New Hampshire Judge Sentences Man to Jail…After he is Acquitted by the Jury

  According to this story a man was acquitted by a jury of assaulting a police officer. The jury took 15 minutes to reach a verdict, that sounds like a clear cut case to me. So the man walks out of the court a free man, doesn’t he? You would think so, but not so fast.

A former Ashland man cleared of assaulting a police officer while trying to rush his pregnant fiancee to the hospital is being sent to jail by a judge.

A jury deliberated about 15 minutes last month before acquitting Nathaniel Gibbs, 25, after a four-day trial.

  So what does the judge have to say for herself? Why does she send a man found not guilty by a jury of his peers to jail anyway?

“I don’t know how the jury made its decision. This is my own, based on the testimony that I heard,” she said

  WOW! Is this even legal, I don’t know. How can this judge make a statement like that. Does this mean Judge Ito could have reached his own verdict in the OJ Simpson murder case? How does this judge get to overturn a jury decision?

Here is more of this judge justifying her actions:

“I know you believe you were found not guilty, but I am not influenced by the jury verdict. This is a separate hearing, and I have to balance the evidence and if the scales tip ever so slightly,” Burling said in court Monday.

  And all this time the left is telling us that President Bush is infringing on our liberties, the last time I looked this judge was not George W Bush.