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What is going on in the U.S. Attorney's Office?; Case goes Cold against (Ret.) Police Officer
Topic Started: Jun 3 2012, 09:33 PM (207 Views)
Mason
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A D.C. case went cold after the U.S Attorney's office says it was unable to serve a (Ret.) Police officer with papers to appear in court (a summons).

A Washington Times reporter investigating called the number listed on the paperwork in the case and the (Ret.) Police officer answered immediately. He asked him to come in that he was wanted - and he came in, just like that.

There's a Video of in the incident at this link. The victim had a built in Camera.

http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/2/dc-vehicle-owner-wanted-connection-bike-collision-/

Now, the U.S. attorney's office is scrambling. Unsure of changes, if any, now.

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Edited by Mason, Jun 3 2012, 09:36 PM.
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kbp

Why would a U.S. Attorney’s Office be involved in an accident case, even if it may have been a hit & run?
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Cause DC doesn't have a State Government.

Feds.

The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia is unique among U.S. Attorney’s Offices in the size and scope of its work. It serves as both the local and the federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital. On the local side, these prosecutions extend from misdemeanor drug possession cases to murders. On the federal side, these prosecutions extend from child pornography to gangs to financial fraud to terrorism. In both roles, the Office is committed to being responsive and accountable to the citizens of the District of Columbia.

The Office also enforces the law and defends the interests of the United States in civil suits brought in the district. Its location in the seat of the federal government gives it responsibility for many cases of national importance, including far-reaching challenges to federal policies and employment practices.


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kbp

Oh!
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Quasimodo



It was the US Attorney's office in DC which prosecuted a college student for shouting at someone who had
struck him in the head from behind and knocked him down.

The prosecution utilized 9 federal attorneys plus 8 additional staff, for a two-day trial.

It was, AFAIK, the first time a DC court trial had ever been held for the misdemeanor offense of shouting
at someone.

DC declared a Crime Emergency during the trial after a British political activist was murdered during a hold-up.

Still, it could allocate considerable resources to the shouting case.

When it was suggested later that the witnesses for the prosecution might be prosecuted for perjury, the US Attorney
included their names on a list of persons to be recognized for having come forward to testify in difficult cases. Most
of those named had testified against drug dealers, gang members, etc., at considerable risk to their lives.

It was thereafter suggested that this had been the US Attorney's way of signalling that the prosecution witnesses
had nothing to fear from perjury charges, the US attorney (prosecutor) still had their backs.

(This was the same US Attorney who refused to seriously prosecuted such well-connected persons as
Patrick Kennedy and Cynthia McKinney.)

Justice in DC is, IOW, nothing if not political...





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Quasimodo



It was also the US Attorney for DC which refused to seriously prosecute a NYPD officer who
was charged with raping a woman in DC. Judge John Bayly sentenced him to 24 months probation
and a $2000 fine. The victim claimed she was attacked in a bathroom during National Police Week events.

A few years before, during National Police Week events, officers attending the event were accused of rowdy
behavior, including stripping in a hotel lobby and spraying a fire-extinguisher in the hallways.

Such collegiate behavior was not punished with their being banned from Georgetown, sent to take alcohol
counseling, probation, fines, or continual harassment from a judge with threats of being jailed.

In DC, who you are seems to matter more than the nature of your offense, IMHO...



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Quasimodo



Judge Bayly also permitted a man who claimed to have a cell phone inside his head,
and who had tried to jump the White House fence to meet with Chelsea Clinton,
probation, a fine of $50, and an order to stay--not out of Georgetown--but at least
one block away from the White House.

(Some crimes obviously imperil the republic and require a more serious sentence, than
do others.)

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Quasimodo

In 2000 a drunken student struck another student (David Shick) with the result that Shick
died; his assailant was not prosecuted and had only to write a 10-page paper about it for his school(Georgetown).

In 2007 DC police arrested a student and accused him of assault a gay man. Police made no investigation
before the arrest, and took the student into custody while he was in class taking an exam.

Activists used his arrest to pressure his school (Georgetown) into accepting a gay program.

The only problem was, the student could prove via a surveillance tape that he had been far away at the time.

