More Affluenza and Another Judge That Needs to Be Removed

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

https://buffalonews.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-who-sexually-assaulted-4-teen-girls-in-lewiston-home-gets-probation/article_c247289a-466d-11ec-b23d-43b7373c17e9.html

Any more doubts that the system is broken?

Hopefully there is some room to appeal this.

 

[nakedfrog]

"I agonized, I'm not ashamed to say I actually prayed over what the appropriate sentence would be," Murphy said.

Well, you fucking should be.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

A judge sentenced a rapist to probation. One of his victims warns "he will offend again"

Christopher Belter pleaded guilty to sex crimes against four teenage girls. He was sentenced to eight years of probation.

www.cbsnews.com

A judge sentenced a rapist to probation. One of his victims warns "he will offend again"

Gee, ya think?

 

[MrSquished]

Rich white male privilege at work here. If that guy was black the judge would have thrown the book at him.

 

[Vic]

Dbag is a repeat offender too.

WTF

 

[MrSquished]

I emailed this clown's clerk and said how offensive this ruling was and how we all know if the perp was black or brown they'd have the book thrown at them, etc...

 

[HomerJS]

"He is privileged, he comes from money, he is white," Cohen said of Belter.

Is there any other explanation in todays United States of America?

 

[digiram]

Right around my neck of the woods. Wow.
Doesn’t surprise me sadly. Rich doc driving dui killed a girl. No jail time a few years back around here.

 

[BoomerD]

What good is having money if you can't use it to buy a judge now and again?

 

[ch33zw1z]

Oh, well if the judge prayed on it, then it must be the white outcome

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Appropriate sentence 'Life in prison'.

Golleee Judgeee, that t'weren't hard at all!

 

[mikeymikec]

His attorneys told the court "he was tremendously remorseful for what he's done."

Sorry he got caught after the fourth time, that's all.

 

[soulcougher73]

What good is having money if you can't use it to buy a judge now and again?

It's how they roll.

 

[iRONic]

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Is there any other explanation in todays United States of America?

Short and succinct. Pretty much says it all. Sad AF...

 

[pauldun170]

Mr. Belter’s father, who is also named Christopher and is divorced from Mr. Belter’s mother, is a senior partner at Goldberg Segalla, a large law firm where, according to The American Lawyer magazine, some partners earn up to $1 million a year. (He, Mr. Belter’s mother and her current husband, Gary Sullo, are named as defendants in a lawsuit filed by M.M.’s family. https://www.niagara-gazette.com/new...cle_26bddc65-8558-5ed7-9a33-9d1b945e7616.html)

Belter’s father, Christopher Belter Sr.,... He is not facing any criminal charges or accusations of wrongdoing on connection to his son’s case.

Vacanti, 47, is an attorney at the Law Offices of Tricia Vacanti, according to her Facebook page. She studied psychology at the University of Buffalo and graduated from SUNY Buffalo Law School. Vacanti was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1999, according to public records. Her 53-year-old husband, Sullo, is the CEO of Tramec Sloan LLC, a manufacturing company, according to the company.

When Mr. Belter was arrested, the authorities also charged his mother, Tricia Vacanti, with supplying alcohol and marijuana to teenagers at parties at the house on various occasions. Mr. Sullo and a friend, Jessica Long, were also charged with serving minors alcohol. All three have pleaded not guilty and are awaiting trial, court officials said.

During the leadup to Belter’s sentencing, Murphy tried to bar the media from publishing Belter’s name after a hearing, despite it taking place in open court and the fact that Belter’s name had been previously reported, according to The Buffalo News.

Parents like these are not unheard of around here.
Funny enough, the moms who typically promote this shit are divorced, blond and use the same batch of excuses.

 

[pauldun170]

That moment when you realize that you have acquaintances who went to Buffalo around the same time as Vacanti and you are patiently waiting for your wife to come home to see if "Vacanti" sounds familiar.

