jackassjudges

JACK-ASS
JUDGE'S

Instead of protecting my Constitutional Right(s)
The New Jersey State Judge's have been JACK-ASS'S!

Currently Judge sweeney is the latest Jack-Ass Judge to victimize "NJWEEDMAN" for exercising his Right to "FREE SPEECH".
The below commentary appeared in the
Philadelphia Inquirer on 10/27/2004

Dissent, once an ideal cherished in the First Amendment, now invites media attacks, hate Web sites, threats, job loss, and even the changing of one child's name.

Across the United States, hundreds of Americans have been arrested for protesting the Iraq war. The American Civil Liberties Union has documented allegations of wrongful arrest and police brutality from demonstrators at antiwar rallies in Washington and New York. Even Howard Stern has been virtually muffled, but none has been more directly persecuted than I have. The saying that everyone agrees with the concept and principles of free speech until you exercise that right by saying something they don't like applies even to New Jersey's judges.

Judges, of all people, should be aware of the right to free speech. What I say publicly is: The drug war is racist; legalize marijuana; abortion is murder; legalize prostitution; our war in Iraq is illegal; and I don't believe the government version of 9/11.

What New Jersey judges consistently do to me for saying such things is punish me and hide behind judicial immunity. The most recent example of this is the granting of a petition by Judge John Sweeney to change my child's surname from mine to my exfiancée's surname. The petition by the child's mother only cited my public political views in regards to legalizing marijuana as the reason.

She claimed my child may suffer some sort of negativity because of my political views. I opposed this motion in court in May. Millions of people say the same thing, millions of people believe it should be legal and, regardless of the illegality of it, millions use if for a variety of reasons, including me. This issue of marijuana's legalization is a nationwide political debate that many politicians and even some judges agree with. I have every right to enter this debate without fear that my children will be renamed.

Yet, the judge granted the petition. Just think about the implications of this. For expressing a particular political view, I was punished by having my child's name changed. I was proud to name my child after me. All of my children are named after me, and I'm a part of all of my children's lives.

I did not think the petition would be approved. I never heard of a "pro-abortion activist" having his child's name changed. My ex believes in abortion rights, so could I now petition to have my child's name changed because of that? Who do you think is the worse person to be named after, a person who supports the killing of an unborn baby, or a proud pothead?

I never heard of a politician who supported gay rights having something like this done to him. Imagine Gov. McGreevey and Mrs. McGreevey divorcing and a judge changing his kid's name based on his public political views: He is gay, supports same-sex unions, and is a Democrat. Imagine a Republican woman petitioning a judge to change her child's name because her ex-husband is a Democrat. The implications and disastrous precedent of the decision are outrageously un-America.

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Judge's being JACK-ASS's to "NJWEEDMAN"

ANOTHER JACK-ASS DECISION

by
"THREE BLIND MICE on the BENCH

Appeals court upholds marijuana conviction

By MIKE MATHIS

E-mail: mmathis@phillyBurbs.com

Burlington County Times

TRENTON - (June 3rd, 2004) An appeals court yesterday upheld the conviction of marijuana-legalization activist Ed "njweedman" Forchion, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2000 for possession of marijuana he planned to sell.

Forchion was charged with helping his brother and another man pick up a shipment of 40 pounds of marijuana at Bellmawr Industrial Park in Bellmawr, Camden County, in No-vember 1997. The marijuana had been shipped from a supplier in Arizona via Federal Express.

The Pemberton Township resident was tried on charges of distributing marijuana and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute in September 2000. He pleaded guilty to those charges and two unrelated charges during the trial.

He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in December 2000 and served 16 months before he was released and admitted to a supervisory program.

Although Forchion pleaded guilty, he later appealed his conviction. He contended the drug laws to which he pleaded guilty were unconstitutional and the judge who presided over his trial refused to allow him to argue that use of marijuana for medical or religious purposes should be permitted.

Forchion has long maintained his First Amendment rights are being violated because he cannot freely practice his faith as a Rastafarian or state his beliefs.

The judge also refused to allow Forchion to propose to the jury the concept of jury nullification, the process of permitting a jury to acquit a defendant because it feels the law he is accused of breaking is unjust.

Forchion, who acted as his own attorney at his trial, also contended he was denied effective assistance of counsel because the public defender who was assigned to assist him refused to argue those issues on his behalf.

The three-judge appeals panel disagreed with Forchion, ruling the trial judge acted properly when he limited Forchion's defenses.

Forchion faces other charges related to the marijuana conviction. He was indicted in Janu-ary for refusing to submit a DNA sample, required under a new state law of all state prisoners and parolees.

Forchion has challenged the constitutionality of the law in federal court, contending it is an after-the-fact form of punishment and an illegal invasion of his privacy.

If convicted, he faces 18 months in prison.

This decison by the 3 blind mice sitting on the New Jersey appellate court was a decision to protect the "NJ DRUG LAWS NOT THE CONSTITUTION", say's weedman! My appeal was clearly about the valid Government violations of my RIGHT(S) to a fair trial and Justice. These Jack-Ass Judge's decided to protect the state's drug laws instead of the Constitutional protections they are supposed to uphold!

This decision was constitutionally BOGUS!"

Marijuana advocate denied name change
By MIKE MATHIS
5/5/2004

TRENTON - Marijuana-legalization advocate Ed Forchion cannot change his name to njweedman.com, an appeals court has ruled.

Forchion maintains he wants to change his name to promote his advocacy for reform of marijuana laws, not to encourage the sale or use of marijuana, as the Camden County Prosecutor's Office contends.

The Pemberton Township resident also hoped to use the njweedman.com name in the fall during his third-party campaign to challenge U.S. Rep. Jim Saxton, R-3rd of Mount Holly.

Forchion's request was denied in March by a Superior Court judge in Camden County, who ruled Forchion advocates breaking marijuana laws and could use his name to sell the drug.

The appeals court agreed, saying Forchion advocates law breaking and his advocacy encourages others to possess and use marijuana.

"He admits, at the very least, to smoking marijuana as well as to purchasing it for himself, and on a few occasions for others as well," the three-judge panel wrote in its nine-page decision. "One cannot smoke marijuana without possessing it, and purchasing for another is a form of distribution."

Forchion said yesterday he plans to appeal the decision.

"I haven't sold weed in years," Forchion said. "I can't get away from the fact that I used to. I just want to ex-press my political views by saying marijuana should be legal."

Email: mmathis@phillyBurbs.com

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