Grodner pleaded guilty in a Chicago courtroom packed with former Marines. Some had Marine pins on their coats, or baseball jackets with the Marine insignia. They didn't yellor call him names. They came to support Marine Sgt. Michael McNulty, whose car Grodner defaced in December, but who couldn't attend because he's preparing for his second tour in Iraq.

Grodner was late to court for the second time in the case. Grodner called Assistant State's Attorney Patrick Kelly, (Marine Corps/Vietnam 1969-1972), informing Kelly that he would be late to court.

"He wanted to avoid the media," Kelly said Friday. "So he's coming a half hour late."

"I don't run my courtroom that way!" responded Judge William O'Malley, ordering Grodner be arrested and held on $20,000 bail when he arrived. Finally, Grodner strolled in. A short man, wide, wearing a black fedora, dark glasses, a divorce lawyer dressed like some tough guy in the movies.

Grodner told me he'd describe himself as a "radical liberal" who's ready to leave Chicago now with all this negative publicity and move to the south of France and do some traveling.

Judge O'Malley has also traveled, but in his youth. He was a police officer on the West Side during the riots before law school. And before that, he performed another public service. Judge O'Malley served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1961-1964.

In addition to the damages to the car ($2,400), he will also pay a $600 fine, which will go to a Marine charity (the Semper Fi Wounded Warrior Program), 30 hours of community service and a year of court supervision. If he doesn't pay up in a month, the judge promised to put him in jail for a year.

wow that isent a biased judge, he could have appealed on the grounds of conflict of interest and gotten a new judge. By the way the reason I call some on here stupid is because all you post are one liners or spelling bee comments and that gets really boring, I dont care if someone disagrees or whatever but at least post something worth reading.

Great Post Gunny guess we have a little justice after all. Maybe that lawer will take his own advice and go to France.

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Great Post Gunny guess we have a little justice after all. Maybe that lawer will take his own advice and go to France.

(It was patoloco who posted it)

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(It was patoloco who posted it)

I'm a retired Gunny as well....

Aufklarer:

What is with the racist avatar?

This message has been edited. Last edited by: HarryP,

It's not meant to be racist. I just took a candidate that I don't like and called him a monkey.

You have a point however, that it might be offensive to some people, so I will change it.

Thanks for directing my attention to this.

I still want to know the reason why the Marine did not call the cops immediately after the incident.

All I have to say is that people really need to find better things to do with their time that hurting other peoples stuff, I mean hasn't this guy ever heard of jerking off! I mean seriously, people really need to stop breaking other peoples stuff.

Exactly. People should learn to have some basic respect for other people's property.