A former Baltimore County prosecutor who works as an attorney in Towson has been charged with carjacking and armed robbery in connection with an incident last week near his home.
Isaiah Dixon III, 54, who worked as an assistant state's attorney for almost eight years until July 1997, was arrested Monday after police say he ran from officers on Belle Avenue in Northwest Baltimore. A police spokesman said the officers had converged there after a man was spotted driving a 2009 Honda Accord that had been taken at gunpoint Friday from its owner, a 31-year-old woman.
Dixon, who has a criminal record for drug possession, was being held Tuesday at the Baltimore County Detention Center and was awaiting a bail review hearing. He was charged with armed carjacking; carjacking; armed robbery; first-degree assault; unlawful taking of a motor vehicle; and theft.
A representative of Scott D. Shellenberger, the Baltimore County state's attorney, confirmed that Dixon had worked there and that, as far as he knew, had been an effective prosecutor. It was not clear why Dixon had left his job as a prosecutor.
Dixon's run-ins with the law in recent years had taken their toll on his legal career, and efforts to remove him from the bar were under way. The Maryland Attorney Grievance Commission has an action pending against Dixon before the Court of Appeals, which is to hear it next month.
A Circuit Court judge found in favor of the commission on a number of complaints against Dixon, including that he had purchased and used cocaine and that he had failed to appear in court, for which he was held in contempt.
Even after the commission brought the complaints against Dixon in May, court records show that he continued to take clients through July of last year. He is listed as the attorney for two clients with pending drug distribution and possession charges. And yet on Oct. 9, he was arrested for possession of a controlled dangerous substance, found guilty last month and given a suspended, one-year jail term. A similar charge in December 2008 was not prosecuted.
The latest incident began Friday shortly before noon outside Shoppers Food & Pharmacy at 2801 Smith Ave., a few blocks south of Dixon's home on Stridesham Court. Cpl. Michael Hill, a Baltimore County police spokesman, said a man approached the Honda's driver from behind with a knife and demanded her car as she was about to enter it.
"Fearing for her life, she gave him the car," Hill said. "And he left the scene."
On Monday afternoon, a Baltimore County officer who was heading south on Greenspring Avenue near the city line spotted the stolen Honda and followed it into the city, Hill said. The officer called for backup and tried to pull the Honda over, but it sped away.
Officers followed the car as it went from Park Heights Avenue onto Belle Avenue, where the driver stopped the Honda and ran, Hill said. The officers ran after him and arrested him in the 3900 block of Belle Ave.
The suspect matched the physical description given by the Honda's owner, Hill said. He added that Dixon "did identify himself as an attorney during his arrest, booking and processing for the charges."
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I'm sorry the 2009 Honda does not qualify for the "Cash for Clunkers Program."
Former presidential candidate John Edwards has admitted fathering his former campaign videographer's child. Oh! I am so surprised! Oh, Ethel! My pills!
In a statement released to NBC News, Edwards said, "I am Quinn's father. ... It was wrong for me ever to deny she was my daughter and hopefully one day, when she understands, she will forgive me." "My Dad, Breck Boy, told the entire world I'd been fathered by a guy who'd had a vasectomy. I'll just never forgive him!"
Friends of the family said that Edwards and wife, Elizabeth, have separated, NBC reported. Threw him out, did she? Wonder if she had a nine-iron in her hands ...
The admission comes after months of denials from Edwards that he fathered former mistress Rielle Hunter's daughter, Frances Quinn. The revelation also comes a week before his former campaign aide, Andrew Young, is set to appear in an ABC News interview saying he posed as the father when the scandal first broke as a favor to Edwards. "Yeah, sure. No problem. I doesn't matter if I've had a vasectomy, does it?"
"Not legally."
The two-time presidential candidate also admitted to providing financial support to the child and said in the statement that he has "reached an agreement with her mother to continue providing support in the future."
"To all those I have disappointed and hurt these words will never be enough, but I am truly sorry," Edwards said.
Young's interview is scheduled to air on ABC next Friday, but may be pushed forward.
