A Harris County jury has found Andrea Yates not guilty by reason of insanity during her second capital murder trial for the drowning deaths of her children in the family's bathtub in 2001. The verdict upholding Yates' insanity defense comes after the jury deliberated more than 12 hours and spent two nights sequestered at an area hotel .
The acquittal in Yates' second capital murder trial follows nearly a month's worth of exhaustive testimony, capped by four hours of emotional closing arguments Monday, during which Yates broke down in tears and her former husband, Russell Yates, abruptly left the courtroom. The jury's verdict means Yates, 42, will be sent to a state mental hospital for treatment, rather than be sentenced to life in prison.
Shortly before 10:30 this morning, the jury sent a note requesting exhibits showing a family portrait and a photo of the children before their deaths. Over the past two days, the jury appeared to focus on medical expert testimony from both prosecution and defense witnesses. Tuesday, they asked to see video tapes mental-health experts made of their interviews with Yates after the killings as well as testimony from Park Dietz, a prosecution expert witness, about Yates' statements regarding Satan's presence.
It is unknown how long Yates will be hospitalized, but she will be subject to periodic reviews by state District Judge Belinda Hill's court. The trial is the second time Yates has faced a jury. She was convicted in 2002 of the crime and sentenced to life in prison, but an appeals court last year threw out that conviction based on a forensic psychiatrist's erroneous testimony.
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How is "insanity" a defense? I don't believe she was insane, but even if she was, how does that affect culpability? How about a change in the law allowing a verdict of "guilty, but insane"?
Guilty means you did it. Insanity is a whole other matter, subjecting the courts to a dog and pony show of 'experts', some of whom have obvious ulterior motives.
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Guilt versus innocence is based on culpability: you did wrong and you had the ability to discern right from wrong. A verdict of 'not guilty by reason of insanity' means that the jury believes she wasn't capable of knowing right from wrong, and therefore whether she did it or not (legally) isn't relevant.
She doesn't get off, and I really, really doubt she's ever going to be freed.
Some states have changed this to allow a verdict of 'guilty but insane' or such wording.
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Well you're right Steve. I'm fully aware of this concept in law. My question was more a poorly worded challenge to this concept. "guilty but insane" allows for an acknowledgement that the person is guilty of the crime, with extenuating circumstances that affect the punishment; whereas, I believe, NGRI does not. I know this is largely a semantic argument, but seeing that crime is now often looked upon as a disease that must be 'cured', rather than an offense that must be punished, I think a rewording is important.
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Andrea Yates will be slumped in the corner of her room for a few decades and then die of a broken heart. She was sane enough to bear and raise 5 babies. She will be sane enough to relive their death again and again. Letting her live is cruel.
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What she did is the very definition of insanity. And for her sake I hope she stays insane because I can't even imagine how she would feel if she became sane enough to comprehend what she did. This is not to say she should be let loose - just keep her locked up and heavily sedated the rest of her natural life, I think.
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The insanity defense pre-date Freudian psychology. It was being used in the 19th century. The standards were determined not 'experts', cause there were none back then. It was determined by the jury and its observation of the accused.
However, through the modern guile of 20th Century lawyering, its definition has been expanded with the help of witchdoctors psychologist to include anything that they can define as a 'syndrome'.
In my book nothing stopped Ms. Yates, from just packing up and hightailing it out of the household. If this had been the father, you'd think he'd get a second chance?
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. An exotic dancer who decorated her home with skulls and a severed hand has been arrested and charged with improper disposition of human remains, authorities said. Police responding to a report Friday of a suicidal person at the home of 31-year-old Linda Kay discovered a large, crudely severed human hand in a mason jar of formaldehyde on the dresser of Kay's basement bedroom, according to the police report.
"Hey Grissom, get in here, you're gonna love this"
While the subject of the initial phone call was not located in the home, authorities found six skulls in an upstairs room. The Middlesex County medical examiner has determined all are human. While human skulls may be purchased online, the origin of the hand is more troubling. The police report states it was severed roughly, not surgically, with bone fragments in the jar.
