Friday - June 30, 2006

Judicial Nonsense Du Jour

Courts: By all means, let’s protect the rights of criminals. They are simply misunderstood victims of society having suffered a troubled childhood. We need to make sure they have every legal protection possible so that the poor dears can get a fair trial. In fact, we probably just need to sentence them to probation and time served. That way they can return to society and lead useful lives.

Skipper: HANG ‘EM!

Judge Tosses Out Couey’s Confession in Jessica Lunsford’s Slaying
_{Friday, June 30, 2006}

INVERNESS, Fla. (AP) - The confession of a man charged with kidnapping, raping and killing 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford isn’t admissible in court, but the discovery of her body can be used as evidence, a judge ruled Friday.

John Evander Couey, a 47-year-old convicted sex offender, gave the confession to detectives, but also told them that he wanted to consult a lawyer. He wasn’t given the opportunity to do so. “This is a material and a profound violation of one of the most bedrock principles of criminal law,” Circuit Judge Ric Howard said in issuing the ruling Friday.

Jessica was found kneeling and clutching a stuffed animal, hands tied with speaker wire and fingers poking through the garbage bags in which she was buried alive in February 2005. Two days earlier, Couey told detectives he had kidnapped, raped and killed the girl, and he told them where to find the body.

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Couey, who has pleaded not guilty to charges of premeditated murder, burglary, kidnapping and sexual battery. Jury selection for his trial is expected to start July 10.

Couey and Jessica both lived in the Homosassa area. After Jessica disappeared, Couey fled the area as the search for the missing girl zeroed in on registered sex offenders in the area. He was arrested in Georgia on an unrelated Florida warrant, and gave the confession in an Augusta, Ga., sheriff’s office to two detectives who traveled from Florida to interview him.

On the taped interview, parts of which were played in court, Couey spoke freely with the detectives about his criminal past, use of crack and relationship with his family. When the topic crept closer to Lunsford, however, Couey repeatedly mentioned wanting a lawyer. Detectives Scott Grace and Gary Atchison have testified that Couey’s mention of a lawyer came directly after Grace mentioned a polygraph test. They weren’t sure if he wanted a lawyer immediately or for a later polygraph test, so they kept questioning after Couey said he would talk about “some things,” Atchison testified.

Defense attorney Dan Lewan has portrayed the detectives as overzealous and unconcerned about Couey’s constitutional rights. When his client asked for an attorney, Lewan argued, the detectives spoke over him in a confusing interlude before simply dropping the issue. Lewan also asked the discovery of Jessica’s body be inadmissible in court because Couey told authorities where to find her. Prosecutor Ric Ridgway has said investigators would have found Jessica’s body anyway.

A consent search at the mobile home where Couey was living turned up a bloody mattress which tested positive for Jessica’s DNA the day they began excavating at the mobile home following the confession. Further, disturbed ground near a shovel in the yard was suspicious enough to investigate after officers had already singled Couey out as a person of interest, Ridgway said.

“With (DNA results) they would’ve gotten a search warrant for the home,” Ridgway said. Couey confessed to taking her from her house to the mobile home he was living in about 150 yards away, sexually assaulting and then burying the girl. Jessica had been missing for nearly a month after investigators found her body in the yard. The case sparked new laws that dramatically stiffened penalties for some sex offenders who target children, requiring lifetime electronic monitoring for others.

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/30/2006 at 09:49 AM   
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Don’t Bogart That Drumstick

Never let it be said that our police are not playing fair. Carefully read the last sentence ... then hand me one of those wings, dude.

Drive-Thru Pot Smoke Gives Pair Away
Pot Smoke Wafting Through Drive-Thru Window Gives Pair Away at a KFC Restaurant in Buffalo
_{June 29, 2006}

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP)— A pair of pot smokers picked the wrong day to use the drive-thru window at a KFC restaurant in Buffalo. Two men in their 20s pulled up to the restaurant’s window and asked for the Wednesday special.

Meanwhile, a couple of narcotics detectives were inside ordering their food. That’s when a cloud of marijuana smoke wafted into the restaurant. The detectives then spotted the two men smoking what one of the cops called “the biggest marijuana cigar your ever saw.”

The detectives went outside and arrested 23-year-old Charles Morris and 26-year-old Gregory Quick, both of Buffalo. The two men were charged with possession of marijuana and smoking it in public.

One of the cops said he got the cashier to refund the pot smokers’ money for the Wednesday special.

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   Monday - June 26, 2006

Bottoms Up!

“Hi there! Can I buy you a drink?”

Men of Wisconsin, don’t say you weren’t warned. The highly intelligent legislators in Cheese Country, with nothing better to do and time on their sticky little hands have decided (in their infinite wisdom) that personal responsibility should no longer apply to females, who obviously cannot be counted on to know when they have had enough booze.

