Comments on Advance Indiana™: Court Of Appeals Panel Faces Difficult Choices In Charlie White Case

Indiana is proceeding down the wrong path when it ...

2014-12-11T09:44:06.553-05:00

Indiana is proceeding down the wrong path when it contemplates laws so complicated and convoluted. These type of laws should be simple to understand and easy to adjudicate. Residency laws should be understandable by the regular guy in the street. The average voter. Making this case so very complicated just inspires mistrust in the electorate and promotes the idea that prosecutions are rigged for one side or another and bought and sold based on politics and money. I am a simple man. I’ve always thought Charlie White was a bit of a buffoon. But I don’t think anything he did was criminal. Not even close. I think Carl Brizzi provided ineffective counsel. And I think that’s shocking considering he was once the most powerful prosecutor in Indiana. The Court of Appeals should reverse Charlie’s conviction on all grounds. And I continue to believe Carl Brizzi should be disbarred, for reasons which have become well known to most of us. If Evan Bayh and Dick Lugar weren’t prosecuted for residency fraud, then Charlie White’s case is simply unfair and the reasons unintelligible to the average Hoosier. The Courts are a continuing embarrassment by indulging these ridiculous legal shenanigans.

I think it's pretty clear that the right thing...

2014-12-11T07:40:38.350-05:00

I think it's pretty clear that the right thing to do is to overturn his conviction.

"Judge Vaidik appealed to White's attorne...

2014-12-10T23:22:11.903-05:00

"Judge Vaidik appealed to White's attorney, Andrea Ciobanu, to boil down the strongest issue she and her fellow panelists"

That's a horse&&&& excuse for lawyering. Hear the entire case, judge. You sure get paid enough.

"There's an old adage that hard cases make bad law, and this might be one of those cases."

This isn't at all a hard case. Under U.S. law, the homeless can register to vote using a park bench as an address. A man with a complicated life is entitled to his own declaration of residence.

"That's a key point White's attorney made in his appeal, although Judge May was quick to remind her that just because there is no precedent for someone being criminally prosecuted for a particular act that alone doesn't get a defendant off the hook."

More horse&&&&. If there is going to be a first prosecution for a criminal act years after the law is passed, it's incumbent upon the government to clarify and warn.

From your notes, it looks like Indiana is well on its way to being a resurrection of East Germany.

The message keeps getting clearer: they don't want you to vote.

One person, one vote does not apply in Indiana. One person, no vote is the rule in the Hoosier State.

If one paperwork slip-up lands you in jail as a felon for voting, who would be dumb enough to risk it?

I hope White is smart enough to appeal a negative ruling to the U.S. Courts. This is an issue where Chicago needs to slap around Indiana, again, by embarrassing the stupid Indiana courts.

Voting is a fundamental right, and Indiana's laws utterly destroy that right, tearing right through every level of scrutiny.

"While the judges may believe White was playing fast and loose with the residency laws"

Bull. He resided in Indiana, and he registered and voted in Indiana. This isn't a hard case. Registration, itself, already is a significant burden on voting.

The new Vince Flynn series. Small guy knows and se...

2014-12-10T23:10:46.608-05:00

The new Vince Flynn series. Small guy knows and sees too much.