Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Jury Tosses DA Jim Martin's Senior Vote-Pandering Prosecution of Veronica Rohrer

UpDated: originally posted March 1, 2009


Read The Morning Call's skillfully incomplete story ... by DA Jim Martin lapdog Kevin Amerman ... then read The Inconvenient Facts.

Veronica Rohrer, 66, believes her father sodomized her when she was 5 years old, and he was 35.

As a result, when Rohrer's ailing, 94-year-old father was sent home from Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest on February 22, 2007, the memory of her father raping her as a child made it difficult for Roher to provide care for her father-- especially traumatic to Rohrer was seeing her father naked while changing his diapers.

The next day, Veronica Rohrer called her sister Mary Ann in Virginia and requested that she come to Allentown to provide in-home care for their father.

There was a period of about 24 hours when Roher's bedridden father Adolph Marks was alone, as Rohrer waited for her sister Mary Ann to arrive from Virginia.

When Rohrer's sister didn't arrive on time because of a snowstorm, Rohrer phoned the police and told them her father "may have passed away."

The police checked on Mr. Marks and discovered he hadn't passed away. Marks was hospitalized again briefly and then was moved to a skilled nursing care facility near his daughter Mary Ann's home in Virginia.


Three weeks later, on March 21, 2007, Adolph Marks died in the nursing home in Virginia. He had suffered from heart failure, heart disease, diabetes, sight loss, brain shrinkage, a twice-broken hip, and he was 94 years old. He had also refused to take his medication in his final months.

In September 2007, Lehigh County DA Jim Martin charged Veronica Rohrer with attempted homicide of her father. Read Morning Call article ...
"The charges that are filed are the charges that will be prosecuted," DA Martin boasted confidently at the time for The Morning Call and its many senior citizen readers who, for the most part, never miss voting.


But Martin quietly dropped his attempted homicide charge, last year, and the always-helpful-to-Martin Morning Call waited until last week to mention that fact-- I suppose they didn't want Martin to come off looking like he was unsure of himself, or back-pedaling, or totally full of shit with this case.

In any case, DA Martin forged ahead with his "crusade for justice"
against childhood sexual/sodomy abuse victim Veronica Rohrer with the reduced charges of criminal neglect and reckless endangerment of her father.

On Friday, it took a jury just 3 hours to clear Veronica Rohrer of all of DA Jim Martin's grandstanding charges.

So what was this latest
DA Jim Martin/Morning Call collaboration all about?Votes. Senior votes. Seniors like Adolph Marks, who The Morning Call not so subliminally interjected, "had not missed voting in 50 years."

In its "reporting," The Morning Call kept on the front burner, up until the very end, all of the seemingly damaging allegation details against Veronica Rohrer. But conveniently for DA Jim Martin's sake, the "newspaper" never got around to reporting on any of the counter arguments and explanations Veronica Rohrer's defense attorney presented to the jury. We'll need court transcripts for that side of this story which The Morning Call wasn't interested in.

In the end, the jury did not believe in DA Jim Martin's case and this is likely because the jurors had much more to go on, than what was reported on, in The Morning Call
"newspaper."

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7 comments:

LVS SiteMeter(R) Spotlight said...

Readers, not surprisingly, the IP address spotted stalking LVS for damaging and exposed facts most frequently these days is "LehighCounty.org" and these folks would of course include DA Jim Martin, "Executive Aide" (wink wink) Debbie Garlicki, County Executive (for now) Don Cunning-Ham, DA Jim Martin shield/sycophant/notary Merrily Starkey, Detective Dennis Steckel, and Chief Deputy DA Dog Renee Smith among others (e.g., judges McGinley, and Reibman).

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Bill Villa said...

Email, Outgoing, to Democratic Lehigh County Judge candidate and Republican DA Jim Martin campaign contribution recipient, Dan McCarthy [Source: Lehigh County Voter Registration Public Records]

On May 3, 2011, at 8:33:14 PM, Bill Villa wrote:

Subject Heading: Judge Race, Question (On The Record)

Hi Dan, I'm a Democrat and am mulling my choices for Judge of the Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas.

Q. Respectfully, what is your current age?

Will you turn 70 before a 10 year term starting in January 2012 ends?

I've been told you are currently "63" and that you'd have to step down in 7 years, necessitating a special election or interim appointment.

Is this true? What can you tell me and our readers?

Thanks Dan.

Bill Villa
Lehigh Valley Somebody
610.428.xxxx

455 W. Hamilton said...

That's all we need, another Lehigh County Judge in Jim Martin's pocket. Same goes for candidate (for now) Adra Renee Smith. No way. "Just sayin'." Love your blog.

Bill Villa said...

Merci.

LVS likes Republican Melissa Pavlack for Judge.

Melissa is really the only candidate in the field who's not a charter member of the crony-connected and colluding "old boy" network around here.

And most importantly, after a 2 hour meeting w/ Melissa recently (she called us), we know Melissa Pavlack will bring an emphasis (and expertise) on family law to the Lehigh County bench ... a really important category of law (divorce, child custody, etc.) that's been under-served in Lehigh County for at least the past decade, what w/ all those former DA's office people becoming judges (and youse know who youse are and thanks for reading LVS daily).

Melissa Pavlack For Judge

Bill Villa said...

Email, Incoming, from Lehigh County judicial candidate and DA Jim Martin campaign contribution recipient, Dan McCarthy.

On May 4, 2011, at 2:01:12 PM, Dan McCarthy wrote:

Bill,
I am 62 years of age and will turn 63 on July 27th. If elected I would take office in January,2012. Under the present directive of the Pa. Supreme Court there is a mandatory retirement age of 70. When someone turns 70 as a judge he may serve the balance of the year he turns 70. So in my case I would serve until January,2019. There has been some discussion of extending the retirement age passed 70 but nothing has been enacted to that effect yet.
My purpose in running is to bring my experience as an attorney with 35 plus years to the court. Service on the bench would be a capstone to my career and not as a stepping stone to another career move or a comfortable public pension. My wife and I have provided for our retirement through our long careers in the private sector.
If the retirement age is extended I would certainly intend to complete a full ten year term. But if it is not extended I will step down in 2019 with the hope that I have served the people of Lehigh County honorably and faithfully as their judge for 7 years. Dan McCarthy

PS. I am also a Democrat and the only registered Democrat running for Judge. The other 3 candidates are registered republicans.

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((Me))

Thanks, Dan. Question ... if the retirement age isn't raised, and you have to step down with 3 years remaining on your term, how would those 3 years (and the bench you'd be vacating) be filled?

BV

Bill Villa said...

LVS SiteMeter(R) Spotlight

Outgoing Allentown City Council Vice President "W" Mike Donovan reading LVS during a City Council meeting and feeling relieved that I'm not there. Just sayin'.

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Bill Villa said...

Email, Outgoing, to Democratic Lehigh County Judge candidate and Republican DA Jim Martin campaign contribution recipient, Dan McCarthy [Source: Lehigh County Voter Registration Public Records]

On May 4, 2011, at 8:04:35 PM, Bill Villa wrote:

Thanks, Dan. Question ... if the retirement age isn't raised, and you have to step down with 3 years remaining on your term, how would those 3 years (and the bench you'd be vacating) be filled?

BV