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Showing posts with label penalty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label penalty. Show all posts
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Trump BEGS judge over $454m! He's denied
Rey Harris, TAG24 News/MSN, 2/22/24; Pfc. Sandoval, S. Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
NEW YORK, New York - Former President Donald John Trump has asked the judge in his civil business fraud trial to delay the penalties attached to the damages he owes [which amount to between $355 and $454.5 million when back dated interest is included].
According to ABC News, Trump's attorneys submitted the request on Wednesday for Judge Engoron to delay the enforcement of penalties by 30 days, citing the "magnitude" of the ruling on the trial as presenting a need for an "orderly post-judgment process."
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| Judge gave Trump 30 days to pay $454 million civil fraud judgment or post a bond to cover the amount to be able to appeal it. He'll owe an additional $112,000 in interest each day he doesn't |
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| How Democrats could disqualify Trum if the Supreme Court doesn't (The Atlantic) |
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| What could he have said? Please, Judge, please! I've got cash flow problems right now. I'm trying to get back in the White House. My wife hates me and won't touch me. My kids just want an inheritance. My daughter will no longer date me. For the love of Money, give me a break! |
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| Judge, please, I'm trying to get reelected. |
But the New York attorney general insists it shouldn't happen.
On Wednesday, Donald Trump and his legal team filed a request for a judge to delay penalties attached to damages he owes in his New York fraud trial.
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| I'm sorry, your Honor. I'm fundraising online. |
"The Attorney General has not filed any motion on notice, nor moved to settle the proposed Judgment," the filing states regarding New York Attorney General Letitia James, who has led the case. More:
Trump’s mad at Jimmy AGAIN, right wing’s nuttiest Republicans gather, and MyPillow Mike falling apart
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| Order! This court will come to order! There's nothing funny about this deluded man's fine. |
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(Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Trump loses another $100 million in court
Jimmy Kimmel Live, 2/21/24; Business Insider, 2/21/24; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
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| This can't be happening! I'm not a loser! I should never have acted out in court! |
- Rapist Donald Trump, convicted of defamation of his sexual assault victim, was ordered to pay $5 million.
- He faces a 9% per annum interest rate for the $355 million business fraud conviction and penalty against him.
- Judge Arthur Engoron ruled on Friday that the interest will be backdated as early as March 2019.
- That means Trump has already accrued $100 million in interest penalties. More
- Powerful union breaks 20-year precedent to hand Trump a huge win, donates to GOP
Friday, August 28, 2020
Navajos want say over their justice matters
Associated Press (AP via mail.com, 8/28/20); Xochitl, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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| Why isn't this map of Native American nations in the history books of the USA? |
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Jonathan Nez addresses crowd after being sworn in as president of the Navajo Nation in Fort Defiance, Arizona. Nez has asked Trump to commute death sentence of tribe member Lezmond Mitchell to life, citing the tribe's longstanding opposition to the death penalty in a 7/31/20 letter.
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Navajo Nation wants more say over criminal justice matters
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| US history of stealing children: ethnic cleansing |
Rest
Restoring stolen sovereignty
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| Indigenous History of USA |
The Navajo Nation had asked Pres. Trump to reduce Mitchell's sentence to life in prison. As the state execution neared, Trump took no action, and White courts declined to intervene.
The Navajo Nation said the situation highlights the need to restore tribes' ability to determine criminal justice matters on tribal lands, especially when it concerns Native victims and Native perpetrators.
Jurisdiction now falls to a mix of agencies, including a tribe, that respond depending on the exact location of the crime and who is involved.
Jurisdiction now falls to a mix of agencies, including a tribe, that respond depending on the exact location of the crime and who is involved.
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| Justice? Killing is not part of our belief system. |
“What we need to do is restore that authority and reaffirm it because it’s every nation’s sovereign right to handle these matters internally.” More
Natives only get negative national coverage
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| Comfort foods from fed staples |
Monday, August 10, 2020
J.J. Masters: Buddhist on Death Row (NPR)
Scott Simon, NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday, 8/8/20; CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly
David Sheff charts Jarvis Jay Masters' Buddhist journey in prison in a new book
TRANSCRIPT
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| The Buddhist on Death Row (David Sheff) |
HOST SCOTT SIMON: Jarvis Jay Masters is a [falsely] convicted murderer and an admired Buddhist practitioner and teacher of Buddhism who sits on Death Row.
