Posted on 06/23/2005 11:42:50 AM PDT by brigada
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/6/22/151635.shtml
An Idaho drifter convicted of stalking Mel Gibson was sentenced Wednesday to three years in state prison.
Zack Sinclair, who had confronted Gibson after the release of the actor-director's film "The Passion of the Christ," was convicted in March of one felony count of stalking.
Sinclair was arrested in September 2004. Prosecutors said he went to the gate of Gibson's Malibu estate repeatedly that month after evading neighborhood security and asked to pray with the star.
The 35-year-old Sinclair, dressed in a yellow and blue jail jumpsuit, acted as his own lawyer. He declined to speak during the brief sentencing hearing in Superior Court.
He has remained in custody and will immediately begin serving the sentence.
Gibson, 49, wasn't in court for the sentencing. A message left for his spokesman wasn't immediately returned.
During the trial, Gibson testified that he was attending church services in September when he got up briefly and returned to find Sinclair sitting in his seat. Sinclair moved within a few inches of his face, Gibson said, telling him, "Hi, I'm here to pray with you."
Gibson said Sinclair wasn't "overtly threatening," but he worried about his family's safety.
"My wife was upset and worried. She didn't want to find him in the living room drinking tea," Gibson said.
Didn't we have a Mel Gibson stalker-type-person on Free Republic?
Sorry, I am replying to my own post, but don't you think this guy should have been sent to a mental hospital instead of prison?
We did. That was the 1st thing I thought of too!
what did the FR stalker do exactly? I'm not familiar with that...
Ah yes... here's FR's own Mel-stalker:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1415273/posts
Absolutely - a strange redheaded Afrikaaner woman from Holland with a very high opinion of her own attractiveness.
The judge does not agree with you and he's got the hammer. ;)
Basically went to every thread mentioning Gibson and begging any FReepers with any knowledge of Gibson to please give her a phone number or home address where she could reach him.
Good find! Funny thread too.
Well, she has been banned. I wonder....
Yes I guess you are right. It is lucky is name isn't Michael Jackson or O.J. Simpson in California he would have gotten off totally! Hopefully, Mel won't be bothered anymore!
That's the first person I thought of too, Liz Van Breda. Banned.
Yep.
Arianna Huffington?
But good guess.
Mebby LizVanBreda is really Zach in a dress?
Hey Mel or any Mel-knower...I want his address very badly. I wanna send him a letter and I need his address. Can anybody help? Not his Icon address, I've got all that but his real personal address... I mean no harm to him so I guess you can say he is safe.
Yeah... I guess you really CAN say he is safe. Doncha just hate it when good FReepers go bad?
If you think back to the late 70s and early 80s, the word "stalking" was exclusively used against men. What people used to call 'pursuing thy love interests' became basterdized. So the word stalking a hunting term, which sounds sinister to the hair-brained, became a tool that successfully became part of the American lexicon. All because Gloria Steinem and et al hated men.
Now you know the rest of the story -- good day. ;)
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