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Man sentenced to 88 years to life in murder of Santa Cruz shop owner
Santa Cruz Sentinel ^ | 03/25/15 | Stephen Baxter

Posted on 03/25/2015 7:26:10 PM PDT by artichokegrower

Nearly three years since 38-year-old shop owner Shannon Collins was stabbed to death on her way to a hair appointment in Santa Cruz, her killer was sentenced on Wednesday to 88 years to life in prison.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: murder; santacruz
Angered, Edwards also contended that he didn’t get a fair trial because he is black and Santa Cruz is “all white.”


Oh cry me a river

1 posted on 03/25/2015 7:26:10 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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Anthony Robinson, Edwards’ primary attorney, said Edwards suffers from a “very serious mental illness” that causes him to “see reality in an alternate way.”

Robinson acknowledged in court that Edwards was released from a state mental hospital because of a clerical error in January 2012, about five months before the murder. Edwards record includes convictions of burglary, drug use, assaulting his mother, battering an 89-year-old man and resisting an officer with threats or violence, according to court records.

Or, a prompt death penalty would fix him up real good too.

2 posted on 03/25/2015 7:30:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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3 posted on 03/25/2015 7:33:51 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: scripter

Santa Cruz ping...


4 posted on 03/25/2015 7:35:13 PM PDT by latina4dubya (wheni have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: artichokegrower

Life in prison? How many millions will this cost the state? And how long before they accidentally let him out again?

Gov. Moonbeam must be smiling.


5 posted on 03/25/2015 7:40:48 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: gaijin

Just think the last thing that poor woman saw on this earth was that creature.


6 posted on 03/25/2015 7:41:15 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: gaijin

ooooh, crazy eyes.


7 posted on 03/25/2015 7:46:08 PM PDT by Boowhoknew
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

It was a very brutal murder. He butchered her with a knife. ISIS would have been proud.


8 posted on 03/25/2015 7:46:35 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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They should be snuffin’ Mr. Nuffin...


9 posted on 03/25/2015 7:51:08 PM PDT by kiryandil (making the jests that some FReepers aren't allowed to...)
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To: artichokegrower

Shannon Collins

10 posted on 03/25/2015 7:55:21 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: gaijin

wow!


11 posted on 03/25/2015 8:10:23 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: BenLurkin

I guess he’s just too crazy to pick on some one is own size.


12 posted on 03/25/2015 8:59:49 PM PDT by jocon307 (Tell it like it is.)
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13 posted on 03/25/2015 9:45:54 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: artichokegrower

Oh, goody. Now he can become the homo he always wanted to be.


14 posted on 03/25/2015 10:10:14 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: artichokegrower

It’s also full of the most sympathetic people anywhere.

88 years seems awfully short, even though you got life.


15 posted on 03/25/2015 11:13:16 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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