Note to defendants: If you want a judge to give you less than the maximum prison time, don’t call her a b****.
Michael Gaines, 50, didn’t heed that advice while facing Judge Rebecca Pilshaw today. Gaines, who is HIV-positive, was convicted last month by a jury of spitting in a deputy’s eye while in the county jail.
Prosecutor Kevin O’Connor had recommended 10 years, a hefty sentence, but not the max. Gaines lost his temper and swore at the judge, prompting Sedgwick County Sheriff’s deputies to remove him from the courtroom. Gaines continued to yell at O’Connor, calling him “a maggot who was stillborn at birth.”
Pilshaw borrowed Judge Eric Yost’s courtroom, where he does first appearances from the jail via closed-circuit television. Pilshaw concluded the sentencing via video, giving Gaines the maximum of 164 months (more than 13 years).
O’Connor’s argument had been that Gaines couldn’t control his temper.
Updates: Video[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/5v9Jxz-9vU8" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
Also, Judge Pilshaw blogged about her account of the sentencing.
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Way to go your honor!!!!
To The Family of Michael Gaines:
Please contact me at kiakahahaha@yahoo.com. We are trying to organize regular weekly protests outside of the Wichita Eagle at lunch time. The editors of the Eagle have refused to investigate corruption stories involving high level judges. But why should they becasue Ron Sylvester & former opinion board editor Randy Brown are both married to high level bar association officials or prominent attorneys. I would love to put you in contact with Joe Liddell & Paul Rhodes and e-mail you scanned documents of Joe’s allegatons against Pilshaw, Ware, Ladner, Mark kahrs, Judge Fleetwood, Judge Henderson and many others.
I posted the following comments in today’s Eagle editorial
Bill McKean 316 293-6079
Vote against Jeff Syrios although I don’t know anything about his opponents. Jeff is another hypocritical elitist Daddy’s boy posing as pro life Christian. Jeff denies that the court house corruption exists. Jeff is a typical self-promoting Christian kingdom builder who never used his blog or Eagle columns to help establish the kingdom of God on earth. I sure hope that Bruce Brown is smart enough to become an advocate for reform. It’s going to be so ironic if Ross Alexander wins by default against Pat Walters.
Hey Bill-As rumor has it that you now live in the Dallas area, how are you going to protest on a weekly basis at the Wichita Eagle? Don’t you have a job or anything else to do other than harass the press and legal community? Why do you care what happens in Wichita if you live in Texas? Isn’t there any thing to worry about in that big old state down south?
LITTLE BIRDIE
I’M STILL CONCERNED ABOUT THE CRIME & CORRUPTION IN POTTERVILLE. I HAVE FAMILY & FRIENDS WHOSE CIVIL RIGHTS HAVE BEEN VIOLATED BY CORRUPT JUDGES, ATTORNEYS & COURT APPOINTED FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGISTS. FYI I COPIED SOME INTERESTING STATS ABOUT WICHITA. KANSAS IS NOT A VERY BIG STATE POPULATION WISE & A FEW PEOPLE STILL TAKE MY PHONE CALLS & READS MY BLOG POSTS. I’VE FOUND OUT THAT IF I POST MY E-MAIL ADDRESS TAHT IT’S SOOOOO EASY TO NETWORK WITH CONCERNED CITIZENS TI FIND OUT ABOUT SCANDALS INVOLVING JUDGES & ATTORNEYS WICHITA & JOHNSON COUNTY THAT WILL NEVER BE INVESTIGATED UNLESS WE KEEP ON KICKING THE EAGLE & THE KC STAR IN THE BUTT.
WHY DON’T YOU SEND ME AN E-MAIL AT KIAKAHAHAHA@YAHOO.COM I’D LOVE TO E-MAIL TO YOUR ANONYMOUS YOU SOME DIRT ON SOME JUDGES & ATTORNEYS THAT ARE CURRENTLY RUNNING FOR OFFICE. I’LL EVEN COPY THEM.
NOTE THESE CRIMINAL STATISTICS ON SEDGWICK COUNTY ARE UNDER REPORTED BECASUE THEY DO NOT INCLUDE THE FELONIES THAT ARE BEING COMMITTED BY WICHITA JUDGES & ATTORNEYS.
BILL MCKEAN 319 293-6079
SOURCE – KANSAS LIBERTY 7/25/08
In Kansas, the number of murders went down, while rapes and robberies increased Sedgwick County recorded most murders, rapes and robberies in 2007
For the second year in a row, Sedgwick County, the second largest county in Kansas, recorded more murders, rapes and robberies than any other Kansas county.
According to 2007 crime statistics released by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, 44 murders, 313 rapes, and 586 robberies were reported in the county last year.
In 2006, there were 28 murders in the county, with 265 rapes, and 532 robberies.
Overall in Kansas, the number of murders was down in 2007, when compared to 2006, while the number of rapes and robberies increased slightly.
Kansas City counties were a study in contrasts. Johnson County, a wealthy suburb of Kansas City, had only five murders in 2007. Wyandotte, a less affluent area of Kansas City, had five times as many killings and nearly three times as many robberies – but less than half as many reported rapes.
Wichita, with 350,000 people, is the largest city in Sedgwick County and accounts for much of the area’s violent crime. According to city-data.com, a demographics website, there are approximately 630 police officers in Wichita, 1.8 for every thousand residents. The national average is 3 officers for every 1000 citizens.
Rape and murder statistics for the state and for Kansas’ four most populous counties:
County Murders Rapes Robberies Johnson 5 147 177 Sedgwick 44 313 586 Shawnee 12 62 319 Wyandotte 25 96 520 Ttl Kansas 115 1228 2039