Thursday Daily Delawhere [8.2.12]

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  1. JP Connor Jr says:
    August 2, 2012 at 7:04 am

    DUH St Francis Hospital:)

  2. SussexWatcher says:
    August 2, 2012 at 7:26 am

    An update on Tyler Nixon’s case … sonofagun, the drugs were his.

    http://courts.delaware.gov/opinions/download.aspx?ID=176080

  3. JP Connor Jr says:
    August 2, 2012 at 7:34 am

    If this site has any class remaining the above post will come down.

  4. Steve Newton says:
    August 2, 2012 at 7:59 am

    No. Don’t take it down. Tyler Nixon is my very good friend, and anyone who reads this opinion will discover that the police, the court, and the board determined (contra the original charges and hype) that the drugs found in Tyler’s house were for his own use, that he had no intent to sell or distribute, and that his record as an attorney and public servant was otherwise outstanding. In point of fact, if anyone actually reads this opinion, the Delaware bar refused to disbar Tyler, and found multipie mitigating circumstances.

    Tyler Nixon is a victim of America’s bizarre and dangerous “war on drugs” which has now deprived the many poor and disadvantaged people he has consistently provided pro bono legal services to of skilled representation. Whether he enjoys (or enjoyed) the use of marijuana and/or XTC in the privacy of his own home should have been nobody else’s business.

    Tyler’s got nothing to be ashamed of. The legal system in Delaware, and the US war on drugs–that’s where a lot of the shame should reside.

  5. Andy says:
    August 2, 2012 at 8:08 am

    This conflicts with the many jobs that under the same circumstances would lose their jobs forever. Is there drug testing for lawyers?

  6. SussexWatcher says:
    August 2, 2012 at 8:09 am

    The record also shows that he knowingly violated state law in using mind-altering substances. Attorneys especially aren’t supposed to break the law, are they?

    I have nothing against the man and have never even met him. But given the hoopla around his arrest, I thought some might like to know how it turned out, warts and all. Take it down if you want … just not because of JPC’s sanctimony.

  7. Geezer says:
    August 2, 2012 at 8:17 am

    “This conflicts with the many jobs that under the same circumstances would lose their jobs forever.”

    You might get fired from a job, but that’s much different from someone being barred from engaging in a profession.

  8. Steve Newton says:
    August 2, 2012 at 8:27 am

    Sussex Watcher your “I have nothing against the man” is obviously so much bullshit.

    Yeah, he used recreational drugs. So did Barack Obama.

    There is no reason for you to have posted this other than to pile on what you consider to be humiliating circumstances for a very good man with whom you obviously have a problem.

    Crawl back under your rock now. Not buying the bile you are spewing.

  9. Delaware Dem says:
    August 2, 2012 at 8:32 am

    I agree with everything Steve said. And the only reason I would move the comments on this thread is because they are off topic. This is Daily Delawhere damnit!

    But I am not moving them because I don’t want a Tyler Nixon thread.

    JP, this news is politically relevant if only because Tyler is/was a political public figure in Delaware politics and is/was a fellow blogger. And by reading the opinion, you get a different picture of what happened than what is commonly known.

  10. Pencadermom says:
    August 2, 2012 at 8:43 am

    On a lighter note, I knew it was St. Francis before I saw the sign. I worked there for a while. We would sometimes take our break on the roof. Pretty cool. 🙂

  11. SussexWatcher says:
    August 2, 2012 at 8:57 am

    Steve: Yup, the difference is Obama wasn’t dumb enough to get caught. ;). I admire some of what Tyler has said. I dislike his (and your) attitude that drugs are OK because the war on drugs is dumb. But that’s a political difference, not personal. I don’t know the guy from Adam.

    If your position is taken at face value, his arrest was a form of civil disobedience, not a humiliating circumstance. You libertarians should be proud of your drug arrests!

    I do remember talk when it first happened that he must have been holding them for a client, which is obviously false.

    DD: I posted here because there was no open thread at the time.

