District Judge Won’t Throw Out Arpaio Conviction Without Oral Arguments

Joseph M. "Joe" Arpaio Joe Arpaio 'Tent City' at Maricopa County Jail, Maricopa County, Arizona, America - Feb 2015 *Full story: http://www.rexfeatures.com/nanolink/q4jw Tent City is regularly named as one of the wo... Joseph M. "Joe" Arpaio Joe Arpaio 'Tent City' at Maricopa County Jail, Maricopa County, Arizona, America - Feb 2015 *Full story: http://www.rexfeatures.com/nanolink/q4jw Tent City is regularly named as one of the worst prisons in America. The notorious convict camp is located in the Arizona desert where temperatures regularly top 130 degrees and more. As its name suggests inmates live outside in Army surplus tents that are unheated in the winter and uncooled in the summer. The only permanent buildings house showers and a canteen where meals are served. Tent City is the brainchild of Joe Arpaio, the six-time elected sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona. Arpaio styles himself as "America's Toughest Sheriff" and the controversial figure has been accused of a list of crimes, including abuse of power, misuse of funds and failure to investigate sex crimes. His jails have twice been ruled unconstitutional. He set up Tent City, which is an extension of the Maricopa County Jail, in 1993. He has since described Tent City, which can accommodate up to 2,126 inmates, as a 'concentration camp'. (Rex Features via AP Images) MORE LESS
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After President Donald Trump issued a pardon for former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the district court judge overseeing the case has approved Arpaio’s request to cancel his sentencing hearing.

But Judge Susan Bolton hasn’t completely thrown out the conviction, Arizona Central reported.

Arpaio was set to face sentencing in October for his criminal contempt-of-court conviction for ignoring a court order to stop holding people solely on suspicion of being undocumented.

Friday evening, the White House announced that Trump had granted a pardon for the controversial ex-sheriff who has been a Trump supporter since the early days of his campaign.

On Tuesday, Bolton ordered that Arpaio and the Department of Justice, which is prosecuting the case, file a memo on why the case should or shouldn’t be thrown out.

She scheduled an oral argument hearing for both sides to make their case on Oct. 4, which is one day before Arpaio was supposed to be sentenced. 

We look forward to the hearing, and hope that the court will make the appropriate ruling,” one of Arpaio’s attorneys, Mark Goldman, said.

The judge’s move comes just one day after Arpaio’s attorneys called out media companies for reporting that the ex-sheriff was convicted of racial profiling. They said the conviction had nothing to do with race.

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  1. Avatar for docb docb says:

    Yes, put it on the record…Excellent…

  2. The judge’s move comes just one day after Arpaio’s attorneys called out media companies for reporting that the ex-sheriff was convicted or racial profiling. They said the conviction had nothing to do with race.

    Not directly, no. It has to do with dingleberry flagrantly ignoring a court order to stop using his position to impose his racism on Arizona’s Latino community.

    So now we know: Trump’s very Nixonian promise to restore “Law and Order” doesn’t apply to Republican’t WASPs…

    (Or maybe, when Trump promised that, he was under the impression that his favorite TV show had been cancelled. It’s hard to tell with this guy…)

  3. How can Arpaio seek dismissal of the case? Isn’t acceptance of the pardon an admission of guilt? Had he fought the conviction through appeal after sentencing, he might still be able to argue his innocence but accepting a pardon used to mean that he was guilty. A pardon is not exoneration but mercy.

  4. “But Your Honor, transitively the laws and their customary interpretation don’t apply to Sheriff Joe, either!!. Because MAGA!!”

  5. Trump: Obama’s judges are running rampant. Or they must have Rapist blood in them. Not Real Amerikans.

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