Monday - August 28, 2006

Hoodwinked

Of course, anyone with half a smidgeon of intelligence knew this clown was full of crap. Unfortunately, Colorado prosecutor Mary Lacy doesn’t have half a smidgeon of intelligence. This is just the latest in a series of keystone cops antics in the case of JonBenet Ramsey.

Meanwhile, this pervert got an all-expense paid trip home in first-class with champagne and all manner of perks with no repercussions. The taxpayers (that would be you and me) will foot the bill for that luxurious flight home as well as court costs.

Why isn’t this jerk being charged with obstruction of justice at the very least? This whole incident literally reeks of incompetence on the part of law enforcement officials. My taxes paid for this distraction and I’m not satisfied. I want my money back ...

Prosecutors Drop Case in Ramsey Slaying
_{BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Aug 28, 10:13 PM (ET)}

Prosecutors abruptly dropped their case Monday against John Mark Karr in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, saying DNA tests failed to put him at the crime scene despite his insistence he sexually assaulted and strangled the 6-year-old beauty queen.

Just a week and a half after Karr’s arrest in Thailand was seen as a remarkable break in the sensational, decade-old case, prosecutors suggested in court papers that he was just a man with a twisted fascination with JonBenet who confessed to a crime he didn’t commit.

“The people would not be able to establish that Mr. Karr committed this crime despite his repeated insistence that he did,” District Attorney Mary Lacy said in court papers.

The 41-year-old schoolteacher will be kept in jail in Boulder until he can be sent to Sonoma County, Calif., to face child pornography charges dating to 2001. An extradition hearing was scheduled for Tuesday. The district attorney vowed to keep pursuing leads in JonBenet’s death: “This case is not closed.”

Karr was never formally charged in the slaying. In court papers, Lacy defended the decision to arrest him and bring him back to the United States for further investigation, saying he might have otherwise fled and may have been targeting children in Thailand as well.

Lacy said Karr emerged as a suspect in April after he spent several years exchanging e-mails and later telephone calls with a University of Colorado journalism professor who had produced documentaries on the Ramsey case.

According to court papers, Karr told the professor he accidentally killed JonBenet during sex and that he tasted her blood after he injured her vaginally. But the Denver crime lab conducted DNA tests last Friday on a cheek swab taken from Karr and were unable to connect him to the crime.

“This information is critical because ... if Mr. Karr’s account of his sexual involvement with the victim were accurate, it would have been highly likely that his saliva would have been mixed with the blood in the underwear,” Lacy said in court papers.

She also said authorities found no evidence Karr was in Boulder at the time of the slaying. She said Karr’s family provided “strong circumstantial support” for their belief that he was with them in Georgia, celebrating the Christmas holidays. JonBenet was found beaten and strangled at her Boulder home on Dec. 26, 1996.

Defense attorney Seth Temin expressed outrage that Karr was even arrested. “We’re deeply distressed by the fact that they took this man and dragged him here from Bangkok, Thailand, with no forensic evidence confirming the allegations against him and no independent factors leading to a presumption he did anything wrong,” Temin said.

- More on the story here ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/28/2006 at 11:03 PM   
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