From the LVRJ:
Clark County prosecutors are crying foul after a judge unilaterally declared
that two reputed drug mules carrying $1 million in heroin were stopped by state
troopers only because they were "driving while Hispanic,'' and let them out on
unusually low bail.
One of the men has since vanished.
Prosecutors wanted bail set at $750,000 for Jezer Sal Garcia-Anzar and Kevin
Allan Perez-Fabela, who now face the possibility of life in prison.
But Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Eric Goodman — the son of Las Vegas Mayor
Carolyn Goodman and former mayor Oscar Goodman —questioned whether the
defendants' constitutional rights had been violated and said the only reason a
Nevada Highway Patrol officer pulled their car over was because the driver was
Hispanic. The Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures.
The judge denied Chief Deputy District Attorney Tina Talim's request to
reconsider the bail Wednesday and noted "that it is not illegal to drive when
the defendant is Hispanic," court records indicate.
Goodman set bail for the driver, Garcia-Anzar, at $40,000 and the passenger,
Perez-Fabela, at $30,000. Both posted bail this weekend, before the prosecutor
presented drug trafficking charges to a grand jury, which handed up a
seven-count indictment. http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/judge-sets-low-bail-accused-drug-mules-stopped-driving-while-hispanic
I think the chances these drug thugs are not going to show up to their court hearings.
Goodman should be impeached for this.
But the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree.
His dad, Oscar Goodman was a lawyer to thugs/Mafia thugs in Vegas.
And now Eric Goodman is the judge for drug thugs.
BIG difference.............Everyone is entitled to a lawyer in a criminal proceedings. Everyone is NOT entitled to their own judge in criminal proceedings.
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