David Sheff has written a book that's not just about the crime of which Masters was convicted and strong doubts raised about the case but what amounts to the remaking of a man in a forbidding place, The Buddhist on Death Row: How One Man Found Light in the Darkest Place.
David Sheff, the author of previous bestsellers that include Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction, joins NPR from Inverness, California. Thanks so much for being with us again.
David Sheff has written a book that's not just about the crime of which Masters was convicted and strong doubts raised about the case but what amounts to the remaking of a man in a forbidding place, The Buddhist on Death Row: How One Man Found Light in the Darkest Place.
David Sheff, the author of previous bestsellers that include Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction, joins NPR from Inverness, California. Thanks so much for being with us again.
AUTHOR DAVID SHEFF: Uh, Scott, thank you so much for having me.
SIMON: And we're also connected with Buddhist Jarvis Jay Masters from Death Row in San Quentin State Prison. We should expect periodic automatic interruptions on the line. Mr. Masters, thank you for being with us.
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| Finding Freedom: How Death Row...My Heart |
SIMON: Well, I understand you've just been sick with COVID, right?
MASTERS: Oh, yeah, yeah. I've had it. And it's a terrible, terrible three weeks for me, what and, yeah, I got sick, very sick. And it just was like in every other cell.
SIMON: Uh, David Sheff, of course we want to talk about your book and Mr. Masters' story, The Buddhist On Death Row. What did you see in the Jarvis Jay Masters story?
SHEFF: Well, I'd heard about Jarvis from friends who were in the Buddhist community. And the two things that I kept hearing over and over was that this man, who was framed, shouldn't be on Death Row.
- Jarvis Jay Masters wrote Finding Freedom: How Death Row Broke and Opened My Heart with his investigator Melody Ermachild Chavis (with foreword by American Buddhist nun and bestselling Tibetan Buddhist author Pema Chodron)
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| When Things Fall Apart |
And in spite of the fact that he was there and now it's been, you know, 30 years and 22 years in solitary confinement, he was one of the most extraordinary people that they'd met. His story was really about how a person changes and the remarkable transformation, because he was a person who could be as bitter, angry as anybody could be, and yet he was the opposite. He was this light in the lives of many, many people.
SIMON: Mr. Masters, we do want to talk about that spiritual journey, but I think you'll understand we don't want to lose, lose the fact that you are on death row, whether you agree with the conviction or sentence, or not, because you were convicted of assisting in the stabbing death of a prison guard named Dean Burchfield -- right? -- in 1985.
MASTERS: Yeah, absolutely. Later on that year, I was charged with two other guys, and we stood -- end up standing trial in 19 -- I think it was 1989, '90.
PRERECORDED VOICE: This call and your telephone number will be monitored and recorded.
MASTERS: And we were all three convicted, and I was the only one who was sentenced to death. And since then, this is where I've been.
SIMON: How did you find Buddhism?
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| That Bird Has My Wings (Jarvis Jay Masters) |
So I thought that was the best place I was right then -- you know, my life in relationship to death. And I start getting visits from this Buddhist community I got involved with, and I was so blessed because I did.
SIMON: David Sheff, what kind of difference did these people make in each other's lives?
SHEFF: Well, when I started to hear about Jarvis, I heard people talk about how he had impacted their lives. And, you know, first, as a journalist, I was skeptical. You know, first of all, everybody in prison basically says that they're innocent. And then the second one, people talked about him as if he was this -- I don't know -- this enlightened being in San Quentin, the Buddhist on Death Row.
And I began to do the research and talking to a lot of people, reading all the transcripts, reading boxes and boxes and boxes of material from the trials. And I became convinced that, you know, Jarvis is innocent. ...
SIMON: You know, a few minutes ago, I would've told you that I would never ask this question of someone on Death Row, but I feel -- are you happy?
MASTERS: (*Laughter*) Oh, wow, I never thought I'd get a question like that.
PRERECORDED VOICE: You have 60 seconds remaining.
