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DEL.ICIO.USThis homicide case had a congressman as a juror. The verdict was ‘guilty.’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Very rarely do you hear of a congressman doing time on a jury.
And the Insider has never heard of a congressman sitting on a jury in a homicide case.
But that’s what happened this week in Fulton County. U.S. Rep. Tom Price, a Republican from Roswell, confirmed that his re-election efforts were put on hold for four days this week to hear a case of voluntary manslaughter.
Price and other jurors found 30-year-old Kelly Hickson guilty. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
The congressman didn’t offer any details of the deliberations. Heck, he wouldn’t even say what the case was about. “All I did was answer the summons and do my civic duty,” Price said. And that’s all he would say.
According to the office of District Attorney Paul Howard, the case involved a 2004 incident in which 28-year-old Jamon Cromwell and his friends were leaving the Queen City strip club in Atlanta’s West End. Hickson and Cromwell began arguing over money — until Hickson pulled a gun and shot Cromwell in the stomach.
Cromwell died a month later. The defendant claimed to have shot Cromwell, who was unarmed, in self-defense. Obviously, a jury of Cromwell’s peers, including the two-term congressman, didn’t buy it.
Price, by the by, faces Democrat Bill Jones on the November ballot.
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By Speaking of the court system
October 11, 2008 12:46 AM | Link to this
DeKalb County is a cesspool of corruption. Goes back forever, to Pat Jarvis, Syd Dorsey, John Evans, etc. Charges against 11 people for ticket fixing…by court employees? Where is the oversight, the checks & balances? Taxpayer money down the drain. No elected official in DeKalb gives a damn abot corruption. And Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker is a joke who would never go after corruption in the most Democratic county in the state.
www.ajc.com/metro/content/printedition/2008/10/10/metrail.html
DEKALB COUNTY Ticket-fixing probe leads to charges
A long-running investigation of allegations of ticket fixing by DeKalb County Recorders Court employees has led to charges against five court employees and six other people, a police spokesman said Thursday. The case came to light in January when court employee Charlene Johnson was charged with accepting a bribe. Another person, Marlene Findley, was charged with conspiring to defraud the government, according to court records. Police spokeswoman Keisha Williams said she did not have the names of others charged in the case. She said detectives plan to interview 15 more people.
By loflyer
October 11, 2008 6:15 AM | Link to this
Expect some grand jury indictments next year after the change of admin. Richard Stogner has done some questionable deals with Vernon Jones knowing what was going down. We expect Stogner to be indicted and Jones to walk. I will be leaving county employment shortly due to my extremely low pay for working my butt off. The highly paid CEO and Commissioners are rarely seen in their offices but demand full time pay and hold county employees in contempt. Frack ‘em!
By Dennis
October 11, 2008 7:35 AM | Link to this
Maybe the less time our Congressmen spend doing their job the better.
Hank Johnson supports the passage of House bills that will allow up to 550,000 additional foreign nationals to enter the US and compete with unemployed US citizens for jobs. These are jobs that Americans need to feed their families and pay their mortgages.
We have had enough with the issuance of visas that add to our population. Our population will grow from 300 million now to 400 million in 2040. Jobs, energy, food, clean water will all see increased demand. We are unable to maintain our current infrastructure of schools, roads and highways, bridges and dams yet our politicians allow more foreign nationals into our country and local taxpayers pick up the bulk of the tab for mostly unskilled workers.
We need politicians that will fight for the interests of US citizens and not put the interests of foreign nationals above them.
Get rid of Hank Johnson and those like him that support additional visas for foreign nationals.
By The Path to Socialism
October 11, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this
“Obviously, a jury of Cromwell’s peers, including the two-term congressman, didn’t buy it.”
Me thinks that the convicted murderer/strip club attendee is not a peer of Congressman Price. And thank God for that.
By Andy in West Cobb
October 11, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this
I think that Congress should listen to Price verdict on another issue… Bailout! Congress is guilty of taking care of Wallstreet and leaving Joe six-pack to pick up the tab. Saxby Chambliss, you sent me an e-mail telling me that it was not a give away program. Your e-mail also said that the Indian Arrows (for the boy scouts) was not pork. Dang, just how stupid do you really think we are? This will be the first time I have voted for a democrat…hope all my friends will join me.
By 6th District Voter
October 11, 2008 6:36 PM | Link to this
OH, BY THE WAY, the people of the 6th District have a choice this year!
BILL JONES! Vietnam Veteran, Airline Pilot, Business Owner, Volunteer. Please consider what the status quo has been giving us for all these years. It’s time to move forward and let go of the rich-boy-scratches-rich boy, take-care-of-my-friends-and-to-heck-with-you politics that are dragging us backward in the brisk murky current of corruption and neglect. INTEGRITY, people! Now wouldn’t that be a rereshing change?
By Bitter EX democrackkk
October 13, 2008 6:25 AM | Link to this
Hey Andy in W.Cobb…’voting democrackkk’ will NOT solve your problem, but only exacerbate it much worse.
STRIVE to be SMARTER than a democrackkk*
*spelled with 3 Ks to HONOR the democrat heritage as the ORIGINAL ‘party’ of SLAVERY, as they continue to ENSLAVE us daily!
By Rale Krowe
October 13, 2008 6:34 AM | Link to this
Adult Only OBAMA Video. must be over 21 to watch..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK5TprmkgRw&feature=related
By charlie boy
October 13, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this
Gooooooooood morning / Tom Price. What a pile of s**. Boy would i like to be on his jury. Rumors are that he quit his practice before he was indicted for fondling a patient. AAmco
By jaylin
October 13, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this
Andy is incorrect. Price’s verdict on bailout was not as he implies. I suspect Andy is not really a disgruntled Republican. And yes, a refreshing change would be that the current party in charge of Congress(and it isn’t the GOP) would hold its members to a modicum of integrity and ask its presidential candidate to come clean on all the unanswered questions that discerning Americans need answered. And presidential debates don’t ask the important questions. The two GOP honorary Co-chairmen of the Presidential Debate Commission are both actually dead!!! That tells you how the questions/questioner are selected.
By Will Jones
October 22, 2008 1:35 AM | Link to this
Tom Price says the man’s “guilty?” Tom Price is guilty of Misprision of Treason, at the very least.
Given Price’s demeanor (Castillian Richmondese/Ephraimitic) and complicity with a caught and confirmed closet-queen’s 9/11 treason (James Guckert’s lover, George W. Bush), it’s is highly possible Kelly Hickson is innocent as he claims.
Price is obviously a deviant personality. His support for an administration, cheated into office by the Roman Catholic Supreme Court Justices in ‘Bush v. Gore,’ and by confirmed Ohio vote fraud in 2004, suggest he is neither an honorable person, nor a man.
Being a member of a Jury is a terrible honor. As Price is clearly not a man of honor it seems highly unlikely his role on the jury which sent Hickson to jail for 25 years was an honorable one.
If Price’s conscience doesn’t force him to denounce the Bush treason we all know he committed, how is it he stands in righteous judgment on this jury?
Life doesn’t work out in a confused manner. Price is a philistine, a hypocrite, and by his speech, most likely a pervert. Such as that is not likely ever a voice of righteousness…which he would have had to be had the jury rendered a true verdict.
May G-d and the righteous good and decent voters of Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District render justice in the matter.