While relieving females of all responsibility during their bar-hopping excursions, these legislators have decided that evil men, with the aid of demon rum, are to be chucked into the calaboose for getting broads tipsy and “taking advantage of their weakened condition.”

In a related note, with all due respect to the many dairy farmers in Wisconsin, I have worked on dairy farms in my younger years and I know cows produce two products in abundance. One is white and one is brown. This new law is as brown as it gets. It smells kinda familiar too. Shovel it, boys! Shovel it! MOOOOO!

Rape Law Expands To Include Alcohol
_{Mon., June 26, 2006 - 11:19 AM}

The nation’s top party school could get a sobering jolt from a change in state law that puts alcohol on a par with date-rape drugs as an aggravating factor in certain sexual assaults. The change, long sought by rape- victim advocates in Wisconsin, means that victims who are very drunk during a sexual encounter can be judged incapable of giving consent, triggering a possible second-degree sexual assault charge.

Prior to the change, which took effect in June, a victim who had been drinking typically had to be unconscious to be deemed incapable of consenting to sex. The law applies to alcohol-related sexual assaults committed by anyone anywhere in the state. But it may have particular resonance on hard-drinking college campuses such as UW- Madison, which was named the country’s No. 1 party school by the Princeton Review last year.

“It’s a great change,” said Carmen Hotvedt, a violence prevention specialist at UW-Madison’s University Health Services. “In our educational efforts with students, we define consent as freely given. The (new) law really enforces the educational messages we’ve been sending for a long time.” Wisconsin had been the only state to exclude alcohol as a potential legal intoxicant in rape cases before the law change, sponsored by Sen. Cathy Stepp, R-Sturtevant.

And while prosecutors say it is likely to be used only rarely - in cases in which victims don’t pass out but are so impaired by alcohol they are “unable to appraise their own conduct,” as one advocate put it - the change was heralded by experts who work with assault survivors. “Alcohol is the No. 1 date-rape drug, and we’ve felt strongly that our statutes should reflect that reality,” said Jill Groblewski, spokeswoman for the Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault.

The coalition started lobbying for the change in the mid-1990s, when language on intoxicants was added to the rape statutes in response to a surge in assaults aided by drugs. “The change in legislation allows prosecutors to hold offenders accountable who use alcohol to facilitate a sexual assault,” Groblewski said. “It gives prosecutors additional charging options.”

Under state law, having sexual contact with a person incapable of consent because they are under the influence of an intoxicant is defined as second- degree sexual assault. The offense is a Class C felony punishable by a fine up to $100,000 and a prison sentence of up to 25 years. Dane County District Attorney Brian Blanchard said the change was “long overdue” and is a good thing primarily for the message about alcohol that it sends - namely, that it can be just as dangerous as other drugs.

- More cheesy legislation at the Wisconsin State Journal ...

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On My Honor …

The ACLU calls these kids “homophobic” and “religious wing-nuts”. I call them fine young men learning timeless values of honesty, courage and duty. These boys will grow up to be the leaders of the world I will leave behind. I think it will be in good hands. Don’t you?

Boy Scouts Foil Arson Attempt In California
_{June 26, 2006 (ABC NEWS)}

CHINO, Calif. (AP) — Maybe the Boy Scouts should start handing out arson prevention badges. A group of Scouts preparing for a camping trip spotted a 17-year-old boy setting fire to a museum building, yelled at him and chased him and two female companions into the street Sunday morning, according to a police statement.

The three flagged down a passing motorist and tried to climb in his vehicle, but an adult Boy Scout leader caught up to them and held the boy until police arrived. The boy, who was determined to be drunk, was booked into San Bernardino County Juvenile Hall for investigation of arson and attempted carjacking.

The Old School House Museum suffered minor damage, said Chino Valley Fire District Battalion Chief Gaul.

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   Friday - June 23, 2006

Predator Punked In Alabama

Finally, it’s over ... and the judge did the right thing this time. This case has a very special meaning to me. I have followed it for the past few years, waiting for this day. Why? Well, those of you who read here regularly may know by now that I’m a transplanted Alabama native, currently stranded in St. Louis. I like the Midwest but it just ain’t home.

Besides the fact that this heinous crime happened “back home”, I have a special attachment to the case. You see ... I worked for this man in 1996. At the time I was doing software engineering work for a Department Of Defense contractor at the USAF’s Standard Systems Center in Montgomery. I was coding in Ada, building databases in Oracle and Team Lead for projects to manage the USAF’s information systems.

Lt. Colonel Wright retired from the Air Force and was hired as Office Manager for our contracting company’s local office. Nothing unusual. Military officers almost always retire and go to work for DoD contractors. We were all introduced to him at a meeting of Team Leads and Project Managers. I shook his hand and said something pleasant which I don’t recall now. I’m a fairly good judge of character and I almost instantly had a feeling of revulsion about the man. I don’t know whether it was the eyes, the false smile, the sweaty palm or what. Something just set off alarms in my head.

