{"id":27196,"date":"2011-10-26T16:03:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T20:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27196"},"modified":"2011-10-26T16:03:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T20:03:41","slug":"scott-ritters-bad-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27196","title":{"rendered":"Scott Ritter’s bad day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adirondack Patriot sends a link from the Albany Times Union<\/a> in regards to the bad day that former weapons inspector Scott Ritter had in court today.<\/p>\n

Ritter asked Wednesday for a new trial, basing his request on an appeals court ruling in New York that records from two previous incidents in Colonie in 2001 should not have been unsealed and given to prosecutors in Pennsylvania to be used at his trial.<\/p>\n

Defense attorney Gary Kohlman argued the New York ruling entitled Ritter to a new trial because prosecutors based much of their strategy on the argument that Ritter had a history of illicit online sex.<\/p>\n

“It became, as I feared, the tail that was wagging the dog at trial,” Kohlman said in court\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So that’s three times that Ritter has been convicted of soliciting sex from detectives he thought were teenage girls. You’d think he’d learn, right?<\/p>\n

Paula Brust, a member of the Pennsylvania’s Sexual Offenders Assessment Board, testified for the prosecution that based on Ritter’s history, he is at risk to offend again.<\/p>\n

“He is not able to manage his offending in the community despite sex offender treatment,” she said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, Ritter told the jury that he knew they were detectives and he followed through because he was depressed because Darth Cheney headed efforts to disparage him when he tirned against the Iraq War, and hoped to be arrested. He should be ecstatic that he’s been convicted, then, huh? Of course his convictions in New York were two years before the Iraq War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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