Readers, LVS can barely keep up (scroll down, see previous posts) w/ the back-up of back-ordered DUI homicide cases that snoozy and boozy DA Jim Martin is cleaning out from the bottom of his desk (because it's an election year) while everyone is on vacation and won't notice, Martin hopes.
This "latest" DUI from 2010 involves a death, and serious injury, and is again skillfully spun and downplayed online by DA Jim Martin Morning Call "newspaper" "reporter" and adorable lapdog Kevin Amerman.
Have a read ...
Here are The Inconvenient Facts in a nutshell ...
* By law, Pennsylvania judges like Robert L. Steinberg must sentence drunk drivers who kill people to a state mandatory minimum prison sentence of 3 years in a Pennsylvania State Penitentiary for the charge of Vehicular Homicide While DUI.
* The homicidal drunk driver in this case, Joseph M. Hammer, was sentenced to serve around 18+ months in Lehigh County Jail.
Why?
* Because "no nonsense" (?) DA Jim Martin generously (hiccup) plea-bargained away the major charge of Vehicular Homicide While DUI ... and most of the other charges.
Why?
* Because, as The Morning Call helpfully (and skillfully) tells us, the wishes of the victim's family were that they did not want to see their son's killer go to jail.
* This is curiously inconsistent w/ my family's experience. And our wishes. We wanted an appropriately stiff state prison sentence for our daughter Sheena's DUI killer, Robert LaBarre. One that was commensurate with the crime Robert LaBarre committed against Sheena Villa. But DA Jim Martin told me that he did not represent Sheena's family, he represented Lehigh County, and that our wishes were not a factor in the criminal charges he chose to file, and to not file.
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56 comments:
Bill you are so right. Whenever a crime victim's family wants to go easy on their perpetrator, Jim Martin is only too happy to accommodate them because it means LESS WORK FOR HIM. And its definitely a one-way street in that Martin ignores crime victim families who want a measure of justice that REQUIRES WORK FROM THE DA. In both scenarios, Mr. Martin is disgracing his duty to "represent Lehigh County." Keep the heat on this bastard Jim Martin, I know for an inconvenient fact that there are lots of people reading this blog every day and rooting for you at City Hall and the Lehigh County Courthouse.
I feel very bad for what you have gone through. I cou,d not imagine loosing any of my children especially to a drunk driver. However, you do have to admit every case is unique. I don't know all the political jargon that you speak of and don't know all the facts in your daughters case, but do you really think there should be one blanket law. Now excuses. No possibility that some of these DUI cases are just a horrible accident. I can tell you your wrong in the case of Joe Hammer. Joe is not the "blackout drunk " you describe. Joe is not the habitual drinker theta drives drunk repeatedly. Joe was a young kid like other DUI drivers that thought he was fine. The victims family did ask for la light sentance, this I know for a fact . In your daughters case the DA didn't take your feelings into account, but yet you wanted him to, right? And now you chastise for taking the victims families feeling into account. Joe Hammer is a good kid. Comes from a great family and I think what you are doing is great (being a watchdog) but. There can not be just a blanket conviction in every case. You are wrong for bad mouthing every single offender. Should they be punished? Absolutely!. But let's look at them case by case. Sometimes bad thins do happen to good people. Including you and Joe.
"I don't know all the political jargon that you speak of and don't know all the facts in your daughters case" -menher
So you're basically talking from out of your ass.
FYI, there's a (documented here at LVS) pattern to DA Jim Martin's crookedness and incompetence when it comes to prosecuting drunk drivers who kill people.
Get familiar w/ it and don't bother commenting here again until you know the facts.
"455," thank you.
"do you really think there should be one blanket law (?)" -menher
Pennsylvania thinks so and here's that blanket law.
Related Eye-Opening Facts,
re: sentencing guidelines,
re: third degree murder,
re: vehicular homicide while DUI.
"I think what you are doing is great (being a watchdog)" -menher
Thanks. I agree.
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Nice catch. Sure supports the somber warning of Doug Reichley.
Readers, not surprisingly, the IP address "LehighCounty.org" is spotted stalking LVS for damaging and exposed dirty facts 100X or more each day, and these folks would of course include gold-brickers 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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"Steinberg approved Waldron's request to have Hammer serve the sentence in county jail instead of state prison."
a.k.a. 2 years or less.
Hey Chris, you're getting to be an LVS regular, merci ...
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McJudas, you missed one.
http://articles.mcall.com/2010-11-08/news/mc-upper-milford-fatal-crash-hammer-20101108_1_emmaus-man-fatal-crash-vehicular-homicide
Wow. It took DA Jim Martin an inexplicable and inexcusable 5 months to charge Joe Hammer.
But anyways, "thanks" for putting in the considerable amount of time it must have taken to find this previously concealed article, "anonymous" (wink wink), although we suspect that someone at The Morning Call likely tipped you off regarding where to find where The Morning Call had hidden it-- because it did not come up via search of the "newspaper" archives as of Thursday. In any case, LVS stands corrected on this single point (good for you) and unchallenged and un-refuted on the other 3.1 million dirty and verifiably factual DA Jim Martin exposures you'll find here at LVS.
The Morning Call routinely reshuffles its archives and hides (and scrubs) articles like a stacked and marked deck (or house) of cards.
See proof of "reporter" Manny Gamiz's retroactively deleted "newspaper" article paragraph in the update section of LVS's terrific post from March 15, 2009.
And in a shiatsu sex scandal involving Morning Callers Debbie Garlicki and Paul Carpenter, the "newspaper" scrubbed an entire article from its archives, see LVS's eye-opening post from January 25, 2011.
