Saturday, August 18, 2012

Documents show prejudicial tactics helped result in Shipley conviction

"AUSA Fielden knowingly lied in front of the jury,” the source repeated. [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner report looks at how prosecutorial misconduct on the back end forms a perfect pincer strategy with the front-end "enforcement" practice of turning a blind eye to guns being trafficked to Mexico.

5 comments:

Ned said...

"Prosecutorial misconduct" is now defined as "business as usual."

Mark Matis said...

AUSA Fielden is one of the few people in that courtroom who were NOT sworn to the truth as part of the trial. Others with similar situations are the REST of the prosecution team, the lawyers for the defense and the "honorable" judge. While the judge can sanction the lawyers for lying, that is generally NOT done unless the liar is calling for a verdict that the judge dislikes. Furthermore, while "Law Enforcement" is sworn before they give testimony, their propensity for perjury is so recognized that Black's Law Dictionary even includes a term for it - "testilying". Even the judges and prosecutors who benefit from this false evidence recognize that roughly 20% of sworn testimony by "Law Enforcement" officers is "testilying". Or more accurately, perjury. For "testilying" is merely a term invented by the "Legal" system to make their Thugs with Guns sound less dishonorable.

The stench is overwhelming.

Jerri Lynn Ward said...

Fielden took an oath to "honestly demean" herself in the practice of law. She was under oath...as an officer of the court. Federal prosecutors seem to think they are above the law and oaths.

Mark Matis said...

Now Jerri Lynn Ward, EVERY member of the bar has taken that same oath. Yet pathetically few of them can be bothered to honor same. And that includes those members of the bar sitting on the bench. That seems to make them VERY much like this country's "Law Enforcement", who respect THEIR oath of office every bit as well...

Ed said...

When my cousin informed my Irish immigrant grandmother that my cousin had passed her bar exam, my grandmother commented with her brogue "So you are going to be a liar, now?" With a brogue, the words "lawyer" and "liar" are nearly indistinguishable, hence the intentional pun.