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Jury convicts Claremont professor in staged hate crime case
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 8/18/04 | Associated Press

Posted on 08/18/2004 6:11:37 PM PDT by MikalM

A Claremont McKenna College psychology professor was convicted Wednesday of falsely reporting her car was vandalized and spray-painted with racist and anti-Semitic slurs while she was speaking at a campus forum on racial tolerance.

Kerri Dunn, 39, of Redlands was convicted of one misdemeanor count of filing a false police report and two felony counts of attempted insurance fraud. She faces up to 31/2 years in prison when she is sentenced Sept. 17.

Her attorney, Gary S. Lincenberg, issued a statement saying Dunn would appeal the attempted insurance fraud convictions.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; claremont; cmc; dunn; hatecrime; hatecrimehoax; hoax; kerridunn; left; liberal; mckenna; pc; professor; psychology; university
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To: BurbankKarl
Claremont Professor accused of staging vandalism had criminal record

Gotta love that "Youthful high jinks" line... She's 39 right now. :-)

41 posted on 08/18/2004 9:53:46 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture (Remember, name and town, name and town, if you wish to opine)
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To: BurbankKarl

http://thedavidlawrenceshow.com/001811.html

Dunn had history of crying wolf DA says
Claremont's favorite psychology professor, Kerri Dunn's, trial started yesterday with a bombshell. An enterprising Daily Bulletin courts reporter overheard Dunn's lawyer arguing with the judge that Dunn's prior allegations of false abuse should be kept from the jury:


Dunn may be confronted during her trial with a 4-year- old allegation that she once faked injuries to herself and then blamed them on police during a shoplifting arrest in Nebraska, a judge ruled Thursday.


Prosecutors may also try to impeach her testimony by questioning her about a shoplifting conviction, as well as allegations that she once posed as a nurse to obtain prescription drugs from a pharmacy.


The judge refused to close the courtroom for a hearing on the motion. And portions of the attorney's arguments were already under way Thursday morning before Dunn's attorneys realized a newspaper reporter was watching from the courtroom gallery.


Chief among the alleged prior acts discussed were allegations from 2000, when Dunn was arrested in Nebraska on suspicion of shoplifting.


According to discussions in open court, the woman claimed an officer roughed her up. However, a witness later reported seeing her inflict bruises upon her own arm and tearing the buttons of her own shirt, Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Martin Bean told the judge.

Dunn's case is going further and further down the hole. Last week an appeals court squashed an emergency appeal over the insurance fraud charges. Yesterday the judge allowed the DA to bring up Dunn's prior acts during cross examination. Since Dunn's case, I presume using my Law & Order watching skills, revolves around her own testimony (to dispute the 2 witnesses), this new turn of event will make it even more difficult for Dunn to prove her innocence.


42 posted on 08/18/2004 9:56:36 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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Linking some more of the prior threads...


43 posted on 08/18/2004 9:56:42 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture (Remember, name and town, name and town, if you wish to opine)
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To: ElkCounty
They do it because it's a cheap, easy and pleasant way to give themselves a public back-patting for their tolerance, diversity and empowerment.

The worst example of this sort of phony, no-risk public righteousness I ever saw was a few years back in Berkeley. The owner of Cody's Books, a landmark bookstore right down the street from the infamous Peoples' Park, found that someone had carved what looked like a one-inch-square swastika in the display window. This led to a huge scare about neo-Nazis being on the rampage in Berserkely, which culminated in a rally in front of the store, where various Baby Boomer limousine-liberals and similarly privileged pukes loudly and publicly congratulated themselves for having the guts to stand up to HATE in the midst of America's most left-wing city.

As it turned out, on a close inspection the "swastika" actually turned out to be a "No Nazis" symbol that had been cut into the glass by some bored "peace punks" bumming change in front of the store. And if you think that the Cody's owner, or any of the professional indignants involved in this non-issue voiced even the faintest mea culpae when this was revealed, you have much to learn about the character and moral/intellectual honesty of American leftist hysterics.

44 posted on 08/18/2004 10:27:10 PM PDT by MikalM
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To: CounterCounterCulture

Notice the titles: why did they omit the word "hate"? PC alert!

