Craig: "I Have Been Advised Not To Attend" Hearing To Overturn Guilty Plea

[babylonsister]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/09/25/no-minnesota-trip-for-craig/

No Minnesota trip for Craig

Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — A Minnesota judge will be hearing Sen. Larry Craig's petition to overturn his guilty plea on a disorderly conduct charge in Minneapolis Wednesday, but Craig will not be at the hearing.

"I have been advised not to. I will not be attending," Craig, R-Idaho, told CNN.

He was arrested June 11 during a police sting in an airport men's room for allegedly making sexual overtures to an undercover male police officer. He entered a written guilty plea to the disorderly conduct charge in August.

In his petition to vacate the plea, Craig's attorney maintained the senator's "panic" over the possibility that the allegations would be made public drove him to accept a guilty plea without seeking legal advice and that he had been assured by the arresting officer that the matter would remain private.

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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/09/25/no-minnesota-trip-for-craig/

[Bluebear]

1. So first he refuses an attorney, now he is "advised" not to attend his own proceeding...

Everything else aside, this man is participating in making laws for the United States?

[yardwork]

8. Sounds like he's "cut and running" from the hearing.

Too scared to show up, I guess. Fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here. Brawk! Waterboarding is an effective way to learn information. Brawk! Sometimes torture is necessary. Brawk! Cut and run cut and run! Brawk brawk brawk.

[displacedtexan]

9. Don't forget he was "in a state of panic" for 52 days...

... before he pleaded guilty on Aug. 1st.

What a crock!

[Semper_FiFi]

2. Oh, for corn sakes! The man is an attorney and he does not understand the law?

Good grief!:eyes:

[atreides1]

6. He's not an attorney

Never attended law school, according to his bio he has a BA in Political Science he also went to George Washington University for graduate studies, but left.


'In 1969 he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Idaho. At the University of Idaho he was student body president and a member of the Delta Chi fraternity. He pursued graduate studies at George Washington University before returning to his family's Midvale ranching business in 1971.'

[Semper_FiFi]

12. I stand corrected. My apologies to attorneys everywhere.

I thought I had read somewhere that he had practiced military law before going into politics. My mistake. Thank you for setting me (ahem) straight.

[Little Star]

3. Thats what they all say...

"panic" over the possibility that the allegations would be made public drove him to accept a guilty plea without seeking legal advice and that he had been assured by the arresting officer that the matter would remain private.

I think the cop only said that he had no intention of notifying the press and he keep his word too!

[stranger81]

4. yeah, so he's not tempted to perjure himself . . . . [n/t]

[BootinUp]

5. He was skeerd.

so he lied and said he was guilty instead of seeking advice. Sure.... that makes sense. :sarcasm:

:nopity:

[Canuckistanian]

7. Is this supposed to impress the judge?

I don't know how the American system works, but if we wanted to petition a judge to reverse a guilty plea, we had better damn well show up.

[Occulus]

10. If HIS guilty plea gets overturned, I want my roomate's guilty plea overturned as well

His ex-wife and ex-stepson (emphasis on EX) railroaded him into a sex offense guilty plea. The little shithead "victim"- now in drug rehab- testified on the stand, under oath, that my roommate was ASLEEP at the time he "committed" his "offense".

The judge not only did not throw the case out of court following that testimony, she also accepted his guilty plea- a plea made because his own attorney (one of my roommate's friends actually put a second mortgage on his home to help my roommate afford this shyster) told him he was facing thirty years in Jackson State Pen. if convicted.

The "offense"? My roommate was lying on the couch, asleep, when his stepson crawled up there, too. His hand flopped over on the kid's crotch in his sleep- and the kid, as I said, ADMITTED as much on the stand, under oath.

This was shortly after the state's sex offender registry had been passed, and shortly after the judge had been elected. I wonder if there was a connection between those facts and his case... hmmmm.....

[partylessinOhio]

11. No need to show up, the "fix" is in.

Senator Craig will continue to be Senator Craig, fine upstanding man and all that with a wide stance.

[onethatcares]

15. I flew to New Mexico and back to Florida

everytime I walked into an airport restroom, I said, "I hope there are no republican senators in here" aloud. No one laughed, in fact, in DFW, it got really quiet, like whitenoise quiet.

[MannyGoldstein]

13. His Lawyers Fear He'll Have To Use The Men's Rooom (nt)

[lateo]

14. Tap tap tap