I have never been one to let first impressions totally cloud my relations with people though so I shrugged it off and went on back to work. That’s when things started to get weird. In the ensuing months, everyone in the office developed an extreme distaste for the man after a few minor incidents. He was good at passing the buck and letting others take the blame. He promised things he never delivered on. Our relations with the Air Force began to get a little strained.

Then, about six months after he came to our office he was gone. Fired. Can you guess why? Yep, you guessed it. We got hit with a lawsuit by the office secretary charging him with sexual harassment. It was settled out of court after the company saw the mountain of evidence and listened to depositions of witnesses. During this period, I was working outside the office on base, in direct contact with the Air Force. I didn’t hear about it until it was all over. It all went down in just a few days. He was gone.

The next we heard of him was a few years later when we heard he was working as a substitute teacher in Prattville, just outside of Montgomery. He got in trouble for “strange behavior” when several students complained about him. We heard he was taken off the list of substitute teachers and would not be teaching. What happened next was a foul-up at the school and the final, damnable acts of a miserable sexual predator. The school came up short a teacher one day and someone looked at the list of available substitutes. The list was an old one that hadn’t been recently updated. You can probably guess what happened then.

Yes, this creature was called to teach that day. You can read below what happened. I get nauseated just thinking about it. As I said above, the judge did the right thing. Twenty years, hard time. I don’t think Mr. Wright will last very long at Holman Prison down in Atmore, Alabama. It’s too bad the State of Alabama retired “Yellow Mama”, the state’s trusty old electric chair at Holman, two years ago. He would have been a prime candidate in my book. Twenty years in Holman is almost as good.

The main point you should take away from my little story here is that sexual predators are not spontaneous victims of temporary lust. It is almost always a lifetime habit that never goes away and only gets worse over the years. This man is a prime example of that. Sexual predators can never be “rehabilitated”. Their nature is warped and the longer they get away with their crime the bolder they get. Our courts and judges need to realize that and take action accordingly. I urge all states to pass Megan’s Law. Put these people away for life. No probation. No house arrest. Dammit, NO! Send them to prison and keep them there. Forever, if need be. In the meantime, I have a message for Mr. Wright .... “Welcome to your new home, pervert!”

Sex Offender Gets 20 Years
_{June 23, 2006}

PRATTVILLE, Alabama (MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER)—A former substitute teacher in the Autauga County public school system was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday, the maximum allowed by law, on a laundry list of sex charges. Terry Cleveland Wright, 61, of 1268 Plum St. was sentenced by Circuit Judge Ben Fuller. He pleaded guilty several weeks ago to seven counts of sexual abuse, two counts of enticing a child by computer for immoral purposes, one count of possession of child pornography and three misdemeanor counts of harassment.

The sexual abuse and harassment took place Oct. 7, 2004, at Prattville Elementary School, courthouse records state. Wright’s victims were 9- and 10-year-old boys and girls he touched inappropriately. A sobbing Wright apologized to the victims, his family and the community before the sentence was handed down. “I can’t say how sorry I am,” said Wright, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel. “If there was anything I could do to make the pain easier, I would do it. I would give my life if it would take the pain away.”

Fuller listened to emotional comments from parents of several victims asking for a long prison sentence. “Every morning I put my child on the bus to go to school and I trusted the teachers to look out for my child,” said one mother. “Don’t have any leniency on this man, he needs to pay. I looked up ‘predator’ in the dictionary and the definition was ‘an animal that preys upon others.’ This man is a predator and he needs to be locked up so he can’t prey on anyone else.”

Wright’s defense attorney suggested a sentence of house arrest, wearing an ankle bracelet for tracking purposes. “Mr. Wright, I may very well have taken your life, if it was in my power to do it,” Fuller said before sentencing. “The most touching statement I read was from one of your victims who said she doesn’t want to be in contact with older men, even her grandfather. My staff told me today that this has to be a very difficult case to decide. This case is not difficult for me because of your conduct.”

During the investigation into the school abuse, it was discovered Wright contacted two teenage girls from north Alabama by computer. Those incidents occurred before the school abuse, said Chief Assistant District Attorney Glenn Goggans. Both girls were 15. “He tried to get one girl to meet him, and he did meet another at a hotel in Pinson,” Goggans said. “This man is a sexual predator. If he remained in society, it wouldn’t be a question of if he would do it again, it would be a question of when.”

Wright’s full sentence was 20 years each on the enticing charges, 10 years each on the sex abuse charges, 10 years on the possession of child porn and three months on each harassment charge. The sentences are to be served concurrently, hence the 20-year stretch. The district attorney’s office suggested such a sentence in the plea agreement, an agreement that was approved by the victims and their parents.

