Comments on: Plea Bargains for Election Tire Slashers

By: doubled

doubled — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:19:10 +0000

I just want to comment that the portion about the "widespread criminal conspiracy on the part of the Democratic Party." I've seen this story on a few blogs and everyone touches on how nobody cares to talk about this mass Democratic conspiracy. But nobody takes the time to research that there was a year long investigation on the matter, in which US Attorney Steve Biskupic (a Republican for what it's worth) announced there was no evidence of a mass Democratic conspiracy in the Wisconsin elections and with the Milwaukee 5. In the end Biskupic pressed charged on I believe 20 some individuals, in no related manners.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:14:15 +0000

Anderson, judges take aggravating (as well as extenuating) circumstances into account in sentencing -- or rather, they're supposed to.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:43:36 +0000

Right, Mark, but as JJ points out, they weren't charged with that. In America, you go to jail (or not) for what you're charged with, not for what you *weren't* charged with. One of the things that is supposed to distinguish us from the bad guys.

By: Elmo

Elmo — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 15:14:33 +0000

This story is new to me. Easily one of the most disgusting things I've encountered in my internet life. While many joke about abuse in prison, with 3.5 yr sentences, they'll be out in a much shorter interval. I do honestly hope their lives throughout their days on earth are filled with the pure evil they have visited upon this nation. Words cannot express.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 07:42:18 +0000

You don't get it, Andersen. This wasn't a random act of juvenile vandalism. This was a deliberate attempt to interfere with an election and obstruct peoples' right to vote.

By: angry in WI

angry in WI — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 06:04:36 +0000

"Iâm still waiting for Diebold to be charged with election fraud in Ohio."

On what grounds? That your guy didn't win?

By: Herb

Herb — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 02:38:52 +0000

What more would you expect from a Milwaukee "justice system"?

Looks like something might have changed hands with this development or is just plain crooked politician's spreading their influence around.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:59:13 +0000

Anderson: The outrage isn't about the tire slashing but doing it to influence an election. Granted that they weren't actually charged with that, it would surely have figured into the sentencing.

By: DAV

DAV — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:55:27 +0000

I'm still waiting for Diebold to be charged with election fraud in Ohio.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:28:45 +0000

Has any 1st-time-offender tire slasher ever been sentenced to three and a half years in prison? Just a little disproportionate, says me.

A civil suit for punitive damages sounds like a lot better way to go. Stick the little jerks for five times the cost of the tires.

By: The American Mind

The American Mind — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:25:24 +0000

Plea Agreement in Tire Slashing Case

Milwaukee District Attorney E. Michael McCann's office is known as a plea bargain machine. Conservatives were pleasantly surprised when his...