Obama Nominee Sees Sexual Sadism As A "Mitigating Factor."

A serial killer sentenced to death was entitled to special consideration by Obama's nominee to the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals because he was a sexual sadist.

In 1995, Chatigny, whom President Obama has nominated to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, presided over the case of confessed serial killer Michael Ross, a.k.a. the “roadside strangler.”After 18 years on death row, Ross instructed his lawyer to stop appealing his scheduled execution; he’d already admitted to the murder of eight women — seven of whom he’d raped — and was ready to accept his punishment.

But Chatigny, then a federal district judge, would have nothing of it. Threatening to seek the disbarment of Ross’ attorney, Chatigny aggressively browbeat the lawyer into claiming that Ross – who went to Cornell — was somehow too incompetent to accept his sentence.

“Looking at the record in a light most favorable to Mr. Ross, he never should have been convicted. Or if convicted, he never should have been sentenced to death because his sexual sadism, which . . . is clearly a mitigating factor,” Chatigny said then.

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