MASTERS: You know, yeah, I am happy. I'm happy for, you know, all the things that I can think of that makes my life, give my life some quality, give my life some joys, give my life, you know, some people to care for it.
You know, you have to compare yourself to someone to say that. So compared to my environment, you know, compared to what people on these various tiers have in their lives, I am extremely blessed, you know? And I really mean that. More
(*Ironically*) Now let's kill him. Death sentence, Baby!
SIMON: You know, a few minutes ago, I would've told you that I would never ask this question of someone on Death Row, but I feel -- are you happy?
MASTERS: (*Laughter*) Oh, wow, I never thought I'd get a question like that.
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| Mass incarceration means we're all going in. |
MASTERS: You know, yeah, I am happy. I'm happy for, you know, all the things that I can think of that makes my life, give my life some quality, give my life some joys, give my life, you know, some people to care for it.
You know, you have to compare yourself to someone to say that. So compared to my environment, you know, compared to what people on these various tiers have in their lives, I am extremely blessed, you know? And I really mean that. More
(*Ironically*) Now let's kill him. Death sentence, Baby!
Monday, July 13, 2020
Federal death sentence starts again at 4 PM
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| Daniel Lewis Lee, 1997 (Dan Pierce/AP) |
Terre Haute, Indiana — The federal government is planning to carry out the first federal execution in nearly two decades on Monday, over the objection of the family of the victims and after a volley of legal proceedings over the coronavirus pandemic.
Daniel Lewis Lee, of Yukon, Oklahoma, is scheduled to [be executed by the federal government] by lethal injection at 4:00 pm on Monday at a federal prison in Indiana.
He was convicted in Arkansas of the 1996 killings of gun dealer William Mueller, his wife, Nancy, and her 8-year-old daughter, Sarah Powell.
The execution, the first of a federal death row inmate since 2003, comes after a federal appeals court lifted an injunction on Sunday.
It had been put in place last week after the victims' family argued they would be put at high risk for coronavirus if they had to travel to attend the execution. The family had vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court. More
COMMENTARY
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| Why would we approve if we don't kill? |
We oppose killing, particularly by the government in our name. It is collective bad karma to call for or applaud such a thing, a form of which is remaining silent. Silence is consent. The first precept is to abstain from taking the lives of living beings, a part of which is abstaining from encouraging others to kill. If we encourage or approve of such a thing, we are complicit in that karma. Stand against killing, against murder, against revenge, against executions, which have been shown to not prevent killing. It only coarsens us like a police state. Very few countries do such things, all of them more brutal than we imagine ourselves, as we imprison, torment, and warehouse more citizens than any other place in the world. We can do better.
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Slayer: the Executioner who went to Heaven
G.P. Malalasekera, Dictionary of Pali Proper Names (Pali Text Society vis palikanon.com/english) edited, updated, and expanded by Dhr. Seven, Pfc. Sandoval, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly
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| I like killing for the king. It's a job. |
He had copper colored teeth, tawny skin, and a body covered with scars. He wanted to join a gang of thieves, but for a long time, the ringleader refused to admit him -- on account of his inordinately cruel looks.
HE was eventually admitted, but when the band of thieves were captured, no one could be found who was willing to kill the large number (500) of them.
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| But the crowd demanded it and paid me to kill. |
The backstabbing slayer was afterwards appointed "public executioner" for the kingdom and held the post for 55 years. When however he became too old to behead a man with a single blow, another man was appointed in his place.
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Tambadathika was deprived of the four perks to which he had for so many years been entitled:
- old clothes
- milk porridge made of ghee
- jasmine flowers, and
- perfumes.
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| Wise Sariputra was compassionate. |
Tambadathika invited the great disciple (thera) in and showed him great hospitality. When Sāriputta began his words of thanksgiving, his host could not concentrate his thoughts to listen and benefit from the ennobling teaching -- worried and full of misgivings by memories of his terrible past karma.
