Guilty on all charges!!

With the risk of being too "political" here's an update about the trial of our family friend:

Well, we're a bit deflated this morning. Our friend was fund guilty on all 12 counts last night. But then again, what is to be expected by a jury from the state government's home county for a political show trial. It would be sort of like cheering against the home football team! Perhaps some day the Machine will be defeated!!

Annette Bosworth found of guilty on all charges

Humm .... is it possible that you're too close to the situation ?

The logic that it's all a conspiracy doesn't seem to hold. It's hard to feature her as being any kind of significant threat to the machine. Why would "they" expend the effort ? Reps generally don't attack their own kind. Blaming it on the "Good Ole Boy Network" is kinda vague isn't it ?

It makes more sense that she broke the law. There must have been quite body of evidence if she was convicted on 12 counts.

~ Just sayin is all. ~

I hear you. Same thing only different here. We've been trending left of center for almost 40 yrs now.

You know ... my nephew had a drug problem but he was a good guy. He was beloved in the community. Long story short: After a night of partying his girlfriend ran him over with her car in an intoxicated haze.

Female judge .... both the prosecution and defense female as well. I think his girlfriend got off with something like three years in prison and extended parole.

This reeks of liberal gender bias but maybe i'm too close to it ? This one's personal !

Justice has been served so you have to leave it at that but it would be better if she never shows her face around here ever again. That one is bad seed !

Sorry to hear about your nephew. Hopefully his ex-gf straightens her life up and can get the message of what can be learned from this terrible event out to other people with similar problems.

Ahh ... she's just evil by nature. She was physically abusive to him all during their relationship. She was even that way to my boys when we used to babysit her at age three. Some folks are just built that way.

I was thinking about your friend after my last post. Politics is a nasty business. She probably did step on some toes but i'm wondering if she might have been attacked by the opposing team. That would make sense because one of the most important things to them has been to expand federal government spending on healthcare. Somebody that rightfully calls that into question would be a prime target.

I would wait & see. Now that she's been convicted it will go to sentencing. If the punishment is proportional to the crime there may be nothing to it. On the other hand .... if they go out of their way to be vindictive and "make an example of her" there might be more going on than meets the eye.

"Bosworth's defense said she made a mistake by listening to advice from her former attorney."
She doesn't seem competent to write laws.

An update to this story. Our friend received her sentencing. Our local rag which has coverage over half the state makes it looks so benign, she got probation (yeah, with a potential 24 years hanging over her head if probation fails). Parts of her probation include that her husband can no longer have firearms if they stay married, they can come into their home at anytime without a warrant, she has to provide them with her e-mail and social media passwords, she must give them 5 days notice that she is leaving the state, blah blah, blah, blah. She might end up with the last laugh however because she's out on one of the reservations right now doing her community service and the Indians like her being a doctor and don't like the state attorney general. We'll see...

Annette Bosworth sentenced to 3 years probation

I wrote a letter-to-the editor to our rag but they won't publish it because its too long. They limit letters to the editor are 300 words and guest columns 500-700 words. Mine is 1,100 words. I won't post it here because its probably too political (although I took it past state corruption to abuses of power at the federal level and gave some current examples of that) but I'll try the last paragraph. Pretty generic but still pointed I think:

So, as we have recently celebrated our “Independence Day” from foreign tyranny several centuries in the past, let us keep in mind that perhaps we have allowed tyranny back in, this time not from a foreign source but from our own inability to keep our governmental leaders and their bureaucracies corralled as servants of us instead of our rulers by their ability to bring governmental power to bear against us. Something for us to think hard about instead of taking in the 4th of July as a time of pretty fireworks and family picnics. Freedom and democracy is hard work and the vast majority of us, myself included, have for far too long allowed the elites of political power and the bureaucracies they create and maintain to operate on their own with no effective supervision. If our liberty is to continue throughout the 21st century, this must change…

I'm going see what my sister has to say about this case, she's somewhat connected and has worked for the last three governors in the state of SD. Her concern is educating the children, especially the ones that life never really gave them much of a start in the first place. She tries to stay politically neutral, hard to do in any state, especially when you need funding for the programs that you want funded!

It seems just based on the very little I have started to learn, prison would not serve anybody but those that have a desire to maneuver in these very small political circles in the state of SD. Very seldom (IMO) do we get 1 + 1 = 2 "justice" in our legal system anymore!

Of course, our wonderful attorney general wants to be the next governor and probably will be unless something big breaks...

I posted this on my FB page tonight:

So, the SD Medical Board yanked Annette Bosworth's license this evening. Surprise, knowing how the things were already stacked by the unholy alliance of corrupt one-party 40 year rule and the medical-industrial complex even though Annette spoke eloquently how she has served the underprivileged in this state, often out of her own wallet. I know some of you don't like her because of her politics and some are sick of this story but I dare you to read this essay from U.S. News & World Report, hardly the flagship media outlet of the hard right. I like the writer's last paragraph:

"Though we might like to think so, Bosworth's case is not exactly as isolated as it would seem. Zealous prosecutors and law enforcement officials across the country are bending if not breaking the rules outright to compile impressive conviction rates, secure headlines and satisfy personal urges. This is not justice; this is the rule of man over the rule of law, and it must not be tolerated."

I'll add a couple of my own: selective enforcement of the law and/or selective prosecution by the state (generic,any scale) is a very, very bad thing for democracy in the long run. When a majority of people no longer believes that democracy works for them or even if a critical mass is reached, then Katie bar the door...

Dr. Annette Bosworth May Unjustly Lose Her Medical License - US News

For sure a unbalance of power at work.