Wright had been on the substitute list for just a few months. He passed a criminal background check before being hired. A teacher at the elementary school became ill in the middle of the day, and Wright was the only person on the substitute list that could come in. The week before he had been removed from the campus of Prattville Intermediate, after several students complained about his behavior. That was his first time to serve as a substitute. His name was taken off the substitute list, but the elementary school was using an older list.

The school system changed their policy after the incident, so updated lists would always be used. Several parents have filed two civil suits against the school system. Those cases are pending in federal court in Montgomery.

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   Wednesday - June 21, 2006

Down On The Bayou

I echo the sentiments of the cop in this cartoon. New Orleans is a great city and Katrina practically destroyed it. Now that people are starting to trickle back in from around the country where they have been refugees for nearly a year, the crime rate is rising back to “normal” levels - one of the highest in the nation. I really enjoyed the years I lived in that city and I hate to see it slide back into “crime city” again. N’awlins will probably always be famous for the best food and the worst crime in the USA ...

_{Steve Kelley—The New Orleans Times-Picayune}

- USA Today: “New Orleans sees its worst violence since before Katrina”

The gangland-style killings of five teenagers in New Orleans over the weekend punctuated a troubling trend in the hurricane-ravaged city: Murder is returning to normal faster than other facets of city life.

The deaths of the five teens brought the number of people killed in New Orleans to 52 this year, police Capt. John Bryson said Sunday. After months of nearly crime-free life that followed Hurricane Katrina, the murder rate is slightly below 2004, when New Orleans ranked No. 2 in the USA after Camden, N.J., for per-capita murders.

“It’s astronomic,” said Peter Scharf, a criminologist at the University of New Orleans. “This criminal justice system here is on its knees.”

The slayings were the worst violence to hit since a storm surge overwhelmed levees and flooded about 80% of the city Aug. 29. The five victims, ranging in age from 16 to 19, apparently were together in a sport-utility vehicle when the shootings occurred at 4 a.m. Saturday in a section of the Central City neighborhood known for drug trafficking.

“It was like 15 gunshots,” said Terrance Rayly, 23, who was staying in a nearby home. “I heard pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.”

- Reuters: “National Guard troops roll into New Orleans”

National Guard troops rolled into New Orleans on Tuesday in support of a police force struggling to keep peace in a city still badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina and reeling from the weekend slaying of five teens. Dozens of tan and camouflaged Humvees converged near the banks of the Mississippi River where commanders gave orders to secure the ghostly neighborhoods most devastated by the storm.

“If the criminals control, our families won’t return,” Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco told about 100 Guard soldiers and about 60 state police who will take their posts by Tuesday evening. Two hundred more Guard troops are due within a week. Guardsmen and women from around the nation were called in after Katrina to secure the city and quell looting, but they departed in February.

A rising murder rate, the return of drugs and the killing of five teens on Saturday galvanized officials to accelerate their plan to reinforce city police over the summer. Families preparing for the new school year, evacuees losing housing vouchers outside the city and construction workers are expected to arrive over the next few months as the sultry hurricane season reaches its peak.

“It is going to be a long, hot summer,” predicted police chief Warren Riley. The city needed an “overwhelming show of force,” Mayor Ray Nagin added. There is a growing sense in New Orleans the post-storm calm has lifted even before the city can completely recover. Only about 220,000 people, or half the pre-storm population, has come home to New Orleans, leaving many streets dark and increasingly dangerous.

Police say the 54 murders so far this year is down substantially from 2005, but the homicide rate, a measure taking into account the population, is about the same. “Crime has always been a part of New Orleans, as long as I’ve been alive,” said Sgt. Greg White, a 36-year-old guardsman from New Orleans.

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   Tuesday - June 20, 2006

Racist!

_{Mike Lester—Rome News-Tribune (GA)}

- Boston Globe: “Grand jury decides not to indict McKinney”

A grand jury declined to indict Representative Cynthia McKinney yesterday in connection with a confrontation in which she admitted that she hit a Capitol Police officer who tried to stop her from entering a House office building. The incident occurred March 29 when McKinney, a Georgia Democrat , tried to enter a building without walking through a metal detector or wearing the lapel pin that identifies members of Congress. The guard did not recognize her as a member of Congress and asked her three times to stop. When she ignored him, he tried to stop her. McKinney then hit him. The next morning, she appeared on the House floor to apologize. (AP)

- ABC News: “Police Group Wants McKinney Scuffle Probed”

Police labor officials, angry over a federal grand jury’s refusal to indict Rep. Cynthia McKinney for assaulting a police officer, said Monday said they want the House ethics committee to review her conduct. And they said the grand jury’s decision last week sent the message that “it’s okay to hit a police officer.”

“We hope that members of Congress will review her actions in light of their rules within their own ethics committee,” Andrew Maybo, chairman of the U.S. Capitol Police Labor Committee, told reporters Monday at a news conference in Washington.

