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lundbaek wrote: March 4th, 2017, 9:51 am I believe the main purpose of this prosecution of Joe Arpaio is to send the message that you don't interfere with illegal immigration in this here part of Arizona.
Joe Arpaio, the Bundy's, the Hammond's, Lavoy Finicum...= government tyranny and taking away property rights so the elite can usurp more power and control of "we the people." See a pattern forming here?

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Arpaio resumes bid to recuse judge from profiling case

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Arpaio resumes bid to recuse judge from profiling case

PHOENIX (AP) - Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio plans to resume his bid to get a federal judge disqualified from a racial profiling case even though the lawman has been out of office for more than two months.

An Arpaio attorney said in court papers Friday that his client intends to keep pursuing his recusal request against U.S. District Judge Murray Snow, who ruled in 2013 that sheriff's officers had profiled Latinos and last year recommended a criminal contempt-of-court charge against Arpaio for defying an order to stop his immigration patrols.

The contempt case is believed to have contributed to Arpaio's crushing defeat in the November election against Paul Penzone after 24 years in office.

Arpaio made the recusal request the day after he was officially charged with misdemeanor contempt-of-court.

His attorneys argue the judge had improper private conversations with an official hired to monitor the sheriff's office on behalf of the court, saying the encounters included discussions about whether the sheriff's office had committed contempt of court. They said ethics rules for federal judges prohibit such conversations.

It's the second time Arpaio has tried to get Snow to disqualify from the case.

The judge rejected the first attempt in July 2015 when the sheriff alleged that questions by the judge about secret investigations conducted by Arpaio created an appearance of judicial bias.

Earlier in the profiling case, Arpaio succeeded in getting another federal judge to recuse herself from the case after his lawyers questioned her impartiality.

Arpaio faces an April 25 trial on the contempt charge.

He has acknowledged prolonging his immigration patrols after Snow issued the order, but insisted his defiance wasn't intentional.

He has pleaded not guilty to the charge. If convicted, the 84-year-old Arpaio could face up to six months in jail.

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Arpaio's new lawyer wants trial delay because of bar mitzvah

PHOENIX - The new attorney defending Joe Arpaio in his criminal contempt case wants the trial delayed at least two months because the attorney's family is preparing for a bar mitzvah.

The former Maricopa County sheriff's trial is scheduled to start April 25.

In a court filing, attorney Mark Goldman said he needed time to "get up to speed in the case." Goldman added:
The Goldmans have a scheduling conflict as their only son’s Bar Mitzvah is being held on April 29, 2017. The Bar Mitzvah and all of the events surrounding it, were scheduled wellover a year ago... In addition, The Goldmans will be hosting several out-of-town guests, including family members and friends, who will start arriving on or about April 23, 2017.
The filing indicates that Arpaio's longtime criminal defense attorney, former federal prosecutor Mel McDonald, is no longer on the case. McDonald could not be reached for comment Monday.

The trial delay, if granted by Federal Judge Susan Bolton, would be the third in the criminal contempt case.

Arpaio, who was booted out of office by voters last November, is charged with intentionally ignoring a federal judge's orders in his racial profiling case.

Goldman is a longtime associate of Arpaio's and former County Attorney Andrew Thomas

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Ex-Phoenix sheriff wants his campaign talk banned at trial

PHOENIX (AP) — For nine years, Joe Arpaio enjoyed solid popularity as the sheriff of metro Phoenix by locking up immigrants in the U.S. illegally and regularly telling news reporters that no one would stop his crackdowns.

The former lawman who made his fight against illegal immigration a fixture of his speeches and media interviews during his last three campaigns asked a judge on Friday to prohibit prosecutors from mentioning those statements at his April 25 trial on a criminal contempt-of-court charge.

Arpaio, who was defeated last November after 24 years as sheriff for sprawling Maricopa County that encompasses Phoenix, faces the misdemeanor charge for disobeying a court order to halt his immigration patrols, which continued for 17 months after a judge issued the order.

