lest you forget about this

steamin' pile

as you can see, i HAVE NOT forgotten. i've followed her career and this gives me GREAT joy

Voters give short molester's judge the boot
BY LESLIE REED
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU

LINCOLN — Cheyenne County District Court Judge Kristine Cecava of Sidney, Neb., who touched off a national debate by sentencing a 5-foot-1, 100-pound child molester to probation, has been voted off the bench.
Cecava is the eighth judge to be removed by voters since Nebraska adopted its judicial selection plan in the early 1960s.

She sparked controversy in 2006 when she sentenced Richard Thompson to 10 years of intensive supervised probation and commented that she feared for his safety in prison because of his size.

Court staff said Cecava was presiding over a trial Wednesday and could not be reached for comment.

In Nebraska, the governor appoints judges, but voters periodically consider whether they should be retained in office. Cecava was turned out Tuesday by a 52 percent to 48 percent vote..............

Sidney, Neb. judge voted out of office
Associated Press

SIDNEY, Neb. (AP) - A judge criticized for sentencing a 5-foot-1 sex offender to probation has been voted out of office.

About 63% of the voters in Cheyenne County District Judge Kristine Cecava's jurisdiction agreed she should be removed from office.

Cecava's 2006 sentence of Richard Thompson prompted local and national criticism because she cited Thompson's height when sentencing him to 10 years of probation for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl.

Thompson could have been sentenced to 10 years in prison..............

now THIS is justice!

dang, this is GREAT

FBI wiretaps dropped due to unpaid bills

Lax FBI Money Controls Lead to Shutdown of Surveillance, Justice Department Audit Finds

LARA JAKES JORDAN

Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau's repeated failures to pay phone bills on time.

A Justice Department audit released Thursday blamed the lost connections on the FBI's lax oversight of money used in undercover investigations. In one office alone, unpaid costs for wiretaps from one phone company totaled $66,000.

In at least one case, a wiretap used in a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act investigation "was halted due to untimely payment," the audit found. FISA wiretaps are used in the government's most sensitive and secretive criminal and intelligence investigations, and allow eavesdropping on suspected terrorists or spies........