This guy gets caught with this stuff and he gets probation. And our Attorney General has the balls to claim it's the governments responsibility to protect us. WTF is wrong with this state?

 

 

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/01/nutley_man_found_with_pipe_bom.html

Wow, that's practically in my backyard

 

I wasn't living there at the time, though

If it didn't happen in NJ it may have been an even lesser sentence.

Bet his lawyer told him to stay in jail and that way the judge / jury would feel sorry at the trial.

Nuts like this are time bombs but it looks like he or his family could afford a good lawyer.

By the way, how did the officers "discover" seven pipe bombs and the rest of the stuff "in his home"?

Did he keep them in the window?

I have my own thoughts on it...but i'll keep them to myself and just say that our Esteemed Madame Attorney general has a tendency to favor certain groups.

He did serve almost a year. They probably took into consideration that he had the items with no plan of using them found. I'm not condoning it but their is a huge difference between blowing people up and just having stuff. Believe me their are tons of guns I'd like to have in my safe even if I never had a place or chance to shoot them. Pipe bombs I wouldn't care for but an aa-12 automatic shotgun hell yeah

Good thing he didn't have any 16 round magazine. Then, he would have been in big trouble.

Wait .. I thought possession of a silencer carries automatic jail sentence in NJ ? as the state always argued that the only reason to have one is to be planning to commit a murder. when did that change ????

Don't get me started. When the 13 year old that murdered my mother-in-law was sentenced to a lousy 10 years, I was furious. Part of my frustration was that she got a plea bargain (down to 10 years) in exchange for an honest accounting of what happened. When she gave that accounting, she lied and everyone knew it. I remember tapping the prosecutor on the shoulder and telling him she was lying and I could prove it. Didn't matter, he didn't do anything. When the judge sentenced the girl, he scolded her for a long time. He told her that she was lucky that she got the deal. He said that he and a law clerk spent many hours trying to find a precedent to 'throw the book' at her. When he finished addressing her, he turned to us. He apologized that the law was 'letting us down'. He continued that he hoped that we would try to do something to change the law so this couldn't happen to another family. I contacted Jeff VanDrew, then an Assemblyman. We worked with him and he put the bill together and introduced the bill. The bill would have provided a waiver for prosecutors to use in a case when a juvenile, under fourteen years old and who committed a heinous crime, could be tried as an adult. The wording was such that it specified the waiver was only to be used in the case of 'heinous' crimes (my mother-in-law's murder certainly met that description). The bill went to a judicial committe and it never left there. Jeff had meetings with Anne Milgram, the Attorney General at the time. Anne Milgram opposed the bill. Despite several scheduled meetings with the Attorney General's office and us, those meetings were always canceled. Jeff met with us several times where we tried to develop a strategy to move this bill along. Jeff was elected as a Senator and the new administration brought in a new Attorney General but nothing changed even though Jeff kept trying. I wrote a plea to Anne Milgram and got a letter back from an assistant saying that any of our ideas would be 'too hard' for a prosecutor to use. I wanted to call him and explain that anything worthwhile is never easy but I could never get in touch with him. The bottom line was that they saw the bill as being possibly 'politically incorrect' (my opinion) and might have threatened any political aspirations (Jeff didn't worry about that, he thought it was the 'right' thing). The bill was not re-introduced to the latest session. It became obvious that the bill would never get out of committee. So... despite a lot of effort we got nowhere.

I want to make it clear that the bill would not have put a child into an adult facility. The adult facility would follow the proper juvenile detention.

'Juvenile detention'... that needs some work itself. The girl who murdered my mother-in-law has earned time off her her sentence because she makes her bed and brushes her teeth. We were promised that she would due almost all of the ten years. At last notification, she was down to seven years and small change.

Sorry... I know I'm venting. I had written about this once before on this forum but the opportunity to speak up was more than I could pass up.

Don't get me started. ...Sorry... I know I'm venting. I had written about this once before on this forum but the opportunity to speak up was more than I coud pass up.

 

 

It bears repeating. Such a sad story. I have no ideas how I would handle that - dealing with politicians for a rightful conclusion to a murder, ...I hope it would never come to that.