Kids, don't try this at home
Kay was arrested and charged Friday afternoon in South Plainfield Municipal Court, where she faces arraignment at 9 a.m. Wednesday. As of early Tuesday, no lawyer had filed papers on her behalf, a court administrator said.
Drawing straws to see who has to represent this nutjob
Kay could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
Waiting for Jerry Springer to call
Two people who knew Kay, including one who stayed at her house for about two months earlier this year, told The Star-Ledger of Newark for that the hand, which Kay nicknamed "Freddy," was a gift from a medical student who frequented the Union strip club where she dances.
"How about a big hand for the little lady, folks!"
At the all-nude juice bar called Hott 22, Kay nurtured her Gothic persona, wearing dark costumes, heavy eyeliner, piercings and tattoos. Kay's mother told the newspaper that her daughter had always been fascinated with the macabre. As a girl she found and collected animal skulls and snake skeletons. Patricia Ann Kay said her daughter purchased the human skulls from a mail order catalog.
"She has a flair for the dramatic," her mother told the newspaper for Tuesday's editions. "I have never tried to stop my children from doing whatever they want. As long as they are happy, aren't hurting anyone, and it's keeping them out of the poor house."
Mother of the Year material
A South Plainfield Judge released Kay from custody Friday on $100,000 bail.
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Damn, a while back I received a link to a real hand of glory pic, can't find it through google. Much more macabre than a bloated severed hand floating in some kind of alcohol.
Bet it's a way of getting around a law prohibiting total nudity in an establishment selling alcohol. A carton of orange juice will likely set you back ten dollars
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I have never tried to stop my children from doing whatever they want.
Not one of those "cause and effect" folks, I guess...
Maybe she could become an honorary Palestinian.
Detectives say the 58-year-old homeowner, whose name is not being released, told them Bailey had come to the house with a hammer, looking for money. Neighbors say Bailey attacked the resident with the hammer and a struggle ensued. The resident then shot Bailey in the chest with a .50 caliber muzzle loading rifle.
Honey, it's for you...
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. - The assault trial of a man accused of shoving a cell phone down a woman's throat has begun. Wonder if he called it to see if it would ring?
Prosecutors say 24-year-old Marlon Brando Gill was angry and jealous when he forced the phone into Melinda Abell's throat in December. Marlon Brando Gill. I can almost smell the trailer park...
But defense attorneys insist the 25-year-old victim swallowed the phone intentionally to prevent Gill from finding out who she'd been calling. Ah'll show yew, Marlon Brando Gill!!!
Gill is charged with felony first-degree assault.
A doctor at a Kansas City hospital's emergency room used a tool called a "pincher" to remove the phone from Abell's throat.
She testified yesterday that she couldn't remember how the phone got in her throat, saying she drank too much that night. Court records show that her blood alcohol content was three times the legal limit. If your gonna eat your phone, or be fed your phone, it's probably good that your 3 times over the legal limit...
A 36-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman, asleep in the room, cheated death when the runaway car shunted their bed sideways. The 32-year-old driver's car had crashed through the fence of the Lindsay Ave unit in Alice Springs about 2am yesterday. It then crashed into the unit sending chunks of concrete blockwork tumbling from the wall, grazing the sleeping man's back. The bonnet came to rest above the pair's double bed.
They escaped serious injury. The man said: "The crash was bizarre. I'm glad no-one was injured. I am very, very, very lucky." Unit owner Danielle Loy agreed the sleeping man was lucky to be alive. "They were sleeping on the other side of the bed, cuddled up," she said. "If he had slept like he normally did he'd be dead." "They've basically just cheated death."
The couple told Ms Loy the driver had quickly emptied a beer after crashing the car, allegedly saying: "I'd better have another beer, I'm going to jail for sure."
Acting Senior Sergeant Jody Nobbs last night said the driver had been charged with doing an act causing potential danger. Sen-Sgt Nobbs said the driver had been bailed to appear in court at a later date. He said police were waiting for the results of a blood sample from the driver. The driver was taken to Alice Springs Hospital with minor injuries, but was released into police custody.
