{"id":28660,"date":"2011-01-16T19:53:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T03:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=28660"},"modified":"2011-01-16T19:53:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T03:53:02","slug":"what-was-r-weingarten-thinking-when-he-decided-to-become-his-own-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=28660","title":{"rendered":"What Was R. Weingarten Thinking When He Decided To Become His Own Lawyer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"author\"><A HREF=\"http:\/\/frumfollies.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/16\/why-weingarten-was-his-own-lawyer\/\">By Yerachmiel Lopin on  01\/16\/2011<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s0.wp.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/adverts\/adsense.js?m=1253160243g&amp;1\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In  spite of <a href=\"http:\/\/failedmessiah.typepad.com\/failed_messiahcom\/2011\/01\/leading-monsey-rabbis-visit-convicted-child-rapist-yisroel-weingarten-declare-his-innocence-678.html\">claims  to the contrary<\/a> , Yisroel Moshe Weingarten (YMW) had a team of  lawyers hired by his friend, Menachem Blum, four months before the  trial. He dismissed them the day of the trial because he claimed they  were not up to the job. There is a great deal of evidence they were  thorough, well prepared, and skillful. However Weingarten wanted to do  cross examination himself. He had always had full control over his wife  and children by using violence, intimidation and with his daughters, sex  abuse. <a href=\"http:\/\/frumfollies.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/07\/what-was-said-inside-satmar-about-yisroel-moshe-weingarten\/\">Rabbi  Stauber<\/a> described him as manipulating, inflicting terrible  beatings, and sexually using his daughter in almost every way.<\/p>\n<p>However, his oldest daughter, Leah, had since broken away from his  control and was prepared to testify against him. His oldest son and his  ex-wife were prepared to corroborate some of her testimony. His main  strategy was to convince the jury that the prosecution witnesses were  lying because they could not stand up to cross-examination. His backup  strategy was to get the children still living with him to lie and claim  their mother and Leah had molested the other children. Both of these  strategies depended on his powers of intimidation. He was convinced that  he could intimidate if he could conduct the cross-examination.<span id=\"more-1818\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When that strategy failed and the jury came back with guilty verdicts  he turned right around, claimed he was denied his right to have a  lawyer, and asked Judge John Gleeson who conducted the trial to throw  out the verdict. The judge wrote a lengthy reply explaining why he was  rejecting that motion and other motions before sentencing (<a href=\"http:\/\/caseofisraelweingarten.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/memo-and-order-to-deny-retrial-for.html\">Memo  and Order to Deny Retrial<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/boxstr.net\/files\/7064038_ggkoc\/motion-to-overturn-cropped.pdf\">for  a free downloadable copy go here<\/a> and go through free registration).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yerachmiel Lopin on 01\/16\/2011 In spite of claims to the contrary , Yisroel Moshe Weingarten (YMW) had a team of lawyers hired by his friend, Menachem Blum, four months before the trial. He dismissed them the day of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=28660\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[23542,25134,16681,25131,25133,25132],"class_list":["post-28660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abuse","tag-daughter-leah","tag-guilty-verdicts","tag-john-gleeson","tag-lengthy-reply","tag-lopin","tag-prosecution-witnesses"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}