Posted on 05/25/2005 8:25:05 AM PDT by Brian Mosely
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Runaway Bride Jennifer Wilbanks is indicted with making a false statement and reporting a false crime.
See, with all due respect (seriouesly), the story being reported seems to say that she lied to the NM police and the FBI, but by the time the GA authorities were notified the story had been straightened out. So, it seems she couldn't have lied to the GA authorities as she wasn't the person who notified them of the situation.
It is my understanding and I agree with you that she did lie to the Albuquerque police and the FBI agents while being questioned in Albuquerque and that she finally admitted her story was false. It is my further understanding that in a subsequent conversation Wilbanks had with the Duluth police chief that she uttered a false statement. This apparently took place after the Duluth PD was informed by the NM police that they had her in custody and that she'd admitted her abduction was false.
Obviously, a Georgia law has been broken or the Gwinnett County DA would not have taken this to the Grand Jury. Is the DA mistaken? Is the Grand Jury wrong?
And she hung on to her lies (and those lies kept changing,) to LE until LE was fianlly able to force her to admit them as such. She would otherwise have kept on lying to them, therefore causing LE to hunt for kidnappers and rapist(s) in blue vans (Felons.)
Just as I said.
When Wilbanks called home, before the cops got to the 7-11, the family passed the phone to the Duluth police chief. She told him that she had been abducted, etc. It was many hours later before the NM cops convinced one of her other many personalities to admit she made it up. How many personalities does she have? When will she be on Celebrity boxing, and who will she face? hmmmm....
I don't delight in other people's misfortune as many here seem to do. The only good that will come of this is it may deter someone else who might want some "attention" in the future. I hope Ms. Wilbanks gets the help she needs.
"Is the DA mistaken? Is the Grand Jury wrong?"
DAs are routinely mistaken, usually from arrogance and political pressures. Juries are not usually instructed properly or properly prepared to make such decisions.
I would say, as with all court cases of unknown evidence, that we simply need to wait and see what is presented by the DA. Considering that this is now a high profile case, the DA had better be right.
Yes. And of course the police were at her home and her fiance's home, in anticipation of a very possible ransom call, considering her (staged) abduction. SOP.
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/24398.htm
JILTER FACES JAIL
Sources said yesterday that Mason — who publicly claimed after Wilbanks' return that he still wanted to marry her — is now having second thoughts amid published reports of her past relationships.
"In light of her rumored affairs and reports about former boyfriends, he's beginning to grow more skeptical," said one source.
And I hope her decent fiancee is running from her as well! Surely he knows about her report by now....
Now you're talkin',........ooops, I mean punching keys...........
You've got mail.
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Greta and Fox are very good at "scraping the bottom of the barrel".
"In light of her rumored affairs and reports about former boyfriends, he's beginning to grow more skeptical," said one source.
In other news at the Mason house, Mason's parents were forced to reluctantly admit to their son that the tooth fairy is actually a participant in San Francisco's yearly drag parade, and that the Easter Bunny had died.
Five arrests, including three shoplifting offenses, and she can still receive first-offender status?!? ...
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=1&url_article_id=2494&url_subchannel_id=&change_well_id=2
Porter did not rule out the possibility of accepting a negotiated plea on lesser charges, saying he only wants a “reasonable resolution” to the case. Porter also said Wilbanks could seek first-offender status, despite the fact that she has been charged with three shoplifting offenses in her native Hall County. Wilbanks had not exercised first-offender status on the misdemeanor shoplifting charges and had not been convicted of a felony.
First-offender status in Georgia allows a convicted offender’s record to be wiped clean once the conditions of their sentence are met.
After reading the gross details of her false report, I hope her raunchy butt has to sit in jail for a few weeks.
Now that you mention it, there is a startling resemblance!
For those of you who still want to get the happy loving couple a gift for their upcoming wedding:
http://macys-registry.weddingchannel.com/search_purchase/guest_view_store_ga.asp?retailer_registry_uid=301631997&listby=dept
Since you have a law background, how can the GA LE folks charge her at all? Her "crime" happened in NM and the NM LE decided not to charge her. Thanks for any insight you can provide!
There's a guy named Alexander Graham Bell who invented something called the 'telephone'. With a 'telephone' people can actually have conversations with other people in real-time from far distances! Its true, and it really does work. Wilbanks allegedly told a lie to a Duluth police officer on a 'telephone', saying that she had been abducted, raped, and let go. The 'telephone' conversation was recorded, and is evidence that she lied. Perhaps she didn't lie, and made up another lie to cover-up a real abduction in a way to protect her perpetrators; which would make her subsequent recanting a lie, and the investigation would have to begin all over again, grand jury would be called again, and the search for the mexican in the blue van would begin again.
Anything is possible. If you are still confused about the existance and function of the 'telephone', look it up at www.dictionary.com
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