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Williams' Lawyer Appeals to Supreme Court (challenging validity of convictions and death sentence)
Los Angeles Times ^ | December 11, 2005 | Henry Weinstein

Posted on 12/11/2005 9:56:28 AM PST by calcowgirl

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Wefald's petition notes that a bill calling for a death penalty moratorium in the state is scheduled to be heard in the California Legislature in January.
1 posted on 12/11/2005 9:56:30 AM PST by calcowgirl
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Wefald's petition notes that a bill calling for a death penalty moratorium in the state is scheduled to be heard in the California Legislature in January.

Ping--Are you psychic, or what?

2 posted on 12/11/2005 9:57:37 AM PST by calcowgirl
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According to my reading of some of the trial transcripts, this article and appeal is factually incorrect on the matter of 'Incentivized' testimony. Some of the testimony was obtained in deals but a large part of it was not.

Yet another example of these Libs saying anything and rewriting history in the pursuit of their agenda of chaos and anarchy.

3 posted on 12/11/2005 10:03:23 AM PST by TCats
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Amazing. Attorneys will do ANYTHING for money. If there was any sane and honest reason why this degenerate should not be executed, WHY WASN'T IT PRESENTED 26 FREAKIN' YEARS AGO???

Just follow the money.


4 posted on 12/11/2005 10:04:29 AM PST by EagleUSA
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We have 4 deaths, and Tookie has been convicted of all 4. Are they trying to tell us that it was 3 deaths by natural causes and a suicide?


5 posted on 12/11/2005 10:05:04 AM PST by Hodar (With Rights, come Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
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The bottom line is that THE NINTH Circuit said he is toast.

The Ninth F'n Circuit!!!

This is OVER, BYE BYE!

6 posted on 12/11/2005 10:06:07 AM PST by Agent Smith (Fallujah delenda est. (I wish))
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I say if they are successful in the appeal to the Supremes of Cal or to the governor, turn tookie loose. This is justice denied, so be it. Maybe one of the hollywood libruls could put him up for a few years in their house.

I would bet the citizens of california are tired of housing this loon and would hope that some gang banger on the outside would take him out.


7 posted on 12/11/2005 10:09:53 AM PST by Chuck54 (Free Scooter, Indict Joe W)
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"WHY WASN'T IT PRESENTED 26 FREAKIN' YEARS AGO???"

Agree. There ought to be some statute of limitation introduced into the appeals process. Things like inadequate representation, judicial bias/misconduct and the generic 'Racism' appeal, among others, should be barred after, say, three years. This would limit the gush of last minute motions to a trickle and then only to substantive grounds.

8 posted on 12/11/2005 10:11:37 AM PST by TCats
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They also say that there were no blacks on the jury. Not true. One Philipino, one Latino and one black.


9 posted on 12/11/2005 10:11:41 AM PST by BunnySlippers
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In their minds these Minority members of the Jury were not of the proper philosophies to be so classified. Sort of like the Clarence Thomas definition of the term 'Black'. If he doesn't think 'Black' (AKA as Lib Thought) he is, by their definition, not 'Black'. As usual, will not stand up to any serious intellectual scrutiny.
10 posted on 12/11/2005 10:16:32 AM PST by TCats
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When I read Tookie's interview with Time magazine the other day I knew it was over. Once again, in the interview, he claimed he should not have to inform on the Crips. Now, how much has he reformed?


11 posted on 12/11/2005 10:19:34 AM PST by BunnySlippers
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Schwarzenegger met with lawyers for Williams and the Los Angeles County district attorney's office for more than an hour Thursday in Sacramento. The governor told reporters Friday that he was agonizing over whether to spare Williams' life.

Just pull the plug Arnold. Once a murdering thug, always a murdering thug.

12 posted on 12/11/2005 10:27:24 AM PST by calcowgirl
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Williams' Lawyer Appeals to Supreme Court (challenging validity of convictions and death sentence)

Desperate measures for desperate times.
13 posted on 12/11/2005 10:29:45 AM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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Just pull the plug Arnold. Once a murdering thug, always a murdering thug.

