A New Mexico female judge by the name of Christina Argyres reportedly told 20-year-old first time offender that, as an act of mercy, she is putting him on 5-year one-slip-and-you-are-behind-bars-for-15-years probation.
Before she announced her act of mercy - and that is in a courtroom where video cameras are not allowed, so the source I quote indicated it was reporting from a transcript - the judge told the teenager the following:
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“You would probably be raped every day, number one,” she said to Gay.
“You would be beat up every other day.”
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According to the same source, "[t]he judge then proceeded to tell him that if she sentenced him to
prison he would be someone’s bitch, so in an act of mercy she put him on
five year probation instead.
“He’s going to be somebody’s – I hate to use the word bitch, but
that’s exactly what he’s going to be, and I don’t want to destroy Mr.
Gay’s life.”"
Wow.
So, she recognizes that in prison the young man will await cruel and unusual punishment by uncontrolled mobs of prisoners - uncontrolled by the government that is "carrying out justice" against him and is supposed to follow the law all the way doing it, becuase the government is supposedly on the high horse and is doing the right thing, and is rightfully punishing the young man, on behalf of all people of the State of New Mexico, for his wrongdoing (doesn't matter, what it was).
So, it is legal in New Mexico now to imply that the prison sentence will include everyday rape and every-other-day beatings? And authorities look the other way to make this "implied sentence" being carried out?
Ok, Mr. Gay escaped jail through the "mercy" of Judge Argyres - very possibly, not for long, because, the same government that allows prisoners to be raped every day and beaten up every other day when the only thing that the government is entitled to do is carry out a court sentence depriving convicted individuals of their liberty - not dignity, not safety, not harm to health or life - that same government can very easily falsify charges and entrap the boy into "tripping up" and going to that prison for 15 years.
Especially when, as it was reported in January of 2015, for-profit prisons in New Mexico get higher profit from their captive labor force than other states.
In Pennsylvania we had a "kids-for-cash" scandal, but the two judges caught and convicted were still not convicted for selling children into slavery, only for receiving kickbacks.
And even then, in a civil lawsuit, the judge was given absolute judicial immunity, in this disgusting wording from his brother judge (that is running on top of this blog):
What will happen to this judge?
Will she - and other judges in New Mexico who fill so profitable "for-profit" prisons, be finally investigated?
Because the "act of mercy" of Judge Argyres could very well be an act of greed. And it certainly looked like an act of sadism.
I wonder when they will take this woman off the bench? Will they?
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