Christie Commutes Brian Aitken’s Sentence To Time Served
By Art Gallagher
This afternoon at 4:30 Governor Chris Christie signed a commutation order of Brian Aitken’s prison sentence of seven years for illegal possesion of firearms to time served effective today. The Governor order that Aitken be released from prison as soon as administratively possible.
According to numerous news reports, Aitken had purchased his firearms legally while a resident of Colorado and was transporting them pursuant to instructions he had received from the New Jersey State Police while moving back to his native New Jersey when he was arrested in January of 2009. The judge presiding over Aitken’s trial did not allow the jury to consider the exemption to New Jersey’s firearm carry law for transporting weapons between residences.
Christie’s commutation order can be viewed here.
There is a statement of the Free Brian Aitken facebook page that reads as follows:
It’s official—Governor Christie has commuted Brian’s sentence and he will be home before Christmas!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU everybody. If it wasn’t for your letters, phone calls and support this never would have happened. What a joyous Christmas this will be. Thank again from the bottom of our hearts. Brian Aitken has been freed!
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WHAT A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS PRESENT!
However, does he still have an opportunity to appeal the verdict and have his record cleared? I mean, if he was in the right and shouldn’t have been convicted in the first place, he deserves to have his life back.
When will the judge be put in jail for an obscene miscarriage of justice ..who was the judge, Art?
Thank you, Governor Christie, for having mercy on Brian Aitken. It was the right thing to do. Thank you, Art Gallagher, for writing about Brian Aitken’s plight.
That said, I live in Neptune Township. A few weeks ago, I wrote to my respesentatives in the New Jersey Legislature regarding Brian Aitken’s case. I urged Senator Kean, Assemblywowan Angelini and Assemblyman Rible to support Brian Aitken’s release from prison. I sent email letters to these representatives. I also sent letters to all three via the US Postal Service. I urged all three of these people that represent me to support Brian Aitken’s release from prison. Not one of these people even bothered to respond to my letters. Suffice it to say, I will not be supporting any of these liberal, anti-Second Amendment “Republicans” when they seek re-election.