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As sad as this situation is, I must admit that I enjoy the irony of a law school being on the receiving end of a bunch of personal injury suits under the theory that it should have known this guy was a nut case and protected its students from him.

I've got to admit ...... future lawyers shooting lawyers..... "How... awful!"......(yawn, sip soda, click on next story.... smile)

Here's some background on this case:

What really happened is that a man named Peter Odighizuwa, a native of Nigeria who had flunked out of Appalachian twice, blew away a professor at the school, a student and the dean who had admitted him to the school a second time after he had flunked out once. The dean happened to be a former official in the Clinton Justice Department, a Harvard Law School graduate and something of a professional do-gooder.

The dean who was shot was Anthony Sutin, who, after a prominent career as a Washington lawyer representing mainly liberal Democrats and working in the Justice Department under Janet Reno, took up his position at the Appalachian law school in 1999. He adopted one child from Russia and a second from China, and he accepted the Appalachian position apparently because he wanted to help the underprivileged. The law school was founded to help mainly poor white students from the region.

Everyone who knew Peter Odighizuwa knew he didn't belong there. He didn't belong intellectually and he didn't belong mentally. Everyone who knew him knew he was unbalanced. "Everybody knows this guy," said one doctor who helped clean up the slaughter Mr. Odighizuwa left behind him. "He is a walking time bomb." "He just thought everyone was conspiring against him," said a student who knew him.

So why, when he flunked out of the school the first time, did Dean Sutin let him reenter? Perhaps, being a liberal, he didn't want to admit the fact that the murderer never belonged at a law school, any law school, in the first place. Sutin had racial prejudice, and it cost him, and 2 others, their lives.