t even in CT this week. He is at a taxpayer funded junket for politicians held in.....CANADA...
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