Days of our Lives has fired one of the most infamous writers in its 30-year history. The move ends what turned out to be a far more controversial moment for the NBC soap than anyone would have thought.
Kola Boof, a Sudanese-born novelist and poet, had been serving as a ghost writer for Days of our Lives. According to some sources, Boof has written most, if not all, of the story material that will air this summer. . . .
And in true soap opera style, Boof has a secret connection - but not to anyone on the show. Boof is the former mistress of the terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. The complete details of Boof's past with bin Laden is chronicled in her autobiography, Diary of a Lost Girl. In 2003, however, Boof's relationship with bin Laden was revealed to be against her will and more akin to slavery than an affair.
Through her work on daytime television, Boof joked that she hoped to attain a much lower profile.
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I thought Osama was "offended" by women that didn't run around covered by a black tent...
How is that condusive to procuring a mistress?
"All pigs are equal, but some are more equal than others"
-George Orwell in "Animal Farm"
"Bust" as in statue, that is. (Get your mind out of the gutter, there, son.)
YCMTSU!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE- New York, NY- July, 26 2006- A presidential bust of Hillary Clinton is set to be unveiled at the Museum of Sex on August 9, 2006 at 10 am. Accentuating her sexual power and bolstered by the presidential seal, The Presidential Bust of Hillary Rodham Clinton: The First Woman President of the United States of America will be officially open for public viewing on August 9 for a limited six week run.
Artist Daniel Edwards describes this new sculpture as capturing Clinton with her head held high, a youthful spirit and a face matured by wisdom. Presented in a low cut gown, her cleavage is on display prominently portraying sexual power which some people still consider too threatening....
...Edwards inspiration for the piece was derived from actress Sharon Stones controversial quote earlier in the year about challenges that would most likely be encountered should the Junior Senator from New York run on the 08 ticket. I think Hillary Clinton is fantastic, Stone said. But I think it is too soon for her to run. This may sound odd but a woman should be past her sexuality when she runs. Hillary still has sexual power and I dont think people will accept that. Its too threatening.
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Mother McCree! That bust would sink a thousand ships.
This sculptor chap Daniel Edwards likes to get into the slimelight. He did one of baseball legend Ted Williams in Sept 2005. The main element of the exhibit was Edwards' sculpture of a "death mask" depicting Williams as he now exists -- in a cryonic slumber.
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Men may be barred from baring their chests - and stomachs - in public under new local laws being considered by town halls. They would stop men stripping off their shirts in crowded town centres and give powers to police to remove any who defy the cover-up laws.
The proposal has been inspired by the least attractive side effect of the heatwave - the tendency of a number of often middle-aged men to go about in nothing more than shorts and trainers. Last week the Daily Mail highlighted the wave of revulsion among most of the public at the summer's least welcome fashion trend, and pictured a series of the worst examples in the hope of shaming offenders into keeping their T-shirts on.
Tsk, tsk ...
Now local authorities have been circulated with a scheme for using by-laws to require shirts in town centres and to brand men who won't wear them as anti-social. The laws would operate in a similar manner to local statutes that ban drinking on the streets or which prevent gangs of youths from congregating.
The pidgeon-chested politician behind the plan is former local government minister Nicholas Bennett, who has canvassed councils across the country for support. "There is a problem," Mr Bennett said yesterday. "In my part of the country we are trying to revitalise the main shopping precinct.
"But one of the things that is depressing for anyone going shopping is the numbers of shaven-headed men, mainly in their 30s and 40s, who seem to think people want to see their torsos." He added: "It is only a small minority, one in a hundred people. But these men do look aggressive and occasionally behave aggressively. You would see a big difference in the shopping centre if they were made to put a shirt on."
"It is nice weather and most of us are wearing fewer clothes. But a town centre is not the beach and taking your top off is going too far, for men as well as women.
