Good day all. Yesterday I wrote about the former Pennsylvania Attorney General, Kathleen Kane being sentenced to prison for her crimes, including perjury. Now we have another member of the judicial branch, Arnold Ogden Jones II.
What makes Mr. Jones special is that he is, or was, now that he is a convict, a judge in North Carolina. What makes him stupid is what he was charged with. Here are the details on this criminal genius from Fox News:
Federal prosecutors say a North Carolina judge has been convicted of bribery after he offered Bud Light and cash to an officer in exchange for text messages from his wife’s cellphone because he suspected she was cheating on him.
Ok, the cash I can understand, but the Bud Light? That’s just insulting.
The U.S. Attorney’s office said Friday that a jury deliberated for 33 minutes before finding Superior Court Judge Arnold Ogden Jones II guilty of paying a bribe and other charges.
33 minutes? Wasn’t that an episode of the reimaged version of Battlestar Galactica? Why yes, It was. In any case, that was a jury that took all of 2 minutes to convict this idiot. The rest of the time would have been taken up by paperwork, selecting a foreman and moving between the jury room and the court room. I believe the phrase used here is “Open and shut”.
Prosecutors say Jones asked a Wayne County deputy, who is also a member of an FBI gang task force, to get him copies of the text messages in October 2015, even though the law prevents him from receiving them.
Jones offered “a couple of cases of beer” to the officer but ultimately agreed to hand over $100 instead, according to the indictment.
Cash would be a lot easier to present to a jury than the equivalent in equine urine Budweiser’s Bud Light.
“The jury’s verdict affirms a bedrock principle of the rule of law,” John Bruce, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, responded.
I think the jury couldn’t believe this guy was that stupid.
An attorney for Jones told The News & Observer of Raleigh that his client remains on the November ballot and plans to appeal the verdict.
I’m sure his opponent is all set with his latest campaign commercials. “At least I’m not a convicted felon, and I have much better taste in beer, much like the voters.”
“He and his family appreciate all the support he has had,” defense attorney Geoff Hulse said.
Does that include Anheuser-Busch InBev? I wonder how many others this evil genius has bribed with Budweiser beer? Do you know what really bothers me? This clod was a judge. His job was to put people, like himself, in jail. Well, I’m sure he’s going to be meeting a few of his old court cases soon enough.
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Yeah, that you have to be a Democrat higher up to skate.