Police had been under pressure from activists for failing to solve a number of anti-gay hate crimes. Instead of
releasing the student (arrested late on Friday, forcing him to remain over the weekend in jail--although he was
offered release if he would sign a statement confessing to the assault)--the US Attorney's office decided to press
charges anyway. Over the next nine months the office kept reducing the terms necessary for the student to accept
a plea deal. The student refused (he was innocent).

Finally, after considerable legal expenses, and after school was out, the US Attorney's office dropped the charges,
saying it was unable to place the student at the scene of the crime (without actually saying he was innocent).

By then the activists has moved on elsewhere.

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Do I believe there is justice in DC? DC, which is the nation's capitol, ought to have the finest jurists
serving on its benches--exemplars of their profession.

From the above, justice in DC appears to be more of a matter of what the Washington Post will say about the verdict,
than about justice.

(MOO)



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http://www.umich.edu/~newsbias/washpost_obj.html

District Police Lead Nation in Shootings; Lack of Training, Supervision Implicated as Key Factors

BYLINE: Jeff Leen; Jo Craven; David Jackson; Sari Horwitz, Washington Post Staff Writers

November 15, 1998

The District of Columbia's Metropolitan Police Department have shot and killed more people per resident in the 1990s than any other large American city police force.

Many shootings by Washington police officers were acts of courage and even heroism. But internal police files and court records reveal a pattern of reckless and indiscriminate gunplay by officers sent into the streets with inadequate training and little oversight, an eight-month Washington Post investigation has found.

Washington's officers fire their weapons at more than double the rate of police in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago or Miami. Deaths and injuries in D.C. police shooting cases have resulted in nearly $ 8 million in court settlements and judgments against the District in the last six months alone.

(snip)


The rise in police shootings in the mid-1990s went largely unnoticed among the top officials charged with policing the police.

"I'm not really sure I discerned any patterns -- at least none I remember," said Deputy U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who as the U.S. attorney in the District from 1993 to 1997 reviewed all fatal police shootings.

(snip)

"Anybody can second-guess you on this stuff," said Officer John Diehl, who shot and wounded two men in a 1994 incident ruled justified, and wounded another man last month in an incident still under investigation. "You second-guess yourself a lot."

(snip)

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http://admin.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/30/dc-cyclist-struck-in-august-says-suspect-not-tried/?page=1

D.C. cyclist struck in August says suspect not tried yet
Case illustrates battle for safer biking

May 30, 2012

A bicyclist who was struck by a motorist in the District last year in a highly publicized crash said efforts to prosecute the driver have been stymied because the man has not shown up for court and has not been arrested on the outstanding bench warrant issued in the case.

“We’re nine months since it happened,
and he’s driving and free. It seems to me there should be repercussions for cursing and running into someone on the road,” Evan Wilder said Wednesday after testifying before a D.C. Council committee on pedestrian and bike safety.

Mr. Wilder’s helmet-mounted video camera captured his Aug. 31 crash, and the video went viral after it was posted online. The video shows a driver yelling out of his truck’s passenger-side window at the cyclist as he rides down Rhode Island Avenue Northeast and then swerves toward him, striking Mr. Wilder’s bike and sending Mr. Wilder tumbling to the concrete.

According to court documents filed in D.C. Superior Court in the case, a bench warrant was issued for the owner of the Toyota Tacoma truck, John W. Diehl, after police tracked the truck’s license plate number.

Judicial summonses were mailed to Mr. Diehl for hearings scheduled in February and March. But the summonses could not be delivered, and Mr. Diehl did not appear for the hearings, according to court records. As a result, a bench warrant was issued for his arrest March 29 but has yet to be served.

Reached on Wednesday by phone, 56-year-old Mr. Diehl said he had no idea he had been summoned to court and denied being involved in the accident.

“This is all news to me,” he said. “I never hit anyone. If I had a bench warrant, I would turn myself in.”

Police inspected Mr. Diehl’s truck in September, about two weeks after the crash, and noted a small dent on the rear passenger-side fender, according to court documents.

Mr. Diehl, of Northeast, said Wednesday that no one else drives his truck.

A spokesman for the District’s attorney general said Mr. Diehl will be formally charged with leaving the scene after a collision causing personal injury and leaving the scene after a collision causing property damage when he appears in court.

The lingering prosecution thus far underscores the uphill battle cyclists face as they push for safer roadways, Mr. Wilder said.

