Gov. Chris Christie commutes sentence in New Jersey gun case

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Commutes Sentence of Man Sent to Jail for Owning Guns Legally
Brian Aitken, 27, seen here in an undated photograph, was sentenced to seven years in Prison for guns his attorney and father claim were owned legally. Some experts told FoxNews.com the entrepreneur was a Victim of the country's "patchwork" of Gun Laws. A man given seven years in Prison after being found with two guns he purchased legally in Colorado has had his sentence commuted, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced Monday. The case of Brian Aitken, 27, had become a cause célèbre ...

Leadership: Governor Chris Christie Commutes Brian Aitken's Sentence
by the Left Coast Rebel We didn't cover the story here but certainly were aware of it, the case of New Jersey resident Brian Aitken (pictured right) convicted to seven years in Prison for the possession of two Handguns that he legally purchased in Colorado. Allahpundit provides some background: ...he’s a cause celebre among Libertarians and Second Amendment fans — for good reason. In a nutshell: He bought three guns, entirely legally, when he was living in Colorado and brought them...

Christie Commutes Sentence of Legal Gun Owner...
Brian Aitken, 27, seen here in an undated photograph, was sentenced to seven years in Prison for guns his attorney and father claim were owned legally. Some experts told FoxNews.com the entrepreneur was a Victim of the country's "patchwork" of Gun Laws. A man given seven years in Prison after being found with two guns he purchased legally in Colorado has had his sentence commuted, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced Monday. The case of Brian Aitken, 27, had become a cause célèbre ...

NJ Man Released From Prison Day After Commutation
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey man has been released from Prison one day after Gov. Chris Christie commuted the man’s seven-year sentence for violating Gun Laws. A Corrections Department spokeswoman says 27-year-old Brian Aitken, who was found with guns he’d purchased legally in Colorado, left Mid-State Correctional Facility Tuesday morning. Aitken was sentenced to Prison in August. In 2009, he muttered to his mother that life wasn’t worth living, then left her home in...

Christie commutes gun sentence
Gov. Christie on Monday commuted the seven-year sentence of a New Jersey man convicted on weapons charges after guns were found in his car trunk. The Philadelphia Daily News reported that the guns were found in the car of Brian D. Aitken as he was moving from Mount Laurel to Hoboken. He bought the guns legally in Colorado, and New Jersey's Firearms exemption allows weapons to be transported if the owner is moving. But then-Superior Court Judge James J. Morley would not allow the jury's request ...

Chris Christie commutes sentence of man jailed for owning guns [Darleen Click]
You may recall the case of Brian Aitken, a man sentenced to seven years in Prison for transporting his legally owned guns in his car’s trunk while moving from Colorado to New Jersey. The NJ prosecutor and (now former) judge refused to allow the jury to hear those facts. Gov Christie has commuted Aitken’s sentence. TRENTON, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie has commuted the sentence of a man who was sentenced to seven years in Prison after being found with guns he’d purchased l...

Real good news: NJ man jailed 7 years for owning legal guns gets sentence commuted by Chris Christie
This truly is good news! An update on a post from 3 weeks ago: NJ Judge jails man 7 years for owning legal guns, lets man free for having sex with animals. From New Jersey Online via memeorandum: Gov. Chris Christie commutes sentence of man convicted of having guns in N.J. illegally Brian Aitken, who was convicted of illegally possessing two Handguns he had legally purchased in Colorado, will be out of Prison in time for Christmas. Gov. Chris Christie commuted Aitken's s...

Christie Commutes Gun Sentence
TRENTON -- Brian Aitken, who was convicted of illegally possessing two Handguns that he had legally purchased in Colorado, will be spending Christmas out of Prison. Gov. Chris Christie commuted Aitken's sentence, from seven years to time served, according to an order the Governor signed today....

Chris Christie Commutes Brian Aitken's Sentence
This is great news: Brian Aitken, who was convicted of illegally possessing two Handguns that he had legally purchased in Colorado, will be spending Christmas out of Prison. Gov. Chris Christie commuted Aitken's sentence, from seven years to time served, according to an order the Governor signed today. Aitken had appealed to Christie for commutation after being sentenced in August. According to the commutation order, Aitken will be released as "soon administratively possible." I'm waiting to he...

N.J. gov frees man convicted on gun charge
TRENTON, N.J., Dec. 21 (UPI) -- A man sent to Prison in New Jersey for transporting three Handguns while he was moving was freed Tuesday when the Governor commuted his sentence. Brian Aitken, 27, served four months of a seven-year sentence, The Star-Ledger of Newark reported. Gov. Chris Christie, a former U.S. attorney, did not go into details on his reason for releasing Aitken, saying only that he believed "justice required a commutation." Aitken bought the weapons legally in Colorado before mo...

Christie frees man in gun case
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie gave the Aitken family all they wanted for Christmas Monday. Christie signed a letter ordering Brian Aitken, a New Jersey man sentenced to seven years in jail for having weapons he legally purchased in Colorado, to be released from Mid-State Correctional Facility as soon as possible. Aitken, 27, was sentenced in August to seven years after a January 2009 arrest at his parent's home in Mount Laurel, Burlington County. Aitken's mother called the police on him after h...

