Hainstock Pleads Not Guilty In Principal Shooting:
Shocking absolutely no one, Eric Hainstock has pleaded not guilty to shooting his principal, John Klang.
I’m anxiously awaiting the defense’s explanation for the not guilty plea. I think they have a false sense of security from the vocal minority who think that Hainstock is the victim in all this.
If he pleaded guilty and took responsibility for his actions, he may have received the help that some think he needs.
AG: Murderer Trolling MySpace for Teen Girls:
52-year-old Robert Nathaniel-Roosevelt Reeves II of Detroit, Michigan was arrested yesterday for trying to meet with a 14-year-old girl on MySpace. As you can guess, the 14-year-old girl was actually an undercover Michigan Attorney General Special Agent.
Reeves sexual advances to the undercover agent became increasingly more aggressive and quickly led to Reeves soliciting and arranging a meeting with the undercover agent posing as the 14-year-old girl in a Novi parking lot. Reeves was immediately arrested when he appeared for the rendezvous by Attorney General Special Agents in Novi on Sunday, April 29, 2007.
Reeves is looking at two separate felony charges that both carry a 20-year sentence.
Reeves previously spent 1974-1987 in prison on a 2nd-degree murder conviction.
How Not to be A Cho Seung Hui:
Normally, I don’t like to link to political sites on this blog from either side of the aisle. However, I just couldn’t pass up this commentary from Doug Giles at Townhall.com about how you can avoid being the next Cho Seung-Hui. I’ll just give you a little taste.
The video left by Cho affords great insight into this sick gnat’s psyche, which provides us with a good blueprint on how not to become twisted and pathetic. Three principle evils repeatedly showed up in this petty ninja turtles video montage.
It’s worth your time to read the entire article.
Columbine parents launch appeal of decision to seal depositions:
As expected, some of the parents of Columbine victims have filed a formal notice that they will appeal Judge Lewis Babcock’s decision to have the depositions of the parents of the Columbine killers sealed for 20 years.
Attorney Barry K. Arrington filed the notice of appeal in U.S. District Court on behalf of parents Brian Rohrbough, Susan Petrone and Dawn Anna. The notice does not discuss the grounds for appeal and Arrington did not immediately return a call.
Rohrbough and Petrone are the parents of Daniel Rohrbough and Dawn Anna is the mother of Lauren Townsend. Their children were among 12 students who were killed at Columbine on April 20, 1999.
Judge Babcock’s reasoning for sealing the depositions was to prevent copycats of Columbine. Obviously, that didn’t work.
Montgomery Appointed New Attorney:
The public defender assigned to alleged cop killer Demeatrius Montgomery has stepped down citing a conflict of interest…
Jean Lawson, an attorney from the Mecklenburg County Public Defenders Office, was assigned to the case just days after Montgomery was charged.
Jail records show Lawson spoke with her client at the Mecklenburg County jail several times, and even had a conversation that lasted more than an hour. But Lawson’s request to withdraw cites two North Carolina state rules about lawyer conduct, including one that says a lawyer should not represent a client if that representation will hurt another client.
I wonder if her client’s testimony would hurt Montgomery or the other way around.
Cho Seung-Hui’s Commitment Papers:
For those of you who are into every minute detail, no matter how insignificant it may be, Slate now has the commitment papers of Cho Seung-Hui.
I didn’t find the papers themselves very interesting, but rather what was in the article that accompanied it.
The patient exercised his right to counsel by court-appointed attorney Terry W. Teel (see Page 2), and his case was considered and decided by Special Justice and Guardian Ad Litem Paul M. Barnett. Justice Barnett found that although Cho presented “an imminent danger to himself as a result of mental illness,” there were suitable “alternatives to involuntary hospitalization” available. Cho was ordered instead to get outpatient treatments (see Page 5). No record has been found to confirm whether Cho, who killed 32 people and himself on April 16, ever sought or received the court-ordered treatment.
