Wow, Just Wow
Vanecko got out of jail this week. But we didn't see any media coverage on this - maybe we missed it:
- The Illinois Supreme Court has appointed criminal defense attorney Marc William Martin to an 11th Subcircuit vacancy created by the appointment of Judge Carol A. Kelly.
Martin's appointment is effective May 1 and terminates on December 5, 2016.
Martin has been an attorney in Illinois since 1987. Martin was most recently in the news as one of the attorneys for Richard Vanecko, a nephew of former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, accused of involuntary manslaughter in the death of David Koschman.
How very....unexpected? Surprising?
Typical?
Typical?
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:04 AM
38 Comments:
Sodom and Gomorrah has nothing on this town.
It pays to have good attorneys, and good attorneys get rewarded for being good. It's the way of the world.
Help save RJ, and a great big basket a fruit arrives on your doorstep.
I don't suppose anyone cares what this looks like...
Bill Cozzi got 3 years for slapping a fool. Seems fair.
The Daley Crime Family always rewards their loyal soldiers.
OT but somehow very Vaneckoesque --
Wild story from Dallas --
Teen up for 'shock probation' after four months of eight-year sentence
April 14, 2014 at 10:05 PM
"RICHARDSON — Brittany Barton can't get the image out of her mind — a burglar in her bedroom in the middle of the night...
"Police quickly caught the intruder, Brandon Jordan, 19. He’s a neighbor who was already on probation for theft when he was caught with cash, computers and a TV from Barton's home.
"In December, a judge sentenced Jordan to eight years in prison. But on Thursday, the teenager will be considered for something called "shock probation."
"It's called 'shock probation,' but I'm the one that's shocked that you can come in, stand over me in my room and rob our house and do four months of an eight-year sentence," Bay said.
"The legislature passed shock probation years ago. It lets a judge summon a convict back to court up to six months after being sentenced. Inmates have no idea why they're there until they are surprised with probation — a chance to go free — 'shocking' them back into society...."
...where they will promptly shout "WHOO!" and bust a bottle on the sidewalk to celebrate...
http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/Teen-up-for-shock-probation-after-four-months-of-eight-year-sentence-255264171.html
More "city politics" --
Emanuel with more than $7 million to run for re-election
8:06 p.m. CDT, April 15, 2014
"Mayor Rahm Emanuel continued his coast-to-coast political fundraising during the first three months of the year and now has more than $7 million in his re-election campaign fund.
"Emanuel’s latest campaign finance report filed Tuesday with state election officials showed the mayor collected $1.4 million from January through March. One-third of that money came from outside Illinois as the mayor held fundraisers in Austin, Texas and New York, and reeled in large numbers of contributions from the Miami area..."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/clout/chi-emanuel-with-more-than-7-million-to-run-for-reelection-20140415,0,6488028.story
Terry Gillespie's wife Pamela Hughes Gillespie was appointed Cook County judge in 2007, after Terry had "handled" the police line up with Vanecko.
"Emanuel’s latest campaign finance report filed Tuesday with state election officials showed the mayor collected $1.4 million from January through March. One-third of that money came from outside Illinois as the mayor held fundraisers in Austin, Texas and New York, and reeled in large numbers of contributions from the Miami area..."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/clout/chi-emanuel-with-more-than-7-million-to-run-for-reelection-20140415,0,6488028.story
4/16/2014 02:04:00 AM
A concerted effort id needed here. I will vote for anyone that runs against him I don't care if he is Fiorretti or the fry cook at McDonalds.
The combine gave us Rahm. I will vote for anyone the Combine didn't put up. We need to decide on one name and go with it no matter who it is. We have to break this cycle. If it is Preckwinkle or some other nut job, the City will just grind to a halt for four years. Looking around, that not a bad alternative to this little nine fingered hobgoblin. At least they will steal less.
Feds don't have time to looks into this corruption. There are too many democratic voters dying in this shitty and they need to concentrate on that.
The " Feds " are in town and will turn a blind eye to this " appointment ".
Congratulations judge.
Your another DaleyCrimeCartel success story.
Be proud, very proud.
I have been against Martin when I was a prosecutor. He is a solid lawyer who will make a solid judge. But be warned. He know the ropes and won't let you gets away with stuff
Wow is right.
WGN dedicated about 7 seconds to it yesterday morning.
I would like to play six degrees of Kevin Bacon on this one.
SCC. Thanks for the info. The Lord is also watching.
