Man unable to use arms faces gun possession charge

Makes you real proud of our judicial system, don't it?

 Anyone asking why is he out riding around if he can't use his hands? Of course not.

So, if you have some affliction that prevents you from being perfectly normal, you should just stay at home? 

From the article:

 They say inside the car police officers found a stolen handgun in a seatback pocket and a prescription bottle of codeine. All four men were charged after none of them took responsibility for the items.

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I don't know how many, or if all states, have this law, but I couldn't count all the times I've heard of it/saw it being used. Something illegal happens, there could be 15 people in the car, no one claims responsibility, they all take the fall. Now, no one would/did suggest he shouldn't be in the car, so why would he be exempt from the LAW? Who is to say he didn't buy, procure, the gun and the drugs?

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To support your guilty until proven innocent way of deranged thinking, you seem always to speculate on the possibilities, however remote, that might serve your biases, Best. Shameful!

Hands up!

Oh, lets not even go there.

Anyone asking why is he out riding around if he can't use his hands? Of course not.

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That statement was caused by me or some other Dem or Lib. Surely Best would not issue an unintelligent post.

Getting back to the initial post. Just a few things that stick out in the story that make it seem excessive to me. Such as

"How could (he be) held for four months on a gun charge?" Turner said during the bail hearing. "He cannot move his arms. They are useless to him."

Hubbard, who's from Salem, has been hospitalized in protective custody since his arrest,

And

Police said the gun was stolen from Anchorage, Alaska. Turner said the other men arrested in the car with Hubbard told police it didn't belong to him and he shouldn't be charged.

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What was wrong with the post slick? As stated, no one would argue he shouldn't be out just because of his, affliction as crusty put it, so why argue he shouldn't be charged with the rest of them under that law? People don't want special treatment until they want special treatment. And again, nothing to say he didn't buy the gun.

Police said the gun was stolen from Anchorage, Alaska. Turner said the other men arrested in the car with Hubbard told police it didn't belong to him and he shouldn't be charged.

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There are thousands of cases where people go to jail because they are with someone that has broken the law, and as the article stated, no one will take the blame so they all go. Actually it's a pretty good law. And I have seen some step up and claim the drugs or whatever, and the rest of the people weren't charged. There are cases where someone takes the blame for a friend, (then sometimes claim that's all they did, but they were really innocent). His luck, his pals weren't such stand up guys. Saying he didn't do anything means nothing, the guilty one/ones admitting to it is what would help him. Why don't people talk about THAT, what his pals did to him, how crappy they were to the man, instead of vilifying the police for doing their jobs?

Yup. I've watched enough Cops to have seen this in action many times. 

Thanks for the link to the law. Doesn't he have hands, just supposedly he doesn't have the use of his arms? Who knows how true that is. It's telling that none of them has offered an answer to my questions.

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As stated, no one would argue he shouldn't be out just because of his, affliction as crusty put it, so why argue he shouldn't be charged with the rest of them under that law?

His luck, his pals weren't such stand up guys. Saying he didn't do anything means nothing, the guilty one/ones admitting to it is what would help him. Why don't people talk about THAT, what his pals did to him, how crappy they were to the man, instead of vilifying the police for doing their jobs?

And what is there to say he didn't buy the gun and or drugs?

They had to be really, really good friends to take him out with them.  What if he had to use the bathroom?

If i'm riding around with him, he's gonna get wet or nasty.

And the car is gonna get stinky. 

Where are my manners?

Best: 

Update:    http://news.yahoo.com/man-with...eased-222340270.html

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A man who can't use his arms because of a spinal condition and faces a gun possession charge was released from jail without having to pay bail on Friday.

Marcus Hubbard had been jailed since his arrest in Trenton in August. His bail was lowered on Tuesday from $100,000 to $35,000, but The Times newspaper (http://bit.ly/1DScEHL  reported he was released without bail on Friday morning.

Hubbard's attorney, Caroline Turner, said she was delighted by the judge's decision and would fight for all charges against him to be dismissed.

Turner had said at Tuesday's bail hearing that the case against Hubbard, who injured his spine in a car accident and may have Lou Gehrig's disease, "shocks the conscience."

"How could (he be) held for four months on a gun charge?" Turner said during the hearing. "He cannot move his arms. They are useless to him."

Hubbard, who's from Salem, had been hospitalized in protective custody since his arrest, at a cost of at least $60,000.

Authorities say Hubbard and three other men were in a car that ran a red light in Trenton and was pulled over. They say inside the car police officers found a stolen handgun in a seatback pocket and a prescription bottle of codeine.

All four men were charged after none of them took responsibility for the pill bottle and the gun, which was stolen from Anchorage, Alaska.

Prosecutors acknowledged Hubbard has no use of his hands but said he still could be guilty of a crime.

If he can't use his hands and arms, and the prosecutor still said he could break the law. That is bound to mean he can take pills or shoot a pistol without using his hands or arms. He could get seasonal work with the fair in one of the side shows.