Hmm, I want the press out there getting their facts. Seems like they get it right a bit more often.

“What do you say we all hold our fire until the defendant goes on trial?” This quote comes after you saying he’s in jail right where he belongs. This is typical Kerry, ***** a judge’s wife by the way, ***** reacting way after the fact in taking an easy topic to write about and then getting paid to write an essentially meaningless column. Yes Kerry, there are those who thinks he’s innocent, there’s always blogs about every side of everything, yes Kerry, he should be in jail awaiting trial, yes Kerry, there will be a trial and a vedict. No Kerry, you do not come across as a journalist. Do some actual work to earn your paycheck and please go back to New Jersey to do that work.

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I wonder why she did not disclose she is married to a judge?

That’s all well and good, but the paper has unleashed two terribly one-sided reports/editorials on it. I have a breakdown here of one (or the?) first report on the case. It’s pretty wild how far out of their way they went in the first case, then you have this.

I agree that this one has a much more conciliatory tone to it, but so far that’s about 2/3, not a good ratio. I think that is more of an indication of one person having common sense to ask questions, than a culture of doing that.

It’s a matter of how the law was enforced that lead to this situation. If they had been smart, they would have waited till he went to work, and executed the search warrant while he wasn’t at home. There was a day and age where the police were expected to not disturb the peace by being so aggressive unless absolutely necessary.

The fact is that this case is a big black mark on that department’s professionalism. You don’t have to be a cop to know that a smart cop would have done a search of the garage while Frederick was away, before doing a full-on assault of his house in the middle of the night. Whatever happened to the idea of waiting down the street for him to show up, then walking down to him as he’s going inside and calmly saying “Mr. Frederick, you are under arrest for the crime of growing marijuana?”

What more facts does this woman think we need anyway? We know they were invading his home, we know the police were worng in what they thought was going on in his home. We know he has no record and we’ve heard his account of why he did what he did. Why can’t we merely choose to believe him on his statement and the other facts. Just cuz a jury reaches a decision doesn’t make it the abolsute factual and legal truth of the situation.

Funny too how she encourages us to wait for the facts but is happy to say that Mr. Frederick *belongs* in jail.

What an idiot.

I don’t care if they restrict raids like this to arrest only known child rapists, it’s still intensely stupid to break down someone’s door to arrest them.