Maybo said the Fraternal Order of Police would send a letter later this week to the ethics committee suggesting that McKinney’s behavior violated an item in the chamber’s ethics manual that calls for members to “conduct (themselves) at all times in a manner which shall reflect creditably on the House of Representatives.”

- CNS News: “Black Republican Will Challenge Cynthia McKinney”

A little known African American woman announced Thursday that she will try to unseat Georgia Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who has been mired in controversy since she struck a U.S. Capitol policeman in the chest with her closed fist. Catherine Davis, a human resources manager who has never held elected office, said she is running because McKinney’s “dismal legislative record and her outrageous behavior are an embarrassment to the hard-working folks in my district.” McKinney represents Georgia’s 4th Congressional District.

Davis is conservative. She favors a strict approach to immigration reform - the immediate securing of the borders and deportation of illegal residents, privatizing Social Security, Health Savings Accounts, school vouchers and the Fair Tax, which would eliminate the federal income tax and establish a federal sales tax.

McKinney was first elected to the U.S. House in 1992 to represent Georgia’s heavily Democratic 11th District. The district was redrawn by order of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1995 and McKinney was elected in the new, but still heavily Democratic 4th District in 1996. She lost her seat in 2002 when she was beaten in a Democratic primary, but when the winner then attempted a bid for the U.S. Senate in 2004, McKinney recaptured her old seat. Davis said she believes the district is ready for change after the controversy that has swirled around McKinney.

There is probably no more blatant example of a waste of oxygen than this woman. She is arrogant, racist and completely out of her mind.

Drunk with power, she cruises the halls of Congress, pandering to every camera she can find. Unfortunately, this is the kind of person the Democratic party sends to Washington over and over again.

I wish someone in Congress would stand up to these racists like McKinney and at the very least spank her for an ethics violation.

If any of us hit a policeman we’d be in deep kimchee by now. When this ditzy broad does it, she gets a pass. That’s not right.

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   Friday - June 16, 2006

You Scream, I Scream, We All Scream For …

Today’s Stoopid Criminal Du Jour is brought to you courtesy of the Richmond, Texas police department who pulled over poor Oscar and found more than a cherry on top of Oscar’s ice cream sundae. Ice Cream A La Crack Cocaine. Now Oscar is off to prison where he will probably lose another cherry. Don’t worry, though. I won’t mention the crack in that cherry. Bwah-hah-hah-ha-ha-ha-ha ....

Man Charged With Having Crack in Sundae
_{June 16, 2006, 6:57 AM EDT}

RICHMOND, Texas (AP)—This banana split was topped with something more potent than just a cherry. A motorist was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance after he was caught with two rocks of crack cocaine he had stashed in his ice cream dessert.

Oscar Martinez, 41, of Richmond, had been pulled over by police officer David Bentley late Sunday after he failed to stop at a pedestrian crossing on the campus of Wharton County Junior College.

Bentley discovered that Martinez had a suspended driver’s license and an outstanding traffic warrant. Richmond police spokesman Sgt. Lowell Neinast said Martinez told Bentley that he wished he could finish the banana split he had in his car.

When Bentley saw the melting banana split on the front floorboard of Martinez’s car, he noticed that it was topped with a square-shaped object that turned out to be crack cocaine.

“One of the crack rocks was sitting right on top of the bananas,” Neinast told the Fort Bend Herald-Coaster. “Once he found the first crack rock, he figured there were more inside. He emptied it out and there it was.”

Martinez was arrested and charged with driving with a suspended license, a traffic warrant and possession of a controlled substance in a drug-free zone, a third-degree felony. He was released from the Fort Bend County Jail after posting an $8,500 bond, Neinast said Friday.

“I’ve been doing this for 20 years and I could give you all kinds of stories, but this is really one of a kind,” Neinast said. “But true.”

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How To Get A Head

Police investigate crash scene. Three people dead. Two of them have heads and bodies. One has only a head. No body. How many forensics experts will it take to figure this one out? You may feel free to leave your “head” jokes in the comments but I hereby disavow any connection to anyone who refers to “giving head”. Carry on ...

Two Killed in Severed Head Crash in Idaho
_{June 16, 2006, 2:26 AM EDT}

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The severed head of a man’s wife flew from his pickup truck Thursday when he crashed into an oncoming car, killing the driver and her child, police said. The investigation of the deadly wreck and the head, which was tossed onto the roadway by the impact, led police to the decapitated body of 47-year-old Theresa N. Time in the garage of the home she shared with her husband, Alofa Time, said Nampa police Lt. LeRoy Forsman.

A Boise police officer was driving behind Alofa Time’s truck on a busy road when he noticed the man’s erratic driving and then watched him slam into the car, said police spokeswoman Lynn Hightower. Time, who was not injured in the crash, told officers that he also was involved his wife’s death, officials said. An autopsy was scheduled next week to determine Theresa Time’s cause of death, Canyon County Coroner Vicki DeGeus-Morris said.

