View Full Version : Legal gun owner locked up for seven years
OgenRwot
11-30-2010, 09:12
Brian Aitken, former CO resident, was convicted of crimes he didn't commit and thrown in jail for seven years this past August. It has to do with transporting firearms in NJ. Read about it and see how you can help out.
Story (http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20101130_Family__New_Jersey_man_serving_7_years_fo r_guns_he_owned_legally.html?page=2&c=y)
BrianAitken.com (http://briandaitken.com/2010/11/free-brian-aitken/)
Facebook Group (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-Brian-Aitken/159490174062865)
TEAMRICO
11-30-2010, 09:22
Just read about that......It turn a wrong turn with the calves!
trlcavscout
11-30-2010, 09:43
If there's not more to the stopry that is messed up. I will hold the judge while every one else kicks him!
GhostRider
11-30-2010, 09:48
Quote:
However, the judge withheld the law from the jury, thereby ensuring a guilty verdict. Regardless, the jury returned from deliberation three times specifically requesting to be read the exemptions of the law.
Seems to me that if the judge did in fact refuse to read the law to the jury even after they have requested it, that it would be more than enough for a retrial if not an aquittal. not a lawyer but this seems reasonable and being prior law enforcement, this is something that I never would have arrested him for in the first place.
OgenRwot
11-30-2010, 10:05
Yeah but it's NJ so you can see why he was arrested...
They are waiting on an appeal. I hope they get it sooner than later. They are also trying to get Gov Christie to commute the sentence. Probably wont happen though because there is another way to get it corrected (appeals process) it just sucks that he has to be in jail while he waits. They tried getting a "post verdict bail" set but since it's a felony that was a no go.
iamhunter
11-30-2010, 10:48
Wow.
7 years for what? Owning some illegal magazines and bullets? SEVEN YEARS?
The rapper TI was caught with illegally owned automatic weapons and silencers
and received 1500 hours of community service and 12 months in jail.
This guy gets SEVEN YEARS?!
Why are we stripping this man of his freedom? Who exactly did he hurt?
Really. I'm sickened.
This poor guy is in a bad way and will have to hope the legal process works in his favor soon.
Another great example of how the activist judges and commies have too large of a hold of our legal process.
I smell a Ted Nugget lead MillionManMarch/JailBreak.
The only ones that should be in jail are the judge and DA. Withholding very important information that takes a man's freedom away based on your prejudice should put you in the defendants chair. Absolute disgust is all that comes to mind, and you wonder why people are so suspicious of LEOs and the judicial system.
They should have tried him in a civilian court like they do terrorists so that he could have been acquitted. Oh....wait a minute....
I smell a Ted Nugget lead MillionManMarch/JailBreak.
I 2nd this idea.
ChunkyMonkey
11-30-2010, 13:09
I would put a sticky on this thread. This is a serious infringement on the 2nd.
OgenRwot
11-30-2010, 13:30
Added a link in the original post to his legal defense fund donation page.
ChunkyMonkey
11-30-2010, 13:52
Added a link in the original post to his legal defense fund donation page.
It doesn't work.
iamhunter
11-30-2010, 15:45
His father said that his son was involved in an "incident" after arriving in prison but that he doesn't discuss it.
Anybody's guess what that was?
This makes me so angry.
We're the incarceration capital of the world. We throw people in prison on a whim and take sentencing far to lightly.
Our judicial system needs some major reforms.
Who exactly did this guy hurt? What harm did his "crime" cause?
And yet we're going to cage him like an animal for seven years and force him to endure prison rape?
I don't understand how these people sleep at night.
Stupid people on the jury not thinking about their own rights, just wanting to screw another.
The judge may have given them the impression that a crime was committed.
Always remember the jury's verdict overrules the judge and the stupid laws.
Works with Drugs, Sex and automatic weapons.
OgenRwot
11-30-2010, 17:34
I can't get the link to work either. But you can access through the Facebook page under the "Help Brian" tab. You don't have to be a Facebook member to view the page.
theGinsue
11-30-2010, 17:55
I'm saddened, but not surprised that (1) he was arrested for these "crimes", (2) that the DA saw fit to prosecute him, and (3) that the judge chose to withhold vital legal information from the jury.
But, I'm more mystified that not one member of the jury was smart or informed enough to realize that there is such a thing as the 2nd Amendment and that this individual was exercising those RIGHTS. If even one person on that jury had insisted on a "not guilty" verdict the worst that would have happened would have been a hung jury and the case would have been re-tried. As it is, every member of the jury voted this man guilty. This is why I'm terrified of ever doing something that would warrant me getting a trial by jury - most individuals sitting on a jury don't know what our rights are and aren't particularly bright. There's that saying that you are being judged by 12 people too stupid to get out of jury duty. There's a lot of truth to that statement and it should scare the living h3ll out of all of us at the prospect of having to face a jury trial. I'm not saying that you have to be stupid to serve on a jury, but most of the smarter folks find ways to get out of serving. There are just too few people willing to meet their civic responsibility and sit on a jury anymore.
Just sayin.
ChunkyMonkey
12-21-2010, 00:10
Great news... Gov Christie acted before Christmas
http://www.app.com/article/20101220/NEWS03/101220112/Christie-commutes-sentence-in-celebrated-gun-possession-case
DeusExMachina
12-21-2010, 00:13
He took the bitch way...poor guy still has a felony on his record. :( But at least he's out.
ChunkyMonkey
12-21-2010, 00:19
Yes, the NJ prosecutors and judges won - They took away his 2nd right either way.
DeusExMachina
12-21-2010, 00:20
Yes, the NJ prosecutors and judges won - They took away his 2nd right either way.
They made him a NJ citizen.
clublights
12-21-2010, 00:24
Now he better get a full pardon next !!!!!!!!!
Byte Stryke
12-21-2010, 00:25
Yes, the NJ prosecutors and judges won - They took away his 2nd right either way.
He can still appeal that.
And I am pretty sure he would rather wait out the appeals process OUTSIDE of the prison with his Woman that INSIDE the prison being the woman.
Christie later declined to reappoint Morley because of an unrelated case."Judge, will oppress civil rights for food."
"Now I have to go find a Christmas present," she said.I think you already have it.
;)
CrufflerSteve
12-21-2010, 00:26
He is out and that is great. He is a felon and can't ever have a gun again.
I think we should be all worried about how some little error could land us in front of a jury. NJ is hell compared to Colorado but there are so many ways to screw up. I used to have a C&R FFL and I found it was more like going to law school than gun collecting.
Having been through jury selection a couple of time, and tossed, I'd worry.
Steve
KevDen2005
12-21-2010, 07:40
I am certainly not going to attack the officers, DA, or judge since I wasn't actually there, however NJ and the east coast have some ridiculous gun laws. I am sure that the lowered crime rate there can justify why the gun laws are so ridiculous, right? Right?
Anyway, based on the news article I have to say this is a ridiculous case and if the article is correct and fact-fulfilling then I hope this guy gets an appeal very soon.
Again, going after the wrong people in this country. Sickening
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