To win a conviction, prosecutors must prove that Arpaio intended to violate the judge's order. The 84-year-old Arpaio, who would face up to six months in jail if convicted, has acknowledged prolonging the patrols, but insists he did so unintentionally.

Mark Goldman, one of Arpaio's attorneys, said it would be prejudicial to use his client's comments during campaigns at his trial and that the remarks "were campaign posturing and not made under oath."

Statements made by politicians during campaigns aren't indicative of what politicians will actually do while in office, Goldman wrote in a court filing.

He characterized campaign speeches as political posturing aimed at winning votes, saying Arpaio made the statements during his political races to bolster his reputation for being tough on illegal immigration.

"It would be naive for anyone to truly believe that any politician will actually do everything he says he will," Goldman wrote.

Goldman did not specify which statements he wants excluded as evidence in Arpaio's trial.
U.S. District Judge Murray Snow, who presides over the profiling case that Arpaio lost nearly four years ago, said in an earlier ruling that Arpaio ignored the order because he believed continuing his immigration enforcement efforts would help his 2012 campaign.

Snow also has said Arpaio's office issued news releases indicating that he was aware of the court order but that he would continue to enforce federal immigration laws.

Goldman said letting statements made by Arpaio during his campaigns to be used at trial will have a chilling effect on protected political speech about issues of public importance.

"It will only encourage candidates to hide their views, which will increase opacity in government and voter dissatisfaction with government officials," Goldman wrote.

The decision on whether to allow Arpaio's campaign statements at his trial will be up to U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton, who also will decide the lawman's guilt or innocence.

Lawyers for Arpaio also have asked Bolton to bar Latinos who were illegally detained when the court order was violated from testifying at trial, arguing that their testimony would hurt Arpaio's case and is irrelevant in determining whether he committed a crime.

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Longtime Joe Arpaio attorney asks to step down

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Arpaio loses bid to dismiss contempt case

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Arpaio wants to call Sessions as witness at contempt trial

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Judge delays Arpaio contempt case

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Maybe Joe Arpaio wasn't a Constitutional cop after all. Gavin Seim reveals an example of an AZ cop under JA being tyrannical by pointing a gun at teens?

"I catch Joe Arpaio’s thugs harassing these teens while coming to Phoenix Summer 2016. Arizona leaders like to pretend they are Constitutional but nothing could be further from the truth."

From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqppMOuwKaA

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Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio asks US Supreme Court for jury trial in contempt case

PHOENIX (KSAZ) - Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to consider his request to have a jury, rather than a judge, decide whether he should be convicted of criminal contempt-of-court charge for defying a court order in a racial profiling case.

Arpaio's lawyers made the filing with the nation's highest court on Wednesday, a month before he's scheduled to be tried on a misdemeanor charge for ignoring an order to stop his immigration patrols.

"You have a lot of lawyers who are deciding what the truth is, and it's important to have the people do that, not a room full of lawyers," said Arpaio's attorney, Jack Wilenchick.

A local judge and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals have previously rejected requests to have a jury trial.

"For this kind of a case it's especially important we get a jury, because this is a case for Contempt of Courts," said Wilenchick. "It's basically a case that the court started and if the court tries the case, they're going to have a judge that's basically sitting over its own prosecution."

In the filing, Arpaio's attorneys raise a possible scenario in which the 84-year-old lawman is convicted of the charge and appeals the case, yet dies before his appeal is ruled on."

"That's a reference to a Supreme Court case in another state where the court said, it's important to look at this issue before the trial happens," said Wilenchick. "You can't just let a trial happen and let the judge rule and then go through the normal appeals process, because someone of that kind of age could even die during the appeals process, in which case, the conviction can never be reversed, it just stands."

The team is asking the Supreme Court to expedite its decision, as a trial is set to begin on June 26. If convicted, Arpaio could spend six months in jail.

