Elizabeth Reyes

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“The woman charged with tossing her now famous pit bull down a high-rise trash chute last year skipped her scheduled court appearance today and now has 24 hours before a warrant is issued for her arrest.

Kisha Curtis, 28, of Newark, stands indicted on a fourth-degree animal cruelty charge in connection with the March 2011 incident at the Garden Spires apartment complex. The pit bull, since renamed Patrick, attracted national attention and an outpouring of sympathy when it was found emaciated and near-death.

Curtis, who is free on bail, was supposed to appear in Superior Court in Newark this morning for a status hearing but never showed. By 11:30 a.m., her attorney, Andrew Rojas, told the judge he hadn’t heard from her in a week.

“I’m quite concerned,” Rojas told Superior Court Judge Joseph Cassini III, in requesting a stay of 48 hours before a bench warrant was issued. Rojas said his client had made all five previous court appearances, including a few in front of a swarm of reporters when the case grabbed headlines in its early days.

Essex County Assistant Prosecutor Cheryl Cucinello opposed Rojas’ request for more time.

Judges routinely issue bench warrants when defendants fail to appear in court. In the end, the judge gave Curtis another day, but cautioned he will issue the warrant if Curtis “doesn’t appear or there isn’t a sufficient explanation” by 4 p.m. Wednesday.

Curtis has previously rejected the state’s plea offer calling for up to 18 months in prison, a $5,000 fine and 30 days’ community service.

Patrick has since made a full recovery but remains at the center of an ongoing civil suit between the City of Newark and Associated Humane Societies, which claims custody of the animal. Cassini, who is also handling that case, has ordered the dog temporarily remain in the home of the administrator of a Tinton Falls veterinary facility.”

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stfuprolife:

CHECK IT HERE.

I’ve seen this new statistic going around tumblr and while the number of people who are pro-choice really IS higher than 41% like STFU Pro-Life has pointed out, I just want to reiterate that the amount of people who are pro-life or pro-choice doesn’t matter.

Even if pro-lifers were the majority (which they aren’t) it doesn’t matter. The opinions of the majority do not get to define the rights of the  minority. We don’t vote on people’s rights in the US. The fact that they are rights makes them something ALL people are granted and the right to privacy is guaranteed by the constitution and is the basis for the right to choose.

You don’t get to vote on that, so it doesn’t matter who is in the majority (to be clear, though, over 70% of people are pro-choice and a large majority of them don’t realize it because they don’t understand what it means to ACTUALLY be pro-life) because the right to choose isn’t something we get to vote on. It is constitutionally guaranteed by the right to privacy and Roe v. Wade wouldn’t be overturned by even the most conservative of Supreme Courts for that reason.

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