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Lawyer: Prof. accused in slayings is remorseful
 The Alabama university professor charged with fatally shooting three colleagues is remorseful but does not recall the shooting, her defense attorney said Friday."What? What? Where am I?" Have my mother call DA Delahunt! Whaddya mean I'm in Alabama? Whaddya mean it's 2010? Roy W. Miller said Amy Bishop, 44, is likely insane and does not remember pulling out a handgun and shooting six colleagues, three fatally, at a biology department faculty meeting one week ago at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. The mouthpiece is doing his best but he's not going to spin this one enough to get her anything better than life without parole ... "She just doesn't remember shooting these folks," he said. Bet they remember getting shot, the ones that aren't dead. But he said she is now "aware of what she's done. She's very sorry for it." "Well, gosh! If I did somethin' I'm really sorry for it! What wuz it I did again?" "I was sorry when I blew away my brother too. And I walked away clean. How come that's not working this time?" "I didn't even put a gun in a car dealer's face this time! What's the problem?" He said he has not spoken with her about where she got the gun. "Gun? I have no gun!" Police have said it was not registered to her, and her husband has said he does not know where she got it. "But wait...! Could it have been...?" "Been who?" "Mamie. My sister. My twin sister! My evil twin sister!" Miller said Bishop breaks down and cries, "Oh, woe is me!" wanting to see her four children, "Oh, my poor babies!" but is trying to remain strong. [Snif!] Despite facing a possible death sentence, she is still concerned about her professional life and her position at the university. "She said, 'Do I still have a job out there?' "Why, no. Why do you ask?" Sorry. It's right here in your contract. "Murder of colleagues may result in penalties up to and including job dismissal". She asked me that yesterday," Miller said. "She said, 'Do you know if I have a job? I assume they fired me. Did they fire me?'" "The wheels turn slowly in academia, but they do turn..." We'll have to convene a peer review within her department. Oh, wait. There's none of them left. Whadda we do now? Run an ad in Science ... University officials have said she remains on the payroll, but her $83,000-a-year job was ending at the end of the semester because she was denied tenure. So what is she on until then, double secret probation... Posted by: Fred 2010-02-20 |
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