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‘Cannibal Cop’ expected to be freed if conviction is overturned
New York Post ^ | July 1, 2014 | Joe Tacopino

Posted on 07/01/2014 3:17:08 AM PDT by conservative98

In a stunning reversal, infamous Cannibal Cop Gilberto Valle will likely have his conviction for a bizarre kidnapping conspiracy scheme overturned on Tuesday after a judge decided to revoke the guilty verdict in the flesh-eating fetish plot, a source said.

The disgraced NYPD veteran, who was convicted of hatching a “heinous” plan to cook, kill, and eat several women — including his own wife — was facing life in prison for the crime.

But Valle will likely have the major charge of conspiracy overturned and the sentence vacated with only a misdemeanor charge of using police computers to track down women, The Post has learned.

The misdemeanor charge would leave Valle with only up to a year in jail — which he has already served.

Valle, 28, had compiled a list of women and used the NYPD’s federal database to collect information on them.

Prosecutors said he planned to kidnap three women during the week of Feb. 20, 2012.

A document found on his wife Kathleen’s laptop at their Forest Hills, Queens, apartment was titled “Abducting and Cooking Kimberly — A Blueprint.”

The same document included the “materials” one would need, and included a gag, rope, chloroform and a tarp for a car trunk.

He also professed a desire to become a “professional kidnapper” and revel in the suffering of his victims as they were roasted alive.

His lawyers have argued that the jury couldn’t differentiate between Valle’s sick fantasies and actually plotting to act them out.

“Obviously, the case involved thoughts that were unusual and bizarre and, frankly, very ugly, and we think that the jury just couldn’t get past that and they never got to the law,” his lawyer, Julia Gatto, said after the verdict in March 2013.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: canibal; cannibal; cop; gilbertovalle; internet; newyork; ny; nypd; police

1 posted on 07/01/2014 3:17:09 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

He will be released, change his location and his name, and start his new career. This guy is truly dangerous.


2 posted on 07/01/2014 3:23:10 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: conservative98

Any judge who releases him should have him live next door to one one of his daughters. I mean, since it’s just a fantasy. What could go wrong?


3 posted on 07/01/2014 3:35:12 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: conservative98

Its an all around tragic story, with a Humpty Dumpty ending.How do you come back from being removed from the police force due to your Cannibal Fantasy life on the net? I don’t understand why his guilty plea has been disregared. I don’t expect he will get joint custody of his children, but in todays world, I would not bet even on that.


4 posted on 07/01/2014 4:00:36 AM PDT by lee martell
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It is NYC after all, the font of all civil rights and nurturing home of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Even she might have some trouble with Cannibal Cop because he did not include any men in his “fantasies”.


5 posted on 07/01/2014 4:13:57 AM PDT by BilLies ( it isn't the color of the skin, but culture that is embraced that degrades.)
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To: conservative98
Note to Valle:

The judge's daughter looks delicious.

6 posted on 07/01/2014 4:14:26 AM PDT by nonliberal (Sent from a payphone in a whorehouse in Mexico.)
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A liberals point of view... This poor soul is just misunderstood, he wouldn’t really have done it, well maybe he might have done it. (sarc)


7 posted on 07/01/2014 4:52:08 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: conservative98

So when will the NYPD be reinstating him?


8 posted on 07/01/2014 4:53:29 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: conservative98
Valle, 28, had compiled a list of women and used the NYPD’s federal database to collect information on them..

Setting aside this a--hole's sick fantasies, this was a serious violation of the public trust. I think it should be a felony (10-20 years in prison)for a law enforcement official to use a government databases for personal use.

9 posted on 07/01/2014 4:58:21 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: conservative98

So we put another crazy back on the street and we will act totally surprised when he acts. And, if he kills his next meal with a gun, we will blame the gun culture for it.


10 posted on 07/01/2014 5:59:36 AM PDT by DeWalt (Times are more like they used to be than they are today.)
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To: PapaBear3625

If the conviction is overturned, he should be held indefinitely in a mental institution, never to be allowed out in public.


11 posted on 07/01/2014 6:52:13 AM PDT by Glennb51
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To: conservative98

You have to admit, with a completely new plot of course, a horror movie titled “Cannibal Cops” would likely have a pretty good box office.

Start with some rural town in the South, where the police arrest people on minor charges, then pass them on to a BBQ restaurant operated by retired cops. Then word gets out to the other local police, Sheriff’s departments and state police that it is the *best* BBQ ever.

I think a good gimmick for the movie is that their victims are unsympathetic, like PETA agitators, whiny hippies, lawyers, etc.


12 posted on 07/01/2014 7:27:33 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: conservative98
The same document included the “materials” one would need, and included a gag, rope, chloroform and a tarp for a car trunk

Big flaw in his plan, the chloroform would make the meat taste funny.

13 posted on 07/01/2014 7:49:05 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (1 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. Psalm 50 v 10)
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