[kinoxi]

I'd like to hear how much this charade actually cost them.

[taxesareforever]

Owens in 1999, his first year in office, was critical of JonBenet’s parents, John and Patsy Ramsey.

As well as everyone should be.

[Prince Charles]

The sewer rats in the media really went into the crapper this time, when they turned this freak into a rock star.

[Paleo Conservative]

Of course this is also the county in which Ward Churchill is employed. Coincidence? I think not.

[SR 50]

Total incompetence, there are probably other cases, over the past 10 years, that should be reopened for another look.

[vox humana]

District Attorney Mary Lacy should be sent to jail for gross misappropriation of public funds. Willfully creating and financing a media circus based on no evidence should be against the law.

[demlosers]

What the Boulder DA should've done was get someone from the Medical Examiner's office to fly to Thailand for a cheek swab and then fly it back here for the DNA comparison. Instead, the knuckleheads spent...how much more?

[DeaconRed]

TO Has his own problems! ! !

[maggief]

DA Mary Lacy doesn't hold a candle to Nifong. (At least she dropped the charges after DNA results came back negative.)


http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/448224.html


Published: Jun 08, 2006 12:30 AM


DURHAM - One set of DNA testing in the Duke University lacrosse case cost $22,850, according to an invoice submitted to the District Attorney's Office by DNA Security Inc., a Burlington company.

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[PLMerite]

I dunno. You've got a guy claiming to have "been there," with enough weird evidence to make him a candidate for a DNA test. And if it does come back positive you'd want him to be close at hand, and not take the chance that something happens to him in Thailand.

I'd write it off to 'erring on the side of caution.'

[elli1]

Until now, Owens has been mostly silent on the news that Boulder County was tracking down leads on Karr.

Maybe because Bill Ownens (and entourage) was in Jordan when the news first broke & got left out of that news cycle? Maybe he's wishing he had gone to Thailand instead?

August 17, 2006 - Gov. Bill Owens today issued the following statement regarding developments in the JonBenet Ramsey case.

"The arrest of a suspect is a very important step. Hopefully it will lead to closure for all of those who are victims in this horrible tragedy. Like so many others who have been following this case for nearly a decade, I will be closely watching the legal process as it unfolds."

(Owens is in Jordan with Maj. Gen. Mason C. Whitney, Adjutant General of the Colorado National Guard, participating in an official visit to strengthen the United States- Jordanian defense partnership. This is a reciprocal visit to that country after a trip made to Colorado by Jordanian officials earlier this year.)

Owens' Statement (from Jordan) Regarding Arrest in Ramsey Case

Owens will spend Aug. 15-17 in Jordan. Going with him will be Maj. Gen. Mason Whitney, the adjutant general of the Colorado National Guard; Bob Lee, the governor's chief of staff; Brian Vogt, the director of the Colorado Office of Economic Development & International Trade; and Drew Bolin, director of the Colorado Office of Energy Management and Conservation.

Owens (and entourage) to Visit Jordan

[DustyMoment]

"I find it incredible that Boulder authorities wasted thousands of taxpayer dollars to bring Karr to Colorado given such a lack of evidence."

Why, Gov? The Boulder PD and the DA have bungled this investigation from the get-go - why is this latest example of their incompetence so surprising? I think someone needs a reality check about the police and prosecutorial wings in his own state.