“All signs from my case are pointing to the fact you can be assaulted on the road,” he said.

At Wednesday’s hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, Mr. Wilder was one of several people who testified about pedestrian and bicycle safety as well as police enforcement of traffic laws.

“I’m a little frustrated that the prosecution has not been more vigorous,” council member Phil Mendelson, at-large Democrat, said at the hearing. “Through prosecution we will begin to impact behavior.”

Police officials who also testified at the hearing said the department is still working to boost officer education and training with regard to the enforcement of traffic laws relating to bicycle- and pedestrian-related crashes and ticketing.

The number of both pedestrian- and bicyclist-involved crashes are down this year, and just six traffic deaths have been reported, Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Chief Lamar Greene said.

“Now we have a consistent approach across the Metropolitan Police Department,” Chief Greene said. “I believe the statistics are showing some advances.”


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MikeZPU

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Jun 3 2012, 10:36 PM


It was the US Attorney's office in DC which prosecuted a college student for shouting at someone who had
struck him in the head from behind and knocked him down.

The prosecution utilized 9 federal attorneys plus 8 additional staff, for a two-day trial.

It was, AFAIK, the first time a DC court trial had ever been held for the misdemeanor offense of shouting
at someone.

DC declared a Crime Emergency during the trial after a British political activist was murdered during a hold-up.

Still, it could allocate considerable resources to the shouting case.

When it was suggested later that the witnesses for the prosecution might be prosecuted for perjury, the US Attorney
included their names on a list of persons to be recognized for having come forward to testify in difficult cases. Most
of those named had testified against drug dealers, gang members, etc., at considerable risk to their lives.

It was thereafter suggested that this had been the US Attorney's way of signalling that the prosecution witnesses
had nothing to fear from perjury charges, the US attorney (prosecutor) still had their backs.

(This was the same US Attorney who refused to seriously prosecuted such well-connected persons as
Patrick Kennedy and Cynthia McKinney.)

Justice in DC is, IOW, nothing if not political...





Just sickening. Sickeningly embarrassing, in fact.

Embarrassing how they bought the media metanarrative hook, line, and sinker
and then jumped on the bandwagon to teach these guys a lesson.

These are senior officials in the criminal justice system, and they were played
like pawns by the likes of nitwits like Gottlieb and Nifong. Gottlieb never
even went to college and, yet, was able to play the pull sthe strings of these
senior people in the criminal justice system like a marionette.

Freakin' idiots. Unfortunately, though, they're idiots who hold a lot of power.
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...the misdemeanor offense of shouting at someone.



That seems like a rather strange charge.
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Just sickening. Sickeningly embarrassing, in fact.


Remember, this took place because of a false accusation in Durham.

If anything, the judge--accepting the presumption of innocence--should have been bound to wait
until the veracity of the charges in Durham was proven.

Because otherwise it would be possible to violate the terms of a diversion agreement by doing nothing
at all, except be the passive object of another's false accusations.

Which would be contrary to all concepts of US justice.

(And, if the diversion agreement in question was typical of DC, it required the recipient to actually
have broken the law, not to have been accused of breaking the law, for the agreement to have been
violated.)

Clearly someone wanted a conviction in DC as a means of further pressuring a witness in the Durham case
(with continual threats of being jailed for that offense).

Which would be considered witness tampering (a la Elmo, etc.)

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Quasimodo
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Just sickening. Sickeningly embarrassing, in fact.


Remember, this took place because of a false accusation in Durham.

If anything, the judge--accepting the presumption of innocence--should have been bound to wait
until the veracity of the charges in Durham was proven.

Because otherwise it would be possible to violate the terms of a diversion agreement by doing nothing
at all, except be the passive object of another's false accusations.

Which would be contrary to all concepts of US justice.


(And, if the diversion agreement in question was typical of DC, it required the recipient to actually
have broken the law, not to have been accused of breaking the law, for the agreement to have been
violated.)

Clearly someone wanted a conviction in DC as a means of further pressuring a witness in the Durham case
(with continual threats of being jailed for that offense).

Which would be considered witness tampering (a la Elmo, etc.)

That's what I would have thought too!

Else, the working assumption is: you get arrested, you're guilty.

Then why even have a trial?

Have we reverted to some kind of third world country?
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