Time was being held on two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of Samantha Nina Murphy, 36, and her 4-year-old daughter Jae Lynne Grimes, both of Boise. Murphy’s other daughter was injured and was in stable condition at a Boise hospital. “It was one of the more horrific and complex crime scenes on memory,” Hightower said. “A woman and her child killed in a crash, and a severed head from an earlier homicide: It’s nothing short of bizarre and tragic.”

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Time To Frog-March

"Urge”, my aching back! Frog-march this sorry sack of crap out of the capitol and book him. This has gone on quite long enough, if you please. The moron was caught on film taking bribes and later found with the cash in his freezer. Bring an indictment, get a mug shot and try the S.O.B. If it was good enough for Tom DeLay (who was indicted on charges that were a whole helluva lot shakier than this idjit’s case) it’s good enough for Jefferson.

The silly asshat is even now trying to bargain to keep his chairmanship on the powerful House Ways & Means Committee “in the family” by turning his seat over to a fellow Louisiana Democrat. The unmitigated gall and arrogance of Donk politicos sometimes amazes me. Most egregious of all is the quote below where the Donks say, “I don’t think this has to do with race - members of the Democratic Caucus are above and beyond that.” Translation: “We’re not racists, we’re just your everyday, average criminal.” Argghh!

Party Urges Jefferson To Leave Committee
House Democrats Vote Against Target of Probe
_{Friday, June 16, 2006}

(WASHINGTON POST) - Democrats voted last night to strip Rep. William J. Jefferson (La.) of a plum committee assignment while he is embroiled in a federal bribery investigation. The 99 to 58 vote followed weeks of public and private wrangling, as Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) sought to take a strong election-year stance on ethics, while Jefferson’s allies—mainly fellow members of the Congressional Black Caucus—protested that he was being singled out for unfair treatment.

Jefferson left immediately after voting and said he would spend the evening considering his next move. “I’m just going to go to my office,” Jefferson said. “I’m just going to wait and see.” If he refuses to step aside from the Ways and Means Committee, as urged by the Democratic Caucus, the next step would be a vote on the House floor to remove him from the prestigious committee. Even his allies want to avoid that.

Black Caucus members said their concern was the lack of any rule pertaining to lawmakers in Jefferson’s situation. He has not been indicted in the case but could face serious charges. Jefferson says he is innocent of wrongdoing.

Before the Democratic Caucus met, Jefferson offered to resign under two conditions: that a rule be written establishing that any member under investigation may be asked to step aside, regardless of whether charges are filed; and that Rep. Charlie Melancon (D-La.), whose district adjoins Jefferson’s, be named his temporary replacement on Ways and Means.

Pelosi declined the offer.

“Our concern is that the rule is really political expediency,” said Rep. Melvin Watt (N.C.), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus. Rep. Danny K. Davis (Ill.) said the legal question was foremost. “I don’t think this has to do with race,” Davis said. “Members of the Democratic Caucus are above and beyond that.”

- More on the scandal at WAPO...

House Boots Jefferson From Committee
_{Jun 16, 12:42 PM EDT}

WASHINGTON (AP)—The House stripped Democratic Rep. William Jefferson of his committee seat on Friday in an unprecedented action against a lawmaker ensnared in scandal, but not under indictment. The move came on a voice vote, without debate, and capped an election-year effort by House Democrats to seize the political high ground on the issue of lawmaker ethics.

Jefferson had refused to step aside voluntarily from the powerful House Ways and Means Committee before the corruption probe was completed. The drive to remove him from the committee, led by the Democratic leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, sparked protests by black lawmakers who said Jefferson was being singled out unfairly. Jefferson had no immediate response to the vote. On Thursday night, he issued a statement criticizing Pelosi over the “unprecedented and unfair nature of her request for me” to step aside.

- More on the vote here ...

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   Thursday - June 15, 2006

Stoopid Criminal Du Jour

Most of you who have opened bank accounts recently know you have to produce three forms of ID when you do so. This is to protect the bank from opening a bank account for some terrorist or even worse - a homeless person.

Our Stoopid Criminal Du Jour obviously got his wires crossed because in the process of robbing a bank he inadvertenly left behind the three forms of ID he would have needed had he wished to open an account there. Some people just aren’t cut out for a life of crime.

Fortunately, this fellow will have plenty of time to learn a new trade - while in prison ... where he will probably reside for the next 10-20 years. Adios, moron!

Police: Bank Robber Leaves Birth Certificate Behind
Robbery Also Caught On Tape
_{8:39 am PDT June 15, 2006}

INDIANAPOLIS (KGTV) - Nobody ever said criminals are smart. Police have made an arrest following a bank robbery in which officials said the robber left behind some incriminating evidence.

