Posted on 12/04/2003 11:04:43 AM PST by marshmallow
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:03:32 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
CHESAPEAKE, Virginia (CNN) -- Several dozen jailhouse sketches by accused sniper Lee Boyd Malvo -- some depicting police in rifle crosshairs and others containing references to a holy war -- have been entered as evidence by defense attorneys, who say they are evidence of his indoctrination by an accomplice.
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I suspect "goose caught in a noose" was rhyming slang for "Moose."
Calling them 'snipers' seemed a deliberate attempt to obscure and make more innocuous the reality of their terroristic crimes.
Oh no, not MIPgcdTNpIANg??!?!
Anything but MIPgcdTNpIANg!!!!!
See, I'm a little behind the times. I agreed with you then, but now I'm convinced the shooters are white Christian males, from the South, who are upset at gun laws.
http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/courts/cases/jpg/120303df65_123.jpg
the second paragraph also exists in the 'blogosphere' on this leftish blog:
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http://tbogg.blogspot.com/2003_01_12_tbogg_archive.html
I've never known a bully who was right.
A letter from the 1/20 edition of Time magazine:
Does anyone honestly believe that Saddam is out to conquer the globe or that the rest of the world will love the U.S. if it buries Iraq? Does anyone believe that aggression begets peace? As the skipper of a U.S. Navy warship in the South Pacific, I saw enough war to last a lifetime. In my 86 years, I've never known a bully who was right. I consider George Bush's foreign policy loathsome; and, worse, it's dangerous beyond words.
THEODORE R. TREADWELL
Danbury, Conn.
posted by Tom at 9:46 PM
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My theory: Malvo, captured in Oct. 2002, is reading Time magazine in prison in January 2003 and that's where he got (at that least that) insane rant. Or, could be he's got internet access and he's been surfing into the TBOGG blog.
Should be interesting to try and find where the other insane rants came from.
Wonder why all the white rectangles over many of the drawings -- what's the defense (or court) hiding?
By MATTHEW BARAKAT, Associated Press Writer
CHESAPEAKE, Va. - Did Lee Boyd Malvo lie to police when he said he was the triggerman in last year's sniper killings, or did he lie to psychiatrists when he claimed he served only as John Allen Muhammad's spotter?
Testimony at Malvo's trial Thursday centered on those conflicting claims, a key part of the question of whether Malvo had been brainwashed by Muhammad and was therefore insane at the time of the killings.
Defense psychiatrists say Malvo was lying when he said he was the shooter because he wanted to take the rap for the man he considered his father. The defense claims Malvo was the triggerman in only two killings: that of a woman in Tacoma, Wash., eight months before the Washington, D.C.-area shooting spree, and the last slaying of the spree, of a bus driver on Oct. 22, 2002, in Silver Spring, Md.
Prosecutors suggest Malvo was lying to psychiatrists when he recanted his confession, noting he cannot be executed for either of the two killings he now admits committing. Neither Maryland nor Washington execute juveniles; Malvo, 18, was 17 at the time of the killings.
Defense psychiatrist Neil Blumberg testified that Malvo's initial statements claiming responsibility occurred while he was still under Muhammad's influence. He added that if Malvo was lying later it didn't make sense for him to still admit he was the triggerman in two killings.
"Someone who's lying or malingering — why not deny everything?" Blumberg said.
Fairfax County prosecutor Robert F. Horan Jr. asked Blumberg why Malvo, if he was so concerned about protecting Muhammad, told prison guards just days after his arrest that Muhammad had been the shooter in a September 2002 killing in Montgomery, Ala.
Blumberg responded that Malvo thought the guards would not be credible witnesses, so he felt free to speak with them.
Blumberg also said on cross-examination Thursday that Malvo's anti-social behavior began years before he met Muhammad. He said Malvo killed stray cats with a slingshot beginning at age 8 or 9, and such conduct continued for nearly five years.
Also Thursday, a juror was excused from the case because he lives outside Chesapeake. City spokesman Mark Cox said the juror made an innocent mistake, and that it will not affect the trial.
Malvo is being tried for the slaying of Linda Franklin, an FBI analyst shot in a Home Depot parking lot.
Muhammad was convicted last month and sentenced to die for killing a man at a northern Virginia gas station during the sniper rampage, which left 10 dead in October 2002.
Malvo's trial will resume Monday. Court was canceled Friday to give defense lawyers time to prepare their cross-examination of one of the prosecution's mental health experts.
An earlier post by Sabertooth . . .
Examine Gunman's Possible Ties to al Furqa
-- Bob Marley,
Natural Mystic, 1995
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