Posted on 06/12/2009 9:29:18 AM PDT by raccoonradio
BOSTON (WBZ) ―
After five days of deliberations, a jury has found the man known as Clark Rockefeller guilty of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter in Boston last July.
The jury of eight women and four men read its verdict just before noon on Friday.
Some entrepreneur is selling bathroom tiles with “Clark”’s
picture on them... eww.
>>Prosecutors say he planned the kidnapping for months after losing custody of his daughter to his ex-wife in their divorce. Sentencing for Rockefeller is scheduled for 2 p.m. He faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison for the kidnapping charge and a maximum of 10 years in prison for the assault charge.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1177425
As the case of the accused kidnapper who calls himself Clark Rockefeller goes to the jury today, a Florida bathroom tile designer is hoping the fabulist dad’s sad-sack mug will be his royal flush.
“In celebration of the capture of one of the most diabolical and evil minds of all time,” Kosmas Ballis, 36, of Fort Myers, is selling the “Official Clark Rockefeller Ceramic Bathroom Tile” on eBay for $19.99 each through June 25.
(limited edition of 1000)
currently running impact statements, sentencing (sound works on Int Expl. but maybe not on Firefox?)
http://www3.whdh.com/video/mi_live_2.php
Boston Herald
The crafty con man known as Clark Rockefeller has been found guilty of kidnapping his daughter off a Back Bay street last summer, but a jury found him innocent today of falsely using the blue-blood name he borrowed as part of a high-society ruse.
Jurors, who deliberated for five days, found him not guilty of assault and battery and not guilty of using a false name.
They did find him guilty of custodial kidnapping and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon - the car used in the kidnapping escape. He faces a maximum of about 15 years in jail. He will be sentenced today at 2 p.m.
Rockefeller, born Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, only blinked and slightly bowed his head when the first “guilty” verdict for kidnapping his girl was announced.
update from Ch 4 Boston:
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Rockefeller’s sentencing hearing happened at 2 p.m. Graziano sentenced Rockefeller to four to five years in a state prison for the kidnapping and two three years for the assault and battery charge.
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