Wait a minute ...
"It is an unfortunate thing, but those men who like best to bare their stomachs are the ones who have too much stomach."
Officials in Bromley, in south east London, have responded warily to the proposal, suggesting that implementation might prove 'difficult'.
"Hey Grissom, get over here, we got a code 2219."
However by-laws governing local behaviour and giving police powers to act against those who infringe them can be pushed through by town halls if the win approval from the Home Office.
Mr Bennett, now a senior councillor in Bromley's ruling Tory group, said: "We already operate by-laws covering on-street drinking and a 'dispersal zone', where police have the right to break up groups of youths and ban gang members from coming back for 24 hours." Mr Bennett, who runs a property company, was a minister with local government responsibilities under John Major in the 1990s.
And he's got a serious pickle up his butt.
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Why is it that the people you would most like to see nekkid/semi-nekkid never are in public? Sheesh....
I'm just sooo excited, aren't you?
Singer George Michael denied he has been forced to call off his "wedding" to his long-term partner after being caught cruising for sex with strangers. The former Wham! star insisted that his partner Kenny Goss had no problem with him being with other men.
Michael, 43, phoned up daytime chat show Richard & Judy yesterday after a Sunday newspaper caught him in a bathroom stall an intimate clinch with another man on Hampstead Heath in north London. Rest at link. Looks like he bought Goss a 1 million pound gift, kind of like Kobe did for his, er, wife after his rape charges. Sheesh...
George Michael and his American lover Kenny Goss have called off their gay 'wedding' after the pop star was discovered having an illicit encounter with a stranger in a London park. The couple had been looking forward to an Elton John-style 'wedding' ceremony followed by a lavish party to mark their 10th anniversary. But plans for the nuptials have been called off after the singer was seen emerging from bushes following a sexual encounter with a pot-bellied, jobless van driver.
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Damn. And I just spent a fortune at Pottery Barn on a nice gift.
Posted on the off-chance that Europe still matters ...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greek protesters toppled a statue of President Truman and clashed with police during demonstrations Tuesday against the fighting in Lebanon.
The ruckus began after 2,000 demonstrators, backed by Greece's largest trade unions and local anti-globalization groups, marched to the Israeli Embassy and also smashed nearby bank and storefront windows. Several dozen youths broke away from the rally to confront riot police who had ringed the embassy. Police fire tear gas into the crowd and detained seven people. No one was injured.
Demonstrators gathered earlier outside the U.S. Embassy and used a power saw and ropes to bring down the Truman statue. It wasn't immediately clear why the protesters focused on the Truman statue but it has been targeted several times in past protests.
Um, because they hate us?
Protest organizer Yiannis Sifakakis said many Greeks felt Israel was using excessive force in its confrontation with Hezbollah guerrillas. "The only thing that can stop the bombings is the mobilization of ordinary people in the West and in the Arab world," he said.
Self-validating performance art.
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The knife will soon be at their throat. And the hand holding it won't be Israeli. The Jihad is coming to them, all Europeans (left and right). It's already on it's way. If Israel falters, then the tide will come that much faster and forcefully.
But they are blind and cannot see it. Their ideological blinkers are fastened tightly blocking their view. The image is too terrifying to look at anyway, it must be denied, explained away (it's all Olmert and Bush's fault) or laughed off.
But whether they know it or like it or not, the Europeans are all Israelis.
More on the car carrying ship that listed 85 degrees and required a rescue 230 nm south of the Aleutian Islands.
The crew on the huge car-carrying ship in the North Pacific was scrambling to adjust the ballast water used to stabilize large vessels.
But something went wrong. Maybe it was a weight shift. Maybe a monster wave. The 654-foot Cougar Ace flipped onto its side. The closest land: 230 miles away in Alaska, at the tip of the Aleutian Islands.
"Everything went to hell in a hand basket in 10 minutes," said Michael Terry, a nurse practitioner at the health clinic in Adak who talked to the ship's captain and crew about what happened when their ship and its cargo suddenly rolled late Sunday night.
