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Post by Spider on Mar 10, 2009 20:59:39 GMT -5
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Post by Spider on Mar 17, 2009 12:25:11 GMT -5
This video speaks for itself__ 'S'
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Post by Spider on Apr 13, 2009 18:13:01 GMT -5
Phil Spector Found Guilty of actress' 2003 murder [April 13 - 2009][/center] After about 30 hours of deliberation, a jury on Monday convicted music producer Phil Spector of second-degree murder in the death of actress Lana Clarkson more than six years ago.
.. Phil Spector will not remain free on bail pending his May 29 sentencing.
Wearing a black suit with a red tie and pocket square, Spector showed no reaction as the verdict was announced. Now 69, he faces a sentence of 18 years to life in prison when he is sentenced May 29.
.. Asked if he agreed to the sentencing date, Spector quietly answered, "Yes."
Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler declined to allow Spector to remain free on bail pending sentencing, citing Spector's years-long "pattern of violence" involving firearms.
"This was not an isolated incident," Fidler said, noting Spector's two previous firearm-related convictions from the 1970s. "The taking of an innocent human life, it doesn't get any more serious than that."
Spector's wife, Rachelle, was in the courtroom to hear the verdict Monday, as was Clarkson's mother, Donna.
Clarkson, 40, was found dead, slumped in a chair in the foyer of Spector's Alhambra, California, mansion with a gunshot wound through the roof of her mouth in February 2003.
Don't Miss Spector Defense: Suicide Is A Possibility. DA: Who buys shoes and then commits suicide? A mistrial was declared in Spector's first trial in September 2007. After deliberating 15 days, jurors told Fidler that they were unable to reach a verdict. Spector was also charged with second-degree murder in that trial. Jurors deadlocked 10-2 in favor of conviction.
In closing arguments at the retrial, prosecutor Truc Do called Spector "a very dangerous man" who "has a history of playing Russian roulette with women, ... Six Women ... .. Lana just happened to be the sixth" .. Full Article__ 'S' [/center][/color]
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Post by moonpuppy on Apr 13, 2009 20:49:39 GMT -5
Some one give him a gun and one bullet and spare us the rest.
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Post by moonpuppy on Apr 13, 2009 21:42:17 GMT -5
Just imagine, this is the last thing that poor girl saw.
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Post by Spider on Apr 16, 2009 16:27:55 GMT -5
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California Woman Mistaken For Girl's Suspected Killer A Northern California woman who has the same name as the Sunday school teacher charged with murdering an 8-year-old girl says she is getting death threats from people who mistake her for the suspect. Like the Tracy resident who is accused of killing Sandra Cantu and putting her body in a suitcase, the Melissa Huckaby who lives 14 miles away in Manteca is 28 years old, has a 5-year-old daughter and volunteers at church. The improbable similarities have created inevitable confusion. News crews keep calling or showing up in Manteca looking for the wrong woman. And so many people posted threatening messages on her MySpace page that the misidentified Huckaby says she fears for her safety. She and her parents are speaking out in hopes of clearing her name. ___________________________ __ 'S' [/color][/b][/center]
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Post by Spider on May 23, 2009 15:07:03 GMT -5
Ex-Florida Highway Patrol Trooper charged with coercing sex from woman, held on $105,000 bond By: KIMBERLY MILLER And DON JORDAN Palm Beach Post Staff Writers Saturday, May 23, 2009 State attorneys tried to keep former Highway Patrol Tropper Ariel D. Valentin behind bars this morning with no bond following his arrest Friday on charges that he unnecessarily strip searched a woman then coerced her to have sex with him to avoid a traffic citation.
But Judge Barry M. Cohen said he was required to offer bond to Valentin, 31, and did so seemingly reluctantly, setting it at $105,000. Ariel Valentin is charged with sexual battery and bribery. He resigned from the FHP. "This is not an easy decision," Cohen said from the bench after reading several pages of the law enforcement report that details the charges against Valentin. "And for the record, the allegation is serious. The accusation is a public official abused his trust."