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The case against former Sheriff Joe Arpaio scheduled for Monday

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The criminal contempt case against former MCSO Sheriff Joe Arpaio is set to begin Monday in Federal court. The racial profiling case surrounds sheriff's deputies allegedly detaining people based on the suspicion that they were in the country illegally. If convicted of the charge, the 85-year-old could face up to six months in jail. Criminal Defense Attorney Jason Lamm joins us with analysis of what to expect, and the efforts to delay the trial.

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As I stated in an earlier post, many Arizonans are hopful that Arpaio will *get the max* in order to send the message that you don't interfere with illegal immigration in Arizona. His successor as Sheriff of Maricopa County has made it clear that he will not enforce immigration Laws Re. illegal immigrants.

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Joe Arpiao is a good man, he doesn't coddle criminals, he cuts down on tax payers mone by setting up tent cities, they don't want to come back, isn't that the point? Why should they sit under air conditioners watching tv, lifting weights and running off at the mouth. I love his style, we don't need criminal illegals here, what the hell, they have taken over az. Send them home!

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Wrangling begins in contempt trial of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio

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Wrangling begins in contempt trial of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio

PHOENIX – Prosecutors painted former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio as a law enforcement leader who disregarded a federal judge’s orders to halt racial profiling of Latino motorists and passengers, while Arpaio’s attorneys said he followed the law “as the law exists” during opening statements in his federal criminal contempt trial.

Arpaio, in his first major public appearance in recent weeks, sat quietly in U.S. District Court as attorneys on both sides of his criminal contempt trial delivered their remarks.

A federal judge initially leveled a civil contempt charge in May 2016, accusing Arpaio of flouting an order a few years earlier to end his controversial program of stopping drivers based solely on the suspicion they were undocumented immigrants. Arpaio, Maricopa’s sheriff for 24 years, was referred for criminal charges in October, two weeks before the November election, which was won by Paul Penzone.

At least 170 undocumented immigrants were transferred to federal authorities for 17 months despite a federal judge’s order, prosecutor Victor Salgado said.

“He thought he would get away with it,” Salgado said.

Defense attorney Dennis Wilenchik said it was outrageous to say Arpaio deliberately defied a judge’s order.

“He followed the law as the law exists,” Wilenchik said.

Outside the court during a lunch break, Arpaio lawyer Mark Goldman said the former sheriff is not guilty of civil or criminal contempt.

“I believe that given the evidence that we will present and cross examination of the government’s witnesses will show that the sheriff was never in contempt of any order, let alone any criminal contempt,” Goldman told reporters.

Arpaio declined to comment on whether he will testify during the trial.

“I got great lawyers,” he said outside the courthouse.

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Sheriff Arpaio nevr demonstrated much knowledge of the principles of the US Constitution that I and others concerned about allegiance to the Constitution could detect. And for that reason he is not getting the support of many Arizonans of my acquaintance who believe he was justified in most of what he did, especially Re. illegal immigrants. I find that unfortunate. We now have in Maricopa County a sheriff who has made it clear he will ignore immigration law.

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lundbaek wrote: June 26th, 2017, 8:40 pm Sheriff Arpaio nevr demonstrated much knowledge of the principles of the US Constitution that I and others concerned about allegiance to the Constitution could detect. And for that reason he is not getting the support of many Arizonans of my acquaintance who believe he was justified in most of what he did, especially Re. illegal immigrants. I find that unfortunate. We now have in Maricopa County a sheriff who has made it clear he will ignore immigration law.
He needs to have a meeting with Gavin Seim. Gavin could teach him all about rule of law and unconstitutional men and women in law enforcement and their abstract view of what laws they are bound by their oath of office to follow, enforce, respect and honor, both them and those they serve.

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It is my understanding that the Constitutional Peace Officers and Sheriffs Association has tried to educate Arpaio in constitutional principles and to get him to join the organization, to no avail. So it seems he has lost a lot of support from constitutionalists

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Former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio's curernt lawyer and his former attorney had a heated exchange during the second day of Arpaio's criminal contempt trial. (Tuesday, June 27, 2017)

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Former advisers of Joe Arpaio testify that Arpaio knew nothing about the judge's order to ban immigration enforcement.

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How is ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio paying court fees?

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