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Yet sharp though my outrage, it’s ignorant—unlike that of Rick Fisk, who “was incarcerated for 6 years on an 8 year sentence and did two years on parole. For a crime I didn’t commit.” Rick has suffered the worst that Leviathan can dish out. Ergo, he analyzes the propaganda surrounding Ethan Crumbley with an insider’s view of the prison-industrial complex.
When I appealed to this expert for his take on the travesty in Michigan, he responded:
I feel so bad for the parents of those who were killed and the Crumbley family. It was a tragedy and failure of epic proportions by Ethan’s parents and the school. It would be easy to be carried away by the same mob mentality that has been stirred up during so many high profile cases over the years. Personally I think stirring up the mob is in general a convenient way to deflect focus from gross misconduct by prosecutors and police. If the mob can be made angry enough, then the prosecution is given free reign to overcharge and taint the jury pool even if what they’re doing is a gross disservice to both crime victims and the accused. …
Prosecutors within hours, without serious deliberation announced that Ethan, a 15 year old boy, would be charged as an adult. We haven’t seen an indictment or charges yet, but the media is reporting that there will be something like 17+ felonies included. So far 4 people have died and 8 were injured. So the prosecution is going to charge Ethan with 4 counts of murder and 13 or so other crimes including attempted murder, terrorism and illegal possession of a firearm.
Right away we see that they want Ethan never to see the light of day outside a jail or prison from this point forward. …
Fortunately, Mr. Fisk adds, recent decisions from the Supreme Court may protect teens from prosecutors hoping to build their own cushy futures by burying the kids’.
Mr. Fisk next excoriated the lynching of Ethan’s parents.
On Thursday night, The Crumbleys left their home in Oxford. At some point they withdrew $4k and ended up staying overnight in a warehouse somewhere in Detroit, presumably given permission by a friend.
The reasonable explanation for doing this is that they were hounded by reporters both at their home and on their phones. So they went to find a quiet place to think and maybe even get some sleep. Prosecutors, police and the mob turned these actions into proof that they were ‘fugitives’ trying to escape prosecution. Turning off their phones! The audacity! Yet when they left Oxford, they were not yet charged with any crimes. There is no legitimate claim that this was an attempt to flee justice. The charges weren’t filed until Friday.
And now they will rot in jail – charged with 4 counts of involuntary manslaughter. Their bail is set at $500k, an amount they have no chance of paying (50k is the 10% bond minimum and they’re at least 46k short). The prosecution has claimed they are a ‘flight risk,’ using their movement during the time they were not being charged nor knew that they’d be charged as their proof!
What we’re witnessing is not a rational, legal justice system in action but a gross miscarriage of justice. We see in plain sight the common misconduct of prosecutors: overcharging, pulling in defendants uninvolved in the actual crime and making misleading and outright false statements to the media and to the presiding judge. They seek to taint the jury pool and ignore the ‘excessive bail’ clause of the 5th amendment to the constitution. They’re goal is to ‘win’ at all costs.
They also have another agenda which Karen McDonald, the prosecutor, claims is not the agenda. They are trying to make this a landmark gun control case.
In almost every high-profile case in recent memory, we have seen these tactics. Over charge, set excessive bail to keep the defendant in torturous conditions ( exclude Ethan from any parental contact or advice ) and make the trial a matter of politics rather than law.
In an article I wrote about how this sort of misconduct is common, I discuss how overcharging is common and accepted. It was especially obvious in the Ahmoud Arbery case recently. That case had a pretty satisfying outcome in the sense that it held people accountable. But it was also an example of blatant prosecutorial misconduct:
“Eventually prosecutors bring 16 counts of murder against three defendants who have killed one man, not 16. For people who have been whipped to frenzy, this bizarre fact is of no importance. But it should have been. To people who have paid attention to the justice system for years, this overcharging is evidence of blatant prosecutorial misconduct. It isn’t proof that the murderers are less heinous, just that prosecutors will do whatever they can to ensure a guilty verdict or a plea.”
Here’s the truly sad part. Ethan Crumbley will not see his parents in the courtroom. There will be no one on earth to support him during his trial and his parents will be held for probably more than a year waiting for their day in court. While they are held, media reports will be published continually and none will present any narrative which treats them as innocent.
The absurdity of charging them with a crime, because they bought a handgun and took their son to the gun range to learn how to safely use it, could be compared to parents charged for leaving the keys to their car ‘unattended’ when their child takes it without notifying them, causing a fatality. … Common sense says that the parents are not responsible when a child commits a crime unless it can be shown that the parents explicitly conspired with the child.
And to top it off, they want it both ways in the Crumbley case. They want to charge the parents for facilitating the crime, but they also want to charge Ethan as an adult, as if he was completely responsible for his actions and made all of the decisions an adult would make. But if Ethan acted as an adult, then his parents are not guilty by definition.
The government’s actions are designed to inflict the maximum amount of pain and suffering on everyone, including the victims. It will be years before ‘justice’ is done and there won’t be any closure except for those who seek bitter vengeance. And those people might be surprised that their bitterness and anger remain long after the trial is over.
While entombed, Mr. Fisk “didn’t just learn about corruption in my own case. I spoke to hundreds of people while I was locked up. Many guilty, some innocent, but there wasn’t one person I talked to that hadn’t been corruptly treated by our so-called justice system.”
Fortunately for Liberty, Mr. Fisk isn’t wasting all that pain. He’s “writing a memoir about my experience which includes some of these things I learned. Paid subscribers can read the memoir, and those who opt for a free subscription will see articles I write which are mostly about criminal justice issues that I am most passionate about.” I wholeheartedly recommend his riveting reports. Mr. Fisk covers every topic of life inside, from laundry (ever wonder how dirty clothes from thousands of inmates get clean? Answer: they don’t, despite the wash-day kabuki in which all jails engage), to food (oh, gross. You will not believe the slop prisons feed their captives, nor the enterprising but nauseating lengths to which prisoners deprived of comforting fare will go. This chapter contains recipes—not that you’ll want to cook them) to his “cellies,” some annoying but most of them poignant in their misery as they share a tiny cage.
If you’re upset over the USSA’s abuse of helpless innocents (for the most part) or looking for an unforgettable Christmas gift, buy a subscription to Indefensible Me. And then let me know whether nightmares trouble you, too, as you reflect on God’s concern for those “in bonds” and His vengeance on a country blatantly mocking the very idea of “justice” as it perpetrates such atrocities.
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