Posted on 01/05/2006 2:56:53 PM PST by Las Vegas Dave
< snip > A day after tearfully apologizing for murdering Louis Karamas Jr. and successfully begging a jury to spare his life, Jerome Carter clutched a Bible in one manacled hand and with the other, raised his middle finger at Karamas' sobbing parents and sister.
Defiant to the end on Wednesday, Carter taunted the Karamases, threatened a key state's witness and swore at the Cuyahoga County judge who imposed a sentence of life in prison without parole. < /snip >
< snip > Carter, 34, and two of the victim's former co-workers kidnapped Karamas in Akron and drove with him in his car's trunk to a desolate part of Cleveland. There, according to a co-defendant, Carter shot Karamas eight times. When Karamas survived, Carter muttered, "I can't believe he's still moving after I unloaded the clip into him."
Co-defendant Joseph J. Gray, 29, of Akron, then hammered Karamas to death. Gray pleaded guilty last month to the same charges on which Carter was convicted and is serving 40 years to life in prison.
The objective of the kidnapping and murder: robbing the 26-year-old victim of his new $500 set of chrome automobile wheels. < /snip >
(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...
Where's Judge Bean when we need him?
Does anyone think Tookie would have done any different?
You go, Judge Roy!!
"A day after tearfully apologizing for murdering Louis Karamas Jr. and successfully begging a jury to spare his life,"
This is why seeking penitence from criminals is such a bunch of hogwash. It's a game to them that too many judges and juries are more than willing to be taken in by.
they'll both end up in the same toasty place.
That's one stupid jury. They should have executed the worthless SOB...
I'm sure Ed Asner and Mike Farrell are happy he was spared the death penalty.
I say the judge has the right to re-evaluate the jury's recommendations for life without parole.
Pinging the NE Ohio list!
Eight of the 12 jurors returned voluntarily to the sentencing. At least one expressed second thoughts after seeing Carter's behavior.
"He's a sick, sick man," she was overheard whispering to another juror. "I wish we would have seen this part of him before."
I think, based on the part you've bolded, that you may be vastly under estimating how cool those rims look. I mean, $500, they probably still kept spinning at the stop lights and stuff. If you couple that with those lights that make the underside of the car glow and a bumpin' sound system, that's one mean ride.
Owl_Eagle(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
He's a sick, sick man for flipping them the bird & rolling his eyes, but not for the murder... geez people.
"He's a sick, sick man," she was overheard whispering to another juror. "I wish we would have seen this part of him before."
He brutally murdered a guy for some rims. What more do they want?
$500 for a set is not that impressive by todays standard.
Now if they were $500 a piece? They might be worth killing for in the Hood.
Death penalty needed here.
(I am reminded of the jury in the Menendex (sp?) brothers shotgun murder of their parents, "..but..but they don't have a mother and father anymore..!")
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
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