Mope-rah Carries Water

Mope-rah goes to bat for judge Bertina Lampkin. But to make her case, she has to play fast and loose with actual facts.

• Just last week, Lampkin was a hero when she sentenced a brazen gang member to 85 years in prison for the murder of Ricardo Martinez Jr., a former Marine and aspiring Chicago Police officer.

  This week -- at least among police officers -- she's being cast as a villain

Last week Lampkin handed down an 85 year sentence. The actual date of the sentencing was 04 June.

At that point, Officer Valadez had been dead for three days, at least one suspect was in custody and it was being discovered that this suspect was on probation for gun charges. Not only that, he was in violation of that probation on numerous occasions. We are expected to believe that in Cook County, Lampkin wasn't called by someone and told there might be a shitstorm being blown up about this particular individual?

And in Mope-rah's comment section, this little gem:

• Judge Bertina Lampkin has a history of letting these thugs free. Check the case of Bennie Teague! He killed Curtis Gates in 2001 and Judge Lampkin was the judge over his trial. She let him go free, even with eyewitnesses that confirmed that Bennie was the murderer. Now he killed another man, Marcus Hendricks. Bennie is at 26th & California awaiting yet another murder trial. Maybe he will get Judge Bertina Lampkin again, she will set him free!

Seems if Lampkin had followed the letter of the law and sentenced this individual for the gun charge and the probation violations, we wouldn't be wearing mourning bands and flying flags at half staff.