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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On Dec. 31, 1999, police in Lincoln arrested her for shoplifting after she had stuffed a pink sweater in her purse while in the dressing room of a clothing store, the newspaper reported. Charges against her were dismissed after she paid court costs, McQuinn said.
Less than a year later, on Sept. 29, 2000, she was again arrested and charged for shoplifting for items including jewelry and shoes. A police report described her as "belligerent and uncooperative", and she failed to appear in court for the violations, according to the Times.
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A friend of Dunn's told the Times the shoplifting was only youthful high jinks. "She'd been a student - sometimes students do goofy things," said Pam Manske.
Gotta love that "Youthful high jinks" line... She's 39 right now. :-)
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.
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.
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
She has the Map of Ireland written on her face. She's not a credit to the sons and daughters or Eire
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. ?
Looks like she decided not to wear her Dasheeki-cum-Indian-bedspread to court. Good move but it didn't save her.
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.
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.
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.
Lock her up. Throw away the key.
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.
POMONA - A former Claremont McKenna psychology professor was convicted Wednesday of lying to police and attempted insurance fraud for falsely reporting to detectives and her insurance company that her car was vandalized in a hate crime in March. Kerri Francis Dunn of Redlands faces more than three years in state prison when she is sentenced Sept. 17. She could have faced as much as six years behind bars if jurors had convicted her of the more serious charges of insurance fraud, as prosecutors had asked, rather than the lesser charge of the attempted crime.
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The nine-woman, three-man jury deliberated just over four hours before announcing its decision.
Juror Lilly Walters said that early in deliberations she was the lone holdout, initially voting to acquit Dunn of filing a false police report, but that the jury was more divided and nearly deadlocked on the insurance fraud counts.
"It was close," she said. "I gotta tell you, it was close."
Walters said jurors wrestled over whether Dunn's telephone call to her insurance company the day after the incident amounted to the filing of an insurance claim.
In the call, a recording of which prosecutors played during the trial, Dunn detailed the damage to her car and asked if her policy covered vandalism.
The insurance fraud counts, both felonies, were the most serious charges facing Dunn and exposed her to time in state prison. The charge of filing a false police report is a misdemeanor punishable by no more than a year in county jail.
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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.
She said federal authorities often wait for the outcome of state cases before deciding whether to press forward with federal charges.
Thanks for the update!
This is what happens when one tries to rewrite the handbook on civil disobedience.
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.
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.
Thanks again. I'll be shocked, if she does any time.
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