{"id":26496,"date":"2011-09-13T15:35:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T19:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26496"},"modified":"2011-09-13T18:16:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T22:16:41","slug":"another-bonehead-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26496","title":{"rendered":"Thomas DiGirolamo, another bonehead judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one slipped under my radar last week; A Maryland judge, U.S. Magistrate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdd.uscourts.gov\/publications\/JudgesBio\/DiGirolamo.htm\">Judge Thomas DiGirolamo<\/a>, dismissed charges against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21889\">Aaron Lawless<\/a> when he agreed with Lawless&#8217; lawyers that the Stolen Valor Act was too broad, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/local\/crime-punishment\/2011\/09\/md-judge-rules-stolen-valor-act-unconstitutional\">Washington Examiner<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A criminal complaint says Lawless falsely told the gun manufacturer Glock that he had suffered combat injuries in Iraq while serving in the Marine Corps and Army, earning a Silver Star, four Purple Hearts and two Bronze Stars. Glock then named him its hero of the year, awarding him a trip to a Las Vegas gun show and engraved pistols.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lawless spent 35 days in the Marine Corps until it was discovered that he tried to conceal a previous injury before he enlisted. In other words, he&#8217;s a scumbag who tried to con the Corps and then conned Glock to take something of value from a soldier or Marine who actually deserved to be recognized by Glock.<\/p>\n<p>And this greaseball judge just aided and abetted the fraud.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In its present form, the [Stolen Valor] Act punishes all false statements about the receipt of military honors, including the malicious, the reckless, the mistaken and the innocent,&#8221; he wrote.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, except Lawless&#8217; claims were neither mistaken nor innocent.<\/p>\n<p>And, oh, yeah, he conned the VFW into vouching for him to his employer for a job. But I guess it&#8217;s not fraud, huh, Judge Thomas DiGirolamo? Fucking liberal punk-asses think they sound smart when they defend the First Amendment&#8230;well, as long their defense doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with that religion part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one slipped under my radar last week; A Maryland judge, U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas DiGirolamo, &hellip; <a title=\"Thomas DiGirolamo, another bonehead judge\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26496\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thomas DiGirolamo, another bonehead judge<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}