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District Judge Should Be Fired Not Promoted

Obama Again Shows Lack Of Ethics And Christian Values

Robert Chatigny a sitting District Judge has been nominated by Barack Hussein Obama to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. Chatigny should be fired for extremely bad judgment, a poor judicial temperament and a predilection for allowing sexual deviants to leave prison early to walk among us again.

Judge Chatigny currently serves as a district court judge in Connecticut. In that capacity, he specializes in one area: assisting sexual predators through downward departures and preventing them from receiving the death penalty, even after a number of gruesome rapes and murders. His lifetime appointment should be terminated for bad behavior. Instead, Obama has tapped him for a promotion.

These are some examples:

• He reduced the sentence of a 27 year-old man by no less than 21 months, after the man had met a 15-year old girl on MySpace and traveled across state lines to have sexual relations with her. The excuse for the light sentence: the defendant, after being caught, regretted his wrong doing and the illicit sexual conduct only happened once. (United States v. Palmeira, No. 07-CR-116 (2007)).

• He sentenced one child porn defendant to probation, when the sentencing range provided for no less than 15 months. The excuse for this one: the defendant had an “extraordinary traumatic upbringing.” (United States v. Musacchio, No. 99-CR-120 (1999)).

• He reduced the sentence of one defendant by more than 53% from the sentencing guidelines, even though the defendant had more than 1000 images and videos of child pornography. The bases for this reduction: the defendant’s “extraordinary post-arrest rehabilitation from drug addiction, alcoholism and family circumstances.” (United States v. Graziani, No. 07-CR-281 (2008)).

• Judge Chatigny even struck down part of Connecticut’s Megan’s Law, requiring the registration of sex offenders. Fortunately, the Supreme Court reversed this bad behavior. (Doe v. Lee, 132 F. Supp.2d 57 (D. Conn. 2001), aff’d, 271 F.3d 38 (2d Cir. 2001), rev’d, 538 U.S. 1 (2003)).

Chatigny embraces Obama’s empathy standard. Judge Chatigny has embraced it, unfortunately, not for the victims but for the criminals. In criticizing the mandatory minimums, he has never been apt to follow, Judge Chatigny stated: “Empathy for individuals involved in a case inevitably comes into play, as it should.” (Judge Chatigny, Speech to the American Constitution Society, University of Connecticut School of Law, Veteran’s Day 2003).

As a judge, Chatigny intervened on behalf of a serial rapist and murderer to prevent his execution. During the process, Judge Chatigny called Michael Ross, Connecticut’s Roadside Stranger, who confessed to killing 8 women, the “least culpable person on death row” said he “should have never been convicted” and wanted to basically free Mr. Ross because he believed sexual sadism was a mitigating factor. (In re Charges of Judicial Misconduct, 465 F.3d 532 (Conn. 2006)).

Obama shows once again with a nomination like this that he has no ethics or Christian values. Obama will do anything to promote his socialist agenda. Obama will put people in harms way of sexual predators to promote his agenda.