Oops, I did not mean to say that they do things “better” in DC. I think I was going to put “differently,” but I goofed up. My error.

Nor am I, Steve. Closing the href tag is pure CYA, my man.

“That sentence was effectively a death sentence there needs to be some sort of way to do something about a judge like that and not have to page Jim Bell.”

Ah, the difference between “ought” and “is.” While I am a borderline pacifist, the logical beauty of Bell’s hypothesis keeps hammering away at me like a bell in the night.

For, you see, force is the only language statists speak.

“Such a sentence was simply way out of line. I think if I were in charge of that facility I’d have taken him to the hospital, said to the doctor, “No he can’t go back.” And tell the judge I’m not going to kill a man for her…Hell, I’d do it in public in front of the press just to piss off the cupid stunt.”

Alas, such courage is the rarest of commodities these days. You and I are Diogenes, lamps in hand, searching for eternity.

Very good observation, Dave. Nice discussion of balance of powers in the criminal justice system. Here in IL, Sheriff’s Dept. jail staff can and do reject injured/ill arrestees. The larger Sheriff’s Offices have medical units inside the jails, but they aren’t equipped to deal w/ cases like the one in this story. Arresting police officers routinely take arrestees to ER’s for treatment, because they know that they will be wasting their time if they send someone out to the “county hotel” with a medical problem. It seems to work pretty well, but I guess they do things a bit better in the “federal enclave.”

http://news.aol.com/article/inquiry-ordered-into-school-graves/273424

The Judge should be up on charges of negligent homicide.

Forget that. Depraved indifference homicide. In most jurisdictions, that’s 2nd degree murder. Any reasonable person would know the likely consequences of her actions.

“Calling Jim Bell. Cleanup on aisle five.”

/humor

Yeah, but I’m not laughing…..

That sentence was effectively a death sentence there needs to be some sort of way to do something about a judge like that and not have to page Jim Bell. Such a sentence was simply way out of line. I think if I were in charge of that facility I’d have taken him to the hospital, said to the doctor, “No he can’t go back.” And tell the judge I’m not going to kill a man for her…Hell, I’d do it in public in front of the press just to piss off the cupid stunt.

/humor

My god.

Call it terrible if you want, but if I someday read a newspaper account that she’d been found hacked to pieces and stuffed in a trash bag, I would have to cheer.

I think I can understand how some people could fall for religion in the face of such implacable evil. What else is left?

Curse you Retchin, and everything that’s yours. You have earned the everlasting contempt of your countrymen, and you richly deserve it.

On a side note, the article said he also had I gun. Why would he have that?

And it just might be.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_E._Retchin

Either
1. The law (allowing the department of corrections to either pay for inmates to be kept in the hospital or release them home in such conditions).

or

2. The prison (equipping every prison with state-of-the-art medical hospice facilities).

I vote for (1)