America
Just A Citizen says: This city is like Groundhog Day. Same crap, same people, same bribes, different numbers, over and over and over and over. The Daley/Mafia influence has been around for years and yet…. the media refuses to acknowledge it, the politicians actually believe (and this is the oddest and sickest part) that they are all genius and won on their own doing and the liberals sit around clapping wildly with that cult like look in their eyes refusing to acknowledge the cold, hard truth that smacks them in the face. Every single Daley could be dead for years and they'd still be running this hellhole from beyond the grave. Disgusting.
OT but somehow very Vaneckoesque --
Wild story from Dallas --
Teen up for 'shock probation' after four months of eight-year sentence
April 14, 2014 at 10:05 PM
"RICHARDSON — Brittany Barton can't get the image out of her mind — a burglar in her bedroom in the middle of the night...
"Police quickly caught the intruder, Brandon Jordan, 19. He’s a neighbor who was already on probation for theft when he was caught with cash, computers and a TV from Barton's home.
"In December, a judge sentenced Jordan to eight years in prison. But on Thursday, the teenager will be considered for something called "shock probation."
"It's called 'shock probation,' but I'm the one that's shocked that you can come in, stand over me in my room and rob our house and do four months of an eight-year sentence," Bay said.
"The legislature passed shock probation years ago. It lets a judge summon a convict back to court up to six months after being sentenced. Inmates have no idea why they're there until they are surprised with probation — a chance to go free — 'shocking' them back into society...."
...where they will promptly shout "WHOO!" and bust a bottle on the sidewalk to celebrate...
http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/Teen-up-for-shock-probation-after-four-months-of-eight-year-sentence-255264171.html
4/16/2014 01:42:00 AM
I bet it's a real shock for their victims, too.
"Terry Gillespie's wife Pamela Hughes Gillespie was appointed Cook County judge in 2007, after Terry had 'handled' the police line up with Vanecko."
4/16/2014 03:41:00 AM
Ring-a-ling at the door. Who could it be? It's the delivery man with another great big fruit basket...
"...defense attorney Marc William Martin to an 11th Subcircuit vacancy created by the appointment of Judge Carol A. Kelly".
Hahahahahahaha!!!!!
He gets a "nice" spot (although Judge Kelly's courtroom ... is it still Calendar 57 @ Juvy?? ... ain't exactly a cush assignment), while... Wait - For - It ...
Denis Walsh and Crew get to sweat losing their pension and the potential of criminal charges.
I. Fucking. Love. It.
You assholes fell on the sword for the Daley Crime Syndicate for what exactly? All those big sergeant, lieutenant and commander paychecks can't pay for the stress, loss of sleep, destroyed reputations and whatever else is around the bend in this case. Pension may go bye-bye and prison is a reality. If they got Burge for "lying under oath", I hate to see what these clowns are going to be looking at when the dust settles.
Poor Denis. His hair can't get any grayer.
Perhaps the media should investigate and see if Rahm paid for those trips on his own or if they were paid out of the city coffers.
Seems to me he went to Austin for the SXSW fest to promote the city not for a campaign fundraiser.
Getting away with murder. It is the Chicago way. Look at all the murders and shootings on the south and west side that go unsolved everyday. Not enough police or detectives or jail time. Just keep telling the savages to do it again and they will get away with it again. So they do and they will continue to do so no matter what new strategy that is put in place.
No punishment=
don't do it again
ok
don't do it again
ok
don't do it again
ok
keeps on going and going and going
Quid pro qu
Anybody who represents criminal defendants will represent unpopular people, guilty people, people with gang or mob connections. (Only Perry Mason had the luxury to represent only innocent people -- and he was a fictional character.) So the representation of criminal defendants should not, in and of itself, be a disqualification for further public service.
John Adams was one of the attorneys who represented the British soldiers charged in the Boston Massacre. His friends in the revolutionary movement were concerned that he was trashing his career -- or, cynically, thought that he was going to put on a sham, let's-give-'em-a-fair-trial-and-then-hang-'em defense.
But Adams and his colleague put on a vigorous defense. The British commander, Captain Preston, was tried first and acquitted because the jury believed that he had not ordered the soldiers to fire. And when the rest of the soldiers were tried, in December 1770, six of the defendants were also acquitted outright. Only two soldiers were found guilty of manslaughter; their thumbs were branded with an 'M' for murder as punishment.
I wish they still taught Civics in the schools. Many years ago, when I was a student, we were taught that the Constitutional protections exist, not to protect criminals, but for the protection of thee and me, because some day we might be unjustly accused.
