The younger, incrementally more awkward brother who helped Tricia Bishop is off the hook, but older brother Eliyahu should have stayed in his Miata instead of trying to "relieve" the freaked-out teenager of the plank he grabbed to defend himself after they followed and confronted him, said Judge White. Makes sense. Eliyahu faces 10 years at sentencing in June. The boy's family has dropped their $6 million lawsuit against the brothers.
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I keep getting this mental picture of Eliyahu's reception at the downtown pokey. I certainly hope somebody has the smarts to bring along the video camera.
(On a side note, one would have thought the potential physical consequences of a jailhouse spell for these two would have motivated them to stay in their car and called the police)
Gee, I wonder what this "harmless" 16-year old was doing wandering around, looking into houses and checking car doors in a middle of a school day. Yup, sounds like just the sort of person who's testimony I'd believe :rolleyes:
BTW Cham, I see that you find prison violence and possibly rape to be amusing so long as the victims are middle-class white guys. Gotcha.
What he said.
After years patrolling the Gaza strip I imagine Eliyahu is better equipped than most to handle the rigors of prison life, though obviously it did not prepare him well to patrol Northwest Baltimore. I wonder if Eli ever saw the inside an Israeli prison or would have any reason to imagine the consequences of a jailhouse spell. In Hampden I had a Palestinian neighbor who had spent a few years in Israeli custody and had some hair-raising stories to tell.
Israeli prisons aren't so bad if you're an actual Israeli.
Remember that scumbag Samuel Sheinbein who fled to Israel after committing a horrific murder down in MoCo in 1997? Because of how Israeli law works he wasn't extradited but was instead tried & incarcerated in Israel, and a number of people pointed out that doing time there wasn't nearly as bad as if he'd ended up in Jessup or Hagerstown.
I'm still trying to figure out how they got a conviction in a he said/he said case when the victim a) didn't testify and b) wanted the charges dropped.
Was he worried that Werdesheim was going to exact some Avon Barskdale style justice if he didn't drop the charges?
The conviction was probably for political reasons. The judge didn't want to deal with the fallout of a total acquittal.
The way this case was conducted from the start was horrifying. First prosecutors push felony assault charges which they then realize they can't prove. After that they continue to push a case against both brothers even though it looks like they had nothing on Avi Werdesheim.
Prosecutors will try, judges/juries can deny. It sounds like there was lots of opportunity for Eli to retreat and/or call the police-- at least George Zimmerman did that, even if he opted to ignore the 911 operator's instructions. But instead Eli confronted the kid, tried to take the plank he grabbed in self-defense and hit him with a radio. Assault sounds about right. Sounds like he was trying to show off for his little brother.
I see he is the "CEO" of a security company.
and of course you know you can't record video in jail Cham-- the consequence of that kind of smarts will get you the cell next to Eli at Central Booking.
I happen to know a few white guys that had to stay in the Baltimore jail. It's a terrible terrible position to be in. They told me you learn not to sleep, and attitudes toward you can change in a millisecond and for no reason. Mr. Werdersheim should have done anything and everything to avoid the situation that he is in now.
I don't know what the guy was thinking.
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