Posted on 02/17/2010 5:46:56 AM PST by outpostinmass2
Nobody needs another investigation into whether Amy Bishop killed her brother by accident or on purpose when she fired a shotgun into his chest on Dec. 6, 1986.
Bishop could have been tried, DA says Report: Bishop held shotgun on police after killing brother
The families of the three dead faculty members in Alabama will attest that its too late for that now.
What we need, though, immediately, is for the governor to appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate whether local and state authorities were corrupt or completely incompetent in the way they rushed to exonerate Bishop of criminal responsibility in the death of her 18-year-old brother, Seth.
In Massachusetts, the public has a right to believe that when a young man with a promising future dies from a gunshot, detectives will aggressively chase down every lead and analyze the death from every possible angle before they deem it to be accidental or criminal. In Huntsville, people at the University of Alabama have a right to know whether ineptitude or inaction in Massachusetts led to their tragedy.
Just to recap, Amy Bishop, a 44-year-old neurobiology professor allegedly shot and killed three colleagues at a faculty meeting on Friday after she was not granted tenure.
On Saturday, the Globe revealed she had shot and killed her brother in Braintree in December 1986. She and her mother said it was an accident, and she was not charged.
Throw in the fact that Amy Bishop was a suspect in a failed 1993 mail bombing and that she once punched out a fellow diner at a Peabody pancake house, and I dont think anyone needs a flow chart to show how the Alabama massacre might have been prevented.
For starters, this is what needs to be asked, preferably by someone with subpoena power:
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
the Globe can shut off the voice of the people but the word should still travel.
William Delahunt has some splainin’ to do. It’s unfortunate to think of that poor teenager a victim all these years as that liberal DA axxhole has enjoyed the good life. Not ot mention the boy’s own sick family.
Both, but that is looking at it from a 'civilian's' point of view. From the view of the Democrat Hack-O-Rama, it was well done and is how business is done. The family called in some favors, and Delahunt and the Police Chief Polio put the kid's murder to rest.
Where’s MoveOn.org when you need them, right, Mr. Delahunt?
I note that Delahunt’s name is only mentioned once in the story, the 576th and 577th words out of 669 total in the article.
I note also that an article linked in the sidebar tries to push the blame off on “sloppy policework” and “turf concerns among law enforcement agencies.” Let’s all chant “the system failed” and go back to thinking about our upcoming coffee break.
But you don’t understand. It was an accident.
I read a hand written copy of the police report.
The gun used was a Mossberg .12 Ga. pump gun.
If you have ever used a pump gun, you know that it takes a concentrated thought process to work the action that ejects the spent shell and moves the next shell into the chamber.
That is, it takes a thought process until you have spent many hours hunting or otherwise shooting the gun.
It is not something you do by accident as might be the case with a Browning auto.
Therefore, the entire “accident” scenario is totally false, corrupt and unbelievable by anyone who knows anything about shotguns.
Now had she shot him with the first and only shot fired, it could be made to sound believable.
But three rounds?
The state police and D.A. take over murder investigations in most towns in Massachusetts.
Delahunt is from Quincy, next door to Braintree. The mother was the town personnel director. It would not be a stretch if they knew each other.
They certainly would know each other after that.
So what was the quid for Delahunt? (quid pro quo)
I meant to add that a good case can be made that it was premeditated.
She shot a hole in the wall in her room before she went downstairs. A clumsy attempt to make it look like the gun keeps going off by accident.
Now she has to work the pump action to reload.
Then she goes downstairs and kills her brother.
Then she works the action again and shoots a hole in the ceiling before she bolts out the door.
Apparently, and from other things she has done that are matters of record, she is a person who flies into uncontrollable rages and goes absolutely wild.
But that was premeditated with a clumsy attempt to make it look like an accident.
Anyone who knows anything about shotguns knows that after the fist shot, every subsequent shot takes an effort on the part of the shooter.
Not to mention the reports that after shooting up her hiome and brither, she attempted a carjacking and threatened a mechanic in attempt to stael a getaway car
No comment from her parents? Her mother must be as sick and crazy as she, to sacrifice a son and to cover up and excuse this insanity. “Nice Harvard girls from prominent Braintree families simply do NOT go to jail for murder or mayhem”
Isn’t Delahunt the dork who padded his “military” experience?
What is it with Massachusetts and the stupid arrogant pricks they reelect for decades? Is it the water supply?
She actually was a Northeastern student. A good solid school but no Harvard.
Survivors of her latest rampage describe how deliberate she was, shooting every victim in the head, pursuing those who tried to get away, stopping to reload.
Then why did she try to bomb a Harvard professor in 1993?
Thought she had her PhD from there.
Actually Delahunt won his election on a recount. He brought the case to court and got the towns to inspect ballots for hanging chads. He won by a handful of votes. Once in he never really had any challengers of any note which is typical in the U.S. congress.
In 1986 she and her brother were both attending Northeastern. She was a PhD candidate at Harvard in 1993 but this was seven years after the incident.
I read that! He was selected, not elected.
An Al Franken-style, wear them down by court challenge
until you get the right judge and the right ruling, “election”
And to replace Gerry Studds, no less (shudder at the memories of that reprobate)
He was elected 10 years later after the incident in 1986. I’ll get that information shortly.
I found this interesting. Although they are divorced Delahunt still has his ex-wife on the payroll:
And Katharina Delahunt, Rep. Bill Delahunts (D-Mass.) ex-wife, who earns $2,200 a month, has managed the six-term Democrats campaign since he got into state politics in 1972 (Delahunts daughter, a professional photographer, also earned $410 in the last quarter for her services).
http://hill5.thehill.com/homenews/senate/58909-family-benefits-from-lawmakers-campaigns
Delahunt was first elected after a primary battle against Phil Johnston of Marshfield and Ian Bowles of Woods Hole. Johnston was initially declared the winner. A recount conducted in a handful of contested towns preserved Johnston’s victory though by a narrower margin. Following the recount, Delahunt sought judicial review in the Massachusetts Superior Court and Judge Elizabeth Donvan conducted a de novo review of the contested ballots and declared Delahunt the victor by a 108-vote margin. The case appealed to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, which upheld the lower court ruling. The case is also noteworthy for the issue of “hanging chads” in punch-card voting machines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Delahunt
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