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Author John G. Dyer's avatar

All the evidence needed for reversal, right there.

James Wills's avatar

I remember this case well. Nothing - nothing - frightens me more than a mob, and when the threat of a Saint George Floyd mob hangs over a weak man's head, he will almost always do the wrong thing. I wonder what can be done?

Christopher Messina's avatar

That criminal scumbag George Floyd committed suicide by being high on drugs while resisting arrest. The whole damned Wuhan Summer of George Floyd Love tells you all you need to know about how much the Democrats hate this country.

Debi Lutman's avatar

The sentence was like they were sent to hell itself. Was that necessary to assuage “the people”??

Alan Devincentis's avatar

I carry forty two rounds. Dont stop until you’re free of the mob.

Daniel Sullivan's avatar

“What I took from the case,” said Walmsley, “was how important it was as a judge to make sure that no matter what ended up happening in that case, whether you agreed with the verdict or not, people could accept the verdict.”

This is an astonishingly nonsensical statement coming from this judge. His job was to ensure that the accused received a fair trial. Whether the amorphous “public” accepted the verdict or not is irrelevant to a proper concept of either justice or sound reasoning. As Mr. Cashill observes, the judge clearly has an idea in his head that the “public” of concern is the menacing mobs in the streets. The people who did not count in this view were the tax-paying, law abiding, property-owning citizens who were too cowed to raise their voices as they were locked down and gas-lit during the Maoist struggle sessions of 2020.

Kelly Hess's avatar

It’s very scary to hear a judge say the outcome of a case needs to be one that the people can accept. That can never, ever be the standard for justice, and Walmsley does indeed know that. There’s something horribly wrong with a system where someone like him can become a judge.

Noah Otte's avatar

Judge Timothy Walmsley is a disgrace to the human race. An angry mob howling for blood does not a democracy make! The people in this case never got the truth. They never knew Ahmaud Arbery was a mentally ill career criminal. They never knew his own mother was afraid of him. They never knew he stole Travis’ gun. Walmsley is a corrupt piece of trash who belongs in prison rather than on the bench. At the end of the day, Travis McMichael shot Arbery dead in self-defense. Greg McMichael and Roddie Bryan didn’t do anything wrong. Greg simply helped his son and Roddie followed along seeking to help. That’s it. That’s literally it. None should’ve spent a day in prison! “The people” didn’t understand anything nor did Judge Walmsley.

Bridget's avatar

Agreed. The facts of the case were suppressed and/or ignored.

Dave Kepus's avatar

Foreign born folks should not be judges or politicians

These God fearing ‘republicans’ in Georgia are not on America’s side!

The judge, Secretary of State and governor should all have their financial and electronic backgrounds audited for an update

Frank Santora's avatar

Walmsley should have turned this case over to a competent magistrate. In the times you wrote about this, I saw a man, no, make that a coward, who is afraid to accept a fair and impartial verdict, less he be criticized and face scorn from the woke mob. Basically falling to the chant ”Give us Barabbas.”

Rick Janes's avatar

Have the empty-heads chanting "No Justice, No Peace!" ever considered that without truth there can be no justice?

What those mindless dupes were in fact rallying for is not justice, but de facto lynchings.

Bridget's avatar

White Lynchings Matter.

Stu Tarlowe's avatar

A lynching. That's precisely what it was. And those who vociferously condemn lynchings per se are in reality opposed only to certain lynchings, while they are perfectly OK with others.

Harriet Lublin's avatar

I remember this case all too well too!! Arbery's attys said he was "simply out jogging"!!

Daniel Sullivan's avatar

Yes, and Michael Brown was a gentle giant. And Trayvon Martin was just getting some Skittles, and on and on and on. The lies will never stop.

Susan Daniels's avatar

Nor will outrageous liberal judges who make rotten decisions about conservatives' lives.

Julie Michele's avatar

Shameless. Gutless. If he had tried to lie his way out of this miscarriage of justice, at least he would have acknowledged that he was cosplaying a judge for the mob. Not even moral and ethical enough to admit that he actually was guilty of taking the lives of his three victims and damn well knew it.

Jeanne Dukes's avatar

That judge should be booted off the bench - post haste! Seems obvious to me people do not vet the judges they vote for any more than other candidates they vote for. Color me shocked.

Juan Garcia's avatar

Another great article. Prayers are being said daily for the McMichael family.

Kenn Goodwin's avatar

This should be a missfuckingtrial

George Garfinkel's avatar

There clearly needs to be an avenue for high profile cases to find a neutral court, with non partisan citizen juries, and independent judges that would be free from “people pressure”. Too bad we have a Congress only concerned with their own wealth and photo ops, ignoring the most pressing needs of their citizens. Bozo leaders like Thune who will not even get the Save Act passed, and a Democrat Party who will not even stand up for our countries true hero’s.

Stu Tarlowe's avatar

WTF?? ALL cases need a neutral court; that's what courts are supposed to be. ALL juries are supposed to be non-partisan. Justice is supposed to be BLIND; that's why she's depicted wearing a blindfold.

George Garfinkel's avatar

And yet in our current environment we have multiple high profile cases where justice is not blind, but influenced by a corrupt media and biased judges and jurors who are nor shielded from narratives having nothing to do with facts and truth. How are defendants such as these supposed to get a fair trial?

W. A. Samuel's avatar

What does it take to get a mistrial ?? I’m not a lawyer, and so do not know the technicalities that could be ethically and legally used to appeal this decision. And why was this particular decision allowed to be made by a single judge rather than a 12-person jury ?? There might be bad political optics, but perhaps if not rectified before hand Trump would completely pardon these innocent men before he leaves office.

ALtab's avatar

We have to purge the judicial system, too. Thank you, Jack!