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2019-11-12 Home Front: Politix
Background on Chesa Boudin new San Fran DA.

He was raised in Chicago by Weather Underground leaders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn before studying law at Yale. He later won a Rhodes Scholarship and worked for Venezuela’s now-deceased socialist President Hugo Chávez before coming to San Francisco.
Posted by 3dc 2019-11-12 06:09|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ]  Top

#1 Someone needs to organize a "pee-in" in front of City Hall
Posted by Rex Mundi 2019-11-12 11:23||   2019-11-12 11:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Cop-killer's son, an equally vicious cop-hater, admirer of Hugo Chavez and leader of "F--- the Cops!" chanting mobs, wins District Attorney election. Also a grad of one of the country's most elite universities. Feted by the media.

= the very definition of a third-world SHITSHOW
Posted by Lex 2019-11-12 12:04||   2019-11-12 12:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Boudin has stated he will, upon taking office, issue a 'no arrest' policy for public urination, drunkeness, prostitution, soliciting and a few other 'life style' issues.

I'm sure the tourism board is thinking real hard about their job just now.
Posted by lord garth 2019-11-12 12:45||   2019-11-12 12:45|| Front Page Top

#4 So Yale and Rhodes Scholar are now a meatball prize.
Posted by swksvolFF 2019-11-12 14:56||   2019-11-12 14:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Kathy Boudin coupled with David Gilbert and had a spawn. Because Kathy and David were convicted cop-killers and in prison, their off-spring was raised by Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn (chums and neighbors of community organizer BHO). The child later became DA in San Francisco without ever having tried a case.

Shheesh.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-11-12 15:51||   2019-11-12 15:51|| Front Page Top

#6 "Every nation (sic) gets the government it deserves"___ Joseph de Maistre
Posted by Mercutio 2019-11-12 16:44||   2019-11-12 16:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Mom's profile at Murderpedia.org
Posted by Lex 2019-11-12 17:08||   2019-11-12 17:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Here's the supposed "injustice" that the red diaper baby's baby seeks to rectify:


Trials and sentencing

Gilbert, Weems, and Clark were the first of the Brink's robbers to go to trial. Because the BLA was known for attempting to break their members out of prison (as in the case of Assata Shakur), massive security precautions were undertaken, turning the courthouse in Goshen, New York into a heavily armed compound. The job of presiding over what was expected to be an arduous and potentially dangerous trial was assigned to Judge David S. Ritter who tried to balance ensuring the rights of the unpopular defendants with keeping the peace in the courtroom while they used unconventional approaches to making their case. All three defendants declined assistance from defense lawyers and chose to represent themselves.

Their contention was that since they did not recognize the authority of the United States, the government had no right to put them on trial. Throughout the trial, they repeatedly disrupted the proceedings by shouting anti-US slogans, proclaiming to be "at war" with the government and refusing to respect any aspect of the US legal system. They called the robbery an "expropriation" of funds that were needed to form a new country in a few select southern states that ideally would be populated only by African Americans.

When it came time for the defendants to present their case, they called only one witness, Nathaniel Burns (Sekou Odinga), who had already been convicted of multiple bank robberies. He said that his organization was "fighting for the liberation and self-determination of black people in this country." Burns testified that the killings were suitable because the three victims had interfered with the "expropriation." In his view, the theft of money was morally justified because those funds "were robbed through the slave labor that was forced on them and their ancestors." After his testimony, he was praised by the defendants and led out of the courtroom to serve his 40-year federal prison sentence.

The jury was not convinced by Burns' reasoning and at the end of the trial, it took the jury only four hours of deliberation to return a verdict convicting all three defendants of armed robbery and three counts of murder. When the verdict was announced, Clark, Gilbert and Weems refused to appear in court. They remained in the basement holding cells, drinking coffee and railing against, what they perceived to be, a racist court system. "I don't think any interest is served by forcing them to be here," said Judge Ritter.

Rockland County D.A. Kenneth Gribetz told reporters: "Our goal is to see that these people, who have contempt for society and have shown no remorse, will never see the streets of society again!" Judge Ritter apparently agreed. On October 6, 1983, he sentenced each defendant to three consecutive twenty-five year-to-life sentences, making them eligible for parole in the year 2058.

After the trial, Weems claimed, "As to the seventy five years in prison, I am not really worried, not only because I am in the habit of not completing sentences or waiting on parole or any of that nonsense but also because the State simply isn't going to last seventy five or even fifty years." He died in prison from AIDS in 1986.

Gilbert and Clark remain in prison. In September 2006, Clark was granted a new trial by a judge in a district court on grounds that she had no representation at trial. On January 3, 2008, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in a unanimous decision, reversed the district court's judgment granting a new trial. The Second Circuit panel noted that she chose to represent herself and defaulted any claim by failing to appeal until after the time for appeals had expired.

Unlike their fellow robbers, Boudin and Brown attempted to mount a legal defense. Boudin hired Leonard Weinglass to defend her. Weinglass, a law partner of Boudin's father, arranged for a plea bargain and Boudin pled guilty to one count of felony murder and robbery, in exchange for a single twenty year-to-life sentence.

She was paroled in 2003. However, Brown was unable to reach any deal that would spare him a life sentence. Since he had nothing to lose by going to trial, he decided to have one. At his trial, he claimed to have only had a minor participation in the robbery and had not fired a weapon at anyone. The jury was not convinced. In addition to being caught in the escape attempt with the other robbers, witnesses identified him as a participant in both shootouts. He was sentenced to 75 years to life in prison. ...

Legacy

In 2004, the Nyack post office was officially renamed after the two police officers and the Brink's guard who were killed in the shootout.

In 2008, Kathy Boudin was appointed as an adjunct professor at Columbia University School of Social Work, prompting a 2013 governmental condemnation of the university's action and a call for her termination as professor.

Buck was later convicted of multiple charges related to the Brink's robbery and other crimes and sentenced to 50 years in a federal prison. She was released from prison in July, 2010, and died of cancer in August, 2010. Williams (Shakur), the alleged ringleader of the group, was the last one to go on trial on charges related to the robbery. In 1988, he received a 60-year prison sentence. He has a parole release date of 2016.

Legacy

In 2004, the Nyack post office was officially renamed after the two police officers and the Brink's guard who were killed in the shootout.

In 2008, Kathy Boudin was appointed as an adjunct professor at Columbia University School of Social Work, prompting a 2013 governmental condemnation of the university's action and a call for her termination as professor.
Posted by Lex 2019-11-12 17:15||   2019-11-12 17:15|| Front Page Top

#9 WTF?
Posted by Lex 2019-11-12 17:32||   2019-11-12 17:32|| Front Page Top

#10 ^IMO, it's more of "In your face, deplorables!"
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-12 17:38||   2019-11-12 17:38|| Front Page Top

#11 Except, of course, that San Francisco is a deplorable-free zone.

Who the f--- do they think they're opposing, exactly?
Posted by Lex 2019-11-12 17:41||   2019-11-12 17:41|| Front Page Top

#12 The rest of the country.

Just had an idea:
He was raised in Chicago by Weather Underground leaders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn

I understand Obama was close to these two.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-12 17:44||   2019-11-12 17:44|| Front Page Top

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