 

[Dave_5k]

Sorry he got caught after the fourth time, that's all.

I'd just note that it was the fourth time that the girl was willing to come forward. Very high probability there were more victims that weren't willing to testify.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

That moment when you realize that you have acquaintances who went to Buffalo around the same time as Vacanti and you are patiently waiting for your wife to come home to see if "Vacanti" sounds familiar.

Always fun when you start recognizing names in the news.

 

[woolfe9998]

From reading several articles, sounds like the judge was suckered by his fake remorse act. Funny he didn't feel enough remorse after the first crime to not crime again, and again, and again. Nope, no remorse until he got caught.

Bear in mind that he already cut a sweetheart plea deal with the DA before this. The two felonies and two misdemeanors he plead guilty to did not really match the crimes he committed. But he could still get up to 8 years, then got zero.

He's serial. He's going to re-offend. Which will be on the judge.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

A judge sentenced a rapist to probation. One of his victims warns "he will offend again"

Christopher Belter pleaded guilty to sex crimes against four teenage girls. He was sentenced to eight years of probation.

www.cbsnews.com

A judge sentenced a rapist to probation. One of his victims warns "he will offend again"

Gee, ya think?

Or, you know, escalate the violence. But the judge 'prayed on it' so if it's cool with jesus, it's cool with the judge.

 

[Vic]

From reading several articles, sounds like the judge was suckered by his fake remorse act. Funny he didn't feel enough remorse after the first crime to not crime again, and again, and again. Nope, no remorse until he got caught.

Bear in mind that he already cut a sweetheart plea deal with the DA before this. The two felonies and two misdemeanors he plead guilty to did not really match the crimes he committed. But he could still get up to 8 years, then got zero.

He's serial. He's going to re-offend. Which will be on the judge.

Fat chance. A friend of my wife's was f'ing murdered by her estranged husband a couple weeks ago after a judge refused a restraining order. And nothing is likely to happen to that judge any more than anything is likely to happen this judge after this sicko rapes again. That just seems to be how it is.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

From reading several articles, sounds like the judge was suckered by his fake remorse act. Funny he didn't feel enough remorse after the first crime to not crime again, and again, and again. Nope, no remorse until he got caught.

Bear in mind that he already cut a sweetheart plea deal with the DA before this. The two felonies and two misdemeanors he plead guilty to did not really match the crimes he committed. But he could still get up to 8 years, then got zero.

He's serial. He's going to re-offend. Which will be on the judge.

You think the judge gives a fuck? They were asking for it is likely what the piece of shit was really thinking.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

I'd just note that it was the fourth time that the girl was willing to come forward. Very high probability there were more victims that weren't willing to testify.

There is no way that number isn't at least ten. Fucking sickening. Crooked ass judge probably had his own four teen girls he raped when he was a 17 year-old privileged white kid.

 

[Sunburn74]

Isn't the first step to a recall like a petition or something like that?

 

[woolfe9998]

Fat chance. A friend of my wife's was f'ing murdered by her estranged husband a couple weeks ago after a judge refused a restraining order. And nothing is likely to happen to that judge any more than anything is likely to happen this judge after this sicko rapes again. That just seems to be how it is.

Fat chance of what? I said it would be his fault. I never said he’d face consequences. Frankly, I’m not sure he should. Judges can hand out hundreds to thousands of sentences in their careers. If they are personally held accountable for every arguably wrong sentence, be it too severe or not severe enough, no one would ever be a judge. Because they’re inevitably going to make a bad decision with resulting harm some time or other.

There is little doubt in my mind that this was a terrible ruling. But I’d need to see a pattern before supporting something like removal from the bench. Like a pattern of disparate sentencing based on race or type of crime.

As to your wife’s friend, I’m sorry to hear that. But I must point out that restraining orders generally do not deter murder. A misdemeanor offense for violating an RO is irrelevant to one intent on murder.