In other words, persons arrested for the commission of crimes may be guilty as sin, but they are entitled to a vigorous defense, not just for their sake, but for our own. And the attorneys who can honorably provide that defense should not be
stigmatized because of it.
I don't know Mr. Martin, but he is entitled to be evaluated as a lawyer on how whether he has zealously and honorably represented his clients, not on the basis of who his clients have been. As a judge he should likewise be evaluated on the basis of performance in office, not on the basis of who he has represented in the past.
Cozzi got sentenced because he slapped a black man cuffed to a wheel chair. If it was a white, Asian or Hispanic male nothing happens to him. A white man can not touch a black criminal no matter what he is doing wrong especially in this liberal State, County and City. So Vanecko a white nephew of Daley can kill a white male from the suburbs and get sixty days in McHenry jail. Justice is not only blind but in Chicago she is also deaf, dumb and stupid.
Who appointed him? Was he Ann Burkes pick? Or Justice Freeman's pic?
If it walks like a duck . . .
Bill Martin's kid. Woulda think he'd be above this??? But then....
In other words, persons arrested for the commission of crimes may be guilty as sin, but they are entitled to a vigorous defense, not just for their sake, but for our own. And the attorneys who can honorably provide that defense should not be
stigmatized because of it.
I don't know Mr. Martin, but he is entitled to be evaluated as a lawyer on how whether he has zealously and honorably represented his clients, not on the basis of who his clients have been. As a judge he should likewise be evaluated on the basis of performance in office, not on the basis of who he has represented in the past.
4/16/2014 12:04:00 PM
We have no problem with a "vigorous defense" but if you think that's what is going on then you are naïve or lying.
"Win at any cost" and I would add "in any way" is the norm. Get the reputation. Get the money. Check your conscience at the door.
How do you get appointed Judge when you are a defendant in a pending civil fraud case where you fleeced a local union out of beau coup bucks? A copper takes $20- on a traffic stop and goes to Oxford, but a lawyer steals six figures and makes Judge. This town makes me sick.
Mr. Leyhane, you are joking are you not?
Anonymous said...
Cozzi got sentenced because he slapped a black man cuffed to a wheel chair. If it was a white, Asian or Hispanic male nothing happens to him. A white man can not touch a black criminal no matter what he is doing wrong especially in this liberal State, County and City. So Vanecko a white nephew of Daley can kill a white male from the suburbs and get sixty days in McHenry jail. Justice is not only blind but in Chicago she is also deaf, dumb and stupid.
4/16/2014 01:01:00 PM
Yea but what kind of mook slaps a black guy cuffed to a wheel chair? In CHICAGO!? You lost in the 1980's or just stupid?
OT: the police department hasn't posted their stats in two weeks??? They got caught so stop posting? Just start posting daily and stop the bullshit.
https://portal.chicagopolice.org/portal/page/portal/ClearPath/News/Crime%20Statistics
Corruption at its best. Good old Chicago.
OT: the unkindest cut of all...
Rapper cuts off own penis, jumps from North Hollywood building, police say
A rapper linked to the Wu-Tang Clan was injured early Wednesday after he apparently severed his penis and jumped from a North Hollywood apartment, Los Angeles police said.
Andre Johnson, 40 -- who raps under the moniker "Christ Bearer" in the duo Northstar -- was discovered about 12:45 a.m. with a self-inflicted wound to his genitalia, LAPD Sgt. William Mann confirmed.
Mann said Johnson had jumped from a second-story building in the 4500 block of Colfax Avenue. Johnson was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Mann said, but the extent of his injuries was unknown.
It was not immediately clear what triggered Johnson's actions, Mann said.
According to the Wu-Tang Clan's website, rapper RZA discovered the Long Beach-based Northstar outside an L.A. radio station in 1998. On Tuesday, Johnson posted on Facebook and Twitter links to a new music video with rapper Rugged Monk.
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And he was just getting his shit all straightened out too.
What a lucky coincidence for Mr. Martin!
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This Mark Martin???
http://www.lris.com/2012/02/13/police-union-sues-attorneys-for-overbilling/
How do you get appointed Judge when you are a defendant in a pending civil fraud case where you fleeced a local union out of beau coup bucks? A copper takes $20- on a traffic stop and goes to Oxford, but a lawyer steals six figures and makes Judge. This town makes me sick.
Simple. If you are a dem in Illinois you can do anything you want. Was in the paper today, city clerk, governor,Berrios, Claypool, all dems hired cronies.
What make you think it dont happen with judges.
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