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Newsjock

(11,733 posts) Fri Jan 16, 2015, 07:03 PM Jan 2015

Judge: Arpaio will face contempt hearing in April

Source: Arizona Republic

Sheriff Joe Arpaio will face a civil contempt hearing in federal court this spring following a judge's ruling.

U.S. District Judge Murray Snow ruled during a Thursday telephone conference that he will initiate a civil contempt of court proceeding against the six-term Maricopa County sheriff during a four-day mini trial in April.

Snow has repeatedly threatened to level criminal or civil contempt proceedings against the office, and the judge spent the last week reviewing pleadings in which attorneys for Arpaio tried to convince Snow to avoid taking the monumental step.

... Snow last month said he was fed up with Arpaio's defiance of the court's orders and vowed to refer the sheriff to the U.S. Attorney's Office for criminal-contempt prosecution unless Arpaio's attorneys could convince him otherwise.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2015/01/16/arpaio-federal-contempt-hearing-april-abrk/21869887/

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Judge: Arpaio will face contempt hearing in April (Original Post) Newsjock Jan 2015 OP

Aha! shenmue Jan 2015 #1

'bout time. isobar Jan 2015 #2

I can't wait to see him in his pink underwear! KamaAina Jan 2015 #3

The OP says civil contempt not criminal. former9thward Jan 2015 #5

It also says that the judge will refer the case to the US Attorney for prosecution, unless... ColesCountyDem Jan 2015 #6

No, that was last month. former9thward Jan 2015 #9

This message was self-deleted by its author rpannier Jan 2015 #10

But he did say it, and it was in the OP. ColesCountyDem Jan 2015 #11

Persons can be held (incarcerated) pugetres Jan 2015 #7

That only applies when they are trying to get someone to talk. former9thward Jan 2015 #8

Not true. ColesCountyDem Jan 2015 #12

Pink drawers 'em judge!!! DeSwiss Jan 2015 #4

The rot in that sheriff's office will take decades to clean out, even after Arpaio is dead. Archae Jan 2015 #13

Arpaio's arrogant defiance... gregcrawford Jan 2015 #14

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

1. Aha!

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 07:06 PM

Jan 2015

Seriously, he can kiss my ass.

isobar

(188 posts)

2. 'bout time.

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 07:13 PM

Jan 2015

He is one crap-ball.

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

3. I can't wait to see him in his pink underwear!

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 07:28 PM

Jan 2015

former9thward

(32,019 posts)

5. The OP says civil contempt not criminal.

Reply to KamaAina (Reply #3)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 07:40 PM

Jan 2015

If guilty that means a fine the county would pay.

ColesCountyDem

(6,943 posts)

6. It also says that the judge will refer the case to the US Attorney for prosecution, unless...

Reply to former9thward (Reply #5)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 08:07 PM

Jan 2015

... unless Arpaio's lawyers can convince him not to do so.

former9thward

(32,019 posts)

9. No, that was last month.

Reply to ColesCountyDem (Reply #6)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 08:17 PM

Jan 2015

In today's comment she set the case for a civil contempt hearing.

Response to former9thward (Reply #9)

rpannier This message was self-deleted by its author.

ColesCountyDem

(6,943 posts)

11. But he did say it, and it was in the OP.

Reply to former9thward (Reply #9)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 12:59 AM

Jan 2015

That was the point of my comment.

pugetres

(507 posts)

7. Persons can be held (incarcerated)

Reply to former9thward (Reply #5)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 08:14 PM

Jan 2015

for civil contempt. And since the charged person "holds the keys" to their own release, they are not accorded the same constitutional rights as those held for criminal contempt.

But, I'm doubtful that Arpaio will ever have to sit inside a cell.

former9thward

(32,019 posts)

8. That only applies when they are trying to get someone to talk.

Reply to pugetres (Reply #7)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 08:16 PM

Jan 2015

That is not the case here.

ColesCountyDem

(6,943 posts)

12. Not true.

Reply to former9thward (Reply #8)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 01:04 AM

Jan 2015

Federal judges can and do incarcerate individuals in civil contempt cases for a host of reasons.

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)

4. Pink drawers 'em judge!!!

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 07:33 PM

Jan 2015

- K&R

Archae

(46,335 posts)

13. The rot in that sheriff's office will take decades to clean out, even after Arpaio is dead.

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 01:06 AM

Jan 2015

I still remember one of his deputies taking a paper from a lawyer's table, behind a lawyer's back.

gregcrawford

(2,382 posts)

14. Arpaio's arrogant defiance...

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 09:44 AM

Jan 2015

... of explicit court orders is emblematic of the diseased belief that police are above, and not subject to, the laws the rest of us must obey. This totalitarian police state must not be allowed to establish precedents, or it will be that much more difficult to dismantle should we ever succeed in convincing the Teabag contingent that perhaps they would be wise to reconsider their positions, since they will have given away the very freedoms they supposedly wanted to protect.

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