Go crazy?
Don't mind if I do!!!
I'm Morley Safer, I'm Mike Wallace, and this is 60 Minutes!!
Posted on 03/17/2006 8:40:03 AM PST by Great Communicator
Monica Crowley's alleged stalker entered the broadcasting beauty's name into his laptop 9,000 times, it was revealed yesterday as the jury got the case. Two alternate jurors dismissed yesterday predicted homeless artist Ronald Martin would beat the charges - despite e-mails and other evidence suggesting he was obsessed with Crowley and she was frightened of him.
"I don't think he intended to harm her. There was no evidence of that," one of the alternates told the Daily News.
Jurors began deliberations after a prosecutor told them Martin "intended to harass, annoy and alarm" Crowley, while a defense attorney countered that "a series of misunderstandings" led to the charges.
Martin was arrested and charged in July 2004 with aggravated harassment and stalking - misdemeanors that could send him to jail for a year if he's convicted.
A computer technician testified yesterday that when he analyzed Martin's laptop computer he found the suspect had entered Crowley's name more than 9,000 times, and had downloaded numerous photos of the blond, blue-eyed broadcaster. In the four-day Manhattan Supreme Court trial, prosecutors claimed Martin bombarded Crowley with terrifying e-mails, stalked her outside her offices, and accosted her on a subway platform. NYPD Detective Joseph Cornetta read a handful of e-mails to the jury that sounded creepy, but had no direct threats. Cornetta testified a printout of 450 other e-mails was swiped from his desk.
"This wasn't a misunderstanding, it wasn't a crush, it wasn't a publicity stunt. This was criminal," prosecutor Artie McConnell told the jury. "He intended to harass, annoy and alarm her."
During the trial, Crowley testified Martin stalked her outside the Fox News studios in midtown when she worked there, and outside the WABC-AM radio studios, where she hosts a Saturday broadcast. "I was shaking in fear," testified Crowley, 37, who is also a conservative commentator for MSNBC and worked for President Richard Nixon after he left office.
But defense attorney Stuart Singer countered that the evidence against Martin proved nothing more than "a series of misunderstandings and confusions by all."
"We basically have a fan who had a crush," Singer said. "Where is the intent? That is the key element to do any harm."
Singer also called for a mistrial yesterday, after six of the deliberating jurors said they saw the front page of Wednesday's Daily News touting the case. But Justice Arlene Silverman rejected the motion after the jurors assured her they didn't read about the case.
Do all of the homeless in NYC have laptops?
Originally considered posting all 9000, but the FBI is already looking for me as it is.
So, do most homeless people have laptops nowdays?
The people in my town who sleep in cardboard refrigerator boxes down at the river don't have laptops as far as I know.
Yeah, most of them have Palm Pilots.
He paints the homeless. Usually some color that matches the surrounding buildings, so people can't see them as easily.
Gets paid by neighborhood beautification groups.
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9000 ain't much. There must be 100 times that many entries on FR's computer about Ann, Anna, and Laurie.
Go crazy?
Don't mind if I do!!!
I'm Morley Safer, I'm Mike Wallace, and this is 60 Minutes!!
I'd be really concerned if he typed "Helen Thomas" that many times in his computer...
Feh. I type Monica Crowley into my laptop 10,000 times a day. This is nothing. Move along. :)
Almost everything you do on your computer is logged in a text file somewhere or maybe, in this case, the "tech" looked into his "temporary internet files" folder which keeps every page you have visited forever unless you delete them occasionally or have a program that does it automatically for you.
Otherwise, it sounds as if someone surreptitiously installed a key logger on his machine, in which case, it would log every key pressed and keep it in a text file to be viewed by anyone who knew the key logging program was installed.
You sure are...your sentence is to c'mere and gimme a kiss.
Are you suggesting that the perp was smitten by "twue wuv?"
Got Pepto?
Now THAT is Nasty!!!! LOL
No, that's inconceivable.
I agree; incontheivable.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Man, beat me to it.
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