Judge kills himself moments before arrest over hidden bathroom camera accusations
Source: Independent
Investigators say Jonathan Newell swallowed cameras memory card before being questioned
Graeme Massie
Los Angeles
5 hours ago
A judge killed himself moments before he was to have been arrested on allegations he had a hidden camera that captured images of naked boys in his bathroom.
Jonathan Newell, 50, had been on leave from his role as a circuit judge in Marylands Caroline County since July after allegations were made against him.
When FBI agents arrived at his home in Henderson, Maryland, on Friday morning to arrest him on a federal criminal complaint they found him suffering from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The Maryland US Attorneys Office confirmed that the judge had been pronounced dead at 6.43am.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/judge-arrest-fbi-maryland-camera-b1918239.html
RockRaven
(14,990 posts)orleans
(34,072 posts)i googled and ended up on twitter
someone on this thread said he was appointed by gov. hogan in 2018
Link to tweet
viva la
(3,315 posts)And of course he had to present molesting kids as some kind of moral instructive action, teaching by touching. Those poor kids. Glad the two brothers were brave enough to speak out, and their parents to believe them.
cadoman
(792 posts)Wonder if he had any unusual cases where that was used as leverage over him? Is there any easy way to see his case history? Any Marylanders familiar with him?
SunSeeker
(51,659 posts)ZonkerHarris
(24,248 posts)SunSeeker
(51,659 posts)This was back when Newell had just been appointed to the Circuit Court, and before Rod had been appointed Deputy AG:
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/kent-county-news/20160811/281655369467568
It seems that all these scumbag Republican lawyers know each other.
Escurumbele
(3,401 posts)Rod Rosenstein can be used as a fantastic example when explaining what a human snake is.
Peregrine Took
(7,417 posts)SunSeeker
(51,659 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)So disgusting.
And why would anyone let their son go to his cabin with several other boys and several other men?
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)appalachiablue
(41,168 posts)like Sussex Co. Del. An agricultural, slave- holding area way back- Frederick Douglass b. in adjacent Dorchester County and Harriet Tubman b. in Caroline County.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)here's an actual pedophile for you.
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)The world is a better place without him.
riversedge
(70,283 posts)rambler_american
(789 posts)Hardly a day goes by that doesn't include a story about yet another republican official being busted for some kind of sexual perversion. WTF
lark
(23,147 posts)Wingus Dingus
(8,059 posts)loss of reputation alone can make someone kill himself. That would be sad, if someone planted evidence, made false accusations, etc. On the other hand, if he did do it...then this is a problem that solved itself.
Chellee
(2,101 posts)That doesn't sound like someone concerned with their reputation. That sounds like knowledge of guilt.
Wingus Dingus
(8,059 posts)gopiscrap
(23,763 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,951 posts)Similar suicide: US Attorney John David "Roy" Atchison. The guy was another pillar of the community, an Assistant US Attorney in Florida, yet the GOP man wanted sex with a child.
The Strange Tale of a Pedophile in the U.S. Justice Department
Legal Schnauzer, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
The U.S. Department of Justice generated plenty of strange stories during the George W. Bush years. But one of the strangest involved John David "Roy" Atchison, an assistant U.S. attorney in Pensacola, Florida, who committed suicide after being caught in a pedophilia sting in Detroit.
Atchison's sad story has many connections to Birmingham and Alabama. And it raises this question: How did a guy with a shaky work record and a history of run-ins with the law get hired by the world's supposedly foremost crime-fighting organization? Did Atchison attain his lofty position because he had connections to powerful figures in the Alabama legal world?
Investigative journalist Margie Burns examines these questions, and much more, in a series of posts about the Atchison case at her blog, margieburns.com.
Burns begins with the actions that turned Atchison into a national figure in fall 2007:
This is not the story of a man who engaged in pedophilia for years or decades before being caught. It is the story of a man whipsawed by the strain of living up to a high-achieving family rooted in Birmingham, Ala., whose high-functioning connections assisted him for years in developing a career for which he turned out not to be suited. On Sept. 16, 2007, Assistant U.S. Attorney John David Roy Atchison, serving as a federal prosecutor in the Northern District of Florida, was arrested on credible charges of basically pedophilia. Atchison committed suicide in federal prison Oct. 5.
A dead pedophile might not sound like a tragedy. But Atchison was thought to be participating in a pedophile ring, and his death removed a useful informant from law enforcement resources. The question of how he was enabled to kill himself rather than being preserved for justice is one of the loose ends left hanging in his case.
CONTINUED 'though I wish it didn't...
http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2010/09/strange-tale-of-pedophile-in-us-justice.html
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Margie Burns detailed how the guy rose up through the GOP ranks, warts and all.
Dead men tell no tales, so its just another GOP lone nut child molester.
LudwigPastorius
(9,166 posts)At least he was fiscally conservative - saving the taxpayers the cost of a trial and prison.
machoneman
(4,007 posts)Upthevibe
(8,068 posts)It shouldn't be shocking that a majority of these sickos are repugs with a wife and kids.....
Blue Owl
(50,488 posts)Here's an actual one -- and, GASP -- he's a... REPUBLICAN like all the rest of them!!!
IronLionZion
(45,514 posts)lookyhereyou
(140 posts)and in general they like to see people suffer.
oh and die too it seems.
Rocknation
(44,577 posts)twodogsbarking
(9,795 posts)People can really be fucked up. Gets to me.
Dr. Strange
(25,922 posts)But maybe in this case, I'm fine with an exception.