UPDATE: Gov. Christie Commutes Brian Aitkens Sentence to Time Served

Chris Christie Commutes Brian Aitkens Sentence To Time Served
For your viewing pleasure, one more reason to love New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Brian Aitken’s sentence has been commuted to time served by the Governor. As you’ll recall, Christie had promised to look into this ridiculous case before Christmas leaving those of us rooting for Aitken with a glimmer of hope. Five days before Christmas, the hope has arrived. I posted originally here about the completely senseless case of Brian Aitken who was sentenced to 7 years in Prison due to New Jer...

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 ...

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...

NJ Gov. Chris Christie commutes Aitkens sentence (Daily Caller)
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 purchased legally in Colorado. New Jersey law requ...

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 Gov. Chris Christie commutes Aitken's sentence
Amanda Carey is a political reporter at the Daily Caller. She previously worked for Robert Novak and Reason Magazine. Carey is a graduate of Clemson University in South Carolina. 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 r...

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 ...

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 ...

Gov. Christie commutes Brian Aitken's sentence
"Brian Aitken, who was convicted of illegally possessing two Handguns that he had legally purchased in Colorado, will be spending Christmas out of Prison," NJ.com reports. 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...

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...

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...

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...

U.S. must act to curb violence
Visitors to Juárez, previously best known for its maquiladoras, are now greeted by an altogether different picture. Masked gunmen, some federal police and Mexican army, some affiliated with the cartels, set up roadblocks seemingly at will as impoverished neighborhoods stretching out into the Chihuahuan desert have largely been depopulated by drug violence. A micro-industry of Contract Killing -- doled out to street gangs such as the Aztecas, Mexicles and Artistas Asesinos (Murder Artists)...

Violent crime stays down as more Washingtonians are packing
   Violent Crime continued to decline in Seattle, Tacoma and Bellevue during the first half of 2010, according to crime data released Monday by the FBI, yet Gun Ownership and the number of people licensed to carry in the Evergreen State continues to rise.    This revelation, reported in this morning’s Seattle Times, will make it tough for Washington Ceasefire and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence to convince state lawmakers, the press and public that more guns ...

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 frees man wrongly prosecuted.
Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey sprung Brian Aitken, 27, from Prison. From Jason Nark: “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.” It was a bizarre case. He was arrested for having the gun in his parents home. Radley Balko at Reason magazine has the particulars. The case should never have been pro...

Simplify 'confused' gun law - MPs
Gun laws are a "complex and confused" mess and tighter controls on Firearms licences are required, MPs have said. Replacing 34 laws applying to England and Wales with one system to cover all Firearms could help cut Gun Crime, the Home Affairs Committee reports. The review, launched after Derrick Bird shot dead 12 people in Cumbria in June, recommends criminals given suspended sentences be stripped of gun licences. Campaigners say other recommendations would punish law-abiding gun owner...

Prisons get education funds; Corrections biggest recipient of federal stimulus...
MOBILE (AP) — The biggest recipient of Alabama’s federal stimulus dollars for education isn’t a school system or college. It’s the state Prison system. An analysis by the Press-Register in Mobile revealed that the state Department of Corrections has received $118 million of Alabama’s $1.1 billion in federal stimulus funds for education since 2009. Officials said the money covered health care costs for 26,000 inmates and salaries and benefits for about 4,200 correcti...

U.S. program to deport criminal illegal immigrants has deported high percentages of noncriminals in some areas
Despite vows by the Obama Administration to focus its Immigration enforcement efforts on criminals, a quarter of those who have been deported through a program called Secure Communities had not been convicted of committing any Crime, government statistics show. And that percentage was vastly higher in some jurisdictions, including Prince George's County, where two-thirds of the 86 undocumented immigrants were not criminals. This Story U.S. program to deport criminal Illegal Immigrants has dep...

Little joy for prisoners despite holiday visits
What Terry Gains would really love to be doing for Christmas is standing in her kitchen smelling the pot of gumbo simmering on her stove, pecan and pumpkin pies cooling on her table, with her daughter watching for the chance to make an early run on the food. Instead, Gains marked the holiday seven days early with her incarcerated daughter, Roxanna, and other family members, sitting at a metal table, drinking soft drinks and eating snacks from the machines along the wall. "My girl loves my cookin...

Executions drop nationwide
Florida is following a national trend of executing fewer death row Prisoners, according to a year-end report released today by the Death Penalty Information Center. Executions nationwide dropped 12 percent during 2010 compared to 2009, according to the report. And as usual, Texas led the nation with 17 executions this year, down from 24 the year before. Florida had one execution this year and two in 2009. Meanwhile, the DPIC estimates 114 new death sentences nationwide during 2010, close to la...

Madigan: Chicago Man Sentenced for Securities Fraud, Theft
Chicago--(ENEWSPF)--December 21, 2010. Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced yesterday that a former Chicago man was sentenced today to 13 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) for his role in operating an investment Fraud scheme that targeted mainly those in the Chicago-area Hispanic community and bilked investors out of more than $10 million. DuPage County Circuit Court Judge Blanche Hall-Fawell sentenced Raul Marrero, 38, to seven years following his Guilty Pleas last month...

Scott's transition team trashes prison agency and police union
Gov.-elect Rick Scott's law and order transition team slams the police unions and the state's PRIDE program in a report on the Department of Corrections released today. The introduction to the report calls the DOC "broken" and "lacking leadership, vision and courage." The committee suggests a top to bottom review of the corrections and Criminal Justice system, as recommended by Florida TaxWatch, and proposes decentralizing the agency to move authority down to ...

Tom Johnson to finish for Hultgen
On Monday County Republican leaders announced that former State Rep. Tom Johnson of West Chicago will take U.S. Congressman-elect Randy Hultgen Illinois State Senate seat for the remaining time of his term.  The term expires in January 2013.  The County Republican leaders were comprised of chairmen from Kane, DuPage and Will counties.  Former State Rep. Johnson pledged he would not seek re-election in 2013. Johnson, now 65 years of age, served as State Representative from 1993 ti...