Real good news: NJ man jailed 7 years for owning legal guns gets sentence commuted by Chris Christie

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 ...

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 ...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Sweeney Talks Impeachment, New Laws For New Year
N.J. Sen. Stephen Sweeney (credit: NJLegDistrict3.com) TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney says he’ll push for new laws to force towns to share services and to change some Gun Laws in the new year. In a wide-ranging interview Wednesday on Radio Station New Jersey 101.5, Sweeney also reiterated Impeachment proceedings are being talked about concerning Supreme Court Justice Rivera-Soto. The justice is refusing to participate in court decisions as long as a ...

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,

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 ...

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...

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...

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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.” In 2009, Aitken was ...

N.J. Man Spared 7 Years in Prison for Guns Legally Owned
Source: ABC News A New Jersey man serving seven years in Prison for possessing two legally-owned guns, disassembled and in the trunk of his car while moving residences, has had his sentence commuted. Brian Aitken, 25, a successful media consultant, had been in the process of selling his home in Colorado and moving to a suburban New Jersey apartment to be closer to his son, 2, when he was arrested in a bizarre sequence of events. His lawyers had called the subsequent trial and conviction the "p...

Poll shows NJ voters continue strong medical marijuana support
New Jersey residents continued to resoundingly support legal access to Medical Marijuana according to data released by The Quinnipiac University Polling Institute yesterday. The extensive poll largely concerned opinions held about Governor Chris Christie, the Legislature and other politicians. But some issues were also put to 1, 276 registered NJ voters, including medical marijuana. Regardless of age, Ethnicity, gender or political affiliation the people of New Jersey support the rights of serio...

Brian Aitkens Sentence Commuted
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has commuted the seven-year sentence of Brian Aitken, the man wrongfully convicted on Firearms charges under that state’s draconian Gun Laws. Good. While a full pardon seems more appropriate - the judge in this case should have given the jury instructions on the “moving exception” that protected Aitken - this is at least recognition of an injustice and relief for one man and his family. The New Jersey state judicial system’s ...

Slope rage bubbles over again at Beaver Creek
‘Tis the season to beat the crap out of someone (allegedly) on the ski slopes. Friday’s incident at Beaver Creek ski area — in which a Georgia man was charged with Misdemeanor Child Abuse for punching a teenage girl who bumped into his 4-year-old son - is reminiscent of another slope rage case at Beaver Creek that resulted in a federal Lawsuit. Governor-elect John Hickenlooper today announced that State Sen. Al White will be director of the Colorado Tourism Office and Joa...

Chris Christie: The Scourge of Trenton
The administration is confident they have the best man to shape that discussion, and the ubiquity in the right-of-center blogosphere of YouTube videos showing Christie speaking eloquently, and extemporaneously, about his vision suggests they have it right. “I don’t think you can underestimate the political capital the Governor has accumulated in his first six months in office,” says Webber. “The first six months were crucial for him to establish himself as somebody who&rs...;

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...

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....

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 on State Economies Tough Reality
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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...

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] ...

NJ Voters: Governor More Scrooge Than Santa
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - They could call him Gov. Scrooge. A new poll from Quinnipiac University finds New Jersey voters think Gov. Chris Christie is more like Scrooge than Santa by a 54 to 28 margin. Republicans saw him as Santa-like, 47 to 36. Democrats and unaffiliated voters overwhelmingly found the Republican Governor to resemble Charles Dickens’ bah-humbugging character. Not everyone seems to mind that the Governor is a bit Scrooge-like. In another Quinnipiac Poll released Tuesday,...