[HotAir] College student Mollie Tibbetts disappeared while jogging on July 18, 2018. More than three years later her killer Christhian Bahena Rivera
...an illegal alien from Mexico...
finally received the maximum sentence, life in prison without possibility of parole.
Judge Joel D. Yates told Bahena Rivera, “You, and you alone, forever changed the lives of those who loved Mollie Tibbetts. And for that, you and you alone will receive the following sentence.”
Bahena Rivera, wearing a mask and headphones, was stoic as Yates sentenced him to a “lifetime sentence with no eligibility for parole.”
Bahena Rivera, 27, was sentenced to the maximum penalty under the law in a high-profile case that also became politicized, in part because of the defendant’s status as an undocumented immigrant.
The number of twists and turns in this case has been remarkable. In fact, if someone published a novel with this many twists it would be considered unrealistic. Start with the fact that Rivera was identified thanks to a home security video in which his car was seen following Tibbetts. Then, after a long interrogation, he brough police to the site where her body was found in a corn field. But police later admitted they hadn’t fully read Rivera his rights until they were at the corn field which rendered a portion of what amounted to his confession inadmissible during his the trial. Then there was the delay caused by the pandemic which meant his trial didn’t start until May of this year.
But the biggest surprises came during the trial. After his defense attorneys did their best to heap suspicion on Tibbetts boyfriend who was 100 miles away at the time of her disappearance, they suddenly announced he would take the stand to tell the real story of what happened.
Bahena Rivera said two armed men who were wearing black and had their faces covered by stocking caps showed up at his trailer after he finished showering that evening. The men directed him to get in his car and drive, and they passed Tibbetts as she ran several times before directing him to stop, he said.
Bahena Rivera, 26, said a man with a knife got out of the car and walked down the rural road. The man was gone for about 10 minutes as the second man in the back seat of the car grew nervous, saying, “Come on, Jack,” he claimed.
Dalton Jack just happened to be the name of Tibbett’s boyfriend. In any case, this sudden claim that two strangers in ski masks forced him to drive around with Tibbetts body in her trunk, a claim he’d never once mentioned in the three years since her disappearance, didn’t convince the jury which convicted him of first-degree murder after just 7-hours of deliberations.
But there was one more twist left in this saga. After his conviction, his attorneys claimed that two brand new witnesses had come forward to confirm parts of his story:
According to their court filing, a person incarcerated at an unnamed Iowa correctional facility approached their prison chaplain after seeing media coverage of the Bahena Rivera trial. On the stand, Bahena Rivera testified that two masked men had abducted him and forced him to assist with the kidnapping and killing of Tibbetts. Prosecutors afterward dismissed that account as fiction, but the witness, who is not named in the motion, told prison officials he could corroborate Bahena Rivera’s account.
Based on the new witnesses, the defense asked the judge for a new trial and managed to delay his original sentencing. But earlier this month the judge rejected those requests in a 13-page decision which pointed out the defense attorneys themselves had decided not to pursue the alleged witnesses’ claims at the time they were first reported to them.
#1
Wake me up when the cannibalism starts. Besides, NOLA has had years since Katrina to fix all those "issues" they had with bad infrastructure and lame-ass management. Say, what's Ray Nagin up to these days? Still involved with transportation?
#2
How I suffered (abdominal hurt)
When I saw that (white) dude in red shirt
Queue up with no fear
For his share of cool beer!
I sure hope that he got his dessert(s).
Seriously though, that clip looked a little fishy. So ma demographic brotha took the handoff from yellow shirt? Who's to say he didn't turn around and pass the case to po-ass mum of fo'? Why y'alls gotta go casually accusin' us white black folks alla time?
#5
Nagin got an early release from his prison sentence for corruption because of the Wuhan virus. He's now in the suburbs of Dallas living the suburban life.
A teen sidles up on a bike.
"Whoa, new DJI! Dude, I like!
Been thinking I'd buy it."
"Climb down, kid, and try it."
...
Meself pedals off, yelling, "Sike!"
#11
Local drug and street gangs are using them to spy on their opponents in Chicago, Skid.
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#12
I'm shocked, shocked to discover there is looting going on here.
I recall during Katrina photos of cops joining in the looting. I didn't think Foot Locker had food, water and medicine that was vital in the absence of normal commerce access.
#13
I still remember all the lamenting that the cops had all run off during Katrina, only for it to be found out that something like 40% of people on the payroll never existed.
[Mil.com] Matt Urban was a decorated World War II soldier with more lives than any cat. He was wounded seven times in combat, then returned to lead his men six times -- and has the Purple Hearts to prove it.
Urban served in the Army throughout the duration of WWII, somehow surviving numerous wounds that might have killed anyone else. His official list of feats is so long, he was one Distinguished Service Cross short of surpassing Audie Murphy as the war's most decorated American soldier.
But he didn't receive his Medal of Honor until 1980 because the required paperwork somehow got lost in the shuffle. It was the men he served with in 2nd Battalion, 60th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division who ultimately ensured that President Jimmy Carter awarded him America's highest award for conspicuous gallantry.
