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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Sun May 24, 2015, 01:57 PM May 2015

Cry Me A River:Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio asks public's help with legal fees

With his legal fees mounting and a trial turning increasingly personal, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is turning to the public for money and the legal system for a new judge.

Arpaio said in a letter to supporters that he doesn't have the money to continue paying for attorneys out of his own pocket, adding that he feels "targeted" by the immigration rights groups that have sued him to stop what they say are racist policies targeting Latinos.

"In some instances I have to personally pay for attorneys to represent me in these cases," Arpaio wrote in an email Thursday. "I do not have the personal wealth or the wherewithal to keep up with the costly demands of paying for attorneys to defend me."

Arpaio made the plea while awaiting a decision by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow on whether the sheriff broke the law in failing to carry out a 2011 court order to refrain from bias against minorities.

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http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ff-arpaio-20150524-story.html

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Cry Me A River:Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio asks public's help with legal fees (Original Post) n2doc May 2015 OP
I'd much rather contribute to Immigration Rights groups than that bigot, or those who voted Hoyt May 2015 #1
Couldn't happen to a nicer d-bag. nt okaawhatever May 2015 #2
Two words MaggieD May 2015 #3
poor Joe....NOT! chillfactor May 2015 #4
Piece of shit shenmue May 2015 #5
Hey Joe... 99Forever May 2015 #6
He feels targeted does he? What does be thing the people he was harrassing thought? jwirr May 2015 #7
I'll donate RoccoR5955 May 2015 #8
Joe R Piehole thelordofhell May 2015 #9
Hahaha LadyHawkAZ May 2015 #10
Maybe the Birthers will bail him out. Nt hack89 May 2015 #11
grab your bootstraps and bible, asshole Doctor_J May 2015 #12
I'd send him a dried bologna and moldy bread sandwich, if I cared. asshole. nt Mnemosyne May 2015 #13
He should apply for foodstamps. OffWithTheirHeads May 2015 #14
Quick! Someone mail this man some bootstraps! nt Guy Whitey Corngood May 2015 #15
Lemme get my angstrom-sized violin sakabatou May 2015 #16
Ah another RW cloud funding fraud scam ! 3,2,1........... Monk06 May 2015 #17
If he doesn't qualify for a public defender rocktivity May 2015 #18
Or cue Julie London Art_from_Ark May 2015 #19
 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
1. I'd much rather contribute to Immigration Rights groups than that bigot, or those who voted
Sun May 24, 2015, 01:59 PM
May 2015

for him.

Love the violins.

 

RoccoR5955

(12,471 posts)
8. I'll donate
Sun May 24, 2015, 02:41 PM
May 2015

a pink jumpsuit and pink underwear to him!

Too bad for this bass turd. He deserves everything that he has coming to him.

rocktivity

(44,555 posts)
18. If he doesn't qualify for a public defender
Tue May 26, 2015, 01:30 AM
May 2015

he can always get a second job picking lettuce or sewing pink jumpsuits.

Cue the DU "Cry Me A River" String Quartet!


rocktivity

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