Wednesday, January 29, 2025

The Ignoramus Harry Dunn

This guy is an ex-Cap Cop whose understanding of Constitutional Law is.........ahhh.........limited.  We would say "non-existent" but maybe he knows there is such a thing as "the Constitution."   Maybe.

...Former Capitol police officer Harry Dunn said Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel should clearly denounce President Donald Trump's pardoning of about 1,500 people convicted for their roles in the Capitol riot.

"You can't support an individual that believes it's OK to pardon people who attack police officers," Dunn said at a news conference in the Wisconsin Capitol. "You can't support that and also say you claim to back the blue."...

One problem, Harry:

...  I represented dozens of people – somewhere close to 90 in the end -- charged with crimes related to the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Now, in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s broad pardons of all persons who were charged and/or convicted in connection with January 6, a hue and cry is ringing out from his critics over the idea that so many obviously guilty people have escaped the legal consequences of their criminal behavior.

But the criminal justice system is only partly about the evidence of guilt offered by the prosecution against the defendant.  The criminal justice system is also about the process – "due process" – that is guaranteed under the Constitution before the government can deprive any person of their liberty by jailing them....

"Due process" is not "Shoot-and-Kill", which is the solution used by your butt-buddy Byrd, Harry.

... It is simply assumed by the public – and by the commentators on both the left and right criticizing the pardons -- that January 6 defendants received the due process normally provided defendants in federal courts across the country.

But that is not true, and the deficiencies in the "process" – regardless of the views expressed by the judges in Washington on the subject – are the strongest reasons justifying the broad sweep of Trump's pardons. If a defendant’s due process rights are not afforded to him or her, then any conviction that might result is suspect. It is no different from the basis for suppressing evidence when a defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights are violated by an unlawful search – the process would violate the Constitution....

The author of those grafs is a 20+-year-experienced Fed prosecutor who represented a large number of the men and women who were railroaded into prison by the US Attorney and a couple of jackass judges in D.C.

Plenty more at the link. 

Finally:  Harry, shove it up your ass.  Brad Schimel knows all about "due process" and will be a great Justice.  You and your butt-buddy will make great parking-meter checkers.  Go for it!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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