The Asian ship's 23 crew members ended up in Adak on Monday after a spectacular rescue operation by the Alaska Air National Guard and the U.S. Coast Guard. Rescuers flew over 1,200 miles, according to the Air Guard. The Coast Guard and the Air National Guard did yeoman duty on this one. Well planned, backed up, and executed. These guys went to the mat for the Cougar Ace crew.
Two Air Guard Pave Hawk helicopters refueled midair maybe eight times. The ship captain, identified by Terry as Nyi Nyi Tun, 45, of Myanmar, had just enough time to get off an SOS before the ship went sideways in choppy seas. Most of the crew was from the Philippines and Myanmar, with a few from Singapore.
They tumbled and slid in those chaotic first minutes, suffering bruises, bumps and cuts, straining muscles as they grabbed to hold on or pulled themselves onto the open deck, Terry said. One man, Saw Lucky Kyin, 41, also of Myanmar, was in the shower when the boat tilted and broke his lower leg, said one of the pararescueman, Tech. Sgt. David Johnson. One lucky guy! Grab a pair of skivvies and go!
Incredibly, that was the worst injury suffered by any of the men, though some were shivering and close to hypothermia by the time they got to Adak, Terry said.
As of Tuesday night, the Cougar Ace itself appeared stable on its side in the sea, its engines, keel and rudder all out of the water. The Coast Guard cutter Rush, based in Honolulu, made it to the ship early Tuesday morning. Its crew measured the list at 60 degrees, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Steve Harrison. Sea rails on the stove may not help with that list.
The Coast Guard plans no investigation of the incident because it was in international waters.
The captain said the crew was changing out the ballast; a crewman on board said it occurred as the ship was leaving international waters to meet U.S. requirements, according to Terry. Ballast water is kept in tanks and shifted to balance out ships "and to improve the ride," said Petty Officer Sara Francis, a Coast Guard spokeswoman. Before the rescue, the captain relayed to the Coast Guard that a ballast change was involved, Harrison said.
At 11:09 p.m. Sunday, the captain's call for help came into the Coast Guard's Juneau command center. The Coast Guard, which doesn't have helicopters that can refuel midair, sent a C-130 to drop life rafts and other survival gear early Monday morning. But the ship's crew couldn't get to the life rafts.
So at 8:35 a.m. Monday, the Coast Guard asked the Alaska Air National Guard for help. By 10 a.m., the Air Guard had scrambled two long-range Pave Hawk helicopters with two HC-130 planes to fuel them not far behind. Another C-130 went with more support gear.
"We kind of tag-teamed with the helicopters," said Capt Eric Budd, of the 211th Rescue Squadron, who piloted one of the HC-130s. "The helicopters fly along a good distance and we fly along and refuel the helicopters."
The ship was "scary to behold," Budd said. "Analogywise, I picture it as a giant building up on its side."
One of the Cougar Ace crewmen managed to snap some digital photos of his mates after the ship tilted.
"They were hanging. It looks like a climbing wall, like you were on belay and hanging at almost a 90-degree angle, kind of straight down" and 15 stories up, said Terry, the Adak nurse. Video shot at the scene bears this out.
"They are perched against things. Some of them are sitting on projections. ... Most of them are braced against something. ... Some of them looked pretty precarious in their positions."
Around 8:30 or 9 p.m., the first helicopter zoomed in. The seas were rolling with 8 to 10 foot swells, but by then it wasn't too windy or rough.
Tech. Sgts. Johnson and Robert Schnell of the 212th were lowered to the waiting crew.
"They weren't overly anxious. They were happy to see us and real thankful," Johnson said.
Two at a time, crew members were hoisted to the helicopters in slings on a steel line. The injured man, who groaned in obvious pain when his broken leg was touched, went up on a litter.
The Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopter got to the scene but couldn't stay long because it couldn't refuel midair. So its crew went to work, plucking eight men off the ship, then heading for Adak more than 200 miles away.
