That's John's first record.
The previous record was 15 minutes. Morganelli set that one, too.
The second record is a personal one. It is 25th successful first degree murder conviction since first being elected District Attorney in 1991. That's more than one a year.
Not bad for a kid from Bethlehem's South side.
You might think Morganelli would take some time off, but after the verdict, he went back to his office. He might have sneaked out 15 minutes early.
Is 25 murder one convictions something one celebrates?
ReplyDeleteYes. Absolutely. There are bad guys out there. I would not celebrate executions.
ReplyDeleteyet state dems won't support him for AG. Morons
ReplyDeleteBut in a way you are celebrating executions. Is this about justice or revenge? We need to think about that.
ReplyDeleteThis was not a death penalty case.
DeleteNo, I am celebrating a professional prosecutor who gets results very quickly and convincingly. It is about justice.
ReplyDeleteno you are celebrating your personal man crush who will never be anything more than what he is now.
ReplyDeleteHe's a compiler. Hang around long enough and numbers build. He's the Mike Mussina of law. Lots of wins. Not a hall of famer.
ReplyDeleteHe is a nice man with a nice family who does good things for our community. To me, that's a hall of famer.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more, Andrew.
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He left early as he's now preparing for the pot leaf air freshener case in Nazareth.
ReplyDeleteHow much time and effort has he wasted seeking a death penalty conviction that never gets carried out?
ReplyDeleteJohn does his job and is doing it very well. More scum off the street for good.
ReplyDeleteI see a reversal on appeal...6 minutes means that the jury did not even consider the defense of 3rd degree murder. Was it 6 minutes in the deliberation room, or 6 minutes total time spent walking the halls? The video obviously was prejudicial, and wiped out any possible speculation that this guy did just snap.
ReplyDeleteNot that this guy deserves to walk free...he doesn't, but what kind of society are we when 12 people will not even spend a moment of time , when the penalty is life without parole?
Maybe I am wrong, but isn't a jury supposed to deliberate? 6 minutes? Just handing out, and collecting the votes would have been 6 minutes
There is no requirement of a
ReplyDelete"reasonable time" for deliberation. Likely, the Foreman asked for a vote out of the gate to get a poll of the jurors. When all voted guilty their job was done. None had a reasonable doubt.
"Maybe I am wrong, "
ReplyDeleteYou are. But Graf can include that in his reasons for a new trial.
8:35, To those who believe in the death penalty as an appropriate sanction, he has wasted no time.
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ReplyDeleteas your nemisis writes fluff and stuff that he has worked very hard for public parisites to even give consideration¿!($ You on the other hand write about the reel that the triburo has become at the hands of the browne hole economic growth circu¿!($
Allentowns parks are a treasure that have been infected by this very circus element for too many years than can be put to print¿!($ Thanx go to MM for many many years of tireless work¿!($
As for you writing this article this is the transient transplants that the true patriots have to deal with, its sickining¿!($ Than there are the conterparts epicentralized to this circus that have alloud and even incubated this very ill behaviors only to have facts negated and put to print by the locally complicite media outlets¿!($
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John deserves credit for all but an asterisk should go next to Graf's. I think I could have persuaded a jury on that one.
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It was a slam dunk. MacMahion is an excellenmt lawyer and everyone was waiting for some surprise. But there just was nothing that even Jack could do.
ReplyDeleteNo. But it is a murder 1.
ReplyDelete"It was a slam dunk. MacMahion is an excellenmt lawyer and everyone was waiting for some surprise. But there just was nothing that even Jack could do."
ReplyDeleteThen, with the death penalty off the table, why did he advise to put the victim's family through that horrific trial? That seemed shockingly ghoulish, even for a defense attorney.
@6:42 Because McMahon was waiting for the surprise too. A guilty plea comes with no surprises, a trial may come with surprises. In short there was no incentive provided to Graaf to plead guilty.
ReplyDeleteThere would normally be a circus surprise working in the spinkter a little left of the hemrode of the pussie boil cist about to pop with the wamm bamm lightning slam palumpasized epicentralized¿!($ This circus sideshow will infect the entire triboro with the flip flopp bigtop sale that sells¿!($
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