Judge denies Janklow's request for acquittal ...

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

...Janklow denied!

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FLANDREAU - Circuit Judge Rodney Steele denied a request today to overturn the manslaughter conviction of U.S. Rep. Bill Janklow. "It's not the judge's job at this point to substitute his judgment for the judgment of the jury," Steele said.

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<http://www.argusleader.com/update/Tuesdayarticle4.shtml>

[amber dog democrat]

1. Serves him right

Let him suffer the consequences of his actions.

[Mikimouse]

2. OMG, you means he's actually being held...

accountable? I thought that was only for us non-pug types. The judge must have made a mistake. Wait until tomorrow, after Karl calls and reminds the judge of Janklow's political affiliation.:hippie:

[Fovea]

3. Yes

This is a good start. Let's get the rest of the dangerous impared drivers off the road, and out of the whitehouse.

[0007]

4. Didn't think it would happen - what's the world coming too?

[maxanne]

5. He'll probably appeal

all the way to SCOTUS - if his liver and pancreas last that long.

[drfemoe]

6. I felt sorry for this guy ... until I read this

Apparently this isn't the first time Janklow has been linked to criminal behavior.

In the past Janklow, who it is said was instrumental in convincing Bill Clinton not to pardon (most likely) falsely imprisoned AIM activist Leonard Peltier, had been accused by a family baby sitter named Jancita Eagle Deer of rape.

According to the website of Dakota-Sioux activists called dlncoalition.org, in 1966 15 year-old Jancita Eagle Deer of the Rosebud Reservation alleged that Janklow, then with the Office of Economic Opportunity, raped her at gunpoint as he drove her home from a baby sitting stint.

In 1974 Janklow was disbarred from practicing law on the Rosebud reservation following the testimony of Ms Eagle Deer.

http://www.counterpunch.org/mccarthy08252003.html

From the print copy of Counterpunch:

This is not the first felony of which Janklow has been accused, only the first of which he has been convicted. In 1967 he was alleged to have raped a Lakota girl on South Dakota's Rosebud Indian Reservation. This much has been known for years. But newly found papers show what Indians have long suspected but never been able to prove: The FBI cleared Janklow of the rape in three investigations that were more charitable than rigorous. The story goes to the heart of the FBI's curious Indian history, a history that swerved between casual neglect and pathological subversion.

More info:

http://www.dlncoalition.org/dln_issues/jancitaeagledeer.htm

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