The crime was captured on surveillance video., but police identified their suspect, Rodney Harper, 31, without the tape because of what investigators said fell out of his pocket during the holdup.

“He actually came to the bank to rob the bank with his birth certificate,” said Marion County sheriff’s Capt. Phil Burton. “He dropped a check cashing card as well as a bill from a phone showing he paid his phone bill.” The video shows the identification falling out onto the floor when the man pulls out his gun.

“One of the employees actually stepped on it so he didn’t realize what he dropped,” Burton said. Police said Harper got away with an undisclosed amount of cash, but it was recovered, covered in dye, not far from the bank. Harper called 911 on Tuesday as police surrounded his home.

“I’m wanting to turn myself in. The police are outside the house right now. I just wanted to let them know I don’t have any weapons. I just want to come out,” Harper told a 911 dispatcher. Burton admitted that the robber’s missteps made investigators’ job a bit easier.

“When they actually rob a bank with their ID, which they leave for us, that’s very helpful,” Burton said. Investigators said Harper robbed the Charter One Bank Saturday, dropping his birth certificate, check cashing card and phone bill in the process. Harper was already on parole after a 1995 bank robbery.

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/15/2006 at 03:37 PM   
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   Wednesday - June 14, 2006

How To Steal Billions

Want to be rich? Have free season football tickets? Get a sex change? Stock up your library of porn videos? Get away to the Caribbean for a few weeks? Yes, my friends, you can have all that if you follow our simple two-step plan. All it requires is a Republican controlled Congress and a Republican President ....

1- Wait for the next natural disaster, like a hurricane on the Gulf Coast. Within hours after the disaster, the bleeding heart Liberals and prominent Democrats will start finger-pointing and accusing the Republicans of being stingy, racist and hateful. The Democrats will call for resignations and go into full attack mode against FEMA and the administration. The Republicans and the administration will be shocked at the accusations and thrown into further confusion by liberal media who will further blast the administration. Falling back on the defensive, the administration and FEMA will begin bending over backwards to throw money at the disaster without bothering to verify where any money is spent - all to satisfy the Leftist critics who are screeching loudly.

2- Pick up your money. It’s that simple. At this point FEMA won’t care if you live in Alaska or a thousand miles away from the disaster or if you send in a dozen claims with bogus social security numbers. FEMA will throw money at anyone, anywhere in order to keep from being hounded to death by the Liberals and the MSM for being racist or stingy. Anyone can succeed with our plan, referred to as the “Liberal Blackmail Of Conscience Plan”. You see, the Democrats and bleeding-heart Liberals will do all the work for you. All you have to do is pick up your checks and before you know it you can divorce your wife and you’re off to Sweden as John and returning to America as Jean - all paid for by American taxpayers. Bon voyage!

FEMA Funds Spent On
Divorce, Sex Change
_{Jun 14, 3:38 AM (ET)}

WASHINGTON (MYWAY NEWS - AP) - Houston divorce lawyer Mark Lipkin says he can’t recall anyone paying for his services with a FEMA debit card, but congressional investigators say one of his clients did just that.

The $1,000 payment was just one example cited in an audit that concluded that up to $1.4 billion - perhaps as much as 16 percent of the billions of dollars in assistance expended after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita - was spent for bogus reasons.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency also was hoodwinked to pay for season football tickets, a tropical vacation and a sex change operation, the audit found. Prison inmates, a supposed victim who used a New Orleans cemetery for a home address and a person who spent 70 days at a Hawaiian hotel all were able to get taxpayer help, according to evidence that gives a new black eye to the nation’s disaster relief agency.

FEMA said it has identified more than 1,500 cases of potential fraud after Katrina and Rita and has referred those cases to the Homeland Security Department’s inspector general. The agency said it has identified $16.8 million in improperly awarded disaster relief money and has started efforts to collect the money. The GAO said it was 95 percent confident that improper and potentially fraudulent payments were much higher - between $600 million and $1.4 billion.

The investigative agency said it found people lodged in hotels often were paid twice, since FEMA gave them individual rental assistance and paid hotels directly. FEMA paid California hotels $8,000 to house one individual - the same person who received three rental assistance payments for both disasters. In another instance, FEMA paid an individual $2,358 in rental assistance, while at the same time paying about $8,000 for the same person to stay 70 nights at more than $100 per night in a Hawaii hotel.

FEMA also could not establish that 750 debit cards worth $1.5 million even went to Katrina victims, the auditors said. Among the items purchased with the cards:

- An all-inclusive, one-week Caribbean vacation in the Punta Cana resort in the Dominican Republic.

- Five season tickets to New Orleans Saints professional football games.

- Adult erotica products in Houston and “Girls Gone Wild” videos in Santa Monica, Calif.

- Dom Perignon champagne and other alcoholic beverages in San Antonio.

