NJ Judge jails man 7 years for owning legal guns, lets man free for having sex with animals

This is way beyond bordering on the absurd. In New Jersey a man has been jailed for 7 years because he was found to have 2 guns in his trunk that he owned legally. The same judge that sentenced the man let another guy go free for having sex with farm animals. From Phylly.com via memeorandum: Family: New Jersey man serving 7 years for guns he owned legally

Police ... found two handguns in the trunk of Brian's car. And now Brian... a graduate student with no prior criminal record, is serving a seven-year prison sentence for weapons charges.

... 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 police) found two handguns, both locked and unloaded as New Jersey law requires.

Aitken had passed an FBI background check to buy them in Colorado when he lived there, his father said, and had contacted New Jersey State Police and discussed the proper way to transport them.

What about the right for the people to bear arms "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" do people not understand, especially in the ruling class? The big irony comes at the end of the piece. The trial was overseen by Superior Court Judge James Morley, who Chris Christie did not reappoint to the bench and for good reason:

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.

More on the calf case here: Judge: No Proof Cows 'Tormented' By Oral Sex. Good grief. 

http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2010/12/nj-judge-jails-man-7-years-for-owning.html

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