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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Whoa.
Can you talk about it now, then?
I think so. But there’s some typos on the court’s entries today, and I’m only so sure it is entered correctly.
But I’m pretty sure.
Whoa!! Can't wait to hear about that one!
Joseph’s set up was pretty cool looking! We had all of our trick or treaters before 7:30, unless we get some older youts later. He just went out to do some trick or treating himself along the street.
Is that how you would have voted you think?
Can you find anything in the Tribune?
No later than 12:45!!! (Emphasis aimed at myself ...!)
I hope to get 2-3 pages done, and be well into the kidnapping. I've decided that my heroine got kidnapped along with the rich kid; this will allow the hero to meet her sooner, and in a highly-charged atmosphere that is conducive to falling in love at first sight.
It is a romance novel, y'know ...
It was quite a case, and it was the second trial for this guy. The crime was in November 2002, and the first trial was in July of 2003. The case was appealed and went eventually all the way to the state supreme court, where it was reversed in 2006 and remanded back for a new trial. Which was this one.
I’ve now read the supreme court opinion... and it was a pretty lame reversal. The testimony and evidence that was suppressed for our trial was pretty minor stuff.
The guy is a real dirtbag.
Short version: Killed his wife with dozens of blows with a fireplace poker, massive head trauma. Blood everywhere. Bundled her up with duct tape and plastic and a sleeping bag, stuffed her in his big blue recycle bin and took her up on some forest service roads and dumped it out on the side of the road.
Not too smart, this one. The recycle bin of course has a serial number that belongs to his address, and it’s big and bright blue and stands out like a beacon off the side of a road like that. It was discovered by a hunter about four days later.
He tried to clean up the bedroom, but not enough to matter. He had scratches on him from fingernails and she had lots of his skin under her nails. Lots of odd behavior after she’s gone “missing”, shlepping around with women using the wife’s debit cards, later just runs off when her body was discovered.
He’s busted enroute to Oregon, has a headlight out, and with stolen plates on her Ford Explorer. Arrested.
There was a lot more to it, but that’s the short of it.
The pictures and the forensic testimony were horrible.
Yup. Beyond a doubt. Reasonable or otherwise.
Can't find anything in the paper.
Someone who does something like that deserves to fry.
Why on earth was the conviction reversed the first time?
Gak. Horrid case.
And one that should have been ‘technicality’-proof.
Will he fry now, sometime in the next decade?
But there is a good smooch (or "snog" as they say) at the end because, while it took her forever, she does fall in love with the MMC. She realizes that some things are more important than internship hours.
There was some extraneous testimony in the first trial about his drug use and partaking with hookers, and some hearsay from the victim that she was about to throw him out. Couple of other little things.
Seemed to me that it was all probitive and the reversal was really lame.
But we didn’t hear that stuff, and I didn’t need it to come to the same conclusion.
Beats me. I don’t even know what the first sentence was. New sentencing will be in about a month.
Its just a hunch but I don’t think its a capital case. Dunno.
Wow. That’s pretty brutal. Hopefully this time the conviction sticks.
Did they ever figure out why he did it?
I’m figuring he didn’t like her any more.
Well...yeah...
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