Just a few quick questions here. If Cho presented an imminent danger to himself, why was he not committed? Doesn’t imminent mean inevitable and immediate? Since the court ordered him to attend outpatient treatments, was the court supposed to follow up to make sure he was attending? Isn’t that what court-ordered means?
This is an editorial from the Tuft’s University student paper in response to this editorial that claims that Virginia Tech mass murderer Cho Seung-Hui was a “victim”.
The truth is society is not perfect and it never will be. Who among us has not felt isolated from his or her peers at some point in life? Yet we do not respond with violent rage. This is not how a human being is supposed to act. The individual decision to murder cannot be excused as a result from reality not always being a happy, jolly place. What happened at Virginia Tech was an act of monstrous insanity.
The only person who can be blamed for Cho Seung-Hui’s violent outburst is Seung-Hui. This is a time to remember the lives of 32 people whose lives were taken away far too soon. The 33rd “victim,” which is what Gunturi refers to Seung-Hui as, should be remembered as the one who took the others’ lives.
Finally, she argues, “Let us not allow Cho’s death to be in vain.” But very idea that we can take anything positive from this man’s life on Earth is ludicrous. He was a horrible person and the world is a better place without him.
Amen brother. It’s just such a waste that the loser had to take 32 innocent victims with him.
How’s this for pathetic? According to the article, Cho Seung-Hui couldn’t even get laid by a hooker…
Chastity Frye says she spent an hour, all alone, with Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui last month.
Frye said “He was so quiet, I really couldn’t get much from him, he was so distant, he really didn’t talk a lot. It seemed like he wasn’t all there.”
Frye works for an escort service. She says, Cho hired her, and the two met at a Valley View motel.
She says “I danced for a little while and I thought we were done because he got up and went to the restroom and began washing. And I said, ‘well, do you want me to go? I’m going to go ahead and go’. And he’s like, ‘I paid for the full hour, you’ve only been here for 15 minutes,’ and then he came back in the room. And I started dancing and that’s when he you know, touched me and tried to get on me and that’s when I pushed him away.”
When Chastity Frye saw the news about Cho last week, she thought she recognized him. Then, she says, FBI agents questioned her this weekend. Frye says they tracked her down through Cho’s credit card receipt.
Frye said “I don’t know what to think. I’m just very grateful that nothing happened then. Sometimes I wonder if I could have said something or done something differently or maybe talk to him a little bit more [but] you know, get him to open up? Right. But I wasn’t thinking about that at the time. I was thinking, he was creeping me out, I was thinking about getting out of there.”
My dad had a saying for guys like Cho. He would say, “That guy couldn’t get laid in a whore house with a stack of twenties.” And here I thought that was just an expression.
Thanks to BelchSpeak for the link.
Cho’s stone gone from memorial:
An almost 5lb granite rock that bared the name of the Virginia Tech killer was removed from the makeshift memorial that contained 33 blocks that had the names of all who died at Virginia Tech. It disappeared before classes resumed on Monday.
Hopefully, some drunk college students are doing unspeakable things to it. If they are, I’d like to buy them a beer.
Judge: Hainstock To Be Tried As Adult:
Judge Patrick Taggart has ruled that Eric Hainstock, the teen accused of gunning down Weston Schools Principal John Klang, will be tried as an adult.
Judge Patrick Taggart said that Hainstock’s attorneys didn’t prove that moving his murder trial to juvenile court wouldn’t diminish the seriousness of his crime.
Taggart said that evidence showed Hainstock planned to go to Weston Schools with guns and told a janitor that he was there to kill someone.
The judge told the defense lawyers that they only succeeded in meeting one of the three criteria to move the case to juvenile court, WISC-TV reported.
Of course, the defense is not happy.
Hainstock’s attorney Rhoda Ricciardi said that the teen will rot away in prison. She said that therapy he would have received at juvenile facility could have helped him.
What’s your point, lady?
Hainstock is now looking at life behind bars.