…with weekly ball-kickings, having committed this piece of bureaucratic foulness:
This entire monstrosity started when the ATF sent a confidential informant to buy machineguns from Adamiak, who never sold any machineguns, of course. Adamiak never had any machineguns. Instead, Adamiak sold the informant barrel shrouds, which were even cut up into pieces.
Barrel shrouds surround a machinegun barrel. They’re meant to keep a young soldier from burning their hands on a hot machinegun barrel. The weapon can fire full-auto with or without a shroud. They certainly aren’t vital parts. They definitely are not a “machinegun.”
Anyone who misclassifies cut up barrel shrouds as machineguns shouldn’t be working for the ATF, but that’s exactly what ATF Firearms Enforcement Officer Ronald K. Davis did. He put this deception into a report, which ATF Agent William S. Harston, Jr., quickly used as evidence to obtain a search warrant of Adamiak’s home. Hairston, the ATF’s lead case agent, even held up a toy during Adamiak’s trial, which of course was also classified as a machinegun.
“If they never lied about those shrouds, they never would have gotten a search warrant,” Adamiak said Wednesday.
During his trial, Adamiak’s defense team tried to argue that the barrel shrouds weren’t machineguns, so the search warrant was flawed, and the ATF’s entire investigation was based on lies… but the judge cut them right off.
So the ATF agents who cooked up this specious bullshit (up to and including the senior officer who signed off on it), the prosecutor and team who decided to prosecute it, and the judge who allowed the cooked-up evidence into court: each and every one of them should be charged and imprisoned because every single thing they did subverted the course of actual justice in one way or another.
And screw this “hearing next month” nonsense. Patric Adamiak should be freed within the next hour, following a pardon by President Trump.
One last word to POTUS: inactivity on manifest injustices such as this one are the kind of thing that persuade once loyal supporters to stay home at the next election. Yes, it’s that important — because what happened to Adamiak could happen to any one of us, if allowed to proceed unchecked.
Get it done. Hundreds if not thousands of people have been pardoned for far greater crimes — and Pat Adamiak never committed a crime in the first place.
“Get it done. Hundreds if not thousands of people have been pardoned for far greater crimes — and Pat Adamiak never committed a crime in the first place.”
Indeed. But those people are personal buddies and sponsors of the person who issues the pardon, not some random Joe who probably isn’t politically active at all apart from MAYBE voting once every few years.
In cases like this the ATF (in this case) sets out to “set an example”, finds a judge willing to play along, and there is nothing that can stop them.
Don’t think that that next “hearing” will go any different from the first. Any defense arguments that question, let alone debunk, the narrative will be scrapped from the record before they’re even entered into the record.
And fabricated “evidence” will be presented as “undeniable proof of a major illegal operation”, the victim goes to prison and gets shanked there by some “unknown assailant” who is never found after a few days, case closed.
If Davis and Harston were found skint along a country road that pardon would happen in 15 mins.
It’s long past time to play hardball with these criminals whose very existence is in violation of the 2nd.
Like jwenting said, once they decide to “set an example”, your goose is cooked. They’ll lie, cheat, plant evidence, anything necessary and you’ll be alone fighting the entirety of the US govt prosecution. Not only should Adamiak be immediately released, and those who prosecuted him punished, but the entire ATF should be disbanded and the fired agents barred from ever working in the dot-gov again.
Sounds like the judge needs to be dealt with accordingly.
Stick HIS ass in jail for 2 years, just to see how he likes it. [/Hammurabi]
As was beaten to death recently, a pardon acknowledges guilt. Our hero needs his conviction overturned with prejudice and record expunged. Then all the guilty parties punished accordingly. IANAL.
I agree, but the problem is that overturning a conviction takes time, and he’s spent (more than) enough time in jail already. A pardon gets him out in a day (which is still too long, but that’s a story for another time).
Overturning a conviction with prejudice and expunging the record can be made with a judicial council form. All the judge needs to do is write a minute order, “Good cause showing, and in the interests of justice, this conviction is overturned with prejudice, and the conviction expunged.” He will still have to say he was arrested, but the convictions are gone. Unless there is some genuine issue of legitimacy requiring an adversarial hearing, there is no reason this cannot happen upon the first appearance in court.
So, Barrel Shrouds, chopped into unrecoverable pieces are vital parts that cause a machine gun to be a machine gun? I hesitate to think what the ATF and a crooked judge can make out of a trigger finger, the skillful and rapid application of which can produce machine-gun swift streams of bullets. After all, how long ago was a shoelace considered a part that easily converted a semi-auto to a machine gun?
“and Pat Adamiak never committed a crime in the first place”
Neither did Matt Hoover, and he was convicted and got a 5 year sentence. Charging people for things that aren’t crimes but that you don’t like should bring the axe down on everyone who is part of the process.
anyone participating in putting Adamiak into prison should dance at the end of a rope if there is any justice in this world.