Palin's son seeks to bar media in assault proceedings

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Rachel D'oro, Associated Press
Updated 6:09 am, Saturday, May 26, 2018

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The eldest son of former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is seeking to bar the media from covering court hearings after he was accused of assaulting his father last year at the family home in Alaska.

A lawyer for Track Palin, 29, filed a motion Friday to prohibit or limit media access to proceedings in Veterans Court, including a hearing scheduled to take place Tuesday.

Palin's attorney, Patrick Bergt, said the motion was filed on grounds to ensure the case does not become a distraction to other veterans in the system. Veterans Court is part of Alaska's therapeutic court system.

Bergt said he also plans to file an application next week to formally transfer the case to the Veterans Court. The case is officially in Superior Court in Palmer north of Anchorage.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Palin-s-son-seeks-to-bar-media-in-assault-12945169.php

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Track Palin

[SCVDem]

1. No special treatment!

He is a criminal nobody!

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Oh yes, let's have private jurisprudence for the Palins of this world, they are so special after all

[janterry]

3. why?

we already know he's a jerk

[Judi Lynn]

4. Can't understand it, can you? The rest of his Republican family is so darned nice!

[marble falls]

5. I forget, why is he so special, again? If the Palin family weren't such an "interesting" ...

basket of deplorables, if they weren't living such public lives nobody would give more than the proper amount of "I don't give a shit" about them.

[marble falls]

6. A fast read on Ol' Track.....

https://heavy.com/news/2016/01/sarah-palin-son-track-arrested-wasilla-alaska-assault-drunk-gun-facebook-page/

Track Palin: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

1. His Mother Blamed Track’s Arrest on President Obama
Track Palin Iraq

Sarah Palin speaks during the deployment ceremony for the US Army’s 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, on September 11, 2008. Palin’s son, Pvt. 1st Class Track Palin, was a member of the 4,000-soldier brigade, which went to Iraq for a 12-month deployment. (Getty)

In a speech in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Sarah Palin told a crowd that she would address the “elephant in the room,” reports Politico. Governor Palin blamed her son’s action on PTSD and said that President Obama had neglected veterans.

Track Palin was an Army reservist who performed a tour of duty in Iraq in 2008. A U.S. News report about his time on the frontline detailed that he was to provide “air guard,” providing protection for a Stryker vehicle. His commanding officer, Col. Burt Thompson, told U.S. News, “He’s a good kid and a good soldier and he’d like to remain anonymous.” Thompson was the commander of the Alaska-based 25th Infantry Division’s 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, known as the “Arctic Wolves.” During the 2008 presidential election, an ABC News report accused Palin of “politicizing” her son’s military service.


2. He Was the Most Injured Palin During Their 2014 Drunken Brawl

In October 2014, the Palin family were involved in an infamous drunken brawl at one of their friend’s homes. The brawl included, according to CNN, Track Palin trying to start a fight with his father, Todd. The network’s report, citing official documents, said that Track was “shirtless,” “heavily intoxicated” and “belligerent at first.” The fight happened at a party thrown at the home of Palin friend Korey Klingenmeyer. Track told officers that the fight broke out when some of the party guests began “talking rudely” about some of the Palin sisters. The eldest Palin left the fight with the worst damage: a bloody mouth, black eye and an elbow injury.

4. He Was Widely Rumored to Have Cut the Brake Lines of a School Bus When He Was 16

In 2005, Track was accused along with three other teenagers of cutting the brake line of a school bus in Wasilla. The incident was reported on a local news broadcast in Anchorage (video is above). The Frontiersman newspaper reported at the time that four teenagers had stolen a bottle of vodka from a liquor store and gone on a vandalism spree. Political conspiracy theorists reckoned that Track avoided jail time by enlisting in the U.S. Army. Col. Thompson downplayed that rumor in the U.S. News report from October 2008, calling it “balderdash.”

During Palin’s run for vice president in 2008, the National Enquirer reported that Track had been suffering from an addiction to Oxycontin.

[Judi Lynn]

13. Anyone who would involve himself in getting Track off for cutting a school bus brake line

should be charge with something, and then be fired from his government job.

No excuse for this kind of treachery in defense of a dirty family, or even a clean one with a creepy kid.

