Supplying cartels? The ATF hates competition.

Sounds like he was dealing in firearms without a license and through his multiple purchases got on their radar.
Someone (maybe even ATF) probably told him he needed an FFL if he continued.

Even an FFL won't get you out of lying on a 4473.

If I am on the jury, it's most likely "not guilty".

One of the guns he is accused of illegally selling was sold to him by my uncle.

it depends on the evidence for me, but I'm not a fan of gun laws myself either

I don't know. How many people did he fuck over while on the bench enforcing unjust, oppressive or fucked up laws?



I'll bet there were a bunch of them.



And then he's going to act like the law doesn't apply to him?



Mmmm.



 

You sure do assume alot to reach the conclusions you want to reach.

You don't pay attention


If you'll go back and READ, then you'd know that my initial reaction was to assume that it was a bullshit charge.





 

Some guy on the internet said.

It's entirely possible he's a scumbag of the highest order.

That doesn't mean an unjust law would magically become a just and proper law.

Here's an ethical question for you:

The cops catch Jose the gangbanger.   Everyone knows he's a gangbangin piece of shit.  But they don't have any evidence he did anything but manufacture an illegal machine gun.  And they want to throw the book at him.

They have him dead to rights on the MG charge and that's all they're charging him with.   How do you find him?   Guilty or not guilty?

Got some more insider goodies.

Couple of high profile attorneys took his case pro bono and he's already been offered a plea bargain apparently signaling an extremely weak case.

Again, just passing what I heard. Don't shoot the messenger.

No.
But we're not talking about Jose the gangbanger, and we're not talking about one charge.
According to the indictment we're talking about a guy who repeatedly and knowingly not only sold guns to a convicted felon and lied on a 4473, but also a guy who apparently aided getting those guns into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.
If the police had evidence that Jose the gangbanger made an illegal machine gun and then knowingly sold it to a terrorist, then you're goddamn right I'd vote to send him up if I were on the jury.
However, I am curious to know how what the details are. Did the ATF send this guy to buy guns off the judge in exchange for help with his legal problems? I would not put entrapment past the ATF. Did the ATF bust this guy on his way to Mexico with a trunk full of guns, and then he ratted on the judge in exchange for help with his charges? Did the judge buy the guns and then wound up needing money because something came up so he sold them? Or did the informant come to him and say 'Some friends of mine south of the border need some guns, I'll pay you twice what you paid for them' and the judge said "OK!"?
The devil is in the details, and we don't know enough. But, if the charges are true, a judge who repeatedly and knowingly sold guns to a felon and bought more guns for this felon, knowing that this felon was going to supply them to the Mexican drug cartels, knowing what the cartels would use those guns for...that is morally and criminally wrong.
Sorry bud, but as you know, I am NOT a libertarian. Common sense has to play into it and a law enforcement official knowingly and repeatedly arming narco-terrorists belongs in prison. As do Holder and Obama for doing the exact same thing, only on a much larger scale.
 

Federal prosecutors have high conviction rates and they keep their conviction rates high by not taking weak cases. They review the evidence before they go for an indictment and if they don't think they can win then they tell the agents to come back with something better.



 

Yep.

Feds don't go to trial with weak cases. They have the budget and people that will take the time to make it airtight.  I've seen the FBI spend millions and 6 years on a money laundering case.
If the evidence shows the judge is dirty, the judge needs to go to prison.

Vice article from today:

http://www.vice.com/read/a-texas-judge-got-arrested-for-smuggling-guns-across-the-mexico-border-410

 
Not much new info, other than the fact that the ATF seized his pick up truck.


Here is what concerns me about this story...what exactly did the judge do to smuggle these guns to Mexico?


Is this smuggling and aiding & abetting charge a stretch charge because the guy he sold the guns to took them to Mexico without the judge knowing that was the plan? Or did the judge know that JD was going to take the guns to Mexico? Or did the judge drive down to the border and put these guns in the hands of some cartel mule knowing he was going to take those guns to Mexico? Or did the judge cross the border with the guns and deliver them to the cartel?


Why did the ATF seize his truck? My understanding is that the truck would have to have been used in the commission of the crime in order to be eligible for forfeiture right? So did they seize the truck because that is the truck he drove to the gun store to buy the guns he sold to JD, without know JD was a felon planning on taking the guns to Mexico? Or did the Judge load these guns into the truck and drive them down to Mexico to deliver the guns to the cartel?


Lots of questions for me still. But, as I said before, IF this judge knowingly armed narco-terrorists then he should go to prison.

I do not disagree.

Something doesn't add up. Wright is supposed to have gotten his FFl this past January. Sells to a convicted felon time times in a month, did he not call in the purchase? Or asked for a CHL?

Then being a judge, plus an attorney, plus all the other business he's been in, he shouldn't be desperate for money, especially since the FFL was home based..

I think he pissed off some local Dem with enough pull to get the BATFE evolved? Saw it happen to Tony at the Trader's in Kali. After just passing a week long state of California DOJ audit.