We talking Tookie or Uncle Teddy? Description fits both.

14 posted on 12/11/2005 10:30:48 AM PST by peyton randolph (Warning! It is illegal to fatwah a camel in all 50 states)
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From what I heard in that interview with Rita Cosby, he sounded like almost every sociopathic, convicted killer with whom I ever had the "privilege" of attending a conference. Ask them about their crime and they repeat Tookie's take on it almost everytime. There must be a master script they circulate among themselves.


15 posted on 12/11/2005 10:44:29 AM PST by tertiary01 (Dems ..the party that repeats history's mistakes over and over and....)
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They're scared. AAAAnld is running out the clock.


16 posted on 12/11/2005 10:45:38 AM PST by bert (K.E. ; N.P . Franks in '08)
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"Williams blew out a security camera and then killed Owens, shooting him twice in the back at point blank range as he lay prone on the storage room floor. The robbery netted Williams and his associates approximately $120.00.

Once back in Los Angeles, Sims asked Williams why he shot Owens. Williams said that he “didn’t want to leave any witnesses.” Williams also said he killed Owens “because he was white and he was killing all white people.” Coward claims that Williams bragged about killing Owens. Williams said, “You should have heard the way he sounded when I shot him.” Williams then made gurgling or growling noises and laughed about Owens’ death.

According to the forensic pathologist, Yen-I Yang suffered two shotgun wounds. One shotgun wound was to his left arm and abdomen. This wound shredded Yen-I’s left arm, fractured his ribs, and shattered his spleen, right kidney, bowel and large vessels. The other shotgun wound was to the lower left chest. This wound also fractured ribs and shattered the spleen, right kidney, bowel and large vessels. Moreover, a plastic shotgun shot container and associated wadding were recovered from the base of Yen-I’s liver. The pathologist further explained that both of the Yen-I Yang’s wounds were inflicted when the end of the muzzle was only feet from Yen-I’s body.

Yee-Chen Lin was shot once in the upper left face area at a distance of a few feet. She was transported from the scene by paramedics to Centinela Hospital where she died at 7:36 am.

Tsai-Shai was shot twice at close range. The pathologist explained that one shotgun wound was to the coccyx or tail bone. Based on the physical characteristics of the wound and the fact that wadding, along with the plastic shot container, were recovered just beneath the skin of this wound, the muzzle of the gun must have been just inches from her body when she was shot and killed. The other shotgun wound was to the anterior abdomen with the charge entering at the navel. At trial, the pathologist testified that the muzzle of the gun was a few feet from Tsai-Shai’s body when the shot that caused this wound was fired. Williams referred to the victims in conversations with friends as "Buddha-heads", although there was no evidence that the murders were religiously motivated."

26 years on Death Row. 26 minutes would have beeen too long for this scumbag.

17 posted on 12/11/2005 10:59:23 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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Let me see if I get this right... Someone parks a Jeep in front of a train, we can't hear about his immigration status, but someone who testifies in a trial twenty-five years ago we can?

Guess those ANSWER folks are going to be ripping up their 'People Aren't Illegal' banners, right? Right?

Wow, those crickets are chirping awfully loudly...

18 posted on 12/11/2005 11:00:07 AM PST by kingu (I'm a liberal's worst nightmare - a conservative that votes.)
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To: calcowgirl

I guess there's no money in it, but wouldn't it be refreshing to see this much effort put into keeping black kids from going down the wrong path in the first place?

Imagine how many people would be championing the cause of a white man that uttered the epiteth "the N-Word", while killing blacks. In this case the utterance of "Buddah heads" while killing Asians seems to be another ho-hum fact that isn't worthy of consideration.


19 posted on 12/11/2005 11:10:27 AM PST by DoughtyOne (MSM: Public support for war waining. 403/3 House vote against pullout vaporizes another lie.)
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Any indications on how Arnold will go on this issue? Clemency or not?


20 posted on 12/11/2005 11:12:37 AM PST by Ciexyz (Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
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