Posted by
ScarletPimpernel on Sunday, November 04, 2007 9:03:33 AM
Atlanta, GA
Brian Nichols is STILL on trial. This is a man who, while waiting to go on trial for rape, overpowered a guard and went into a courtroom and shot the judge, a deputy, a court reporter, and a federal agent. He did this in full view of a dozen people or more. He's on film from cameras all over the Fulton County courthouse. His guilt is not in question. Nichols killed these folks back in March of 2005 and he has yet to be convicted.
You want to know why? Because the judge in this case, Hilton Fuller (retired), is an activist judge. He has lost control of the case, postponed it several times, and backed every request by the defense attorneys. Fuller is another guilty liberal denying justice to the public. Here are a few excerpts from a newspaper account from the Atlanta Journal Contsitution:
"Judge Hilton Fuller, whose handling of the Fulton County Courthouse shooting trial has prompted the speaker of the House to threaten him with investigation and possible impeachment, has now incurred the wrath of a fellow judge who calls him a "fool" and a "disgrace.""
"The Journal-Constitution reported last week that Superior Court judges were complaining privately that Fuller had lost control of spending in the Nichols case, which has climbed to more than $1 million for his defense team.
Some have researched the law to find a legal way to remove Fuller."
"Last week, Georgia House Speaker Glenn Richardson (R-Hiram) set up a special committee to investigate whether Fuller has abused his discretion in the case and whether he should be impeached."
"Earlier this month, Fuller threatened to hold the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council in contempt for its failure to fork over more money for Nichols' defense.
He also ordered Fulton County to come up with more funds to support the defense, though that order was blocked by the Georgia Supreme Court in September.
So far, Fuller has postponed the trial four times, sometimes citing a lack of defense funding.
On Wednesday, Nichols' lawyers withdrew their motion to hold the state public defender council in contempt of court for failing to pay defense fees. Last month, the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council told Fuller it could not comply with the judge's order to continue funding Nichols' defense."
Last week, Fuller said the trial was in danger of being declared a mistrial due to lack of funds for the defense. This guy is BLAMING the Georgia taxpayers instead of doing his job - which is a fair and speedy trial!
I heard this on the radio the other day and I could not believe that we've come to a point where a judge has a 1-2-3 case and decides to drag it out for his own vanity/self interests. I want the judge to go to jail. I don't care if Nichols gets death or whatever but he should have already been sentenced. We all know he did it. This is Dante's version of the legal system. Twain or Voltaire or Swift could not have written a better story of irony, satire and hypocrisy.
I tell ya, some days the price is really high for being civilized.