Date set for Hainstock’s hearing:
The first hearing to see if Eric Hainstock’s murder conviction will be overturned has been scheduled for December 10th.
If you’ll recall Hainstock shot Weston Schools principal John Klang three times. Klang later died from his wounds at the hospital.
Hainstock’s attorney argues that he was in no mental state to waive his rights at police questioning.
Police plot strategy in hunt for boy:
Just wanted to post something I had missed previously about the case of Giovanni Gonzalez.
I previously posted about the bloody mop found in Ernesto Gonzalez’s residence. What I neglected to post is that other evidence taken from there were cleaner, a knife, and lighter fluid.
That is very foreboding.
Principal still doesn’t know why killers did it:
This article starts off talking about the three yahoos who were arrested for threatening the life of Barack Obama. Then somehow it morphs into talking about Columbine. I guess because both involved guns and happened in the state of Colorado. However, it contains a great interview with Columbine principal Frank DeAngelis.
I’d like to address two great quotes made by Principal DeAngelis who is often the target of mutant harassment.
“Less than a year after the Columbine shootings,” Mr. DeAngelis was saying, “I was on a panel somewhere and I was asked, ‘What could have prevented Klebold and Harris from committing those murders on that particular day?’ I didn’t really have a good answer. The guns that they used were bought legally. An 18-year-old student went to a gun show in Colorado Springs and bought these weapons and gave them to Klebold and Harris.
I think Mr. DeAngelis is being too kind. The obvious answer is that parental involvement would have prevented Columbine. I’ve said it hundreds of times, if Harris and Klebold’s parents had just gone snooping through their own home they would have discovered what was going on. Whether or not they would have done anything about it is a different story. So maybe Mr. DeAngelis is right and Columbine was inevitable.
He also addresses the two cowardly scumbags’ motives and their mutant followers…
“Where I really struggle is, what caused so much hate in those kids’ hearts that they would kill their classmates and their teachers and they would kill themselves? You’re talking about kamikazes, but the kamikazes had a deep national and religious reason to do what they did. With Klebold and Harris, there was only this aspect that they had to do it so that their names would live forever. And you can go on these Web sites that are dedicated to them, and it’s like they do live forever.”
What caused so much hate is that they are one of those from their generation who believe that the world is fair and that the world owes them everything. It’s not and it doesn’t. And as far as their mutant followers are concerned they buy into every myth about their cowardly heroes, mainly the myth that they were bullied.
However, I think that they live forever due to their cowardly and violent legacy. Their mutant followers are just a mere footnote.
Prosecutors seek to try 15-year-old Central High shooter as adult:
Prosecutors have filed a petition to have Jamar Siler tried as an adult in the shooting death of Ryan McDonald.
The decision on whether Siler rates transfer to the adult court system rests solely with Irwin and could mean the difference between a few years of punishment and rehabilitation efforts in a juvenile facility and a minimum 51-year sentence in a state prison.
Under the law, Irwin must consider two key things – is Siler committable to a mental health facility and, if not, are there programs within the juvenile justice system to rehabilitate Siler.
No and no. Cue the whiners.
‘Most Wanted’ joins Giovanni search:
Giovanni Gonzalez will be featured on this week’s episode of America’s Most Wanted during their missing person’s segment.
“We had a huge amount of people to choose from. This one was a no-brainer. We have a missing child. We need information,” said Most Wanted correspondent Jon Leiberman Wednesday.
Hopefully, this will help in bringing him home.
Knoxville teachers want students’ criminal records:
After the shooting death of Ryan McDonald at Central High in Knoxville, teachers there say they want to know about students’ juvenile criminal records and who can blame them?
Personally, I think they should do away with the whole sealed records thing. If you got caught drinking underage, big deal. Shoplifting, who cares? Vandalism, no big thing. Murder, rape, violent crime, that’s something that people need to know.
I can hear the whiny voices now though…But Trench what about second chances? Screw second chances. Their victims didn’t get second chances. Ryan McDonald won’t get a second chance. There are no guaranteed second chances in life. Deal with it.
Advice to colleges on attacks: Fight back – Education msnbc.com
Hundreds of colleges across the nation have purchased a training program that teaches professors and students not to take campus threats lying down but to fight back with any “improvised weapon,” from a backpack to a laptop computer.
That sounds like money well spent, doesn’t it? I foresee a lot of false alarm laptop to the head injuries in their future.
As much as I’ve been complaining that the national media has not been paying any attention to the Giovanni Gonzalez story I received an e-mail today that restored my faith in humanity. The one national media outlet that is actually doing what it can for Giovanni is America’s Most Wanted. They have an extensive profile of the situation on their website.
Every week I and a lot of other crime bloggers receive an e-mail letting us know what’s on AMW that week. Hopefully, they’ll have Giovanni’s story featured on this week’s episode.
Lynn police scour evidence in disappearance of Giovanni Gonzalez:
Unfortunately, police have come up empty so far in their search for Giovanni Gonzalez. Police say that they are scaling back on the physical search for Giovanni and are refocusing on the evidence they have so far.
Between this and the search of the cemetery, I don’t have high hopes at this point.
However, Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett says that he is optimistic that Giovanni is still alive. He also announced that lab results from the bloody mop are back but he couldn’t comment on the results at this time.