[marble falls]

14. The whole family has bad histories, the dad was a member of a militia in Alaska ...

that advocated fighting the Federal Government to create an Alaskan Nation. Caused quite an embarrassment to McCain when Palin had to resign from his little gun club.

There's been reports Mr and Mrs Palin have had loud confrontations at neighborhood and at family functions. Mrs Pallin's handling of a State Trooper she didn't like was a scandal, too.

Niiiiiice people - to avoid.

[Bengus81]

7. No doubt WORSE than already reported and he (Sarah) wants it kept quiet.

Why the hell would he care?? It's not him,it's someone who still thinks they could be President.

[Judi Lynn]

8. Just looked for images of Wasilla, curious about the Palin family's environment:

More images:

https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrEwSzxxglbqAYAKMmLuLkF;_ylc=X1MDOTYwNTc0ODMEX3IDMgRiY2sDZWFlcjdmOWNnbDI5ZyUyNmIlM0Q0JTI2ZCUzRGZFVE9PSzFyWUgzS3VfNWJGaWk4THF3a19jX3JYc19ya1E2azM1dGQ0N2NwM1EtLSUyNnMlM0RkayUyNmklM0RXTmh2aGViRUpQQUVDbk5qMGdpcwRmcgMEZ3ByaWQDanFnNlJYYWFSbWVLSnJOTGlkRHhJQQRtdGVzdGlkA251bGwEbl9zdWdnAzEwBG9yaWdpbgNpbWFnZXMuc2VhcmNoLnlhaG9vLmNvbQRwb3MDMARwcXN0cgMEcHFzdHJsAwRxc3RybAMxNARxdWVyeQN3YXNpbGxhIGFsYXNrYQR0X3N0bXADMTUyNzM2NzQxOAR2dGVzdGlkA251bGw-?gprid=jqg6RXaaRmeKJrNLidDxIA&pvid=E5YMEzEwLjHlO2d6WQqJMAo.NjUuMgAAAADv29ZL&fr2=sb-top-images.search.yahoo.com&p=wasilla+alaska&ei=UTF-8&iscqry=&fr=sfp#id=139&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.timeinc.net%2Ftime%2Fquotes%2F2008%2F09%2F0901_wasilla.jpg&action=close


How is it living in the most amazing parts of the U.S. does NOT deepen, awaken the spirit of whoever lives there? Why are the Alaskan Republicans among the greediest, most hateful, most ignorant of all Republican politicians? Is it because there are enough of them to completely control the state and the law, and they grow up believing themselves the supreme rulers of the state, vastly superior, and not responsible to the native citizens, not required to hold respect for the animals, the land itself?

Shallow, crude, insufficient, undisciplined, ugly human imposters, aren't they? It surely didn't start with the Palins, when you recall those right-wing politicians who went to Washington before John McCain shoved creepy Sarah into the nation's limelight.

[marble falls]

9. Sarah's house has its own FB page...

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sarah-Palins-House/200064706722601

[Judi Lynn]

10. Now that's completely strange, isn't it?

I read in the time before the election that she had a lot of windows added during the building which were duplicates to some big windows used in the local new high school, which gives it a very institutional look from the inside. There was more interesting stuff which I can't remember but the direct implication was that she had contributions to that house's construction from local people which cried out to be investigated.

Thanks for the images. For chrissakes, what a view! Unbelievable.

[marble falls]

11. I found it on Google maps, too. Found a mention of the it on Zillow....

they say its worth about $563K. And that's Alaska, so its not really very fancy.

[SergeStorms]

15. And Zillow's....

estimates are notoriously high. Realtors hate Zillow, because it give sellers unrealistic expectations about the value of their property.

I have a piece of land, waterfront on a bay off of Lake Ontario, 75' of water frontage, totaling less than 1/4 acre, unimproved land and Zillow says it's worth $125,000. Not. Even. Close. The highest I've been offered is $65,000, and I think I'll take it. Of course I only paid $1500 about 50 years ago, so I guess I did alright.

[marble falls]

16. You did good. Your 1970 $1500 is worth about $9800 today. People get wealthy on that kind of margin.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

12. Wasilla's not really in Alaska

but you can see it from there.

(Actually, that's a joke that's usually made about Anchorage.)

[marble falls]

17. I like it. We sure get a lot of milage off the shit Sarah says,