New Haven Independent

Posted by: WEBblog 1 | March 7, 2008 4:18 PM

Disgusting...
All the while the innocent, not yet proven guilty prisoner has to pay more for his/her bail bond freedom.
This is just the tip of the iceberg involving the justice system manipulating a court system where bail is a inherent right of the 5th. & 8th Amendments.

Shame on you Jill D'Antona, and Cynthia Nixon.

Posted by: THREEFIFTHS | March 7, 2008 4:48 PM

First I must say I Agree with Webblog1, Now To Mr pro law And Order HeightsResident who said that i have a soft spot to the crminals and that these people use the revoling door of our jails and continue to pray on our society with impunity. Hey mr pro law and order Look at you crooked slime bags friends taking bribes!!! What excuse are you going to make for these crooked law enforcement officers,Wake up this is becoming more
of a problem than you want to admit to, So since you seem to be a sleep on this you need to repeat
these words three times as you sleep there are crooks in law enforcement and when you wake up this will now be in your mind!!! P.S. I did not forget about you 50 year minimum Charlie should this not apply to these slime bags!!!

Posted by: cedarhillresident | March 7, 2008 7:55 PM

Little Fraction,
Again I love your posts. Yes they are slimbags :) but as you know I agree with charile about the 50 years, well maybe not 50 but appropriate time for people with guns and violent crimes. The only way it is going to stop is if the laws are enforced the way they use to be. Do the crime, do the time it is that simple. But now a days, that is not a true statement anymore. Do the crimes and get out in 3/5's of the time, or even less. But yes a criminal is a criminal.........stop it, I know what you are about to say (undocumented are criminals to)........ and yes it is a crime but I still think that is a moral issue as well that needs to be addressed first.

Posted by: Sally Joughin | March 8, 2008 9:32 AM

Just as the illegality of drugs tempts some law enforcement individuals into corrupt behavior, so does the bail bond system. It is unfair that poor people who have no intention of fleeing have to lose money to bondspeople. They should be able to post the whole bail and then get it back when they appear in court and the case is settled. In other words, bail amounts should be high enough so that a person would not want to loose it but low enough so that it is possible to get the money together from family and friends who trust you to appear. We shouldn't have middlemen making a profit off of poor people whose bail amounts are impossible to post.

Posted by: Heights Resident | March 8, 2008 10:00 AM

Threefiths

Hey where have you been?, I kind of missed these exchanges. First off she is not a cop, or in law enforcement, she's a marshal ( sort of like a guard for the court house ), secondly your venom should be aimed at Phil Jacobs.

Little rich boy who when faced with a little prison time turned on his father and brother and wore a wire to implicate two workers.

I'm not saying she was innocent , but come on, he couldn't reel in a bigger fish? I can't respect that, there was a good article in the register about him and his rich life style ( Woodbridge Mansion ).

Hey Threefiths like always you backing the wrong horse in this race.

Posted by: debbie | March 9, 2008 9:21 PM

For those of you that read the so called "news" you shock me that you believe everything you read.... it goes to show you have no filter of truth..... the reporters that write give people something to read...not the facts of what actually transpired...so the reporter that wrote this article either 1. Was not in the court room and gathered his/her info from gossip and I think this is what went down or 2. Does not understand the English language.... because what I heard and what they wrote seems to be a far stretch from what actually transpired in that court room!!!! So sad to say that you don't look at the world through your own eyes and believe and listen to those who write it....like they are GOD....reporters are the bottom of the earth that make a living exploiting/lying about or if asked stretching the truth..... to actual facts....and to those of you that have written....wanna be's...get the real story....the facts...before you comment on others......

From: been their with the reporters done that.... my advice to you is don't read it....because they will write what sells....... NOT THE TRUTH!!!! Let's not forget that "Jacobs" rolled to save his own sorry old "BEHIND"

Posted by: Steve | March 11, 2008 1:32 PM

I don't know if the people who are leaving comments here are from the State of Connecticut or not, but if you are, you are very ignorant of Connecticut General Statutes

Those of you calling her "nothing more than a guard"?

CT. Judicial Marshals are, under CT General Statutes, "Peace Officers", and as such, have arrest powers. If this does not make any sense, all I can say is CT Marshal's have "Arrest Powers" and CT. Correctional Officers don't.

The only difference between a CT. Marshal and the cop who shows up on a call to your home, is that the Marshal's jurisdiction is, in and around the Connecticut Judicial Branch, the Courts and other facilities the State Judicial Branch owns or operates.

If you walk into a Connecticut Courthouse with illegal drugs or weapons, it's going to be a "Marshal" who will arrest you, not a guard. If you decide to assault a Marshal, you will be charged with "assault on a Police Officer" a felony, not a simple assault.

As for what this Marshal has pleaded guilty to? I can tell you this much, she was a "sacrificial lamb" offered up, for system of corruption that she had at the very most a very limited connection with.

The problems with the Bondsman,the CT. Judicial Branch and all the other corruption associated with this are "SYSTEMIC". The bondsman in question set this Marshal up, so not to give up the real corrupt individuals who really make this bondsman's nefarious practice an almost exclusive monopoly in and around New Haven County. I can only hope, that if your one of those Marshal's or Bail Commissioners who are reading these comments, you can live with yourselves. Yes, your the ones who should have been exposed, not a single mother guilty of asking a wealthy man to borrow money. Jill was in the position she was in, because someone for many,many years trained her for that position, told her this was the way "GA23" worked and was trained by someone who held her last assignment for many, many years. We are talking more than a decade.

Besides, everyone inside the Marshal's Service and the Judicial Branch, knows RIGHT NOW, who is really corrupt and who is really WORKING FOR THE JACOBS family. They are NOT at a New Haven courthouse. They are driving in cars that the Jacobs have bought and paid for, and I am sure are still working hard for them like none of this ever happened.

I would have hoped that an informed public, would be intelligent enough to read between the lines. Otherwise, you must also still believe we are still looking for those "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq.

So Bobby and Phil gave up the very, very least they could, to protect the nefarious practice they have been doing for well longer than Jill D. ever was a Marshal, Deputy Sheriff or wore any uniform for that matter.