Legal experts question US Attorney's decision not to prosecute Obama 'assassination plot'

[babsbunny]

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Legal_experts_question_Colorado_US_Attorneys_1031.html

Brad Jacobson
Published: Friday October 31, 2008


Interviews with numerous legal experts suggest that Colorado US Attorney Troy Eid misled reporters and diverged from state law when declining to prosecute any of the three men arrested in Denver for threatening to assassinate Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

Eid, who was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2006, declined to prosecute the three men on charges of threatening to assassinate Barack Obama during his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, saying that the suspects were "just a bunch of meth heads" and their words failed to meet the legal standard for "true threat."

[Mist]

1. A * appointee said that? Surprise, surprise. nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. ...

:wow: The guy who made a joke about a 'burning bush' received jail time, did he not?

[snappyturtle]

3. Everyone knows meth heads are incapable of committing crimes.

:sarcasm:

[Schema Thing]

4. wtf??

[Peace Patriot]

5. Yeah, but when ACORN registers poor people to vote, boy, are those Puke A.G.'s and

Buswhack U.S. Attorneys on the ball!

And, in typical Puke fashion--twisting their enemies' honesty into a crime--they use ACORN's lawfulness, in turning in all voter registrations, as they are required by law to do, and their red-flagging of any questionable registrations, to make it easier for election officials to detect them, against ACORN, and accuse ACORN of fraud, and harass them, and raid their offices, and file false charges against them, and prosecute them, on Karl Rove's orders.

But meth heads threatening Obama? Hey, that's okay. Just your run-of-the-mill freaked-out skinheads. No harm, no foul.

[nashville_brook]

6. this has been bugging me too -- middle easterners w/shampoo boarding a plane are terrorists, but

would-be assassins connected to drugs are just boys being boys?

[COLGATE4]

7. This is only a taste

This is only a taste of what's to come, thanks to Smirk packing the Justice Department (as well as the Federal Courts) with 5th rate lawyers graduates of Patrick Henry and Ave Maria law schools. The once proudly nonpolitical Justice Department has become the farm system for all the theologically inspired right wingers, and this is just an early example of what's to come later. Just wait until there's another bombing of an abortion clinic a la Eric Rudolph to see them scramble finding reasons not to prosecute and/or reduce charges.:puke: :mad:

[LiberalHeart]

8. I don't see how they could prosecute them. They're too busy going after Bush protesters.