  12. jpconnorjr says:
    August 2, 2012 at 9:43 am

    Were you the guys I saw with the binoculars laughing at the man on the bridge yesterday? Also when it suits your purpose you purge stuff that is under wrong threads WTF does this have to do with the St Francis Hospital. If you don’t know him and have nothing against him you could have at the very least not posted the confidential stuff? The legal disposition of the case was nearly a year ago. But when the class level here is to call a guy who wrote a piece in DT a cock sucker expectations are low.

  13. Steve Newton says:
    August 2, 2012 at 10:20 am

    Sussex Watcher

    You need to read more carefully: I DID say he had nothing to be ashamed of. The fact that you don’t approve of people having the right to put whatever substances they want into the their own bodies as long as they don’t harm anybody else is exactly that: your political view.

    Where you cross the line (and where nobody here believes you) is when you pretend that you just woke up this morning and decided to post about an old case (Tyler made his plea well over a year ago) that is out of subject for the thread for no other discernable reason than to pile on to a good guy who has gotten an extemely raw deal.

    What your need to personalize this is, I don’t know. But I do know that when you say you don’t have a dog in this fight you are lying. That’s OK. You’ve been called out and you’ve responded. Anybody here can read what you and I have written and make their own decision.

    I’m done with you. As far as I’m concerned, not only has Tyler Nixon not done anything morally or ethically wrong, he has a consistent track record of going out of his way to help others in need. You? All we know about you is that you like to hit people when they are down.

  14. SussexWatcher says:
    August 2, 2012 at 10:32 am

    JPC and Steve: The court’s ruling was made public only within the last week in his bar suspension. That’s what I posted a link to. It contained details that I and I’m sure many others here hadn’t known. There’s no way to get access to the criminal case docket to see the outcome unless you’re in the courthouse, which I’m not, so I had no idea he’d pleaded to anything until this came out.

    JPC: There was no confidential information posted. The link was to documents posted on the state courts’ site, a matter of public record for anyone to see. If you have a problem with that, call the courts.

  15. jpconnorjr says:
    August 2, 2012 at 10:36 am

    Nah, don’t need to call anybody to know you are an asshole. I am sure others here have been waiting on the edge of their seats to wallow in a man’s personal troubles. Go play in traffic.

  16. SussexWatcher says:
    August 2, 2012 at 10:45 am

    “Go play in traffic.”

    Um…. A traffic reference from you?

  17. SussexWatcher says:
    August 2, 2012 at 10:49 am

    Geezer: There was no ban. It was a temporary suspension of his license.

  18. jpconnorjr says:
    August 2, 2012 at 10:50 am

    My shit has been all over this site 10 plus times…. take your best shot…double asshole!

  19. SussexWatcher says:
    August 2, 2012 at 11:15 am

    I had a response written, but it’s irrelevant. Getting into a pissing match with JPC is a waste of good urine.

  20. jpconnorjr says:
    August 2, 2012 at 11:17 am

    Go fuck yourself

  21. pandora says:
    August 2, 2012 at 11:24 am

    Knock it off.

    Thank you.

  22. AQC says:
    August 2, 2012 at 11:30 am

    OMG, let it go!

  23. anon says:
    August 2, 2012 at 11:30 am

    One nation under arrest.

  24. Geezer says:
    August 2, 2012 at 11:35 am

    “It was a temporary suspension of his license.”

    Yes, but someone suggested that it was an inappropriately lenient punishment. I was pointing out that getting fired from a job is not as severe a punishment as being barred from a profession.

    I’m glad to have learned that TPN is not going to be disbarred. His actions did not deserve that level of punishment, IMO.

  25. Nancy Willing says:
    August 2, 2012 at 1:14 pm

    Facebook is swamped with ‘Phelps did it on pot’ imagery this morning. Just sayin’.

    25 to 35 billion per year’s been spent on the war on drugs since the early 1980’s and we’ve got nothing to show for it besides FAIL –

    Cheaper and easier to buy cocaine and heroin, murderous turf wars, cartel money laundering, kids in jail for experimenting ad nauseum….

  26. Von Cracker says:
    August 2, 2012 at 4:22 pm

    My mother, a nurse for decades, says that’s the place where people go to die.

  27. Andy says:
    August 4, 2012 at 2:33 pm

    @ Geezer Anyone who holds a Commercial Drivers License and gets busted doing drugs loses their livihood forever

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