Comments on: Christine Beatty Sentenced To Only 120 Days In Jail for Perjury http://jonathanturley.org/2009/01/07/christine-beatty-sentenced-to-only-120-days-in-jail-for-perjury/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:21:26 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: rafflaw http://jonathanturley.org/2009/01/07/christine-beatty-sentenced-to-only-120-days-in-jail-for-perjury/#comment-33843 rafflaw Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:39:27 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=6901#comment-33843 She should be doing some time. This is a crazy sentence for a serious crime. She should be doing some time. This is a crazy sentence for a serious crime.

]]> By: Former Federal LEO http://jonathanturley.org/2009/01/07/christine-beatty-sentenced-to-only-120-days-in-jail-for-perjury/#comment-33787 Former Federal LEO Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:09:45 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=6901#comment-33787 The aspect that concerned me the most was that several LEOs lost their jobs—which likely destroyed their careers—because they were performing their duties to expose this scandal. The cost to taxpayers was $8.4 million. Ms. Beatty turned down an earlier reduced sentence: _______________________________________________ {Quote}: "On the day Kilpatrick pleaded guilty Beatty rejected a plea deal that included only 90 days in jail. The offer from the prosecutor went up to 150 days the day after Kilpatrick's plea. Now, Beatty will pay $100,000 in restitution to the city, one tenth of the $1 million restitution Kilpatrick accepted. She also agreed to stop attending law school classes during her five years of probation. Beatty has been attending law school at Wayne State University while working as Kilpatrick's top aide. On Monday, Beatty's admissions ended the scandal over her efforts to hide her sexual affair with Kilpatrick and his firing of police officers to halt their probe of a long-rumored party at the Manoogian Mansion.” {End Quote} detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081202/METRO/812020359 The aspect that concerned me the most was that several LEOs lost their jobs—which likely destroyed their careers—because they were performing their duties to expose this scandal. The cost to taxpayers was $8.4 million.

Ms. Beatty turned down an earlier reduced sentence:
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“On the day Kilpatrick pleaded guilty Beatty rejected a plea deal that included only 90 days in jail. The offer from the prosecutor went up to 150 days the day after Kilpatrick’s plea.

Now, Beatty will pay $100,000 in restitution to the city, one tenth of the $1 million restitution Kilpatrick accepted. She also agreed to stop attending law school classes during her five years of probation. Beatty has been attending law school at Wayne State University while working as Kilpatrick’s top aide.

On Monday, Beatty’s admissions ended the scandal over her efforts to hide her sexual affair with Kilpatrick and his firing of police officers to halt their probe of a long-rumored party at the Manoogian Mansion.” {End Quote}

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]]> By: Former Federal LEO http://jonathanturley.org/2009/01/07/christine-beatty-sentenced-to-only-120-days-in-jail-for-perjury/#comment-33780 Former Federal LEO Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:14:51 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=6901#comment-33780 Quote from Professor Turley: "If prosecutors continue to speculate in public why their politicians engage in such crimes, they may want to look at the punishment that they mete out." _____________________________________________________________________ Low sentences for public servants certainly contribute to the problem because they do not provide deterrents to white-collar crime. Perjury committed by public servants is especially violate because perjurers breach oaths of office they pledged to honor and they break the trust they owe to the citizens who are their employers. Quote from Professor Turley:

“If prosecutors continue to speculate in public why their politicians engage in such crimes, they may want to look at the punishment that they mete out.”

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Low sentences for public servants certainly contribute to the problem because they do not provide deterrents to white-collar crime. Perjury committed by public servants is especially violate because perjurers breach oaths of office they pledged to honor and they break the trust they owe to the citizens who are their employers.

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