it should be convicted of a HATE CRIME!!!
Posted on 08/18/2004 6:11:37 PM PDT by MikalM
A Claremont McKenna College psychology professor was convicted Wednesday of falsely reporting her car was vandalized and spray-painted with racist and anti-Semitic slurs while she was speaking at a campus forum on racial tolerance.
Kerri Dunn, 39, of Redlands was convicted of one misdemeanor count of filing a false police report and two felony counts of attempted insurance fraud. She faces up to 31/2 years in prison when she is sentenced Sept. 17.
Her attorney, Gary S. Lincenberg, issued a statement saying Dunn would appeal the attempted insurance fraud convictions.
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"Her attorney, Gary S. Lincenberg, issued a statement saying Dunn would appeal the attempted insurance fraud convictions."
She wanted defraud people emotionally but wasnt in it for the money.
I knew a Kerry Dunn, but he was a man.
What a joke. I remember all those students being hoodwinked and walking out of class to have a four campus love in.
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Wasn't Al Sharpton her lawyer? Brings recollections of a case he was involved with.
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Lovely town! I don't know what to think of this case. Did she admit to the crime? There is supposedly an eye witness to the crime. Did she then pay someone to spray paint her car for her, since it happend while she was speaking at an event?
"As for the false police report conviction, a Claremont College electrician identified a man who should have been the primary suspect, Lincenberg said."
I do hope that this is the same punishment that the alleged "Perps" would have received had there actually been Perps to catch.
Good question. If it was a real hate crime, what would the punishment have been, anybody know?
People don't seem to understand that you can only appeal based on facts of Law (usually evidence allowed/disallowed). An appeal is NOT another shot at the decision.
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I lived in Claremont for 8 happy years (though I was greatly outnumbered by liberals). The likelihood of any kind of hate crime happening there is slim to none. But among the faculty there, the likelihood of something bizarre like this is pretty high.
Hey Professor B'atch, it's alright to be White in America. Put her ass in solitude for a decade and throw in some sensitivity training.Bush/Cheney 2004
I remember the articles about it on FR when it happened. Let her do the time. She did it, admitted doing it. What an a-hole. So many "hate" crimes are self-perpetrated. There was a whole slew of fake ones in Oregon some years ago.
Well, she can conduct anti-hate seminars in prison. Maybe Martha will attend. Hopefully, Hillary too.
it should be convicted of a HATE CRIME!!!
This woman should be locked away for at least a year for what she did, and for longer if she had actually filed claims with the insurance company. She should also have to pay restitution for police work and the cost of one day's tuition to every student that had their coursework shortened by one day for her bull$hit rally.
31 years is clearly too harsh, though I wouldn't shed a tear if she got that sentence, cause it would save two generations of students from having to endure her.
Two credible witnesses saw her flatten her own tires in the parking lot. The police and insurance company found holes in her story. She has a history of shoplifting, false accusation, impersonation, perjury, self-mutilation for gain.
Hopefully, her priors will be factored in at sentencing. Any judge in his right mind can see this woman has not learned her lesson from previous arrests.
I guess she will continue to stir up campuses .
When the article said "31/2 years", I think it's a poorly-rendered attempt at writing "three and a half years".
NO -- SHE spray-painted her own car. Two students watched her and reported it. It may have been caught on tape as well. hahahahaha.
Sounds like her real problem is being a compulsive drama-queen.
Awesome, a possible 3 1/2 years.
I gotta wonder what the loon wll actually get though..
My bet is that she'll get off with probation, then be rehired to her old job.
Like any other self-respecting Democrat she was just milking the system to keep herself employed.
Without hate, she is nothing. So she does what she can to perpetuate it.
"Lyin',.. cheatin',.. hurtin',.. that's all you ever done...!"
FMCDH(BITS)
Probation, a small fine, and community service.
I mean, assuming the judge is a scumbag, too.
None of the drama queens I've known were habitual law breakers, although I'm sure there are plenty Kerri Dunns walking around. Whatever the court winds up doing with her, this convicted felon needs to be escorted out of the legal profession in a hurry.
It amazes me what those Claremont students choose to go to pieces over. Virtually every day in Los Angeles there are kids getting shot in drivebys, women getting stalked and raped, men being stabbed and shot, and all sorts of people getting crushed and mangled in car crashes. But what makes Claremont college students break down and wail is the sight of a spray-painted epithet on a beat up old Honda! I think the curriculum committee there ought to thinking about toughening up the courses at Claremont. These kids obviously have too much time on their hands.
