New York City – NY Daily News: Shame On Judge Noach Dear, Gambles With Life By Setting Free Teen With Gun

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    New York City – Too many teenagers in New York City have too many guns. Judges must start locking them up.

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    Last week’s Wild West shooting in Harlem brought to light terrifying facts about the prevalence of firearms among the young – while revealing that judges have been dangerously lenient with gun-toting kids.

    According to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, authorities confiscated more than 4,000 illegal guns in the city last year. More than 1,000 had been carried by suspects under 21 – and nearly one-third of those guns were found on kids under 17.

    And that’s the proverbial tip of the iceberg. For every gun confiscated by police, many more go undetected – each one potentially lethal. The weapons are obviously very easy to come by on the street, and even more obviously the kids aren’t too afraid of getting caught with one.

    Why? Because they’re getting out from under New York’s tough anti-gun law – the one that imposes a mandatory 3-1/2-year prison term for gun possession. The results can be deadly.

    Consider the case of Devonte McGill. A freshman at Norman Thomas High School, McGill, 15, was busted after gunplay in Harlem on Memorial Day left 10 wounded. Cops say they caught him ditching a .380 semiautomatic.

    Hours later, he stood before Civil Court Judge Noach Dear, who engaged the now-timorous teen in a colloquy nothing short of unbelievable.

    Dear: “You’ll stay away from anybody that has a bad influence on you?”

    McGill: “Yes.”

    Dear: “You’re going to have to be home by 6 – not 6:01, not 6:02, but 6.”

    McGill: “Yes.”

    Out the lad went without bail.

    Uviller gambled on Armstead and lost – even after placing him in jeopardy of seven years in prison. Dear gambled on McGill without the slightest of safeguards. And that was rash.

    It’s time for judges to stop gambling and apply the law to its fullest, because lives are at stake. They must recognize that deferring sentencing or granting youthful-offender status may be okay for kids who steal cars or paint graffiti on subways. But not for teens carrying deadly weapons.

    There are too many of them in New York City. The message must go out: You carry a gun, kid, and you’re going away.


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    anonymous
    anonymous
    15 years ago

    Did we actually expect better from him?

    Liik how many kosher butchers went under since he pushed for Shop-rite to come to Flatbush?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    Never forget the first thing when Hitler came to power, he seized all the guns. So don’t follow these liberal idiots that believe in gun control.

    Charlie Hall
    Charlie Hall
    15 years ago

    Anonymous 10:20 AM: Are you seriously suggesting that these kids should not be prevented from carrying guns?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    I vote for anonymous 10:20, for the stupidest comment of the year!

    MOSHE GEWIRTZ
    MOSHE GEWIRTZ
    15 years ago

    I AM SURE THERE IS MORE TO THIS STORY. NO JUDGE WOULD ACT SO FOOLISHLY.

    ok so
    ok so
    15 years ago

    Is he the first judge ever to let a teen go (on such charges) without bail?

    this is the first part to the case, then the teen has a day in court the next judge is the one to decide the punishment

    chnyock
    chnyock
    15 years ago

    the moron got VOTED into office by the supposedly smartest people…..!!!! ? ? ?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    This judge has no experiance whatsoever. Us nutters voted for him because he begged and cried. Its our own fault, not to mention Chillul Hashem…

    To MOSHE GEWIRTZ:

    The whole story was published last week in full. BTW, he was being charged as an adult since he was within 1000 feet from a school. And he still let him go…

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    What else did you expect from Dear and you nut heads in Boro Park voted for him!!!

    Keep it up guys

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    Not me, i didn’t vote for him and i tried to convince anyone i could not to.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    Several of the above posters got into an argument over gun control. The fact is that there are hundreds, if not thousands of such laws on the books already across this country — but what good do they do if a bleeding-heart idiot like Judge Noach Dear lets a kid who was caught red-handed with a dangerous pistol go scott-free, with no bail, just the kid’s assurances that he’ll keep his nose clean?

    Fact is, most “gun control” laws — certainly the ones here in New York City — do little except make it difficult for law-abiding people to obtain a firearm for their own defense (when the police cannot or will not protect them), leaving them at the mercy of criminal predators. The latter look at the Sullivan Law, the Brady Waiting Period Law and all of the other “gun control” laws with smirking contempt, and ALWAYS somehow find ways around them. HELLO???? These guys are criminals, law breakers. By definition, they break laws, including “gun control.” BY THE WAY — they also laugh with contempt at much publicized declarations that a school, shopping center, business or other location has decided it it a so-called “gun free” zone — all such zones do is to ensure that when the criminal, lunatic or terrorist decides to bring his gun there, he knows that NOBODY ELSE THERE WILL HAVE A GUN AND BE ABLE TO STOP HIM. Several weeks before last year’s massacre, Virginia Tech proudly declared that it was ensuring the “safety” of its students by declaring itself such a “gun-free zone”. That worked out really well, didn’t it? NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!

    What is needed is 1) aggressive action by police undercover and plainclothes units like the old Street Crimes Unit, which during the Giuliani years made remarkable progress in getting illegal guns off the streets by rousting known gang-bangers and criminals, the people most likely to be carrying illegal weapons (SCU was disbanded by Mayor Bloomberg as a result of pressure from certain elements in the minority community following the tragic misunderstanding in the Diallo shooting case; now, without SCU, crime and gun violence is on the rise, particularly in the mostly minority-populated housing projects; several people have been murderedat the projects in the Rockaways over the past several weeks. Where is Sharpton and the other big mouths to decry THAT development?

    2) action by the Legislature toincrease the penalties for those who mis-use guns, adding years to their sentences just for merely having or using an illegal gun. The state must pony up the resources to do this — more judges, corrections personnel and jail space. Since protecting the public should be government’s top priority, let them do this. More bodies in jail = fewer bodies on slabs in the morgue.

    3) Instead of grandstanding with his much publicized “gun summit” with other mayors and his lawsuits against gun manufacturers, let the mayor call a summit with the five boro district attorneys to demand that they take gun violence more seriously and not allow such offenses to be easily plea-bargained away in the interest of inflating the D.A.’s conviction rate while still giving little jail time. Let him have a summit with State Chief Judge Judith Kaye to ask her to read the riot act to bleeding-heart boobs like Dear and let them know that protecting the public is as important, if not more important, than finding creative ways to protect the “rights” of suspects or keep the clearly guilty out of jail. Let him have a summit with Gov. Patterson, Sheldon Silver and Joe Bruno to demand that they toughen up the laws and provide the recources to keep the public safe — and to demand that Silver, especially, stop being such an obstructionist when it comes to anything toughening up criminal justice codes in this state.

    murray
    murray
    15 years ago

    Thank G-D I moved to Florida, a right to carry concealled state!

    Charlie Hall
    Charlie Hall
    15 years ago

    Murray,

    If the right to carry is so effective in stopping crime, how come New York’s homicide rate is lower? In 2006, New York had a million more people but 200 fewer homicides.

    I’m staying right here in New York City.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    he would do even more good if he helps out clinton for pres.