Maybe this is why Hiram Monserratte passed on that sweet plea deal last week? Is the fix in?
A judge will decide State Senator Hiram Monserrate's fate.
The 42-year-old Queens state senator was in court today, where it was decided a jury would not be seated at his assault trial. Instead, a judge alone will hear the case.
Unlike other people here, I think the slasher from Queens and his very expensive lawyer think they've got a better shot with a single judge than with 12 of his peers. Why would they think that? My guess is that he's guilty (innocent until proven, sure. blahblahblah.) and that infamous video tape will prove it.
Video cameras captured images of Mr. Monserrate throwing what prosecutors say was the card and her purse down a trash chute. After she was slashed, Ms. Giraldo is seen on video holding a towel to her face, ringing a neighbor's doorbell and clutching at a banister as Mr. Monserrate tries to yank her away. Justice William M. Erlbaum denied requests by news media organizations to make the tapes public before trial.
Bypassing closer hospitals, Mr. Monserrate drove Ms. Giraldo to Long Island Jewish Medical Center, on the Queens-Nassau border, where, according to court papers, medical workers said she told them that "her injuries were not due to an accident."
I think Hiram's pricey lawyer knows that the tape was going to convict him if it was seen by a jury. That is what was so strange about them saying no to a deal that would have let the slasher keep his seat. Now they are going to roll the dice with the judge.
Or is it really a gamble at all? What do they know that we don't?
Adama Brown speaks the truth:
even a highly paid jury consultant, one of those guys who specializes in trying to rig trials by selecting the right jurors, told him that he was guilty as hell and going to prison if he faced any jury with an average IQ higher than that of a rutabega. |
