Guilty.
But is she guilty?
Posted on 08/05/2008 11:25:17 PM PDT by Impy
PLYMOUTH -- For 15 years, Kylleen Hargrave-Thomas told anyone who would listen that she was innocent of murdering her ex-boyfriend.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm finally listened.
Hargrave-Thomas, 56, who served nearly 11 years for the murder of her ex-boyfriend, is scheduled to be released from the Scott Correctional Facility in Plymouth on Sept. 2, after Granholm commuted her first-degree murder sentence July 24. The decision was announced Tuesday.
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"This is very good news," said Hargrave-Thomas' son, Nevill Hargrave-Thomas, 32, of Wixom. "We're very happy."
Others contend Granholm bowed to advocacy groups after refusing to give the woman clemency in 2005.
Hargrave-Thomas' defenders say Joseph Bernal had a drinking problem and perhaps enemies, but offered no theory about who stabbed him in the heart in 1991 and torched his Westland home.
"She did it," said Susan Bernal, his ex-wife. "She did this crime."
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Guilty.
But is she guilty?
She just loved him to death.
And people wonder why we are skeptical of life without parole as an effective alternative to the death penalty. If life without parole really meant that, some might not oppose abolishing the death penalty but the sentence is a joke in many cases.
Hey guys, of you live in Michigan, don’t piss off the little woman.
They’re handing out Get Out Of Jail Free Cards there.
Guilty and Guilty!!!!
This is NOT the kind of case to merit a commuted sentence. There does not seem to be any good reason to believe she did not do the deed.
So, let's say you give up the death penalty.
Then, you catch a perp who won't talk. You bargain with him, bargaining away life-without-parole (since you can't bargain away the death penalty).
Then you go to trial and fight to get a stiff sentence, if you're lucky.
...all for what should have been a death penalty case.
And that's all before you get a lib governor who sets the murderer free.
I wouldn’t have convicted on that.
Then again, the article is awfully biased. Who knows what the truth really is.
But I posted it to point out that there might be a legit reason for the commutation.
I wouldn’t have convicted on that either. Murder is a capital crime: I would want to be damn sure that person actually killed another.
I didn’t like the kind of person Scott Peterson was, either, but still felt there was insufficient evidence to convict. Particulary when bodies “washed up” on a beach after months of police authorities’ statements about which area of the Bay they believed he’d dumped the body of his pregnent wife. The baby was found with a string tied in a square knot around his neck and the police claimed it was done by accident.
It was "plastic tape" of the type that is quite common, and it was loosely around the head...not even twice around, just "once and a half"...and the knot was way over by Conner's shoulder...i.e., it wasn't taut and knotted around the baby's neck--it was debris that entangled around the body.
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Guilty.
Hmm.
Were you at the trial or in anyway involved?
What you said is not what I heard one of the forensic pathologists, who had examined the baby’s remains, publicly stated on Fox News.
Guilty, guilty.
Ol’Wart face strikes again.
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