Within an hour, rescuers had all the crew off the ship. By midnight, everyone was in Adak, where the community banded together to provide meals, clothing and medical care. The injured man was flown to Anchorage for hospital treatment along with a crew mate to interpret. The other 21 crew members tried to sleep on cots at the health clinic, but some had night terrors, Terry said.
Budd and another pilot high-fived over the textbook teamwork.
"Everybody was pretty jazzed about getting everybody off this sinking ship," Budd said.
A salvage crew is expected to reach the ship in about a week, and the cutter Rush will stay until then, the Coast Guard said. While there's an oil sheen around the Cougar Ace, it appears to be very light, according to observations from the cutter.
The Cougar Ace, owned by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines of Japan and registered in Singapore, was carrying nearly 5,000 cars to Vancouver, British Columbia, many of them reportedly Mazdas, but there's no word on their condition, said Greg Beuerman, a New Orleans-based company spokesman.
The salvagers will assess "what activities can be taken to right the vessel and maybe take it to port," Beuerman said.
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, a marine transportation company founded in 1884, owns hundreds of container ships, tankers, car carriers and ferries. A shipping Web site indicates that the Cougar Ace has a good history and has frequently been in U.S. ports.
On Tuesday afternoon, an Air Guard C-130 flew the remaining 21 Cougar Ace crew members from Adak to Anchorage. TV cameras, news reporters and photographers recorded the arrival as the men, clutching plastic bags with their survival suits, walked off the plane. They wore warm coats and flannel shirts and pants donated by the Adak residents. One had a cowboy hat he had saved from the tipping ship.
The men were hurried into a secure area by U.S. Customs agents, but some gave brief comments as they walked by.
"Bad experience," said one.
"Thank you a lot for saving us," said another.
Tale of the Cougar Ace
WHAT HAPPENED: Witnesses say the ship may have been hit by a rogue wave while the crew was adjusting the ballast water late Sunday night.
RESCUE: All 23 people on board were saved. Alaska Air National Guard and U.S. Coast Guard crew members flew a combined 100 hours.
PLANS: A salvage crew is expected to reach the ship in a week to assess the ship and its future. The cargo included about 5,000 new cars. Probably tenderized cars now. I do not know how they secure them in a ship like that. I would like to see everything chained down to the deck. Sh*t happens at sea.
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first of all look at the ppl of Adak for helping these ppl out, when in my opinion they had probably never heard anything good about the US outside of the US. 2 why is the alska air national guard equipped better than the US coast guard in this area where it so dangerous in the first place?
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The Coast Guard mission is to guard the coast, so with their limited budget, etc etc, they rarely use the pave hawk system. The Coast Guard has bases in Sitka, Kodiak, and some other places in Alaska. The C130s can drop off stuff quite a ways out to sea, but helicopter rescues far at sea are at the end of a very long and tenuous food chain.
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Rodney Coronado, who awaits sentencing for interfering with federal efforts to trap mountain lions in Sabino Canyon in 2004, faces new charges alleging that he violated federal laws protecting birds of prey. Coronado, 39, who has been linked to the radical ecological groups Earth Liberation Front and Earth First!, was charged by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service last week with possessing eagle feathers. According to Deb McCarley, a Phoenix FBI spokeswoman, Coronado is accused of violating the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. I think a lot of these laws are excessive and draconian, but it's good to see someone like this get hit with them, rather than some farmer.
McCarley had no details on why Coronado may have possessed the feathers or how he obtained them. McCarley said a violation of the Eagle Protection Act carries a maximum one-year prison sentence and $100,000 fine. Coronado could not be reached for comment. Don't they know where he is?
The FBI has identified Earth Liberation Front as the nation's top domestic terrorism threat. The organization claims responsibility for more than 1,000 "ecotage" incidents designed to protect animals or "Mother Earth."
