Remember Rep. Bill Janklow, that pile of goo who killed a man speeding?
His trial starts Monday, and they've pulled a slick defense outta thin air. What do you know, he was having a DIABETIC REACTION. Apparently he was having one the OTHER 12 TIMES he was ticketed for speeding, also:
(snip) Judge Won't Delay Rep. Janklow's Trial
Wednesday November 26, 2003 7:01 AM
By CARSON WALKER
Associated Press Writer
FLANDREAU, S.D. (AP) - Prosecutors on Tuesday asked for a delay in the trial of Rep. Bill Janklow, saying they hadn't had time to review a medical record indicating the lawmaker's diabetes might have contributed to a deadly vehicle crash.
Prosecutors said defense documents recently supplied to them included an Oct. 27 medical exam indicating Janklow had symptoms consistent with a diabetic reaction around the time of the accident, which killed a motorcyclist. (snip)
(snip) The requested delay, however, was denied, with Janklow's trial still scheduled to begin Monday.
The 64-year-old congressman is charged with speeding, running a stop sign, reckless driving and manslaughter in an accident Aug. 16 that killed Randy Scott of Hardwick, Minn. Prosecutors say he was going 71 mph. (snip)
(snip) The record says Janklow, a diabetic, took his insulin but had not eaten before the crash. The document also indicates he was taking the medication Atenolol, which can mask symptoms of a diabetic reaction.
``If the current history is confirmed, hypoglycemia around the time of the accident is highly likely,'' the document states. ``This certainly could contribute to reduced awareness, reflexes, memory loss, etc.'' (snip/...)
I had heard from other DU'ers that Janklow had raped a girl, and when I saw your post, I decided to go see if I could find anything, and it was very EASY.
This is from Buzzflash:
(snip) But a history of speeding isn't the only blemish on Janklow's record. He's been accused of many improprieties, including rape. It is important to note that Janklow vehemently denies the rape charges. Janklow unsuccessfully filed a libel suit against a book, "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse" by noted author Peter Matthiessen, that detailed some of these charges. After four years of litigation, Janklow lost the case, and the book was finally released.
Just before he was sworn in to Congress in 2003, a Native American newspaper posed four questions about Janklow's moral qualifications to be a congressman. These touch upon issues covered "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse":
1. "Did Mr. Janklow rape or sexually assault Jancita Eagle Deer, a minor and legal infant in his custody and care, on or about January 13, 1967, on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota?"
2. "Has Mr. Janklow persistently misrepresented to the public the nature of his offense against another minor female, as charged in juvenile criminal proceedings against him in Moody County, South Dakota, preceding his premature departure from high school and his floater enlistment in the U.S. Marines?" (snip)
(snip) Janklow, by the way, made his career by playing the "Indian card" in South Dakota. In the Dakotas, native Americans are "THE minority." In essence, Janklow adopted the Republican game plan of rousing out the white vote by signaling that he would ride hard on the local minority. So instead of neo-Confederacy veiled racism, Janklow started to whip up anti-Indian sentiment. (snip/...)
(snip) William "Wild Bill" Janklow is the current governor of South Dakota. In 1955, at the age of 16, he was convicted of the sexual assault of a 17-year old woman. As a juvenile offense, this conviction carried little weight under U.S. law.
However, in 1966, while working as the tribal attorney for the Rosebud Sioux, Janklow--aged 27--was accused of raping his children's 15-year-old babysitter, Jancita Eagle Deer. Adult sexual offenses being more grave than this earlier recorded exploit, Janklow used his capacity as head of reservation legal services to stave off the (illegible) of formal, federal charges. He then resigned his position and left tribal jurisdiction.
Having progressed through the "mainstream" South Dakota legal system during the intervening seven years, Janklow achieved status as the state's Deputy Attorney General by the time of the 1973 American Indian Movement (AIM) occupation of Wounded Knee. Opting to run for Attorney General the following year, he undertook a campaign of hardline prosecutorial assault upon AIM members designed to win him the advantage of local headlines and support of South Dakota's virulently anti-Indian white citizenry.
AIM countered this offensive when organization member Douglass Durham discovered the old Rosebud rape files. AIM leader Dennis Banks secured the filing of charges and brought the case before tribal judge Mario Gonzales. Durham, meanwhile, had located Jancita Eagle Deer in Iowa, where she had resided since dropping out of high school shortly after the 1966 incident.
Durham was able to persuade Eagle Deer to return to the Rosebud in order to testify at the upcoming trial: Janklow refused to enter tribal jurisdiction either to stand trial or even to answer questions concerning the charges. Gonzales then issued a warrant for the arrest of the South Dakota Deputy Attorney General on charges of rape and obstruction of justice. Durham and Eagle Deer apparently became lovers; in any event she became his traveling companion. And, South Dakota being South Dakota, Janklow won his election by a landslide.
