The charges were dropped and sealed at Romney’s request.If they were sealed, how do I know about it? Is this some sort of violation of the law? Should someone be going to jail? What about the right to privacy? If it works for sex, why can't it work for sealed cases?
Regards — Cliff
Not exactly. Romney threatened to sue for false arrest and the officer who made the arrest agreed to drop the charges and subsequently the case was sealed. Actually, in a strictly legal sense, there was at that point no case, and thus, nothing to quash except the circumstances leading up to the case being dismissed.
ReplyDeleteThis is a perfect example of how infantile and irrelevant the media has become in its alleged role to "inform." It is possible that Romney has gotten a few parking tickets as well.....at some point in his life....or perhaps was sighted spitting on the sidewalk....or committing some other egregious environmental crime. The search continues.
Of all the minutiae in the world to absorb, this sort of unimportant tattle tale trivia used to smear a candidate is at best.....trashy.....and in fact.....totally without meaning and therefore...significance.
Talk about setting expectations!
ReplyDeleteMatt Taibbi: "The people who work for the wire services and the news networks are physically incapable of writing sentences like, 'This election is even more over than the Knicks-Heat series.' They are required, if not by law then by neurological reflex, to describe every presidential campaign as 'fierce' and 'drawn-out' and 'hotly-contested.'"
"But this campaign, relatively speaking, will not be fierce or hotly contested. Instead it'll be disappointing, embarrassing, and over very quickly, like a hand job in a Bangkok bathhouse. And everybody knows it. It's just impossible to take Mitt Romney seriously as a presidential candidate. Even the news reporters who are paid to drum up dramatic undertones are having a hard time selling Romney as half of a titanic title bout."