Coronado was convicted in 2005 of one felony and two misdemeanors for interfering with federal efforts to trap and remove mountain lions from Sabino Canyon. Coronado faces up to 7 1/2 years in prison for interfering with the lion hunt. In February, Coronado was indicted in connection with giving a 2003 speech on how to make a firebomb just hours after members of the group reportedly ignited a $50 million apartment blaze in San Diego, the most expensive act of ecoterrorism in U.S. history. Coronado has not been charged in connection with that blaze.
He previously served nearly five years in prison for burning down an animal-testing lab at Michigan State University in 1992. Obviously, 5 years wasn't enough.
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I'm sure Rodney Coronado has a real official like native american ID card issued by the Ward Churchill chapter of Friends of Academia. And as the practicing faux shaman of the chapter he is entitled to have said feathers. /sarcasm
The Supreme Court has ordered an inquiry into the case of a man who spent three years in jail for a murder that never happened, a court official said on Tuesday. The woman Malik Taj Mohammad was convicted of kidnapping and killing was arrested for theft two years ago and is serving a jail sentence in Gujarat. "This woman was presented in court and the chief justice has ordered a lower court judge to conduct an investigation, fix responsibility and provide compensation to Taj," said court official Nisar Ahmed.
The woman, Malkani Bibi, was said to have been murdered during a property dispute between relatives, although Taj had maintained that his accusers had performed a mock burial. "On details provided by him, the police located Malkani in jail and produced her before the court," Ahmed said.
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Hey India, heres a hint: Produce a BODY and do an AUTOPSY before you charge for murder. I know this sounds a little complicated, but trust me, it works.
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mcsegeek1: convictions without bodies is common, even in the US. A body is only part of the "body of evidence", and if other elements establish guilt, then that is enough for a conviction.
Remember also that a body without other forensic evidence just establishes that someone is dead, not if they were murdered or who killed them.
Just by not confessing (in the US), you raise your chance of acquittal enormously, because juries are far more prone to pay attention to courtroom appearance and demeanor than evidence.
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Well duh, of course other elements establish guilt. I wasn't speaking to the issue of a trial, but rather to the fact that they assumed she was dead and BURIED and didn't bother to verify there was a corpse.
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.
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. An exotic dancer who decorated her home with skulls and a severed hand has been arrested and charged with improper disposition of human remains, authorities said. Police responding to a report Friday of a suicidal person at the home of 31-year-old Linda Kay discovered a large, crudely severed human hand in a mason jar of formaldehyde on the dresser of Kay's basement bedroom, according to the police report. 
Detectives say the 58-year-old homeowner, whose name is not being released, told them Bailey had come to the house with a hammer, looking for money. Neighbors say Bailey attacked the resident with the hammer and a struggle ensued. The resident then shot Bailey in the chest with a .50 caliber muzzle loading rifle.
Men may be barred from baring their chests - and stomachs - in public under new local laws being considered by town halls. They would stop men stripping off their shirts in crowded town centres and give powers to police to remove any who defy the cover-up laws.
"But one of the things that is depressing for anyone going shopping is the numbers of shaven-headed men, mainly in their 30s and 40s, who seem to think people want to see their torsos." He added: "It is only a small minority, one in a hundred people. But these men do look aggressive and occasionally behave aggressively. You would see a big difference in the shopping centre if they were made to put a shirt on."
George Michael and his American lover Kenny Goss have called off their gay 'wedding' after the pop star was discovered having an illicit encounter with a stranger in a London park. The couple had been looking forward to an Elton John-style 'wedding' ceremony followed by a lavish party to mark their 10th anniversary. But plans for the nuptials have been called off after the singer was seen emerging from bushes following a sexual encounter with a pot-bellied, jobless van driver.
The Supreme Court has ordered an inquiry into the case of a man who spent three years in jail for a murder that never happened, a court official said on Tuesday. The woman Malik Taj Mohammad was convicted of kidnapping and killing was arrested for theft two years ago and is serving a jail sentence in Gujarat. "This woman was presented in court and the chief justice has ordered a lower court judge to conduct an investigation, fix responsibility and provide compensation to Taj," said court official Nisar Ahmed. 
