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| JACKSON: Will his health be on trial? |
The
fact that he got admitted to the Mayo Clinic and underwent treatment? Not
swayed. They probably want to believe that the Rochester, Minn.-based clinic is
somehow on the take; perhaps a part of a criminal conspiracy that perhaps they
should be prosecuted for as well.
A
WHOLE LOT of nonsense talk is what it really comes down to. The people who have
wanted Jackson out of office for years, if not just over a decade, want him out
for ideological reasons.
They’ll
take whatever grounds they can get to find a reason to depose him.
And
those people, I’m sure, are going to be loving the rhetoric that we’re going to
get from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where on Friday
a federal judge scheduled July 1 as the date that Jackson will face sentencing.
Because
the prosecutors with the U.S. attorney’s office who are seeking to get a prison
term for both Jackson and his wife, Sandi (the former alderman) are making it
seem as though they want to use Jackson’s bipolar disorder diagnosis against
him.
THOSE
PROSECUTORS SAY they want their own medical experts to examine Jackson, on the
off-chance that defense attorneys try to bring the issue up as a factor in
sentencing.
As
much as people complain that defense attorneys are willing to exploit a medical
condition for the benefit of their clients/defendants, it is just a true that
prosecutors can easily come up with their own “expert testimony” to refute any
point that someone tries to make on their own behalf.
Yes,
it bothers me that prosecutors are going to be feeding off the sentiments of
those people who are so eager to dump Jackson from power that they’ll believe
anything.
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It
ensures that this particular aspect of the case will linger for far longer than
it deserves to.
PERSONALLY,
I DON’T comprehend much of the animosity – particularly since those who were
opposed to the Jacksons ultimately got what they wanted. They’re both out of
political office and in situations where neither is ever likely to be capable
of holding a political position of authority again.
The
critics are getting what it was they wanted (and putting the rest of us through
that whole ordeal of watching that special election cycle that bordered at
times on the absurd). It’s as though now they’re getting greedy and demanding
ultimate punishment.
Perhaps
they think it has to be something more than the roughly 14 years of real time
that former Gov. Rod Blagojevich is now serving at a federal corrections
facility in Colorado?
I
noticed one anonymous (of course) Internet commenter who claims that anything
less than five years in prison for each Jackson is unjust. Even though the
maximum sentence Jesse, Jr. could get is five years, while sentencing
guidelines say the maximum for Sandi is two years.
THE
JACKSONS (AS in the political family, not the musical one) are out of office
and headed for prison. They’re going to suffer. Like I stated earlier, the
ideologues are getting what they want!
But
let’s not overdo things. Retribution for retribution’s sake makes all of us in
society look sorry – even those who don’t support it but do little to nothing
to stop it.
Which
is why I’m hoping the federal judge in this case (also named “Jackson,” but not
related) has enough sense to not let this issue get all out of hand during the
sentencing.
The
last thing that a criminal sentencing needs to devolve into is a medical diagnosis!
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