Guilty.
Posted on 11/06/2009 7:01:12 PM PST by NormsRevenge
HACKENSACK, N.J. – A jury convicted a Florida man Friday of murdering his former son-in-law, rejecting the man's defense that he was too fat to have run up and down a flight of stairs to commit the crime and make a quick getaway.
Edward Ates looked down and shook his head in court as he was found guilty of murder and weapons counts for killing Paul Duncsak, who was shot six times at his home in Ramsey, about 25 miles northwest of New York.
Ates' "too fat to kill" defense provided an angle to the trial that attracted attention from the news media but didn't sway the jury of eight women and four men, who reached a verdict on their second day of deliberations after a six-week trial.
Some of Duncsak's family members cried softly after the verdict was read. Ate's wife, Dottie, sobbed in the gallery as he was handcuffed and led away by court deputies.
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Now he will be fodder for prison “chubby chasers”.
He holds a similar view as the soon-to-be former Gov of NJ does about fat people, ie, fat people cannot run. Literally or figuratively.
Maybe he can lose some weight in jail eating all that green baloney and purple hotdogs.
Guilty.
Fat guy in a little coat!
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