Discussion for article #226900
Boy will THIS ever come in handy at the next government shutdown!
Don’t mess wit da JUDGE!!
Perhaps pRick Perry’s new legal team should show him this as an example of why a defendant doesn’t piss off a Judge. pRick threatens a grand jury again, and the Judge will slap him in jail on a contempt charge.
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More chutzpah than Judge Judy!
The judge has power. What about all the citizens without power the mayor has probably treated the same way.
There has to be more to this story.
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He also had the president of City Council arrested for using up the toilet paper roll and not replacing it.
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Longtime reader, rare commenter, but, this is the town where I was born. sigh
http://www.kokomotribune.com/news/local_news/article_6ff3c69a-2d69-11e4-8978-0019bb2963f4.html
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Goodnight said he hasn’t spoken with Menges in three or four weeks and Rogers in two months, making the genesis of Tuesday’s incident even more perplexing.
He pointed to Menges’ past affiliation with the Howard County Republican Party as its chairman, and the city’s recent appeal to the Indiana Court regarding The Tease strip club as possible reasons for animosity.
“A simple phone call could have resolved this,” Goodnight said. “I thought it was very strange that the Indianapolis news media was aware of all this before the [sheriff] came into my office. [Someone in the city office] received a text from an Indianapolis news media source about this. Knowing [Menges’] history, I’m not surprised by this, but I’m extremely disappointed by the actions of Sheriff Rogers.
“This is the judge’s attempt to embarrass me,” Goodnight added. “Unfortunately, he’s embarrassed himself and the people of Howard County.”
He could have asked but choose to be a dickaboutit.
Well, he is a Republican.
Sheesh, talk about an “activist judge”!
I don’t know anything about either the judge or the mayor, but i’m inclined to be more sympathetic with someone whose name is “Goodnight” and keeps a Hello Kitty card on his desk.
So let me get this straight-
The judge made no prior attempt to reach the mayor but rather sent the Sheriff to arrest him, which coincidentally coincided with someone tipping off the local media to the arrest.
A child could see that something else is at play here. It smacks of serious judicial misconduct in tying up law enforcement resources in pursuit of what clearly appears to be political theatre.
The judge was in the wrong here.
Barring any new information Judge Menges failed to take any reasonable measure to resolve the issue prior to sending the Sheriff. Worse he diverted active law enforcement resources from regular duties in support of this farce, wasting not only tax payer dollars but potentially exposing others to harm by the diversion of the deputies and city employees in pursuit of the unnecessary and highly questionable display of power.
Until Menges can produce some sort of evidence that he attempted to resolve this through some lesser manner, no reasonable person could possibly see his actions as a responsible use of public resources and authority.
Well if there ever was an abuse of power…that is. I can’t imagine the Judge survives this.
Indiana is one of the states that holds elections for judges.
The Chief Injustice of the United States, the guy who “forgets” year after year that his wife is a bagman (bagwoman?) for big businesses with cases before the Supreme Court, the guy who doesn’t recuse himself for anything, and the guy who feels that presidents should have all the power they want as long as they are Republicans held, in their dissent to Caperton v. Massey, that it is OK for a company appealing a $50 million judgement against it to give a $3 million bribe to the chief justice of the state supreme court hearing the appeal as long as the bribe is laundered properly.
I can’t believe the police did shoot him first…the mayor that is…ha ha ha.