Judgement Day?

Serious Paul · Post by **Serious Paul** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 10:54 pm

I kill me. But apparently other people kill Judges. Both in Atlanta and of course Chicago.

Bad time to be a judge apparently. Although admittedly not unheard of.

MissTeja · Post by **MissTeja** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 5:34 am

Talk about reinstatment of those support beams for that damned glass ceiling...

Grar.

I still don't know what to comment about this yet, but as saddened as I am for those involved, I'm strangely more-than-normal urked by what has happened in Atlanta. Partly the fact that this s.o.b. is out on the streets still, partly that someone let an obviously under-abled female guard be this s.o.b.'s only escort, partly that I can't get why he took out the reporter...I dunno. Maybe I have some displaced aggression this week, but I heard about this and it just really fired me.

Crazy Elf · Post by **Crazy Elf** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 6:26 am

Why exactly does a guard need a firearm to escort an unarmed suspect in the first place? Won't pepper spray work just as well, or even better?

Serious Paul · Post by **Serious Paul** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 12:14 pm

Most are cops, or former cops so they like their pieces-old habits die hard I suppose.But also it is actually relatively common for judges to be threatened, even assaulted. I suspect this will be at least reexamined.

BlackJack · Post by **BlackJack** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 4:29 pm

She is a sheriff's deputy. She was on duty so she was carring a sidearm. Yes, they needed to have at least two deputies with the guy. The day before he had tried to bring a weapon into the courtroom. The DA had asked for extra security.

paladin2019 · Post by **paladin2019** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:35 pm

I saw more than I wanted to on CNN last night and well, 2 and 2 stopped coming up to 4 or even 22 for that matter. So, as heard on the Larry King Live special edition, Nichols is in the jail and overpowers the deputy and takes her gun. So, does he make a break for it then? No, he crosses over the skywalk to the courthouse and goes to his courtroom to off his judge and the reporter. WTF?? Then, he carjacks a newspaperman and leaves it one level down in the parking garage to throw off the cops; they put out an APB for the stolen car.

So, I don't understand why someone who would come up with the second part of this plan would bother with the first. The presence of this particular judge has no direct bearing on a search for the accused, especially because he was running from the retrial from his previously mistried rape trial. Killing people on the way out only makes you a higher priority for the manhunt. So how does it help you to go out of your way to essentially paint a bigger target on yourself. If he hadn't, he would have been a footnote on the daily blotter and someone in authority at the Sherriff's
office would have been reprimadeed for not following prisoner escort procedures.

Serious Paul · Post by **Serious Paul** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:52 pm

A lot, A LOT of convicts hate, HATE judges. Based on my experiences in prison, it's pretty easy for me to see this happening, and even the why.