Posted on 07/28/2010 7:29:14 AM PDT by Colofornian
Edited on 07/30/2010 3:24:48 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
PROVO The former BYU student accused of attacking a woman with a stun gun pleaded guilty Tuesday to a lessened degree of aggravated assault.
Stetson Geo Hallam, 20, had been charged with aggravated kidnapping, a first-degree felony, following an April 6 incident that he claimed was an April Fool's joke, according to a police affidavit filed in 4th District Court.
Charges say Hallam, the victim's home teacher in their LDS Church ward, pressured the 19-year-old woman to meet him so he could "give her a gift."
The woman told police Hallam waited outside her Provo apartment for her to return, then asked her to go to a basement laundry room as part of a scavenger hunt.
Once in the room, Hallam attacked her with a Taser-like weapon, pinned her to the ground and tried to handcuff her, the affidavit states. Despite the electric shock, the woman began screaming and fighting back, and at one point bit Hallam's finger, according to court documents. She later told police she thought Hallam was trying to rape her.
After being bitten, Hallam released the woman, apologized, and said it was just an April Fool's joke, the affidavit states. Police found burn marks on the woman's arm from the weapon and a bite mark on Hallam's hand.
Hallam pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and obstruction of justice, second-degree felonies. He is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 9 and faces up to 15 years in prison.
Lana Groves
Doesnt really matter what your defininiton is, unless you call someone else a cult. If he called your group a cult, then you need to know what he meant by cult in order to know if he was attacking your religion (where there has still not been an attack on Wesleyans or Christians in this thread).
And, you probably should have put in your post that the accuser is guessing, because you made the assumption of what it meant.
Oh, yeah. Richardson traffic cops suck. There is a 6 lane commercial road with a 35 speed limit. Coming off a highway, they have a 30 mile limit also in a commercial zone. None of this is for safety, just for revenue. Ask anyone from the Dallas area, and I doubt youll find 1 person who likes Richardson cops.
*Maybe he believes you a cult of people devoted to an anti-Mormon movement.
BINGO!
Hey Elsie, I’d had thought that this was pretty much over when the Moderator zotted nearly all of your Mormon-Hater posts?
Also, if you’re posting about me in the future I would like to be granted the courtesy of a ping (even though your Guru advised her underlings to put me on a ‘don’t respond’ list).
Grow up and get over it, you lost. Both Jim Robinson and the Moderator agreed with me that FreeRepublic is not a safe haven for your religious bigotry.
Thanks, Raider Sam!
I'm glad you added the byline (I missed that at the end)
But can you please explain why you added the final graph?
I deliberately left off the final graph of the original article because this is a DesNews article...and I thought DesNews articles had to be excerpted -- that we couldn't run the entire article...
So you're breaking your own excerpt rules all while simultaneously enforcing a "stay on topic" guideline on an open general chat? (I can understand the "stay on topic" directive if it was a "news" article -- but the admin is the person who also moved this from a "news" to a general chat section)
Nice qualifier; but we WERE attacked!
Someone does NOT say, in a nice way, that a person belongs to a cult.
Have you visited Salt Lake City and toured it's BIGGEST tourist attraction?
That is known in the real world aS common sense.
Something that seems to be lacking in our society today: possibly illuminated by "...it depends on what 'is' is..."
Now that you have some data as evidence; I’ll have to agree with you.
I did post to you; when it was ABOUT you.
If I am QUOTING you, or otherwise lifting your words out of the thread (again) I don't feel that it's neccesary to ping you; for I was trying to get the OTHER guys attention to what you typed.
BTW; just WHAT is YOUR definition of CULT?
You seem to have forgotten that was WHY I pinged you...
He DID???
HMMmmm...
Somehow I MISSED that!
Could you point it out to me?
Since you were TALKING about him; I took the liberty of pinging him for you.
You're welcome.
Who attacked your religion? Who mocked Christiantiy or Wesleyan beliefs? Who said those religions were wrong? You have nothing.
You were a member of a cult, based in Texas, that worshiped a man named Bobby Knight.
Flashing your temple recommend didn't get you out of receiving a ticket, huh? Oh well, Texas ain't Utah.
Actually, Id say my cultish fascination at Tech was with Leach and the football team. But thank you for realizing that not all cults are religious.
I have no idea what you are talking about. If I had a state football championship ring, I could probably get out of a ticket, tho.
But thank you for realizing that not all cults are religious.
I think he did in post 383
Hey Elsie, Id had thought that this was pretty much over when the Moderator zotted nearly all of your Mormon-Hater posts? Also, if youre posting about me in the future I would like to be granted the courtesy of a ping (even though your Guru advised her underlings to put me on a dont respond list). Grow up and get over it, you lost. Both Jim Robinson and the Moderator agreed with me that FreeRepublic is not a safe haven for your religious bigotry. Thanks, Raider Sam! |
No, I just read the whole post, including the part you left out on purpose where he posted my statement that I thought he was calling you a cult of people dedicated to taking down Mormons and then he put BINGO.
But, read what you want, and purposefully miss what you want to make you feel like you are right.
Not be sonny.
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