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“13 year old Michigan teen (now 16) gets life for poisoning grandmother”
Probate Judge Margaret Noe opted to sentence Adkins as an adult. She could have placed her in a juvenile facility until age 21 and then evaluated whether prison should be appropriate, court administrator David Stanifer said.
What do you expect from a female judge? This judge “opted to sentence … as an adult? 13 years old? This is criminal insanity, pure and simple. The people of Lenawee County that allow for this kind of judiciary have a lot to answer for.
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John R. Wright // February 20, 2009 at 2:11 pm |
I think people who have power over other people’s lives have a tendency to slip into the same kind of megalomania that severely afflicted several of the Roman Caesars, and present day judges and prosecutors are no exceptions to this occupational hazard. If you displeased Caligula you would likely end up dead in short order. Similarly, if a judge or prosecutor doesn’t like something about you or your family’s standing in the community, the balance is tilted. It will affect the outcome in a negative way regardless of protests to the contrary. There is something fundamentally wrong with our justice system, and justice – whatever it is today – has a price tag.
My oldest grandson was accused of sex crimes supposedly committed when he was about 13 – 14, and the prosecutor really went after him. I believe the prosecutor took into account an earlier molestation that happened to his younger brother and attributed the incident (which happened at a church) to that older grandson. He was convicted and sentenced to a year at a juvenile detention facility. Just before he went to the detention facility, news broke that an adult male youth worker at the church, a man who was also a public school teacher in the lower grades, had been charged with multiple counts of homosexual molestation! When my younger grandson – the victim – saw images of the accused youth worker/teacher on TV, he pointed and said “That’s him, that’s the one who poked me in the butt.” This was brought to the attention of the DA, who sent word to us that he would take no action, and the older grandson spent a whole year at the detention facility. Was that a form of megalomania, where adults (i.e., a judge and prosecutor) could not bear to admit that they had made an error? I think so.
But it wasn’t the worst of it. The older grandson had been exposed to a bad environment at the detention facility, and he became a meth user. When he was 19 he witnessed a drug related murder, and he was to be the critical prosecution witness in a murder trial in late 2007. At that point in time (late in 2007) he was in drug rehab, working and trying to regain his life. Five days before his court date he was drawn into a private home and shot to death under very suspicious circumstances. But rather that prosecute his killer, the DA actually released the one who killed my grandson, evoking the castle laws (self-defense provisions) of that state! The same assistant DA involved in his earlier incarceration was also the one who would have been using him as a witness in the murder trial and was no doubt involved in the decision to release his killer rather than prosecute him. I take this as evidence of malice, but I suspect that influence was involved, too. From my cynical point of view, the courts are hopeless entities, something to avoid as much as possible.
I’m a retired physical scientist, but unlike a lot of other university professors, I also had a military background before I earned a doctorate in chemistry. I believe all individuals have the right to defend themselves against someone who is trying to kill them, just as I once defended this country against foreign enemies. But I don’t think that the self defense laws of a state should be twisted to allow a deliberate murder to pass as a case of self defense! Thus, several who know my situation have urged me to write a book, maybe something like “Legalized Murder: The Ugly side of the Castle Laws.” Maybe I should. But that’s only a small part of what’s wrong with our so-called system of justice.
John R. Wright, Ph.D. (retired)
Cotter, Arkansas