Valentin is facing charges of sexual battery and bribery and is being held at the Palm Beach County Jail. Cohen also ruled that if Valentin posts bond, he is to be held under house arrest and surrender his passport and any firearms.
Valentin's attorney defended him, saying he has no prior criminal record and that the accusations against him "are really an exaggeration." He also added that the unidentified Palm Springs woman who is accusing Valentin of battery has a warrant out for her arrest.
Cohen, however, took the charges more seriously, even reading some of the probable cause affidavit aloud in court.
"In the probable cause affidavit, there is a statement by the defendant, and we are talking about an alleged victim here involved in a minor car accident, that he said to another officer that he needed to strip search her," Cohen said.
According to police, the alleged victim said Valentin pulled her over after she was involved in a minor car accident near her home in Palm Springs. After he told the other driver to leave the scene, the woman said she told Valentin that both drivers were fine and she wanted to leave, pointing to her home nearby.
She said Valentin asked her whether she minded that he search her and she agreed, getting out of her car and turning her pockets inside-out, according to police. He then said he needed to search her further and suggested going into her home, according to the interview.
The woman told police she was "bawling her eyes out" because her registration was expired and she did not want to get in trouble. She said Valentin told her "stop crying and don't worry you are not going to get in trouble. Just do what I say."
Once they were inside her house, the woman said Valentin told her to remove her clothes and then coerced her into having sex, according to police.
She also told police that she felt like an idiot, but was "scared of going to jail" and at one point in the encounter asked Valentin what was going on.
The woman retrieved a used condom from her toilet after Valentin left. She went to the hospital the following day, where she contacted police and a doctor performed a rape examination.
When first interviewed about the incident, Valentin told Palm Springs police that he simply followed the woman to her nearby home and issued her a citation. He said he did not enter the house. He also described the woman as physically emotional and crying.
When police informed him that they recovered a used condom, Valentin still denied having sex with the woman, but later said the two had consensual sex.
In a later interview with Palm Springs police, Valentin admitted to telling the woman he had to search her within her house. After taking off her clothes, Valentin told police he asked the woman for a condom and she got one.
They then had sex, even though Valentin said he thought the woman was emotionally or mentally unstable.
He is charged with sexual battery and bribery and is being held at the Palm Beach County Jail.
While Valentin's career with the FHP was short, he still managed to earn a one-day suspension and two written reprimands. In May 2007, an investigation revealed that Valentin violated numerous FHP policies when, during a traffic stop, he asked a woman if he could go into her house and measure her in a bathing suit.
The FHP is conducting a separate personnel investigation concerning Valentin, said Capt. Mark Welch, chief of public affairs for the agency. All photos of Valentin have been removed from the FHP Web site.
"The men and women of the FHP have the hard-earned respect of the public," Welch said . "We're committed to doing everything we can to maintain that reputation." ________ 'S'[/b][/center][/color]
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Post by Spider on Jul 4, 2009 22:56:57 GMT -5
Oregon woman obsessed with rabbits back in jail
Portland, Oregon
An Oregon woman obsessed with bunnies has been ordered back behind bars after police found her in a hotel room with more than a dozen rabbits.
Washington County Circuit Judge Gayle Nachtigal ruled Thursday that 47-year-old Miriam Sakewitz violated her probation by having the rabbits. The judge sentenced the woman to 90 days in the county jail.
Police arrested Sakewitz June 16 after she called a maintenance worker to her room in the Portland suburb of Tigard to fix a broken television set.
The worker saw and smelled the rabbits, some of them hopping free.
The woman's legal problems began in 2006, when Hillsboro police found more than 150 rabbits in her home and dozens more bunny bodies in freezers.
She was arrested on accusations of animal neglect. After pleading no contest, she was placed on five years probation, with one condition being that she stay away from rabbits.
Tigard Police spokesman Jim Wolf said Washington County animal control officers removed eight adult rabbits, five young ones and a dead one from the hotel room in the latest incident.
Washington County probation officer Bob Severe said Sakewitz had undergone a court-ordered mental evaluation but that no treatment was recommended. ______ __ 'S' [/b][/color]
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