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Wow, we do not want to get on the bad side of Brooklyn Judge Reena Raggi! Just look what happened to disgraced ex-cop Charles Schwarz when he went before Raggi yesterday to ask for a 13-month leniency in his five-year prison sentence. Then again, his sentence is for perjuring himself during the Abner Louima trial, but still. Schwarz admits to lying concerning his role in getting Louima into the bathroom of Brooklyn's 70th Precinct station house on August 9, 1997 where he was viciously sexually assaulted by at least former officer Justin Volpe, who is serving a 30 year sentence for the attack. Schwarz was jailed on the perjury rap after a federal jury was unable to decide if holding the Louima down constituted participating in the attack.
But back to Raggi. After Schwarz pled his case ("I accept responsibility for [the perjury], and I hope you grant me some leniency so I can return home to my family.") Raggi quickly dismissed any notion that Schwarz would be going anywhere early saying: "I don't think there is any doubt that there was someone else involved in this crime against Abner Louima. It was probably you, more than highly probably - or someone else." Furthermore she rejected his "very belated and halting acceptance of responsibility" as they "showed total contempt for the law and a system of justice you were sworn to uphold."
Meanwhile in other famous New York City crime news, David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz made the news again today after a Judge decided that he may have a case against his former lawyer who he says has stolen personal effects from him in order to profit from them.
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Go Reena!
If I might ever start feeling just a twinge of sympathy for what Schwartz might have to put up with in jail, I only have to remember why he was put there in the first place.
Yeah!
Boo Schwarz...
After all-
-He actually didn't do the crime, it was more likely someone else in the precinct. The judge pretty much said that-
"I don't think there is any doubt that there was someone else involved in this crime against Abner Louima. It was probably you, more than highly probably - or someone else."
(I mean-no doubt there!)
-The victim changed his story repeatedly-but you know the defendant was a cop-so let's hang him!
(Too bad that when Louima said there were 4 cops who abused him in the fifth or sixth variation of the story we couldn't throw 4 cops in jail.)
-Schwarz cut a deal with the Feds-which the judge apparently didn't like. It's good that Schawarz's family is suffering because of a thug like Volpe and another thug named Vinegard. The judge is a fool-fewer people will cop a plea now!
The silver lining-in 13 months Schwarz gets a book deal and will probably sue the government and even Louima for his repeated perjuries.....
Good for him.......