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&ie=UTF-8&q=kerri+dunn&scoring=d


45 posted on 08/18/2004 11:31:32 PM PDT by vikingchick
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To: CounterCounterCulture

She has the Map of Ireland written on her face. She's not a credit to the sons and daughters or Eire


46 posted on 08/18/2004 11:44:09 PM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: Carry_Okie
I put in three at Mudd and concur. Anybody who thinks that the five colleges constitute a conservative campus is smoking something."

Wait. I thought Harvey Mudd is the no-nonsense, technical-science-math exception to the liberal arts liberalism of the rest of the Claremont cluster. ?

47 posted on 08/18/2004 11:46:58 PM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: CounterCounterCulture

Looks like she decided not to wear her Dasheeki-cum-Indian-bedspread to court. Good move but it didn't save her.


48 posted on 08/19/2004 12:17:09 AM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: CounterCounterCulture
"These events were damaging to the College and to the Claremont community."

And they were damaging not just because of Dunn's criminal behavior, but because the college and the community actively encourage the politically correctness that triggers massive over-reactions to vandalized vehicles. If you like exercises in futility, try to get them to see this.

49 posted on 08/19/2004 12:20:38 AM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: CounterCounterCulture

It's also been reported that she impersonated a nurse in order to get her paws on prescription drugs. She got caught on that one, too, but again managed to do no time for it.


50 posted on 08/19/2004 12:23:05 AM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: MikalM

Now that you bring it up, I remember that "swastika" incident. There have been so many like it in that town, it's easy to lose track.


51 posted on 08/19/2004 12:33:20 AM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: MikalM

Lock her up. Throw away the key.


52 posted on 08/19/2004 4:11:19 AM PDT by samtheman (www.georgewbush.com)
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To: churchillbuff
Wait. I thought Harvey Mudd is the no-nonsense, technical-science-math exception to the liberal arts liberalism of the rest of the Claremont cluster. ?

For the most part that's true, but there's now a heavy dose of "social responsibility in science and technology" and bad enviro disease.

53 posted on 08/19/2004 6:17:35 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (There are people in power who are truly stupid.)
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To: Bonaparte; vikingchick; Carry_Okie; MikalM; doug from upland
More info...


54 posted on 08/19/2004 10:53:06 AM PDT by CounterCounterCulture (Remember, name and town, name and town, if you wish to opine)
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To: CounterCounterCulture
IMO, as things now stand, she won't do more than about 18 months before receiving parole. If the judge permits her to post bail and remain at large pending outcome of her appeal, she may never do any time at all. Also, it wouldn't surprise me if the feds saw nothing to gain by prosecuting her and made a political decision to back off. I hope that's not what happens.

Thanks for the update!

55 posted on 08/19/2004 11:29:39 AM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: WOSG

This is what happens when one tries to rewrite the handbook on civil disobedience.


56 posted on 08/19/2004 12:15:21 PM PDT by Old Professer (If they win, it will be because we've become too soft.)
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To: freedumb2003

Cool.

Not only does she not know common sense, decency, honesty, and respect - she doesnt know the law.

Ah, typical lib'ral rad-Fem professor-type.

She engaged in a fraud upon the community, whic himhois worth something when it comes time to sentence her.


57 posted on 08/19/2004 3:10:00 PM PDT by WOSG (George W Bush - Right for our Times!)
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To: CounterCounterCulture
Dunn could still face federal charges of lying to federal investigators. The FBI was involved in the initial investigation, and FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said Wednesday that her department's case against the professor remained open.

They should charge her because the FBI wasted all that time and effort on her case when they could have been using the agents to battle problems like terrorism, for example.

58 posted on 08/19/2004 3:46:33 PM PDT by vikingchick
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To: MikalM

59 posted on 08/19/2004 3:51:24 PM PDT by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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To: Lancey Howard

Thanks again. I'll be shocked, if she does any time.


60 posted on 08/19/2004 10:46:45 PM PDT by mrustow ("And when Moses saw the golden calf, he shouted out to the heavens, 'Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!'")
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