Scumbag Judge gets 28 years, scumbag!!

joseph brand · 13-08-2011 01:10PM #1

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/08/12/pennsylvania.judge.sentenced/index.html?hpt=ju_c2

A former Pennsylvania juvenile judge was sentenced to 28 years in prison Thursday after being convicted for a scheme to make millions off unjustly incarcerating young people, court officials said.

Sandy Fonzo's 17-year-old son, Edward Kenzakowski, spent six months in a detention center after Ciavarella sentenced him for possession of drug paraphernalia.
According to Fonzo, her son, who had no prior record, was never able to recover and eventually took his own life.

What an evil bast*rd. :mad:

CardBordWindow · 13-08-2011 01:12PM

Judge Dredd

MagicSean · 13-08-2011 01:14PM

Saw this on Law and Order SVU. Although the show was keen to point out that the story was not based on any real event.

stovelid · 13-08-2011 01:17PM

I have very little of intellectual worth to impart on this occasion but I'd just like to chime in with a scumbag anyway.

Rubecula · 13-08-2011 01:19PM

Scumbag doesn't cut it for me. But I will not risk a ban for saying exactly what I think of this...this...scumbag

Dustbin Diamond · 13-08-2011 01:20PM

CardBordWindow wrote: »

Judge Dredd

Judge Reinhold

(other judges are available)

lifehacker · 13-08-2011 01:20PM

Fu**ing scumbag!

Sunnyisland · 13-08-2011 01:20PM

"Scumbags" You get them in all sections of society.

Collie D · 13-08-2011 01:29PM

Seanbeag1 wrote: »

Saw this on Law and Order SVU. Although the show was keen to point out that the story was not based on any real event.

Saw that episode. Get a few storylines related to controversial real-life cases in Law and Order. This guy and another judge were featured in Michael Moore's Capitalism

StupidLikeAFox · 13-08-2011 01:32PM

Seanbeag1 wrote: »

Saw this on Law and Order SVU. Although the show was keen to point out that the story was not based on any real event.

I think an awful lot of their episodes (and CSI ones etc) are based on real cases, they just cant say it for legal reasons

MagicMarker · 13-08-2011 01:35PM

It seems this isn't uncommon then, watching Michael Moore's documentary last night on Capitalism and there were a couple of judges highlighted in it for doing the exact same thing.

johnmcdnl · 13-08-2011 01:35PM

a flawed american justice system is exposed...

surprises all round

later12 · 13-08-2011 01:36PM

Dustbin Diamond wrote: »

CardBordWindow wrote: »

Judge Dredd

Judge Reinhold

(other judges are available)

Judge Judy tbh

Wagon.

senorwipesalot · 13-08-2011 01:37PM

CardBordWindow wrote: »

Judge Dredd

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mikemac · 13-08-2011 01:39PM

ColHol wrote: »

I think an awful lot of their episodes (and CSI ones etc) are based on real cases, they just cant say it for legal reasons

There was a news story of a housebound morbidly obese lady who never moved and so the skin became fused to the couch. Fused may be the incorrect term but she was stuck anyway.

Paramedics had to cut her out

Sure enough, Season Three had the same story but of course they wouldn't come out and say this

Yakult · 13-08-2011 01:41PM

Money brings out the best of people, a very sad man.

Sunnyisland · 13-08-2011 01:46PM

john mcdonald wrote: »

a flawed american justice system is exposed...

surprises all round

At least he got jail, here they would set up a tribunal or he be given his huge pension and told to keep his head down.

amacachi · 13-08-2011 01:53PM

Ah the land of the free, gotta love it.

amacachi · 13-08-2011 01:55PM

realies wrote: »

At least he got jail, here they would set up a tribunal or he be given his huge pension and told to keep his head down.

It'd be hard for such a situation to arise here thankfully. Also I assume he must've pissed off the wrong person at some point in his career given that a plea bargain was arrranged and they went ahead and prosecuted properly instead.

ElleEm · 13-08-2011 01:56PM

Seanbeag1 wrote: »

Saw this on Law and Order SVU. Although the show was keen to point out that the story was not based on any real event.

There was a similar story on The Good Wife too, where a judge was being paid to incarcirate young boys to a specific detention centre.

CiaranC · 13-08-2011 01:58PM

Their entire penal system is designed to extract profit

recylingbin · 13-08-2011 01:58PM

amacachi wrote: »

It'd be hard for such a situation to arise here thankfully..

True. Our judges prefer kiddy porn and full pensions. Jail is for the weak.

Phill Ewinn · 13-08-2011 02:01PM

amacachi wrote: »

It'd be hard for such a situation to arise here thankfully.

Strongly disagree. Plenty of opportunity for judges to rifle the system. Judge during the week on the news didn't even swear an oath at the start of a trial.

It's been said many, many times that the leegal system here is a closed loop. The law society of Ireland is basically an old boys club.

amacachi · 13-08-2011 02:04PM

recylingbin wrote: »

True. Our judges prefer kiddy porn and full pensions. Jail is for the weak.

I was talking more about about how we don't have slave labour in prisons.

Phill Ewinn wrote: »

Strongly disagree. Plenty of opportunity for judges to rifle the system. Judge during the week on the news didn't even swear an oath at the start of a trial.

It's been said many, many times that the leegal system here is a closed loop. The law society of Ireland is basically an old boys club.

Been reading Freeman stuff I assume.

orourkeda · 13-08-2011 02:10PM

Tough on crime.

Tough on the causes of crime.

Castle in the Sky · 13-08-2011 02:24PM

America won't be done until the entire population is in prison. TBH it's one of the (many) reasons I'd never want to live in the place.

joshrogan · 13-08-2011 02:26PM

Did he take his life in the detention centre?

im invisible · 13-08-2011 02:41PM

Although inspired by true events, the following story is fictional....

RichieC · 13-08-2011 02:42PM

6 months for a bong... land of the free home of the brave...

Phill Ewinn · 13-08-2011 02:44PM

amacachi wrote: »

Been reading Freeman stuff I assume.

Apparently it's in the constitution. I do expect judges to have a grasp of that.

MagicSean · 13-08-2011 03:15PM

Phill Ewinn wrote: »

Strongly disagree. Plenty of opportunity for judges to rifle the system. Judge during the week on the news didn't even swear an oath at the start of a trial.

It's been said many, many times that the leegal system here is a closed loop. The law society of Ireland is basically an old boys club.

Judges aren't required to swear an oath before a trial. They swear it when they take up office. It upsets me when people use incorrect and stupid examples to support their misguided views.

Scumbag Judge gets 28 years, scumbag!!

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