Previous reports have claimed that a secret DNA test proved Edwards' paternity to the child. The test was taken after Hunter tried to get financial help from Edwards for Frances.
Edwards admitted in August 2008 to an affair with Hunter that he says ended in 2006. That year, Edwards' political action committee paid Hunter's video production firm $100,000 for work. Then the committee paid another $14,086 on April 1, 2007.
A federal grand jury last year investigated whether Edwards broke campaign finance law by paying "hush" money to Hunter and Young over the affair.
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"To all those I have disappointed and hurt these words will never be enough, but I am truly sorry, I am also availble, he added" Edwards said.
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Sounds like Edwards could use an Professorship appointment at some swanky liberal arts college to help him get over this difficult time.
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Yes he could compete with Lynn Stewart to land a professorship in the NE to teach ethics
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Yeah. Both can chase after the same segment of the student body.
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Elizabeth Edwards is not the saintly woman she was portrayed as by any means, but I have enormous sympathy for her. Her jerkass husband goes off and has a fling with some airhead video producer, and gets the airhead bimbo knocked up, and publicly humiliates Elizabeth when his cover gets blown--and all while the woman is counting down to her inevitable death from cancer. Any man who does that to his wife is a pig.
Give the Dems credit for doing one thing right--they didn't nominate Edwards in '08, and they didn't appoint him to any position of responsibility.
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It sounds like she's a harpy who enjoyed humiliating her husband in front of the staff, and he's a cad who married the equivalent of the boss's daughter... a match made in hell. All three deserve one another, and only the children suffer unfairly. Even if the cancer may kill her, which also happens to good people.
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Oh, damn - that's another ill-considered remark that will come back to bite him in the aspidistra.
What is with the old-line politicos lately - they all seem to be coming down with a bad case of foot-in-mouth disease!
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Whoa -- after listening to this? My littl'e ole Texas ladyship forces me to just keep my mouth shut! There are ways to dress this idiot down, in high heels, waltzing backwards (we do that sometimes, if our partner knows what he is doing.)
The Supreme Court's ruling Thursday striking down limits on corporate and union spending in elections is "un-American," Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Thursday. Schumer, a top Senate Democrat who formerly ran their campaign committee, said he would hold hearings on the decision in the coming weeks. You going to try and drag Supreme Court justices in front of your committee? I'll stock up on popcorn, this should be fun.
"I think it's an un-American decision," Schumer said at a press conference Thursday. "I think when the American people understand what this radical decision has meant they will be even more furious and concerned about special interest influence in politics than they are today."
Democrats have responded quickly to rebuke the court's 5-4 ruling in the Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission case, handed down Wednesday. The decision essentially kills a sizable portion of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, better known as the McCain-Feingold Act for its high-profile sponsors. The law, until this ruling, had subject corporations to special spending limits and disclosure rules that did not apply to individuals.
Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), the sponsor of that 2002 law, has called for new legislation to address the court's ruling. Schumer said Thursday he'd hold hearings as chairman of the Senate Rules Committee. "As chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, which is the committee with jurisdiction over these issues, I'm announcing that we will hold hearings on the impact of this decision within the next of couple of weeks," Schumer said.
At least one Republican -- Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell -- praised that ruling on Wednesday. He described the court's decision as guarantee of "free speech" to businesses groups that were previously deprived of it.
But a handful of Democrats have since charged otherwise. Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said earlier Wednesday that new corporate spending abilities would only ensure "citizens voices are drowned out." Yeah, who do those corporate fatcats we blackmail for cash think they are!
Schumer echoed those criticisms in his press conference Wednesday morning, describing the ruling as a grave mistake. "We will regret the day this decision has been issued," Schumer said.
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McCain/Feingold had a lot to do with the attempt to shut out and shut up the NRA. McCain was doing his "I'm a bipartisan (send me money)" schtick like the worthless toad he is.
This is a victory for free speech, no wonder the Dems are scared s***less. The more free speech there is the less they can do.
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ALL contributions should be allowed.
ALL contributions should be reported instantly, accurately, and in a public forum (and not in some street name either.) Name, employer, amount.