Born Matthew Urbanowicz, Urban began college at Cornell University in Upstate New York, where he joined the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps. Upon graduating in 1941, Matt Urban (who formally changed his name after the war) was commissioned a second lieutenant and joined the infantry at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
When the United States entered World War II, Urban was on the ground from the first day of the Invasion of North Africa until the last day of the war in Europe, leaving Germany with the rest of his troops. In between, he fought in Sicily, landed at Utah Beach on D-Day, and advanced into Belgium.
Along the way, the Germans dubbed him "The Ghost," because no matter how many times they thought they had finally killed him, Urban seemed to respawn. His ability to recover and rejoin his men surprised the U.S. Army just as much. Urban snuck away from medical tents, transport ships and hospitals just to return to the fight alongside his men in the 60th Infantry.
[Washington Examiner] A store in Las Vegas is requiring any customer who wants to buy Ivermectin, a drug primarily intended to treat parasitic worms in animals, to bring a photo with their horse.
Several people are seeking Ivermectin this summer to try to treat or prevent COVID-19 despite warnings from health officials, causing V & V Tack and Feed to be sold out of the drug, according to KTNV in Las Vegas .
Store associate Shelly Smith told the outlet demand began to rise months ago, and that's when she put up a sign warning customers that Ivermectin can be dangerous to humans.
"The first sign came about several months ago when you started seeing articles about Ivermectin treating COVID. So, when I was ordering my Ivermectin, I noticed our distributors had that [warning], so I figured let me hang one too just to let people know, 'Do not take this,'" Smith said.
#2
I continue to read that India, Mexico City, many areas in Africa all attest to the efficacy of Ivermectin as well as countless doctors and numerous recent studies non of which apparently Fauci is aware of.
No one will trust the FDA, WHO, CDC or any other government agency when the truth all comes out, but any one who still trusts Fauci gets a horse laugh.
#9
Way back in the early days of this insanity I had an in person meeting with my Dr. She told me she had a patient who had his wife come down with full blown case of the Winnie the Flu. Since he tested positive but had no symptoms he couldn't return to work untill he had a negative test. A month went by and still positive. She said on a DR. message board there was a report that some docs in Brazil found that Ivermectin gave positive results, so a what the heck she gave him the dose and the next time he tested he was negative. I joked that maybe I should go to Tractor Supply for some Ivo-Mec pour on. I am surprised it took so long for people to realize that they could get this stuff OTC. The key is most folks have no idea of what the correct dosage is. BTW the stuff is fatal to tortoises and there was a case of public aquarium killing a bunch of sharks with it. In humans it is being used to treat "river blindness" Matbe the problem is Lawyers have the same effect as sharks when treated with this drug.
Of course taking drugs meant for animals can have side effects.
#10
Of interest is no signs are posted at COVID-19 vaccination sites stating that the vaccines can be dangerous to humans. That info is buried in the fine print given to patients, which none ever reads.
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#11
Is a picture of Biden acceptable? It is a horses arse after all...
[AlAhram] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... appears to have restarted the operation of its main nuclear reactor used to produce weapons fuels, the U.N. atomic agency said, as the North openly threatens to enlarge its nuclear arsenal amid long-dormant nuclear diplomacy with the United States.
The annual report by the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency refers to a 5-megawatt reactor at the North's main nuclear complex in Yongbyon, north of Pyongyang. The reactor produces plutonium, one of the two key ingredients used to build nuclear weapons along with highly enriched uranium.
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#4
Yesterday when I filled up, gas was $2.65/gal. Today, at the same station, it is $2.95.
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#5
Somebody's math challenged here.
Of the 10 largest US refineries, this affected #s 4, 5, & 10. #7, CITGO in Lake Charles, is at 75%, and has been since coming up after their last big storm.
Everybody else is up and running. The Colonial Pipeline is the biggest choke at this point, and the issue there is how much is in the tank farm in High Point, North Carolina.
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08/31/2021 22:44 Comments ||
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This is a repost to FR of some data that had been on twitter, covering the data from Africa regarding Ivermectin and Covid-19, that was part of the data cited in the decision by Japan to start using Ivermectin nationwide. All the pretty graphs and stuff are over there.
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These graphs have been normalized to population size, I wish that was the standard presentation (cases, or hospitalizations, or deaths, per 100,000 population or such.) It looks to me like if we similarly normalized the current case rate wave height for the US it would come in at 3 times the rate in non-Ivermectin Africa. (Israel would be double that again.) There has to be a difference in data collection, validity etc. but those are huge apparent differences.
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Glenmore, I'm going to have to get back to you on that when I get home and my internet's a little more solid. I *think* I can do a graph sort of like that.
WRT the graphs, the daily death rate in (e.g. Liberia) is a couple orders of magnitude higher than the rates listed. I'd guess that total death counts might be within shouting distance of reality, but COVID death counts--not so much. I'd also guess that the seasonal variation in malaria deaths would swamp the COVID variations, so we might not learn much from the total daily death rates either.
It would be useful to compare cohorts, but I'm not sure if death rates by age are available.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Mil.com] Matt Urban was a decorated World War II soldier with more lives than any cat. He was wounded seven times in combat, then returned to lead his men six times -- and has the Purple Hearts to prove it.
[Washington Examiner] A store in Las Vegas is requiring any customer who wants to buy Ivermectin, a drug primarily intended to treat parasitic worms in animals, to bring a photo with their horse.
