Unbelivable! These judges need to be held accountable for their rulings and their comments/statements. This is simply unacceptable.




Judge's Comments To Robbery Suspects Drawing Fire

Reporting
Jamie Smith
PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) ― An area judge is coming under fire after comments apparently praising suspects in a Northeast Philadelphia robbery for their tactics and downgrading the charges against them.

Raymond Ditri and James Pietrafitta were facing charges in the robbery of a Wawa at the corner of Torresdale and Levick in April. The two suspects were apparently given credit by Judge Nazario Jimenez for allegedly committing the crime without the use of a weapon.

Before a crowded court room, Jimenez said in part:

"…let's hope that if anybody is going to rob any place that it's done this way. Let's give credit where credit is due. No weapons were used…"

Charges of resisting arrest, assault and reckless endangerment were dropped at the preliminary hearing Wednesday. According to transcripts obtained by CBS 3, the suspects also had their robbery charges reduced.

"A person of authority should not be making statements as to how to commit a crime or how not to commit a crime," John McGrody said.

The Vice President of Philadelphia's Fraternal Order of Police told CBS 3 he spent the day hearing from police officers who were outraged by the judge's remarks.

"A robbery is a robbery, whether it is with a gun or without a gun and somebody's lost personal property and you know police officers are in jeopardy making those arrests," McGrody said.

The FOP hand delivered a letter to the Philadelphia Municipal Court President Judge. In the letter, FOP President John McNesby stated:

"I would like to publicly state our displeasure with these inappropriate comments, and call on Judge Jimenez to repudiate these remarks."

The FOP is awaiting a response from the letter that was delivered Thursday. Judge Jimenez, he was appointed to the bench in 1994.

http://cbs3.com/topstories/Wawa.Robb....2.725491.html

I agree with the judge.


With 99% using a weapon...

Your against some leniency and publicity for not using any?


If anything this judge is promoting a less violent world.

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or.. why we shouldn't always listen to "neighborhood groups" and critics.

I agree. Most folks use weapons to rob banks when it really not called for. You just creat a more dangerous situation for everyone when you use a weapon.

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so it's okay to rob a bank as long as a gun isn't used?

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HUH?

I was really starting to worry but thank God someone came along who has a working brain!

What this judge said confirms my worst suspicions. The gov't and a large segment of the public no longer really care all that much about crime or the criminals who commit it.

I have a news flash for the judge -- sentence criminals harshly and criminals who use guns even more harshly. No, you don't give a bonus for not using a gun as if that's some remarkably good conduct that deserves the judge's admiration. You do give the added penalty for using the gun.

We've arrived at a place where crime is so rampant that the judges are now proud of the criminals if they commit their crimes in a certain way? I don't think so.

Leniency for the guilty scum is punishment for the innocent victims.

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Allied Forces Headquarters
4 March 1943

So every time I say no to an unarmed homeless guy asking for money, I'm thwarting a robbery?

Ding ding - there's the logic!

Yes - let's give "credit where credit is due" - to the people out there who chose NOT to rob the $%%^* Wawa at all! How about that! Sheesh.

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