“Our forensic audit and investigative work showed that improper and potentially fraudulent payments occurred mainly because FEMA did not validate the identity of the registrant, the physical location of the damaged address, and ownership and occupancy of all registrants at the time of registration,” GAO officials said. FEMA paid millions of dollars to more than 1,000 registrants who used names and Social Security numbers belonging to state and federal prisoners for expedited housing assistance. The inmates were in Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Florida.

FEMA made about $5.3 million in payments to registrants who provided a post office box as their damaged residence, including one who got $2,748 for listing an Alabama post office box as the damaged property. The GAO told of an individual who used 13 different Social Security numbers - including the person’s own - to receive $139,000 in payments on 13 separate registrations for aid. All the payments were sent to a single address.

- More on wasted taxpayer’s money here ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/14/2006 at 11:23 AM   
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   Wednesday - June 07, 2006

My Little Pony

Poor Henry Lewis. Not only is he a sick individual but he has PETA jumping all over him. To make matters worse, now Henry’s story is being presented here to the entire world, courtesy of the internet. I’m afraid there will be absolutely nothing in today’s news that can top Henry’s story. I may as well pack it in and go read a good book. You however, may feel free to discuss Henry and his little pony. If you follow the link to the PETA web site you will learn a new word for the day: zoophile. Don’t ask ...

South Alabama Man Facing Bestiality Charge
_{June 5, 2006 08:29 PM}

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA-TV) - The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, is bringing attention to a case of alleged bestiality in Alabama. Henry Lewis of Sweetwater is accused of having sex with a pony.

According to PETA, at least two people witnessed the act about a month ago. A few days later, the pony was reported dead.

“Research shows that offenders who commit bestiality often go on to commit sex crimes against humans,” said PETA’s Stephanie Bell.

“Our belief is that the community should be following this case closely because anyone capable of this kind of cruelty poses a definitive risk to the entire community.”

PETA is urging the district attorney to prosecute Lewis vigorously and require mandatory counseling. An initial hearing in the case was scheduled for Wednesday.

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PETA Demands Jail Time, Psychiatric Intervention
If Alleged Pony Rapist Is Convicted
Community Should Fear Future Incidents, Say Experts
_{June 5, 2006}

SWEETWATER, Ala. (PETA MEDIA CENTER) - This morning, PETA sent an urgent plea to District Attorney Greg Griggers urging him to vigorously prosecute Henry Lewis of Sweetwater. Lewis faces charges stemming from an incident last month in which he allegedly raped a 6-week-old pony. At least two people reportedly witnessed Lewis’ penetrating the animal, who was found dead several days later by her guardian.

“Studies show that offenders who commit bestiality often go on to commit sex crimes against humans,” says PETA Cruelty Caseworker Stephanie Bell. “The community should follow this case closely, because anyone capable of this kind of cruelty poses a definitive risk to the entire community.”

PETA is asking that¯if convicted and in addition to serving a period of incarceration—Lewis be prohibited from owning or harboring animals and that authorities seize any other animals currently in his custody. PETA is also asking that Lewis be required to undergo a thorough psychological evaluation followed by mandatory counseling.

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/07/2006 at 04:57 AM   
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Armed Citizenry Report

You have to read between the line in stories like this because there’s always so much they don’t tell you. Here’s my take on this episode: (1) The two punks figured they had an easy mark - bad mistake; (2) the old guy was probably carrying a .22 caliber pistol if none of the injuries was life-threatening; (3) even with a .22 pistol, if the old dude’s eyesight had been a little better the two punks would be in the morgue; (4) somewhere, right now, a sleazy lawyer is contacting the two punks to see if they want to sue the old dude for damages. Add your own crime scene investigation thoughts in the comments ...

Store Owner, 81, Shoots Would-be Robbers
_{June 6, 2006}

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (COURIER-JOURNAL) - Three men were hospitalized — including a liquor store owner — after two men tried to rob him outside his store in the Shawnee neighborhood store late Tuesday afternoon, police said. The liquor store owner shot them after they pistol-whipped him, said Officer Dwight Mitchell, a Louisville Metro Police spokesman.

None of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening, he said. The owner was identified by relatives as James Wilson. Police were called to Wilson’s Liquors, 3804 River Park Drive, just before 5 p.m. The owner was parking his car in a garage behind the business when the two men attacked him and tried to rob him, police said.

He then pulled a gun and shot at the two robbers, who ran off, Mitchell said. Wilson was taken to University Hospital. He was discharged later Tuesday evening, according to a nursing supervisor at the hospital. Police would not say how many times he shot the men or where they had been shot.

Officers later found one suspect five doors down from the liquor store. He also was taken to University Hospital. The other suspect turned up at Jewish Hospital, Mitchell said. No charges had been filed last night.

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/07/2006 at 04:32 AM   
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