Janklow's Justice
In his new capacity as Attorney General, Janklow introduced his anti-AIM campaign, winning a good deal of federal approval for his efforts and focusing his most lethal attentions on Dennis Banks (who had showcased the rape charges), rather than on Douglass Durham (who had discovered and pushed them). Said Janklow, "The way to deal with Dennis Banks is with a bullet between the eyes." (snip/...)
Thanks to your post, I finally read some background, and now i KNOW for sure what people say about him, no matter how bad it could ever be, is totally correct!
Oh, I also read in one of these two links that he was seriously considering running for South Dakota's Senate seat. So glad to know THAT'S out of the question now.
5. I'm originally from South Dakota. In fact, I was technically born on a
reservation. I have a relative who's now working on a reservation in South Dakota. She told me everybody KNOWS Janklow did it. It's like one big family, and they know about it - they probably know the victim.
He's a sick son of a bitch. And that diabetes defense - give me a break! If he's subject to these diabetic attacks, he shouldn't have been driving in the first place. Or he should be sued for not properly dealing with his disease. And what about all his other offenses - where they caused by diabetes, too?
Edited on Thu Nov-27-03 05:47 AM by BareKnuckledLiberal
In my area of Bucks County, PA, we had a GOP rooster -- Tom Druce -- who struck, and killed, a man while driving a state veee-hickle. He then took the vee-hickle to a body shop to have the evidence covered over, and told them he hit a deer. One of the mechanics smelled a rat, not a deer, and the gig was up.
Druce's attorney argued mightily that Druce was innocent because his victim was walking along the side of the road while drunk; Druce said he thought he had hit a road sign. The human road sign turned out to be Kenneth Cains, an unfashionably black guy with a history of minor DUI busts. Well, that was enough for the judge, who slapped Druce on the wrist. After all, why should a fine, upstanding Pillar of the Community suffer because of an unfortunate accident and a Bad Decision?
Rather than going to a high-toned white-collar prison for a year, Druce has been fighting this as if it was a case worthy of Atticus Finch. He also wants all his house-arrest time applied to his "sentence". Meanwhile, Druce is a well-compensated lobbyist in Harrisburg, albeit one who is a convicted felon required to wear a house-arrest transmitter strapped to his leg.
How painful must be the stripes of unjust punishment Tom Druce carries!
Oh, yes, Mr. Druce also received a $100,000 payout from a personal-injury insurance policy after the company was ordered to do so by one of his friends on the bench. It seems that fraud is occasionally considered to be a basis for violation of the terms of an insurance policy. Those damn liberals must have tinkered with the law again, but a Strict Constructionist set things right with a wise judgement.
--bkl For the poor victims of godless liberal idiots who throw themselves in front of speeding cars, there's the GOP. For everyone else, there's Personal Responsibility™.
Bush prays for Janklow: (Was that before or AFTER the accident?)
(snip) Bush: Janklow's fatal accident was 'unintentional' Wednesday, September 17, 2003
President Bush is praying for Rep. Bill Janklow (R), former governor of South Dakota, and says the August 16 accident in which a motorcyclist died was "unintentional."
"My prayers go to Bill - he hurts, he hurts," Bush told Gannett News Service. "This matter will run its course. It's an unintentional accident."
Janklow, who hasn't spoken publicy about the accident, has returned to Washington, D.C., to continue his duties as a Congressman. He has been charged with second-degree manslaughter, a felony, for hitting and killing Randy Scott.
Janklow suffered injuries in the accident. According to the Associated Press, he had to be helped while descending the steps of the U.S. Capitol. "It feels good," he was quoted as saying. "I'm glad to get back to work." (snip/)
From Bush's speech while standing, idiotically, near the great stone heads at Mt. Rushmore:
(snip) I appreciate so very much your governor, Bill Janklow, for being here. Bill has been a friend of mine for a long period of time. (Applause.) He might have invented the word "piece of work." (Laughter and applause.) But he's a good piece of work. (snip/...) http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/08/20020815.html
Bad enough to show a huge pic of "Jack-off" Janklow, but then bush, too, in the same post? (And didn't he strike that same pose in the "Jesus" photo where he's at the podium with the Seal of the POTUS behind him?)
I'm diabetic. I've some severe hypoglycemic incidents, and amazingly enough, I didn't kill anyone. Maybe because I know to test myself before I drive. But that's besides the point - if he had been so hypoglycemic as to lose control of his car, he would have been unconscious, and have no memory of the event.
If he has had loss of consciousness due to diabetes, that's enough to get his license revoked or at least severely restricted. If this defense is successful, I hope someone has the balls to act on this (at the very least).
If you have a known medical condition that impairs your driving to the extent that you KILL SOMEONE, "I didn't feel good" is no defense. It would be different if he didn't know he was diabetic, or if he had a heart attack while driving.
He is scum and I hope he gets the maximum sentence. But he won't. Because the law is only for the little people.
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