American Military News: The charge was possessing a legally owned gun that was unregistered in the state of New Jersey and the man arrested was a former Marine, Sergeant Hisashi Pompey. The arrest took place some six years ago when Pompey was visiting New Jersey from Virginia. When he and some friends went to a nightclub, there was an altercation and one of Pompey’s friends retrieved the gun and was arrested. Pompey was also arrested because the gun was not registered in the state of New Jersey.
On Friday Gov. Chris Christie commuted the prison sentence for Pompey, who served “three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan for which he received medals for bravery.” Prior to Christie commuting the sentence, Pompey was arranging to turn himself into authorities for a minimum 36-month sentence for possession of an unregistered firearm.
Like most things Christie has done, this was half-assed.
Commute?
He should have been “pardoned” and his conviction vacated where he would have no arrest or conviction on his record.
First off, the law for which he was arrested was a bullshit law. Second, why not a full pardon rather than a commutation?
I’ll make it a three-fer and add my disappointment he wasn’t pardoned.
A step in the right direction. Why would anyone ever go to New Joizy in the first place?
Well, I went there once. It was hilarious. Does anybody really need that many pizza joints?
Three years? WTH?
I knew a guy in high school that murdered the father of a chick he was hanging with that got 1 year and when I saw him later he proceeded to tell me how to murder somebody without getting caught, jail school .
6 years? Why did it take six years you fat bastard? You owe that man everything you have and more you prick. You have dis respected a man who is better than you on his worst day. You make me sick.
It took his fat ass long enough to do something, it’s probably not even right, knowing him.
Fat boy’s working his way back to respectability, one good deed at a time.
Gonna take a lot more of them, though.
I have to go to NJ tomorrow. It’s a short stop at Newark airport on my way to Ireland. I hope I can hold my nose for 1 hour and 45 minutes.
Still hate that fat POS. 6 years this guy sweated it?
Welcome to New Jersey, “Where we make criminals of our residents, one stupid law at a time”