Posted on 06/30/2006 6:47:31 AM PDT by lunarbicep
The confession of a man charged with kidnapping, raping and killing 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford isn't admissible in court, but the discovery of her body can be used as evidence, a judge ruled today.
John Evander Couey, a 47-year-old convicted sex offender, gave the confession to detectives, but also told them that he wanted to consult a lawyer. He wasn't given the opportunity to do so.
Jessica Marie Lunsford was found kneeling and clutching a stuffed animal, hands tied with speaker wire and fingers poking through the garbage bags in which she was buried alive in March 2005. Two days earlier, Couey told detectives he kidnapped, raped and killed the 9-year-old girl.
I gave a donation to the Jessica Lunsford fund to help him in that journey. How any politician could block that law is beyond me. How any voters could keep a politician in office who protects pedophiles is even worse.
There are evil people sitting as judges and politicians. They enable these monsters to prey on decent society.
The police said they believed Couey was asking for a lawyer prior to having a lie detector test. Who knows, I haven't read the transcripts of the interview. But it's irrelevant.
He gave a second confession while in jail that's allowed in. The evidence gathered from the original confession is allowed in and they have DNA.
Did he confess to killing the child and then want to talk to an attorney or did he want to talk to his attorney and then confess to killing the child? Makes all the difference in the world. Oh, and did they also tell him that anything he said could be held against him in a court of law before or after he confessed to killing the child? Poor guy probably came from Mars and didn't know his Miranda rights. This was all brand new to him so I can understand the fact that he confessed to killing the child needs to be ignored during the trial.
It's possible they tried to help him escape the area,but they were also present in the trailer while he was raping the girl.It's highly probable that they were aware that Couey had the girl.Accesories before and after.Sleazeballs.
Begs the question, since there was a "consent search" made, when was the consent granted? If at the same time as the "confession," will this too be thrown out of court and once again, thanks to an idiot judge, the slaughterer of an innocent child walks free?
I'm sorry of some sleazebag's precious rights might have been momentarily overlooked, but there was a 9 year old girl missing and in peril.
Sometimes I wonder, who is the bigger sleazebag, the predators or the judges that empower them. Too often, worship of the law takes precedent over protection of the innocent victims being preyed upon by unscrupulous lawyers, judges and predators.
When will the decent lawyers stand with the rest of the citizens outraged by these worshippers of the law?
Come on, this is America, life is too short to spend it in jail. We can re-habilitate these people.
We just need to understand them. It's the police who need to be in jail.
If an attorney were present, what else would he do but tell the criminal to SHUT-UP? In the meantime, there was the small matter of trying to hopefully find a missing 9-year old girl alive. Give him the attorney and it might have been weeks before they found her body.
isn't it about time We the People started demanding equal rights and protections?
Worshippers of the law without an ounce of common sense.
Too bad we can't hold judges accountable for the criminal actions people take when they are let out. But we can hold politicians accountable and in some areas judges by voting their pedohphile loving rear ends out of office.
Yeah, you frogs and ducks always stick together.
Jessica deserves justice and Couey deserves the worst possible punishment that can be meted out.
The three relatives who were in the trailer during the time Jessica was captive and helped Couey leave the county, should never be permitted to sleep again -- or worse. No way they didn't know the little girl was there. Children in this area are still traumatized by the horrible tragedy, afraid to sleep alone, etc.
As much as I find O'Reilly annoying, he has been doing the Lord's work on exposing these judges and demanding that the laws be changed.
"If someone did that to my kid, I'd kill them myself. I wouldn't care how long it took, how much money it took, how much trouble I'd be in, i would have my revenge."
I have often tried to picture myself in the position of being the parent of one of these children.
1)I could not forgive.
2)I could not forget.
3)I would be destroyed by my own anger.
So I would come to the same conclusion you did: I would have nothing to lose, so I would kill the SOB.
I am surprised that this does not happen more often.
AMEN. I'd even turn myself in afterwards. I'd do my alotted prison time (assuming they could find a jury to convict me) whistlng "Zippedee doo dah."
But that f*cker'd still be dead -- slowly and painfully -- by my hand.
I also live in Florida and have been watching this case closely.
Jessica deserves more than justice, she deserves that this waste of carbon never walk another day on earth and that no other children be raped, tortured and killed as she was.
As for the roommate.....ohh they deserve to sleep alright, they deserve a dirt nap IMO.
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