“Better schools, safer neighborhoods” is Karl Dean’s rallying call. Be this as it may, let’s examine Mr. Dean’s record with public safety. Karl’s specialty as a public defender in Nashville was the defense of murderers and child abusers. While this alone is not necessarily a fault, as it is a public defender’s job to defend those who can’t afford council, the manner in which Mr. Dean performed his duty is in question.
In the Billy Ray Maupin case Mr. Maupin was charged with first degree murder for stabbing a man to death with a knife. Good ole Karl was there to work out a plea, in which Maupin pleaded guilty to second degree murder. Because of the plea he received only a 39 month sentence for killing a man. After his release, Billy Ray has been convicted more than 20 times for a vast array of crimes including assault with a deadly weapon. A person like that on the streets sure does help with the safety of our neighborhoods.
Many more cases where Dean was the public defender ended in the same way and I will continue to post examples of these. The question of an informed Nashvillian would most likely be, “Which public is Karl Dean really defending?”
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In this upcoming mayors election the citizens of Nashville will decide who will lead our great city in the near future. I believe that the people of Nashville should make an informed decision, and I feel it is my duty to inform Nashvillians that Karl Dean is not the man for the job.
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- I am a concerned worker in metro government with extensive personal knowledge of Karl Dean. In fear of repercussions if Karl is elected, I have chosen to remain anonymous.
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Since Karl Dean is no longer a public defender, can Karl Dean legally express an opinion of how he really feels about any of these cases or individuals he represented? Maybe he can't, legally, even answer an anonymous, surreptitious attack... I don't know, I'm not a lawyer.
If he can defend himself, and answer these 'charges' you've presented (charges that he 'did a good job'), why not ask him? I'm positive that most lawyers are probably good actors, first, because surely not many actually believe their clients.
If he actually won this particular case for his client...got him a perfectly legal, and common, judgement that, because of the nature of our legal system, allowed his client to return to his old ways, isn't the fact that the 'win' for his client is a successful 'job well done' for a public defendant?
Your attack seems to be against the entire legal system, not against Karl Dean. As a matter of fact, your 'attack' blog actually credits Karl for his accomplishments!
Job well done, Karl.
Fizzle, anonymous blogger...
Nice try Crisp, but people in Nashville aren't nearly ignorant enough to fall for your shallow attacks.
And if you're going to claim you're not Crisp (or Fletcher) then why don't you reveal yourself? You've set your blog to not accept anonymous comments, so why are you anonymous? Is it because you're a coward just like Lil' Bob is for leaving his dirty work to you?
I just don't get it. What's wrong with the facts? Every time someone is presented with a fact that contradicts their position, they start getting offensive toward the presenter of the fact and making assumptions and accusations. Karl Dean is presenting himself in such a manner that he has first and foremost always looked out for the best interest of the average citizen. And the fact is he hasn't done that. Just ask the victims of crimes after Karl Dean got offenders out into the public if Dean has truly worked to better our society. He used his position then to promote himself and he is using his position now to promote himself. You can predict future behavior from historical behavior. And Dean's historical behavior (and presently trying to ignore that historical behavior) indicates he is for self promulgation regardless of the affect on our society. And in this case we would be turning Dean “out” and the whole city of Nashville is going to be the victim.
Vernon, the very basic fact is that Karl did his job, and whether or not we like the fruits of his labor, he did his job well.
Should he have thrown his clients under the bus? Even though we like to think that he should have, he still operated in the framework of 'the system', and did what he was supposed to do.
It wasn't his job to judge the client, but to provide his client with the best to his ability. He did that.
When did our system of justice become so subverted? We hold the prosecution and witnesses to provide the truth. And the weight of the justice system will be brought against such prosecution that withholds mitigating information from the defense. Witness the Mike Nifong issue. But the defense – that is another whole issue. The defense attorney can subvert, divert, belittle and demean absolutely everything and every witness to accomplish his means. And the end that justifies the means is to do a “good job” for the defendant. And the result on society is to be ignored! So, with the criteria of doing a good job, truth, justice and honesty does not matter. Truth is the bond that holds relationships together (that is if anyone desires any relationship beyond themselves). When we go to get our car fixed, we hold our breath in hopes our mechanic is truthful and honest with us. So, people say that Karl Dean has shown that he is adept at doing a “good job” for the defendant. But to what avail? He is proving that he has lost identity with basic honesty as witness his illegal use of the Metro government email to pressure Metro employees to support his election. This is an indication that his adeptness at doing a “good job” extends well beyond the court room. His values may have eroded but I sure don’t have to let him erode mine. When we go to get our car repaired, it is interesting that we hope beyond hope that our car mechanic is honest and truthful with us. I sure wouldn’t want to depend upon Karl Dean’s “doing a good job” for me in repairing my car.
Scott, although I know who Crisp is, I do not know him personally nor do i associate with too many republicans. I just changed the settings to where you can post anonymously if you so choose, I didn't know I had it set where you couldnt. The fact is that Dean did a good job of defending, but after his clients were found guilty, he was notorious for easing their sentences, and thus letting murderers and child abusers back onto the streets.
And also to serr8d, after looking at your profile I am surprised to see you defending a man who calls himself "an old-fashioned massachusetts liberal."
Ha. How could Dean "ease their sentences"? Although he has been in public service for almost 30 years, none of that time was served as a judge and only a judge could ease a sentence. Furthermore, the district attorney on a case has a bigger say than the public defender in recommending sentencing parameters.
Your attacks are uninformed, ignorant and weak at best, but let's not not kid ourselves. You know that you are lying and so does everyone else
Scott, maybe my choice of words were not the best there. I know Dean cannot ease anyone's sentence as a public defender. The fact is that Dean fought for lighter sentences for men he knew were guilty. He did not fight for the public safety or good.
Karl Dean is the last person who should be mayor of Nashville, and I've known him longer than you; but, attacking him for doing his duty as a public defenders is not only inappropriate, its likely to be counterproductive, stirring sympathy for him and indirectly disparaging his principal adversary by leaving the innuenendo that Clement is behind it. Which makes me wonder whether this is a counterprop operation like the Soviets used to use to suggest that the US was behind bad things.
Better to focus on his job as Metro law director, where he was the principal author of the policy to refuse to address illegal immigration because "its a federal issue", when in fact federal immigration law expressly permit state and local governments to address hiring of unauthorized aliens in their licensing laws, prohibits state and local government from providing non-emergency services to aliens, and provide a formula, through the 287(g) program, to participate directly in immigration enforcement. Note that Sheriff Hall didn't get to pursue 287(g) until after Dean left. But 287(g) program isn't limited by federal law to persons arrested and booked into jail: The Metro Police could apply as well, and use that authority to detain and deport members of gangs like MS-13, and drug distributors (cocaine, including crack, and heroin distribution is now controlled by Mexican cartels, and their quickly taking over meth) without having to catch them committing a felony, as part of commmunity policing approach that has succeeded in other communities; but, under Karl Dean's legal excuses, Metro refused to participate in order to oblige the special interests that support him and which tend to favor illegal aliens over Nashvillians.
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