Alleged Hillary Clinton shoe thrower arraigned

[Jesus Malverde]

Source: Associated Press

A Phoenix woman accused of throwing a shoe at Hillary Rodham Clinton during a speech in Las Vegas remains in federal custody after pleading not guilty to two criminal charges.

Alison Ernst, 36, entered the pleas to misdemeanor counts of trespassing and violence against a person during her arraignment late Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Cam Ferenbach then granted the government's request to keep Ernst in federal custody, saying she was a flight risk and danger to the community. She is being held at a jail operated by a federal contractor in Pahrump, 63 miles west of Las Vegas.

Ferenbach raised concerns about Ernst's residency status and mental health condition, Natalie Collins, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Nevada, told The Associated Press.

Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SHOE_THROWER_HILLARY_CLINTON?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-04-25-18-19-06

[Politicalboi]

1. Pahrump is state line

I wonder how the accommodations are. Can they see Buffalo Bill's and Whiskey Pete's. LOL!

[trueblue2007]

2. keep her in jail for 8 years

[awoke_in_2003]

24. But we all got a good laugh....

out of the Bush shoe throwing incident.

[davidpdx]

3. I'm glad to hear they aren't just going to put her back out on the street,

but she obviously needs some help as well. It will be interesting to see if she has anything else turn up in a criminal background check. She's only being charged with a misdemeanor which depending on whether she has priors could mean a few months in jail.

[ManiacJoe]

4. Are those really the charges filed?

Seems like half the time the reporters just make up the names of these charges. "Violence against a person"? Seems unlikely that this crime actually exists in the statutes by that name.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Pahrump?

[elias49]

6. Ridiculous. A threat to the community?

According to whom? I think it might be instructive to speak with her family, er neighbors...
jeez.

[msanthrope]

7. She thinks James Holmes invaded her head...I call that a danger...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/hillary-clinton-shoe-thrower-identified-article-1.1753512

[elias49]

8. Oh, c'mon..the New York Daily news?? nt

[msanthrope]

10. Citing the federal lawsuit the woman filed asking for a restraining order against Holmes, after his

arrest.....

Are they lying?

They also have the police report appended to the article.

Is it a fake?

The NY Daily News is home to Jimmy Breslin and Mike Lupica, two of the finest journalists in America. You gotta problem wit' that????

Or are you confusing the Daily News with the Post.

[elias49]

11. I just took a look at this morning's Daily News (just a click away)

and I'll say "Not really"
A tabloid with the important story about a woman with conjoined twins refusing surgery...
"Braless in Brooklyn..."
"Exclusive: FBI investigates claims that Christine Quinn was threatened..."

Meh. Daily News always struck me as a bit 'yellow'. But they DO have a crapload of photos!

[msanthrope]

12. Again--did they post something false? Or are you just irritated that even the Daily News

knows that this woman needs help???? Serious help?

[elias49]

13. The woman needs help. Not jail.

And The Daily News - I still say - needs to be less sensational.

[msanthrope]

14. Would she get help without jail? The sad fact is that without confinement against her will, it's

entirely possible that Ms. Ernst might decline services.

[elias49]

15. You might be right about that...

and let me say that my feelings about this are set a little on edge by the fact that she is/was being held in one of those private contractor Fed prisons....places people go to not be seen until the 'authorities' deem appropriate. There's something about these for-profit facilities that smacks of those our CIA black sites.
Of course she didn't throw a shoe at some lady at a school board meeting...

[msanthrope]

16. Where is she being held? FYI--when you have a mental patient in the Federal System, there's

often a lockout on visiting until transition is made. Her attorneys can see her, but she may not see other visitors for awhile. This is kind of standard.

[elias49]

19. According to the original article by the OP - the AP story

"She is being held at a jail operated by a federal contractor in Pahrump, 63 miles west of Las Vegas."

[msanthrope]

20. Yeah...not surprised. The feds have wide swathes of the country where they

use a combination of state or private contractors for prisoner space because of expense, particularly for pretrial detention.

I think the nearest federal facility might be CA or AZ,

[elias49]

21. Interesting read here:

http://cca.com/who-we-are

Parhump is owned by CCA...
CCA, which has facilities to 'accomodate' 80,000 detainees nationwide
CCA 4th quarter 2013 earnings were $47million dollars.

Oh my ignorance! There's good m oney in locking people up!

[msanthrope]

22. There's lots of money in locking up people....not so much in locking up people

who require medical care, etc.

She's currently got two misdemeanor counts against her, so I suspect that the decision to lock her up came from a combination of things....perceived mental status, combined with the lack of fixed ties to the community, and possibly the lack of family to care for her. Plus....frankly, she doesn't seem to be done with attacking people.

She's go the federal defender, and they are very good.

[Marrah_G]

17. She is mentally ill

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/14/clinton-shoe-thrower-james-homles-_n_5147038.html

[hsueh-li]

18. Agreed.

She has serious problems.

[lunasun]

23. threat to others / herself

“James enters my head like Dennis Quaid in ‘Innerspace’ and he zooms to my heart and plays with it and forces me to care for him,” the document read. “I seek a restraining order to stop Holmes from entering my mind through subliminal messaging and causing me to be obsessed with him on a daily basis.”

she could get a message to shoot 20 more people/harm herself