Posted on Apr 25, 2022
In rejecting death row inmate's case, judge says law enforcement isn't a profession
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https://www.npr.org/2022/04/24/ [login to see] /arizona-execution-clarence-wayne-dixon
Interesting? In Order to Kill a Kidnapper, Rapist, Murderer the Judge had to Say that Law Enforcement is Not a "Profession" Bloody Hell! Talk About a Double Edged Sword.
Interesting? In Order to Kill a Kidnapper, Rapist, Murderer the Judge had to Say that Law Enforcement is Not a "Profession" Bloody Hell! Talk About a Double Edged Sword.
In rejecting death row inmate's case, judge says law enforcement isn't a profession
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Pretty weird logic, here.
I am neither a lawyer nor a judge. Nor am I an Arizonan. So there may be some technical language that makes this judgment correct.
But on the face of it, to anyone using commonly understood definitions, this judge is a complete and total idiot.
The argument that a 9-1-1 operator who has been on the job for a week is not the same as a 40-year detective, therefore they aren't in the same profession is laughable. A 1st week nurse and the chief of neurosurgery are nowhere near the same either. But try claiming they aren't both medical professionals. Or a Basic Training Private and a Major General.
I am neither a lawyer nor a judge. Nor am I an Arizonan. So there may be some technical language that makes this judgment correct.
But on the face of it, to anyone using commonly understood definitions, this judge is a complete and total idiot.
The argument that a 9-1-1 operator who has been on the job for a week is not the same as a 40-year detective, therefore they aren't in the same profession is laughable. A 1st week nurse and the chief of neurosurgery are nowhere near the same either. But try claiming they aren't both medical professionals. Or a Basic Training Private and a Major General.
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MSG Thomas Currie
Actually the judge's argument was even worse than you suggest. He didn't say that the one-week call-taker and the 40-year detective weren't in the same profession, he said that because they have different skills and experience neither of them is in any profession at all.
This judge's decision that a retired officer who spent 30 years with the Phoenix Police Department; and a 20-plus-year detective, also with the same Phoenix PD do not come from the same "professional discipline" totally strains belief. The judge's rationale has the stench of a strawman argument invented to support an insupportable decision that the judge had already chosen before even trying to find a way to explain it.
This judge's decision that a retired officer who spent 30 years with the Phoenix Police Department; and a 20-plus-year detective, also with the same Phoenix PD do not come from the same "professional discipline" totally strains belief. The judge's rationale has the stench of a strawman argument invented to support an insupportable decision that the judge had already chosen before even trying to find a way to explain it.
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SFC Casey O'Mally
Capt Gregory Prickett I see. Yet another case where, legally speaking, words don't mean what everyone knows they mean.
That's why I said there may be a reason the judge was right.
Thanks for clearing it up.
That's why I said there may be a reason the judge was right.
Thanks for clearing it up.
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