Re: New Jersey: Judge Sentences Man to 7 Years in Prison for Legally Owning Guns!

One would hope the appeal is dismissed with prejudice

On Nov 30, 1:15 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>     <http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/author/doctorbulldog/> New Jersey:
> Judge Sentences Man to 7 Years in Prison for Legally Owning
> Guns!<http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/new-jersey-judge-senten...>
> *doctorbulldog <http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/author/doctorbulldog/>* |
> 30 November, 2010 at 12:03 pm | Categories: Abuse of
> Power<http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/?category_name=abuse-of-power>,
> Justice System<http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/?category_name=justice-system>,
> Right to Bear Arms<http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/?category_name=right-to-bear-arms>|
> URL:http://wp.me/p1NPg-6Lc
>
> *Another Lefturd judge gone wild:*
>
> *Family: New Jersey man serving 7 years for guns he owned legally*
> *By JASON NARK - Philadelphia Daily
> News<http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20101130_Family__New_Jersey_man_ser...>
> *
>
> EVERYTHING Brian Aitken was or had worked for was wiped away one winter
> afternoon after his mother called the police on him.
>
> Separated from his wife, the entrepreneur and media consultant, now 27, had
> moved back home to New Jersey from Colorado toward the end of 2008 to be
> closer to their young son.
>
> In between jobs, his well-oiled life was running ragged, and on Jan. 2,
> 2009, when his ex canceled his visit with their son, he became distraught,
> muttered something to his mother, and left his parents' home in Mount
> Laurel, N.J.
>
> "He said something that scared her, things that a guy will only say to his
> mom, like . . . 'Life's not worth living anymore,' " said Larry Aitken,
> Brian's father.
>
> Sue Aitken, a trained social worker, decided to play it safe and called
> police, but she hung up before the 9-1-1 dispatcher could answer. Police
> traced the call and showed up anyway, and found two handguns in the trunk of
> Brian's car. And now Brian, her middle child, a graduate student with no
> prior criminal record, is serving a seven-year prison sentence for weapons
> charges.
>
> No one blames Sue Aitken for Brian's arrest, except herself maybe, but his
> father and attorney claim that the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office and
> the former Superior Court judge who tried the case ignored evidence that
> proved Brian had the guns legally. The family has asked New Jersey Gov.
> Chris Christie for clemency and has garnered a great deal of support on a
> "Free Brian Aitken" Facebook page and among gun-rights advocates.
>
> Aitken and his supporters believe that he had a legal exemption to have the
> handguns in his car because he was moving from his parents' home to a
> residence in Hoboken.
>
> "This case is the perfect storm of injustice," said Aitken's attorney, Evan
> Nappen, of Eatontown, Monmouth County, who specializes in gun laws.
>
> The Burlington County Prosecutor's Office and former Superior Court Judge
> James Morley said Aitken and his legal team tried during closing arguments
> to raise an issue related to Aitken's moving that wasn't presented during
> the trial, but Morley wouldn't consider it. Aitken remains in prison pending
> his appeal.
>
> A few weeks after Aitken's trial over the summer, Morley learned that
> Christie was not going to reappoint him, due in part to a 2009 case in which
> he dismissed animal-cruelty charges against a Moorestown cop accused of
> sticking his penis into the mouths of five calves. Morley said there was no
> way of knowing whether the calves had been "puzzled" or "tormented" by the
> officer's actions.
>
> Nappen thinks the animal-cruelty case exemplifies poor decision-making by
> Morley.
>
> "Brian didn't receive oral sex from calves; he only lawfully possessed
> firearms," Nappen said.
>
> A spokesman for Christie acknowledged that his office had received clemency
> requests for Aitken, but declined to comment further. Read more of
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