Joe Barton considers guilty plea
Discussing how to use Joe Barton’s pot bust to challenge marijuana laws as unconstitutional, conversation with Joe Friendly and Paula Gloria on phone with Joe Barton and attorney Karl Pearson. Joe Barton talks of his plan to refuse offer of plea of guilty to growing marijuana but Karl Pearson urges accepting the deal and not expecting justice from our corrupt courts. Joe Friendly urged Joe Barton to limit his challenge to insisting on a pretrial hearing on constitutionality but Barton insists on continuing to argue all the issues he has raised, including challenging the court’s jurisdiction and illegal search and seizure, as well as constitutionality. Later as it turned out after the video, Joe does cop a plea but then asks Judge Donald A. Williams to undo it. After papers are filed and a hearing, Judge Williams won’t let Barton take back his plea and insists his 3 years’ unsupervised probation is an unusually lenient sentence. Barton persists, bringing along to hearings the Black Prince of the Cameras In The Courts issue, Posr A Posr, pronounced, he insists, as if spelled Poser A Poser, who eloquently persists in demanding the judge’s agreeing to face a camcorder as the realistic update of our constitutional right to a public trial until court proceedings are institutionally videoed as well as audio recorded or better yet: online! Williams keeps ruling down Posr, but with a bit of weight on his conscience which he seems to make up for with a warm friendliness to Barton …
Joe Friendly Rocks! Even when I pick on him. He’s good Jew. I mean Joe… 😉
Marijuana and all drugs should be made legal and turn the money gained from the useless drug war into treatment centers for substance abusers.
I offer this reasoning to lay on a judge to get him to realize the actual unconstitutionality of the laws criminalizing marijuana: With fundamental, constitutionally protected, 9th Amendment not enumerated, individual human rights at stake, particularly freedom of thought along with the rights of liberty and the pursuit of happiness, there needs to be more basis for the legislation than politics. The recent California vote on Proposition 19 shows us all the basis is only politics.
I guess it shows, that if more people would not bend over and not be so chicken necked, the system will eventually collapse. Community by community, everyone grow the stuff. Go in front of the judge. And cram the system up so much it would have to change. That is my opinion, or something like that. :). This subject goes on.
Great Show, Paula
Free Barton!!!..Legalize Cannabis!!!
@arlichar11 Friendly was pretty upset at Barton to the point that he did not want to go to court and others who did arrive in court upon reading what Barton wrote figured it would piss off the judge so badly that he would be in jail for a super long time BUT instead as Friendly states here Jay and Joe got no probation, no fine and no imprisonment. what do you supposed THAT means?
@paulagloria barton… friiendly handles his anger a lil better..lol
@joefriendly Carl Person talking here was talking BEFORE any terms of a plea were considered….Joe and Jay took the plea to flee injustice as prior to taking the plea the court was stonewalling them, not answering any of their motions or bill of particulars and expecting them to know the formalities to not enter an invalid search warrant into evidence. the reason they gave the good plea was to protect the officers as had they won it would have shown the officers acted illegally
@arlichar11 again did you mean Joe Friendly or Barton?
@paulagloria and artichar11.
As it turned out, altho the trial judge would not allow Joe Barton to withdraw his guilty plea he sentenced him to no probation, no fine and no imprisonment.
@arlichar11 which Joe, Barton or Friendly? Both are upset.
poor joe is so upset , understandably, but without calm and rational proceedings he is only asking for more trouble…the system is messed up, we as the people should have power to change things like that, unfortunately most people dont care or dont believe anything is wrong