You can't see it right now, but I'm doing a little dance right now. :-)
#34 - June 15, 2004 file photo
I put in three at Mudd and concur. Anybody who thinks that the five colleges constitute a conservative campus is smoking something.
Another one for the files
To Students, Faculty, and Staff from President Pamela Gann:
According to media reports, former assistant visiting professor Kerri Dunn has been found guilty of attempted insurance fraud and filing a false police report in the March 9 vandalism of her car. These events were damaging to the College and to the Claremont community. We are grateful to have a resolution through a court proceeding.
Sincerely,
Pamela Gann
she has a prior...which the school didnt know about when they hired her...I believe it was shoplifting back east.
On Dec. 31, 1999, police in Lincoln arrested her for shoplifting after she had stuffed a pink sweater in her purse while in the dressing room of a clothing store, the newspaper reported. Charges against her were dismissed after she paid court costs, McQuinn said.
Less than a year later, on Sept. 29, 2000, she was again arrested and charged for shoplifting for items including jewelry and shoes. A police report described her as "belligerent and uncooperative", and she failed to appear in court for the violations, according to the Times.
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A friend of Dunn's told the Times the shoplifting was only youthful high jinks. "She'd been a student - sometimes students do goofy things," said Pam Manske.
Gotta love that "Youthful high jinks" line... She's 39 right now. :-)
http://thedavidlawrenceshow.com/001811.html
Dunn had history of crying wolf DA says
Claremont's favorite psychology professor, Kerri Dunn's, trial started yesterday with a bombshell. An enterprising Daily Bulletin courts reporter overheard Dunn's lawyer arguing with the judge that Dunn's prior allegations of false abuse should be kept from the jury:
Dunn may be confronted during her trial with a 4-year- old allegation that she once faked injuries to herself and then blamed them on police during a shoplifting arrest in Nebraska, a judge ruled Thursday.
Prosecutors may also try to impeach her testimony by questioning her about a shoplifting conviction, as well as allegations that she once posed as a nurse to obtain prescription drugs from a pharmacy.
The judge refused to close the courtroom for a hearing on the motion. And portions of the attorney's arguments were already under way Thursday morning before Dunn's attorneys realized a newspaper reporter was watching from the courtroom gallery.
Chief among the alleged prior acts discussed were allegations from 2000, when Dunn was arrested in Nebraska on suspicion of shoplifting.
According to discussions in open court, the woman claimed an officer roughed her up. However, a witness later reported seeing her inflict bruises upon her own arm and tearing the buttons of her own shirt, Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Martin Bean told the judge.
Dunn's case is going further and further down the hole. Last week an appeals court squashed an emergency appeal over the insurance fraud charges. Yesterday the judge allowed the DA to bring up Dunn's prior acts during cross examination. Since Dunn's case, I presume using my Law & Order watching skills, revolves around her own testimony (to dispute the 2 witnesses), this new turn of event will make it even more difficult for Dunn to prove her innocence.
The worst example of this sort of phony, no-risk public righteousness I ever saw was a few years back in Berkeley. The owner of Cody's Books, a landmark bookstore right down the street from the infamous Peoples' Park, found that someone had carved what looked like a one-inch-square swastika in the display window. This led to a huge scare about neo-Nazis being on the rampage in Berserkely, which culminated in a rally in front of the store, where various Baby Boomer limousine-liberals and similarly privileged pukes loudly and publicly congratulated themselves for having the guts to stand up to HATE in the midst of America's most left-wing city.
As it turned out, on a close inspection the "swastika" actually turned out to be a "No Nazis" symbol that had been cut into the glass by some bored "peace punks" bumming change in front of the store. And if you think that the Cody's owner, or any of the professional indignants involved in this non-issue voiced even the faintest mea culpae when this was revealed, you have much to learn about the character and moral/intellectual honesty of American leftist hysterics.
Notice the titles: why did they omit the word "hate"? PC alert!
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&ie=UTF-8&q=kerri+dunn&scoring=d
She has the Map of Ireland written on her face. She's not a credit to the sons and daughters or Eire
Wait. I thought Harvey Mudd is the no-nonsense, technical-science-math exception to the liberal arts liberalism of the rest of the Claremont cluster. ?
Looks like she decided not to wear her Dasheeki-cum-Indian-bedspread to court. Good move but it didn't save her.
And they were damaging not just because of Dunn's criminal behavior, but because the college and the community actively encourage the politically correctness that triggers massive over-reactions to vandalized vehicles. If you like exercises in futility, try to get them to see this.
It's also been reported that she impersonated a nurse in order to get her paws on prescription drugs. She got caught on that one, too, but again managed to do no time for it.
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