Justice Sotomayor and Murderer Advocacy

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American Thinker:

 

December 11, 2012

Justice Sotomayor and Murderer Advocacy

 

By Lester Jackson

As detailed elsewhere, pro-murderer media suppression of the truth has played a major role in enabling a wholesale evisceration of capital punishment. Justice Sonia Sotomayor recently provided a graphic example, one that would be excruciatingly painful to survivors of murder victims if they knew about it. Many people unfamiliar with the practices and philosophy of the current Supreme Court would very likely be shocked to learn just what values some justices hold.

In an unreported but highly revealing dissent from the Supreme Court denial (at least temporarily - myriad appeals are endless) of further tortuous review of a claim by convicted triple-murderer Benny Lee Hodge, Sotomayor complained of his lawyer's "deficient" attention to Hodge's abused childhood:

Translating judicial double talk into plain English, what the justice is saying is that a crime so heinous as to be inexplicable can and should nevertheless be "mitigated."