I wouldn't "stand corrected" when the other side so obviously cheats and lies but that's just me.
Well said, and thanks.
Q. What's it to them (David Najarian, Chris Casey, Bill White, Molovinski, the Donovans, Jeff Pooley) that Bill Villa has legitimate complaints re: DA Jim Martin and The Morning Call "newspaper?" Why are they so compulsively interested in Bill's efforts in exposing some things around here? Obviously, Bill has the FACTS and he can communicate them w/ frightening precision and the same goes for Mrs. Villa. Are their fellow bloggers simply JEALOUS of this blog's obvious journalistic and literary superiority? Is there some quid pro quo (pay to play) happening between Martin's office, the "newspaper" and these saboteur bloggers? Is Martin really steamed that Bill out-foxed him so embarrassingly w/ the LeBarre prosecution? Is it ALL of the above? SOMETHING'S got to explain why all these hate bloggers (Chris Casey, Bill White, "anonymous") spend more time HERE than at their own blogs.
(I posted this comment at Molovinski's blog earlier today)
Anonymous said...
IMO, jealousy and ego explains all the local 'blog wars' and retirements and shuns. Which is a shame b/c a blogosphere with some integrity could benefit our area.
August 7, 2011 11:27 AM
Thanks for thinking of us, and for commenting.
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Inter-Related $tory?
My Take...
In the 99% integrity-free LV blogosphere (sole exception being this blog) w/ bloggers like Chris Loose Lips Casey "coming out" and admitting accepting blood money to besmirch political candidates for hire, one has to wonder which local bloggers AREN'T being "subsidized" by one political source or another. Hmm?
Over & Out...
Well said.
Bill I could definitely see Jim Martin paying Morning Call "insider" bloggers like Chris Casey to undermine and sabotage you. Or rather it would be the Committee to Reelect Jim Martin that would be paying "Team Casey" (i.e., Lee Butz, Mal Gross, Pat Reilly, Bill and Phyllis Grube from 3015 Barrington Lane in Allentown, host committee person (and judicial candidate/"oopsie") A. Renee Smith), etc. etc. follow the money indeed!
"455," I hadn't made that connection when I read Chris Casey's blog post about political sabotage for hire but it's certainly plausible. We'll look into it.
Casey could also be whopper-lying. He does that, a lot.
Duly noted.
Molovinski has stolen your topic thread and is discussing "blogosphere integrity" and Chris Casey over at his blog. I tried commenting there...but...entry denied...
Anonymous said...
You mean Casey. I too was stunned by his recent admission at his blog of acceptiong payment for political espionage and sabotage. How long has this been going on? And why the "disclosure" now?
August 7, 2011 1:53 PM
Thanks for reporting ...
I wonder if people who contribute to Jim Martin's campaign (like for example Bill and Phyllis Grube of 3015 Barrington Lane in Allentown) realize that a portion of their contributiion could be going to Chris Casey and his fee for posting vile anonymous comments about Sheena here at LVS? Food for thought, GOPee.
I wonder how disappointed attorney ("for now!") David Najarian was that Jim Martin failed to deliver him a seat at the Lehigh County Commissioners dais. Just saying!
... probably not as disappointed as judge wanna-be and chief deputy DA (for now) Renee "Dead Last" Smith ...
Touché. Related Story ;D
Another Related Story ;D
"OT" giggle
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"lots of people reading this blog every day and rooting for you at City Hall and the Lehigh County Courthouse."
I'm one of them!
I am also Bill.
Absolutely priceless comment exchange from "Molovinski on Allentown" enjoy
Anonymous gary ledebur said...
MM, I know you believe that programs that provide services to the poor draw poor people to Allentown. You have doggedly stuck to this position for years, even at the expense of being labeled a racist.
I challenge you to provide sound empirical evidence to support your claim.
August 7, 2011 4:11 PM
Blogger michael molovinsky said...
to what purpose gary? better you should ask the council of churches how many unemployed new residents they staked to move in money. better you should ask the county welfare workers how many calls they received from first day residents who already somehow new the menu of available entitlements. better you should ask the census bureau how uncommon it is for an entire city to go from middle class to poverty within 10 years. ask the school district how many more students qualified for a free lunch. we have some very dynamic advocates for the poor, who did their job perhaps too well.
at this point in time, the only challenge i accept is to attempt to modify the park department priorities, to preserve the WPA structures.
August 7, 2011 5:20 PM
Today's most frequent LVS visitor/stalker
w/ 50+ stalks ...
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michael molovinsky said...
anon 5:25, instead of sending your unwanted comments here all day, causing a need for moderation, why don't you post over at the bill and angie villa blog. they use that P Word all the time.
August 7, 2011 5:44 PM
Anybody seen A.J. Cordi lately?
Not moi, and BTW, I love summer. Just sayin'.
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Hey "anonymous" (wink wink), you've been awful vile anonymous comment quiet lately. Pussy got your tongue?
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Why bother? You're yesterday's topic.
Thanks for reading. Today. Oopsie.
Readers, this is his 29th LVS visit (so far) today since 4:00am but who's counting OCD hot topic cyberstalking. Hey "anonymous," you're nUtZ (and powerless over LVS) get help ...
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Priceless. The "victim" (wink wink) rope-a-doping and kicking the shit out of the anonymous coward cyberstalker. Again. LVS is the best.
Oui, and sadly, here's "anonymous" (wink wink) stalking "yesterday's topic" again (and again) TODAY. Sadly, he's nUtZ (cuckoo) and needs help.
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"Anonymous" stalking "yesterday's topic" today (and everyday), again. Sad. Get help.
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