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Agree Glemmore - also disallow the kind of credit-card contribution which is not security checked like Obama did last time - that is a open invitation to corruption. Who know how much foreign money was channeled to him.
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Yet another step towards centralized power and strengthening of special interests. I still don't get how the Bill of Rights applies to corporations. That seems to be the basic rationale behind the Supreme Court's decision.
McCain Feingold unconstitutional? Who would have guessed? I think about 200 million talk show hosts and various assorted constitutional lawyers on the right.
So much for DailyKos and Politico...you guys now don't have a bully pulpit and Soros and all of his phony 527 PAC's can go pound sand.
I would hope this helps the donks roll back from the brink of leftist politics since those little nannering weinies on the left don't have the clout they had yesterday. Probably not...but this means that the Dems now have a cash flow problem and there are a lot of corporations out there that will vote with their pocket books on all of the proposed taxes and the crazy crap fines and levies in the "Healthcare Reform and Economic Confiscation Action of 2010"
This is starting to look like a political blood bath that will make the mid term elections in Clinton's first term look like a kindergarten party...Bambi's in trouble and I don't know if his ego will take it.
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AH I'm not so sure about that. One of, if not the biggest, tagets of McCain-Feingols was the Corporation called the National Rifle Association. The fact that Unions and other Corporations were caught up in it was an unfoseen accident. I think this descision was correct.
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Thank you USSC for striking a blow for freedom and loosening the shackles placed upon us by well intentioned fools.
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President Obama immediately issued a statement opposing the decision. As the Washington Post reports::
With its ruling today, the Supreme Court has given a green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics. It is a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans. We are going to talk with bipartisan congressional leaders to develop a forceful response to this decision.
Drown out the voices of everyday Americans eh? You mean like the people you BARRED from even seeing the healthcare debate (while allowing the Unions to dictate terms).
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I still don't get how the Bill of Rights applies to corporations.
A long standing principle in American jurisprudence is that corporations are individuals because they are composed of individuals.
As such the Bill of Rights extends to institutions because American jurisprudence recognizes that corporations are in reality individuals which have combined resources towards a common goal
And because they are collectives of individuals, they have as a group the same rights as an individual.
The Left has been playing a flimflam for about a hundred years attacking institutions which make profit as being less worthy than other groups, such as political parties, while ignoring that all institutions including those create to make a profit out of some business activity have the same right to speech as any individual, A corollary to that is that nothing in a free society stops any group of individuals from combining their resources in the political arena even if it is for the purpose of one single election.
What made McCain Feingold such an egregious attack on civil liberties was the regulations during an election which constricted speech at a time when speech should be unfettered.
SCOTUS gets this one right and then some, correcting an awful error and a solution on free society.
You'll noticed that McCain-Feingold was passed by a republican congress and signed by Bush, something the Left won't admit amidst their wailing and mourning.
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WMF > AL QAEDA'S STRATEGY TO INDUCE AMERICA INTO OVERCOMSUMPTION OF ITS VITAL RESOURCES AND INCUR GRADUAL UNRECOVERABLE NATIONAL, GLOBAL BANKRUPTCY IS WORKING.
Phew! It's just contractors. I'll bet half his administration shit themselves when they saw this.
Jan. 20 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama signed an order today directing the government to block contractors who are delinquent on their tax payments from obtaining federal contracts. Somehow, its become standard practice in Washington to give contracts to companies that dont pay their taxes,' Obama said in Washington. By issuing this directive, all of us in Washington will be required to be more responsible stewards of your tax dollars.' But what if they're "honest mistakes"?
The president also is directing the Internal Revenue Service to review the overall accuracy of companies claims about tax delinquency to be sure that when a company says its paying taxes, its not lying. Get right on that, Timmy.
Yes, sir, Mr. President.
The Government Accountability Office has identified tens of thousands of such deadbeat companies' that are late on taxes and yet obtained government contracts, Obama said. As an example, Obama said an unnamed defense contractor obtained federal work yet owed more than $1 million in taxes. It is simply wrong for companies to take taxpayer dollars and not be taxpayers themselves,' Obama said. Damn right, sir!
