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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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The court had never experienced anything like the intensity of the vitriol and volume of the response, which required it to go on lockdown for an afternoon, officials said.
By Eli Rosenberg @ WashingtonPost.com, Aug. 17
In her ruling that five suspects arrested at a New Mexico compound with 11 children could be released to house arrest on $20,000 bonds, Judge Sarah C. Backus indicated she knew how the decision in the high-profile case would be received. But, she wrote on Monday, “The canons of judicial ethics require that judges not concern themselves with public opinion. … The defendants are innocent until they are proved to be guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”
The threats started coming the next day, hundreds of hostile calls and emails flooding into the county courthouse in Taos, where she presides, after the news of her ruling spread through far-right social media circles. The court was inundated with calls and emails, “expressing opposition to the judge’s ruling and calling the judge various derogatory words,” Barry Massey, a spokesman for the New Mexico Administrative Office of Courts, told The Post [....]
The court’s chief judge, Jeff McElroy, and Massey both issued statements posted prominently on the court’s website, pointing to provisions in the state Constitution and criminal procedure laws [....]
Comments
Accidentally clicked this - but interesting, as even bail conditions now get trolled by the mob on-line, not around the jailhouse, while high-speed lynching takes on new forms. And judges have to 'splain themselves to a much wider, more diverse, and partially more rabid audience, and face untoward attentions that were once unheard of.
Of course the troller-in-chief is currently trolling a high-profile trial as well, so the fish rots from the head down - almost literally.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 08/18/2018 - 3:31am
my first very selfish reaction after pondering the impact of the excellent point of your comment: good lord, all jurors may eventually have to be sequestered to avoid lobbying, they will have to go cold turkey back to the stone age, read books. Maybe they can figure out some software where they can at least let them have tablets with censored choices of entertainment?
by artappraiser on Sat, 08/18/2018 - 3:57am
Uh, Amazon Kindle with pre-loaded content? Google Chrome books like they use in schools?
Obviously not iPods, as they've been revealed as our cronies' favorite tool for not-quite-good-enough encrypted communications...
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 08/18/2018 - 4:14am