Chris Christie commutes gun sentence of Brian Aitken
We haven’t covered Aitken’s case (except for a lone Headline item a few weeks ago), but he’s a cause celebre among Libertarians and Second Amendment fans — for good reason. In a nutshell: He bought three guns, entirely legally, when he was living in Colorado and brought them back to New Jersey with him when he moved home to be closer to his son. To make sure he had his i’s dotted and t’s crossed, he called New Jersey police for guidance on how to transport t...

Christie Commutes Aitken's Gun Charge To Time Served
I don't know if this was mentioned here. Readers tipped me by email, but I didn't write a post. Maybe it was sidebarred. Basically a guy in New Jersey got a very long sentence for Gun Possession under very dubious circumstances. His mom had alerted police about him, as she was worried he might be suicidal. They stopped him, and found guns in his trunk, which they called illegal -- but they weren't necessarily illegal, as it's legal to transport guns when moving from one home to another, as he s...

Today's Chris Christie Lesson in Government
Abuse of the justice system must be corrected: New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie commuted the sentence of Brian Aitken’s Monday, reducing his sentence from seven years in Prison to time already served. According to Christie’s order, he will be released as soon as it’s “administratively possible.” As The Daily Caller previously reported, Aitken, 27, was arrested in New Jersey in 2009 after police found unloaded guns in the trunk of his car that had been purc...

Chris Christie Signs First Responder Salary Cap
Many Newspapers in New Jersey have outlined the problems that pensions for First Responders like police and Firefighters receive based on Salary, and now Governor Chris Christie is capping that. Basically, a substantial amount of many municipalities' budgets in the state go to police and Firefighter salaries and their pensions, according to BusinessWeek. But now when mediators step in with the unions, the maximum Increase will be capped at two percent. Revenue issues in the state are a large problem,

New Jersey Wants to Spare the Rest of the Country From Chris Christies Emotional Abuse
Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a rising star in the Republican Party and possible Candidate for higher office in a few years, would not make a good president, according to 63 percent of New Jersey voters, including 36 percent of Republicans. Christie was compared to Pepsi by the Washington Post's Ezra Klein yesterday — good in sips, but too much is overwhelming. [Quinnipiac] ...

Sentence commuted in NJ gun transport case
Governor Chris Christie yesterday commuted, to time already served, the sentence of Brian Aitken, convicted last August of unlawful possession and transport of Firearms. But Aitken still vows to make the conviction itself go away. Thanks to the Governor's action, reported by George Mast of The Courier-Post (Cherry Hill), Aitken, 27, will be home for Christmas and will not have to serve any more of his 7-year Prison sentence. The commutation came down at 4:30 p.m. The commutation means only that ...

New Jersey's Chris Christie for president? Home-state voters say no.
Poll shows 65 percent of New Jersey voters would not back Gov. Chris Christie for president. Still, his job-approval rating is 'not bad' for a GOP Governor of a blue state....

NJ gov. signs law capping pay through arbitration
WAYNE, N.J. (AP) - Gov. Chris Christie signed a bill Tuesday that caps increases to police and Firefighter pay awarded through Arbitration, a measure he called the most important of the proposals in his so-called toolkit to help towns control costs. With Democratic Senate President Stephen Sweeney looking on, Christie hailed the passage of the bill as a testament to Bipartisan cooperation. "We've proven over the last year that Republicans and Democrats can get things done together," he said. "...

Chris Christie's Pepsi problem, cont'd
I thought this was going to take longer to happen, but it looks like Gov. Chris Christie's extremely aggressive style is wearing a bit on his state: The polls, from Quinnipiac and Rutgers-Eagleton, show Christie's Approval Rating in New Jersey slipping a bit, with significant majorities skeptical that he'd make a good president or vice-president. The polling shows that Christie is one of the most polarizing Governors in recent New Jersey history, with more voters holding both a very favorable vi...

The Chris Christie Magic
I was just reminiscing about the halcyon era of a popular New Jersey Governor whose brash style and Reaganite agenda took the Garden State by storm, proving that true conservative principles can win the day even in deep Blue States. Come on the nostalgia tour with me, won't you? Here's Jennifer Rubin at Commentary: The good news for Christie fans is that there are a few scraps suggesting that he hasn’t entirely closed the door on a 2012 run. (”Christie’s actions aren’t t...

Chris Christie: The Day of Reckoning Has Arrived
CBS: Then there's New Jersey. It has the highest taxes in the country, a $10 billion Deficit and a depressed economy when first-year Governor Chris Christie took office. But after looking at the books, he decided to walk away from a long-planned and much-needed project with New York and the Federal Government to build a rail tunnel into Manhattan. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize o...

Chris Christie on State Economies Tough Reality
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Chris Christie: The Scourge of Trenton
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Man gets 10 years in prison for possession of heroin
A Bronx man convicted at trial in November of bringing Heroin from New York City for sale in Watertown was sentenced Monday in Jefferson County Court to 10 years in state Prison. Rhashay R. Whitfield,29, was found Guilty Nov. 17 of all charges against him, including third-degree criminal possession of a Controlled Substance, fourth-degree Conspiracy and second-degree criminal impersonation. It had been alleged that he was a passenger in a vehicle halted by sheriff's deputies March 18 in wh...