Shut up, Timmy...
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Obama said an unnamed defense contractor obtained federal work yet owed more than $1 million in taxes.
Pi**es away trillions, gives away billions overseas, but frets over mouse turds he does. Makes perfect sense to me....if you want to destroy a company entirely.
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The president also is directing the Internal Revenue Service to review the overall accuracy of companies claims about tax delinquency to be sure that when a company says its paying taxes, its not lying
So Tim Geithner's dept. is in charge of this ... hmmm ...
Relishing Scott Brown's victory Tuesday night in Massachusetts, House Republicans came out swinging at President Barack Obama, the Democratic leadership and their agenda, calling Obama "the most partisan president that America has ever seen."
"This president -- I think you could argue the most partisan president that America has ever seen -- and the Democratic majority rammed down a so-called economic stimulus plan down the throats of this Congress and the American people," said Rep. Candice Miller (R-Mich.).
The GOP leadership pressed the message of Democratic arrogance after their weekly caucus Wednesday morning, using the Massachusetts special election results as a jumping-off point for attacking the Democrats.
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia said Democrats should pay attention to a series of GOP wins, including Tuesday's vote and November's gubernatorial pickups in his home state and New Jersey.
"This election last night in Massachusetts for senator-elect Brown was much about an election that rejected arrogance. Much like David in his fight against Goliath, David won because he was able to do so and fight in his own way. The American people -- the people of Massachusetts last night -- have rejected the arrogance. They are tired of being told by Washington how to think and what to do," Cantor said.
The leaders zeroed in on health care reform efforts, responding to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's affirmations Tuesday that House Democrats will continue to push forward to get a bill to the president's desk.
"It's that kind of arrogance that has the American people about ready to pull their hair out and about ready to throw every Democrat out of here," Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio said.
While House Republican Conference chairman Mike Pence urged the president and Congress to "scrap their government plan for a takeover of health care," both he and Cantor reiterated that the Republicans would like to work on incremental plans to achieve health care reform.
Cantor took a jab at Hoyer by citing a meeting he had at the beginning of this session with the majority as an example of both how the Democrats ignored GOP interests and how the parties might be able to work together moving forward.
"I look back a few months ago, when I met with Majority Leader Hoyer, and I would guess this morning that perhaps he's thinking maybe he should have paid a bit more attention to that meeting. Because in that meeting, I put forth our Republican plan to affect health care reform ... there is a way for us to work together," Cantor said. "I'm hopeful that these elections have sent the message."
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"It's that kind of arrogance that has the American people about ready to pull their hair out and about ready to throw every Democrat out of here," Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio said.
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Obama is going to see a sweep in November Midterms in Congress. His Healthcare Comprehensive "reform" is going to be stifled...and it will eventually be reviewed and repealed , if necessary. ( WHY does it have to be comprehensive, why not step by steady step in realism?)
Healthcare was Obama's "Flagship". Its dead in the water now and will probably sink altogether.
The whole process will have to be started over from the ground up. (And now we KNOW who in Congress can be bought).
AND we have seen the Democrats show their backsides( but then we always knew they were cut and run types anyway).
The US creates 13 Trillion dollars a year in its output. We can buy back our debt from China and take back all the bleeding paper Obama has caused.
But we need leadership and NOT Obama arrogance and incompetence. He's no Messiah, he's a mouth. He always was.
Obama has three more years, he wont even try for a second term. Buyers remorse and the American people wont even piss on him now. Obama will shift to center and act like he isnt abandoning his agenda...but he will. He's going to go lame and just make noises and slowly rot in his chair while Congress has gridlock most of the time until the Donks realize they have to stop their partisan stupidity and work for step by step reality in the public good.
It can be done but not by some prancing partisan booger from Chicago.
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But we need leadership...
That's the fundamental problem. Socialist don't want to lead, they want to rule.
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The Supreme Court's ruling Thursday striking down limits on corporate and union spending in elections is "un-American," Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Thursday. Schumer, a top Senate Democrat who formerly ran their campaign committee, said he would hold hearings on the decision in the coming weeks.
