Yesterday a hearing was scheduled for all of the suspects in the Dunbar Village gang rape. Except one of them refused to leave his jail cell. That one of them would be Tommie Lee Poindexter.
“It’s not an invitation. It’s a directive,” said Circuit Judge Sandra McSorley. “Mr. Poindexter is not at liberty to decline.”
McSorley then authorized the sheriff to use “reasonable” means to bring him over.
How cool would it have been if the judge actually used the air quotes when she said “reasonable”?
I haven’t seen any follow-ups to see if or how Poindexter was brought to court.
The lawyer for accused killer and mutilator Jonathan Zarate wants the trial moved out of Morris County. Defense lawyer, and another comedian, Richard S. Mazawey, wants the trial move because of alleged anti-Hispanic sentiment in the county along with pre-trial publicity.
I wouldn’t call it anti-Hispanic sentiment. I’d call it anti-scumbag who killed 16-year-old Jennifer Parks, dismembered her body and tried to dump it in the Passaic River sentiment.
Just another act of desperation and another delay from another lawyer who knows that Zarate is a lost cause.
It’s been 3-years already since Jennifer’s death. Justice has long been overdue.
The world’s oldest mutant, 33-year-old Lee Billi of Ohio, is allegedly having defendant competency issues. That means that Billi may not be ruled mentally competent enough to help his own defense.
If you’ll recall Billi was involved in an interstate plot to commit school shootings with an Indiana teen at Penn High School. When investigators combed through his computer they also found an alleged cache of child porn.
If he’s mentally incompetent than lock him in a cell and tell him it’s camp.
Talk about dropping the other shoe. For months we heard nothing about NIU gunman Stephen Kazmierczak or what his motive was. Now Esquire magazine is saying something that should not surprise me in the least but yet it does.
I originally thought that Kazmierczak was just a victim of an undiagnosed mental problem but as it turns out he was something much more familiar.
According to Esquire Magazine while Kazmierczak did suffer from mental illness it also turns out that he was nothing more than a copycat of Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui.
The story includes Kazmierczak’s fascination, chilling in retrospect, with Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech student who shot and killed 32 people before killing himself in April 2007.
“He was interested in what was going on in the mind of Cho, and why it was so successful, and how someone could do it, how they could pull it off,”‘ reporter David Vann writes, quoting a friend he identifies only as Kevin.
And his mental health history wasn’t exactly unknown either. Kazmierczak was drummed out of the Army after they discovered that he lied on his application about mental history. He held back about his history of suicide attempts, psychotic episodes, and hallucinations.
Just further proof that as a society we’re more concerned with the rights of the dangerously crazy than we are with the welfare of others.
The Mother of Dillon Cossey, Michele Cossey and the woman who supplied him with the guns, has been court ordered to undergo a psych eval. Michele Cossey’s attorney declined to say the reason he requested the evaluation. The prosecutors did not object to the defense’s request.
Personally, I don’t think she’s crazy, she’s just a bad parent.
The suspect in the plot to attack Newington High School in Connecticut was sentenced yesterday. Frank Fechteler was given a sentence of 12 years behind bars that will be suspended after 3 and 5 years probation.
The article goes into detail about how Fechteler and his attorney talk about how it was “the old Frank” that was capable of crimes like this but “the new Frank” is much different. On the stand Fechteler even said he’ll never commit another crime again.
That kind of reminds me about the movie Strangeland when Dee Snider’s character claims that he’s been rehabilitated only to kill again.
New Frank and old Frank are the same Frank in my opinion.
If you’ve been following my sites for some time you may remember a story I posted here about a couple of so-called parents who left their baby in his car seat in his crib for eight days and starved him to death. If I remember correctly the young ‘parents’ were too busy playing video games to feed their own child. After eight days the baby starved to death.
Originally prosecutors stated that they were going to seek the death penalty for 21-year-old Tracy Hermann and 23-year-old James Sargent.
Unfortunately, that has not come to be and more than likely will not happen.
Peoria County State’s Attorney Kevin Lyons said too many pitfalls exist to make the death penalty a realistic option, including Tracy Hermann and James Sargent’s mental health issues and the fact that they are blaming each other for the boy’s death.
‘Instead, I’ll seek to make them live in the general populations of the Stateville, Pontiac and Menard prisons, each day, every day,’ Lyons said.
‘When it is all over, I expect their names and their existence here to be forgotten while they are shuffled off to prison … to remain forgotten, unimportant, and away from the free world that they so (selfishly) took from the baby they decided to make … and then leave to literally cry itself to death.’
That’s my kind of prosecutor.
Sargent is said to be using a mental history defense while Hermann claims ‘she was simply not interested in parenting.’
Maybe they should have thought of that before these to dirtbags decided to do the horizontal hokey pokey. Not only that but there’s this thing called giving a baby up for adoption. Maybe you should have looked into that.
15-year-old Brent Clark was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison with 9 months served for plotting to hold his class at Powell Junior High hostage and holding a girl at knifepoint.
On March 23, 2007, the Powell Junior High School student packed his backpack with a gun, 3 knives, and latex gloves with the apparent intent to hold his classroom hostage and be killed by police, referred to as “suicide by cop.”
Clark was originally charged with terrorism which could have kept him in prison for 40 years. The plea dropped that charge. Clark’s mother feels they were blackmailed into the plea.
“We were being blackmailed,” said Donette Reid, Clark’s mom. “That terrorism charge was blackmail.”
His mom fears that his childhood is gone and his experience in prison will take his adulthood too.
“My heart is broken.” she said through tears. “They just took my heart.”
I think his childhood was gone the moment he held that girl at knifepoint. I’m sure we’ll be hearing from Ms. Reid shortly.
17-year-old Michael McDonough, he of the Fry Cook Plot against Connetquot High School in Long Island, has pleaded guilty to charges of first-degree reckless endangerment and fourth-degree conspiracy.
Under the plea, McDonough avoids jail time but must remain on probation for 5 years. If he violates his probation the judge has threatened to send him to an upstate New York prison, you know, like Attica or Sing Sing.
McDonough apologized in court and prosecutors seem to be happy with his progress since his arrest.
