Fate of Accused Hospital Hacker in the Hands of Judge With Personal Ties to Hospital

I’ve heard of judges recusing themselves from cases for much less than this. The stink of cronyism was already strong with regard to this case simply because elements within the city government and a prestigious medical school aren’t being investigated for their own wrongdoing. That the presiding judge is connected to the medical school in question only makes it stink more.

On an unrelated but interesting note, Judge Bowler is also the same judge who made a hash of the interrogation of the surviving Boston bomber suspect by reading him his Miranda rights when the Justice Department had invoked the public safety exception to doing so.

The FBI filed a federal criminal complaint against the 19-year-old on Sunday, and federal District Court Judge Marianne Bowler arrived at the hospital where he is being treated to preside over his initial hearing Monday, when she read him his Miranda rights.

[FBI officials told The Associated Press Wednesday that Tsarnaev acknowledged to investigators his role in the attacks before he was advised of his constitutional rights. He reportedly said he was only recently recruited by his brother to be part of the attack.]

But Fox News’ sources say there was confusion about Bowler’s timing, with some voicing concerns that investigators were not given enough time to question Dzhokhar under the “public safety exception” invoked by the Justice Department.

Two officials with knowledge of the FBI briefing on Capitol Hill said the FBI was against stopping the investigators’ questioning and was stunned that the judge, Justice Department prosecutors and public defenders showed up, feeling valuable intelligence may have been sacrificed as a result.

It just gets better and better in left wing Massachusetts.