Stalkers, Corzine, and Reasonableness
Let’s pretend for a moment that someone is stalking you. This person ends up breaking into your vehicle, sends threatening letters, and makes threats over the telephone.
The stalker is apprehended.
What do you want to see happen to the stalker? Would you ask a judge to order treatment for the stalker or would you want the stalker to contemplate what she has done while sitting behind iron bars?
Perhaps it is me, but I find it amazing that three people who were all harrassed by the same person independently arrived at the conclusion she should have treatment and not jail time.
The prosecutor’s office recommended Golding for the program because “all three victims wanted the judge to order the defendant to receive treatment and counseling in this matter,” Executive Assistant Prosecutor Robert O’Leary said in a statement.
Hmmm . . . let’s see if I have this figured out correctly. Golding is a lobbyist. She has ties to Governor Corzine. So many ties that when she was pinched, she called him at Drumthwacket to bail her out. Corzine did just that as he produced $5000 to spring her.
The man Golding was stalking is state Assemblyman Joe Cryan, D-Union. Cryan is close to Corzine and is needed to pass legislation through the Assembly. We don’t know who the other two folks are, but I suspect they are staff members in the Legislature.
So, how do all three people independently arrive at wanting the judge to order treatment? I think it quite a coincidence to think that those decisions were arrived at independently.
If they were coerced, I sure would like to know who applied the pressure. This is one of those little things that seems to drag politicians down. Corzine admitted making a mistake bailing Golding out. As I said previously, I have no problem that he did. But if pressure was applied to have the victims ask for treatment rather than justice, then I think this a completely differnet kind of issue.
Do you think three people stalked by a woman would ask a judge to order treatment rather than jail? If you were the victim, would you ask for that?
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By John Black on May 8, 2006
The problem was Cryan was intimately involved with his alleged stalker and after the Union County Prosecutors office devoted countless resoureces they confirmed not only were they an item but she was pregnant with his child. Hence, you really had a domestic violence dispute and not stalking. She opened an unlocked car door and was accused of stealing nothing. Not exactly burglary. In order to save face and make this go away, they all agreed on PTI. One problem, her treating psychiatrist feels NO TREATMENT is necessary. She was a victim of an abusive relationship with Cryan. Corzine bailed out a friend in need. Nothing more than that. Cryan, however, is a constitutional officer of the court as an Undersheriff in Union County and he misrepresented the facts and perjured himself.