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| Yes, harm was done, but good can be done, too. |
Tambadāthika accompanied Ven. Sariputra when he departed. But on his way back, he was gored to death by a mad cow. That cow was possessed by the same yakkhinī (yakshi = ogress) who had killed: Pukkusāti, Bāhīya of the Barkcloth, and Suppabuddha (DhA.ii.35; UdA.289). The Buddha declared that he had been reborn in the celestial Tusita heaven (DhA.ii.203ff). Source
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| The killer-crowd wants us to. |
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| Death penalty: modern mass murderers called British public executioners last century. |
Friday, March 15, 2019
Kamala Harris: fed moratorium on executions
Associated Press, eth Auberon,
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said Thursday that there should be a federal moratorium on executions.
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| Sen. Kamala Harris (Dem, CA) speaks at event in St. George, S.C., on March 9, 2019. Sen. Harris is spending two days in South Carolina, home of the first southern presidential primary in 2020, spending time with voters. |
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said Thursday that there should be a federal moratorium on executions.
The senator from California discussed the matter on National Public Radio, a day after Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California granted reprieves to 737 death row inmates and signed an executive order placing a moratorium on executions.
Harris was asked if there should be "a federal equivalent" to Newsom's order. She said, "Yes, I think that there should be." Asked if no one would be executed if Harris was president of the United States, she responded, "Correct, correct."
As California's attorney general, Harris defended the state's use of the death penalty. But in a statement Wednesday, she said it is "immoral, discriminatory, ineffective, and a gross misuse of taxpayer dollars."
She noted that black and Latino defendants were more likely to be executed than white defendants, as were poor defendants with poor legal representation versus wealthier defendants with good legal representation.
"The symbol of our justice system is a woman with a blindfold," she said. "It is supposed to treat all equally, but the application of the death penalty — a final and irreversible punishment — has been proven to be unequally applied."
As Harris launched her presidential bid, she said she was running as a "progressive prosecutor." But she has drawn scrutiny from some liberals for "tough on crime" positions she held as a California prosecutor, with her stance on the death penalty among those issues. More
Thursday, April 20, 2017
The Bell Tolls: Opposing Death Penalty in Ark.
Wisdom Quarterly (ANTI-DEATH PENALTY BUDDHISTS); Associated Press (ap.org)
The Latest: Appeals court delays execution at least an hour
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The latest on Arkansas' efforts to carry out [an unprecedented number of] executions before the end of April (all times local): 7:00 pm A federal appeals court has delayed an Arkansas inmate's execution for at least an hour to review his request to stop his lethal injection scheduled for tonight (Thursday, 4/20/17).
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| We'll all be guilty of murder when state kills |
Buddhism and Death
Maurice O’Connor Walshe (Wheel #261, rev. 2nd ed., BPS.lk) first published as Sangha Guide No. 3 by the English Sangha Trust, Dhammapadìpa, London ATI edition; edited by Wisdom Quarterly
Maurice O’Connor Walshe (Wheel #261, rev. 2nd ed., BPS.lk) first published as Sangha Guide No. 3 by the English Sangha Trust, Dhammapadìpa, London ATI edition; edited by Wisdom Quarterly
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| What does Buddhism have to say about death? British Buddhist scholar Walshe explains. |
The Traditional Christian View
This
asserts that humans have an immortal soul, created by God.
After death a human will, in some shape or form,
receive the reward or punishment for deeds on earth....
The Modern Secular View
According
to this view, which usually claims to be “scientific,” a human is just
another animal and, like the animals in the Christian view,
simply perishes totally at physical death....
The Buddhist Attitude
...The Buddhist attitude to both of these types of view is that they are extremes, neither of which is in fact true.
The first type of view is called in Buddhism “the heresy [teaching or wrong view] of eternalism” (sassataváda), while the second is called “the heresy of annihilationism” (ucchedaváda). They both in fact miss the point.
What actually happens according to Buddhism can only be clearly understood if we have some acquaintance with the Buddhist view of the general nature of humans.
But before considering this (as far as it is relevant to our subject), it may be as well to observe how the Buddhist view can be misinterpreted:
If we say, for instance, that in the Buddhist view human are not distinguished from by the possession of an “immortal soul,” then this looks very much like the Modern Secular position.
If, on the other hand, it is pointed out that according to Buddhism we reap the "rewards and penalties," after death, for our actions (karma) in this life, then this looks rather like the Traditional Christian view. If both propositions are stated to be correct, the result looks like a contradiction, though in fact it... More
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