US Supreme Court asked to review Black Panther death sentence:
Pennsylvania has asked the US Supreme court to review the decision that overturned the death sentence of convicted cop killing scumbag Mumia Abu Jamal.
Recently Jamal’s request for a new trial was rejected.
Since he was convicted back in the early ’80s if his death sentence is reinstated can they use the method of execution from the early ’80s? Lethal injection is way too humane for this scumbag.
As flu season approaches, many New Jersey parents are furious over a first-in-the-nation requirement that children get a flu shot in order to attend preschools and day-care centers. The decision should be the parents’, not the state’s, they contend.
“This is not an anti-vaccine rally — it’s a freedom of choice rally,” said one of the organizers, Louise Habakus. “This one-size-fits-all approach is really very anti-American.”
Yet check out the sign…
This wasn’t a freedom of choice rally, it was a junk science rally. I applaud New Jersey for trying to prevent a pandemic. Personally, if I ran a daycare I’d say no vaccine no daycare.
Trying Caylee’s mom harder without a body:
I know I said I wouldn’t post about Casey Anthony anymore but this is an issue that drives me insane.
I can’t stand it when everyone and their grandmother claims that you can’t convict without a body. While risky it’s not impossible and more common than you think.
Off the top of my head, I can name two cases where people were convicted without a body. The first is Tom Capano. The body of Ann Marie Fahey was never found. The second one that comes to recent memory was that of Hans Reiser. All of his supporters claimed that you can’t convict without the body of his wife Nina. After he was convicted he led police to his wife’s body.
There’s another case that the names of those involved escape me at this time but basically a guy from New Orleans went around bragging about killing a girl who no one even knew existed. Prosecutors in N.O. were able to convict him as well.
I think the Caylee Anthony disappearance fits very well next to those other cases. The only thing that will free Casey Anthony is if Caylee shows up alive and well. I think the odds of that happening are slim and none and slim just left.
$1.5 million settlement reached in Red Lake shootings:
The settlement that the families of Red Lake victims reached with MacNeil Environmental has been made public.
The families agreed to a $1.5M settlement that will be divided among 21 families. A judge will determine how the money is split between the families.
Teen Accused of Possessing Bomb Materials Faces Federal Charges:
Our favorite would be presidential assassin is back in the news. 18-year-old Colin McKenzie-Gude was indicted on federal charges this past Friday.
If you’ll recall not only was he found to be in possession of illegal firearms and explosives but he was also found with addresses to teachers’ houses of his former high school, a map that the president’s motorcade takes to Camp David, and forged documents that showed McKenzie-Gude as a government agent.
McKenzie-Gude’s lawyer is trying to make the other teen that was arrested the scapegoat by alleging that it was the other teen that purchased the guns with his mother’s credit card. That doesn’t change the fact that McKenzie-Gude was in possession of them and all the other items.
Are they trying for the ‘he was holding it for a friend’ defense?
Alleged Shooter Enters Plea Out On Unrelated Charges:
I don’t know why the headline calls him an alleged shooter. He was convicted of the crime after all.
Anyway, Jonesboro gunman Mitchell Johnson pleaded guilty to the felony theft and fraud charges. He stole an ATM card from one of his customers at his job at the local Gas ‘n Gulp.
Johnson is looking at 30-years in addition to the four years he was sentenced to on federal weapons charges.
Settlement in Red Lake school shooting:
The families of the victims of the Red Lake shooting have settled their lawsuit with MacNeil Environmental. MacNeil is a security consulting firm that provided Red Lake High with a contingency plan in case of a school shooting. Obviously, it failed.
The terms of the settlement were not disclosed but both sides are saying that MacNeil admitted no liability. Of course, they wouldn’t. Did anyone expect them to say ‘our bad’?
Personally, I don’t think you can have a contingency plan for a school shooting because the acts are so random.
US Supreme Court rejects new trial for former Black Panther:
Yesterday the US Supreme Court refused to hear arguments for a new trial for convicted cop killing scumbag Wesley Cook. Some of you may know him better by his made-up name Mumia Abu Jamal.
Now if only they’d reinstate his death sentence like the death sentence he gave Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.
Don’t believe all the crap about Jamal’s trial being racist. If you read what really happened you’ll realize that Jamal made a mockery out of his own trial.
Ed Asner and Mike Farrell must be crying in their lattes today.
Inmates: Accused killer asked how to fake insanity:
According to letters from inmates in the Passaic County Jail accused killer Jonathan Zarate asked them how to fake an insanity plea. These letters were sent to the then Morris County prosecutor in 2007. The letters also said that Zarate bragged about how he was going to beat the murder charge against him by using an insanity defense. One of the inmates he was asking how to be ‘insane’ was a doctor.
Zarate’s attorney is trying to prevent the inmates from testifying. He’s still trying for the diminished capacity defense even though this happened…
When questioned, Jonathan Zarate first told police he was dumping garbage in the Passaic River and volunteered to put it back in their Jeep and leave, according to testimony. After admitting Parks’ body was in the trunk, he claimed he “found her like that” when he went outside his home to meet her. When told that explanation was laughable, Zarate confessed, court papers said.
Again, Zarate and his brother brutally killed Jennifer Parks, dismembered her body, hid it for 24 hours, then tried dumping her body in the Passaic River. Doesn’t sound like diminished capacity to me.
3+ years and still no trial.
Teen Pleads Not Guilty in Murder of Gay Classmate:
Yesterday 14-year-old Brandon McInerney pleaded not guilty to the shooting death of Lawrence King. As discussed previously King was an openly gay student who was bullied by McInerney and to defend himself King would mockingly flirt with him. McInerney didn’t take kindly to this and shot and killed King in front of a bunch of witnesses at E.O. Green Junior High. Yet he pleads not guilty.
McInerney has been charged as an adult on first-degree murder charges with a hate crime sentencing enhancement. That means that he’s looking at 51 to life behind bars with no possibility for parole.
His attorney is calling that a death sentence…
“This is essentially a death sentence for Brandon McInerney,” said Quest, who is asking that the boy be tried on a lesser charge of manslaughter. “That is the only way Brandon does not die in prison.”
But it’s ok for Lawrence King to die in school? Manslaughter usually denotes a ‘spur of the moment’ killing if you will. This was no spur of the moment. This was obviously premeditated. If your client didn’t want a ‘death sentence’ he shouldn’t have killed Lawrence King.
On the other side of the fence, we have a quote from Lawrence King’s father that makes my blood boil…
King’s parents say they support the adult charge.
“He went into a classroom in front of other students and shot my son in the back of the head twice,” father Greg King said. “For is age to be taken into consideration – he didn’t take my son’s age into consideration.”
While I agree with what he’s saying you have to remember that the family kicked Lawrence King out of the house for being gay and are now trying to cash in by suing the school for not preventing the shooting.
Maybe if you let Lawrence live at home like a family is supposed to none of this would have happened.