Posted on 12/27/2004 7:20:41 PM PST by Ladysmith
The man accused of killing six deer hunters in northwestern Wisconsin has another a court appointment this week in Hayward.
Chai Soua Vang, from St. Paul, Minnesota, faces six counts of murder in the November 21st shootings, which started after a dispute over a tree stand on private property in southern Sawyer County. Six Rice Lake area residents were killed and two wounded in the shooting spree. Vang was not wounded.
Vang's preliminary hearing is set for Wednesday to determine if there is enough evidence for a trial.
The 36-year-old remains in the Sawyer County jail on a two-point-five (m) million dollar bond.
WEAU-TV 13 News plans to carry the court hearing live beginning at 9:00am on Wednesday morning, December 29th.
He ain't dead yet?
Me thinks he needs a new boyfriend in the pokey.
Maybe we need to petition the Judge...
Let's just fry this bastard.
Right after a fair trial, of course.
I predict he will get off with insanity plea.
Yeah right. Now they can have an ALLEGED trial in an ALLEGED court complete with an ALLEGED jury who will deliver an ALLEGED verdict.
Problem solved
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Where I live, we'd have shot his alleged ass and buried him in an allegedly undisclosed location.
Same here.
Untill he is convicted he should be called alleged. This is only proper, because he is innocent untill proven guilty by a jury.
Thanks, ButThreeLeftsDo.
No. The headline refers to an "alleged" killer. He is an admitted killer. Others saw him kill. There is nothing left to be proven as to his being a killer.
There remains some question as to whether he is a murderer or not, so he is an "alleged" murderer. There is no dispute whatsoever, by anyone, that he is a killer. To insist on an overwrought, incorrect usage of "alleged" is simply political correctness gone mad.
Back in the old days when I was in school, they called that "Extra Credit".
The argument IS "word usage", in particular, the words "killer" and "alleged". In legal terms, "killer" is meaningless. The model penal code doesn't use the term "killer", and I know of no state that uses the term "killer" in its criminal statutes. Mr. Vang is a killer. There is no dispute that he killed his victims. In standard English usage, he is in no way an "alleged" killer. As far as the legal system is concerned, he has not yet been convicted of murder (or homicide, as the term may be in the WI statute). Thus, he is a killer who is also an alleged murderer.
This has me a bit concercerned:
"Should AG be prosecuting the hunter murder case?
Journal Times staff and Associated Press MADISON - Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager, who plans to seek re-election to a second term in 2006, will personally prosecute the case against a man accused of killing six hunters and wounding two others, she said Monday.
Lautenschlager's appearance as a prosecutor in the courtroom will be her first since she was elected in 2002. She said she would handle the preliminary hearing Wednesday of Chai Soua Vang of St. Paul, Minn., a truck driver facing six counts of murder in the Nov. 21 hunter shootings in Sawyer County.
Being the state's top prosecutor, is Lautenschlager the person to handle the high-profile case? If she handles the entire case, which is likely to garner state and national attention, it could coincide with her plans to pursue another four-year term."
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"Lautenschlager said she wants to prosecute Vang because of her "personal interest" in cases that involve crimes against people. She last prosecuted the case of a kidnapper of a 12-year-old girl in the late 1990s, when she was a U.S. attorney.
Lautenschlager's plan to pursue re-election comes despite going through a year in which she has been convicted of drunken driving, treated for breast cancer and required to pay a $250 forfeiture for misuse of a state vehicle.
Rick Graber, chairman of the state Republican Party, said Lautenschlager's conviction for drunken driving and misuse of state vehicles would be key issues if she runs for re-election.
"Her conduct in office and the way she handled certain events is absolutely something that voters can and should be reminded of in 2006," he said.
Lautenschlager said she can't control what the GOP might focus on."
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http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2004/12/29/local/iq_3292870.txt
I have this sinking feeling that she is going to hang her election hopes on this trial, utilizing her rusty law skills to very possibly screw up the entire case for the prosecution.
Any Wisconsin FReepers out there that can put my mind at ease by telling me what a great prosecutor/AG/person Peg is?
Go Packers!
Thanks, ButThreeLeftsDo. No way I can ease your mind here because (everybody together now) SHE'S A DEMOCRAT!
What is to be determined is how many lawyers can line their pockets with monies from a trial. Our system is pitiful.
Agreed without reservation.
And to think that this is supposed to be the "best" judicial system in the world but it has been hijacked by lawyers.
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