Help Irish Guy Locked Up in New Mexico

Subject: RE: Help Irish Guy Locked Up in New Mexico
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 03 Jan 08 - 01:57 PM

Thanks for the clarification, Sean. I assumed the same as PJ and a few others before me. In PJ's words '"Crime passionel" generally means killing someone.' Your own description did nothing to allay that miscomprehension with your phrase 'he returned from work to find his wife in bed with another man and took it out on the poor fella.' Apologies for my incorrect assumption but I think you can see how it arose!

So. The chap was in the US illegaly. He then went on to beat someone up, for which he has been arrrested and you have no issues with that. He is, apparantly, going to be deported in 6-8 weeks yet there seems to be some sort of issue with him being isolated from his family? I am normaly a reasonably compasionate man but I am missing something here. Can he not just do his 2 months and get it over with? Maybe if he is still there in June I would start to get edgy but until then I really don't know what, if any, help I can give!

BTW - The posting about the Brits mistreating the Irish was not mine.

Cheers

Dave

Subject: RE: Help Irish Guy Locked Up in New Mexico
From: Seán Báite
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 04:39 PM

The guy at the origin of this thread is, according to my family in Ireland, to be deported in the coming days. This reassures me on 2 counts - 1/ he no longer has to endure the barmy US prison system (serving time 1,500 miles away from where you do the crime in a private prison) 2/ proof that the assault that caused his problems in the first place was a very minor one indeed - it look like charges have not even been pressed - as I understand it US law insists that if an offence has been committed by an 'illegal' the sentence is served in the US before deportation. Ergo, his original offence seems to have been a minor one indeed.
Thanks again to those who gave advice / PMed me.

Subject: RE: Help Irish Guy Locked Up in New Mexico
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 09:42 PM

Actually, US law requires that anyone who cannot afford an attorney be provided with one. One of the members of my Library Board is a member of the Public Defender's office and from roughly March to June he poured all he had into defending a couple of indefensible 18-year-olds. I mean, they videotaped themselves planning and all but committing a nasty, brutal stabbing murder of a classmate. It took A LOT out of Dave, so much so that his father was worried about Dave's health.

Both got life without parole, by the way. And they were lucky at that.

Subject: RE: Help Irish Guy Locked Up in New Mexico
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 04:37 PM

Did he expose his


inner child?


People want to know.