Posted on 01/26/2007 5:40:57 AM PST by diefree
Slay charge tossed
BY PETER KADUSHIN and LEO STANDORA DAILY NEWS WRITERS
A Mexican immigrant languished in a Rikers Island jail cell on murder charges for more than four years before Queens prosecutors finally admitted yesterday they had no case. Lourdes Torres had tears in her eyes when the charges were dismissed in Queens Supreme Court. "Thank you. I am grateful," said the 31-year-old woman, who, throughout her ordeal, denied she killed her boyfriend.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Happens to US citizens too.
Where's the BARF or BOO-HOO alert?
Well they'll be able to find her so we can toss her ass back to wherever she came from.
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YAAAY! Now, let's get back to the Border Agents that are in jail!
I hate to read something like this happening to someone and I know it happens to citizens too. But don't you think if she had been legal the system would have moved faster?
Maybe, but US citizens get railroaded by prosecutors too.
Especially when you read the whole story....
Because she has been in America illegally, she faces deportation, although her family will fight to keep her here. Torres' nightmare began after Romeo Einstein Acuna, a 49-year-old video store owner, was stabbed to death in the hallway of his Jackson Heights home on Sept. 25, 2002. Detectives found a message from Torres on Acuna's phone and discovered her necklace in his apartment, so they brought her in for 18 hours of questioning. She wrote a five-page confession.
But Sapone (the scum-sucking defense lawyer in this case) said his client has an IQ "bordering on mental retardation" and (stop me if you;ve heard this one before...) had no understanding of what the confession meant. <snip>
Sapone was brought into the case last year by the Mexican Consulate after Torres' case was adjourned 44 times. <snip>
Although Torres "confessed" to stabbing Acuna "two or more times" in the kitchen of his apartment, blood was in every room of the flat and his body with 21 knife wounds was found in a hallway," said Sapone. He also said blood from one unidentified person and saliva from another was found mixed with Acuna's blood. < end story>
So endless trial delays, combined with legal tactics led to the release of an illegal alien with no hope of gainful employment. That's the way it goes in our criminal justice system.
If she had been legal the possibility is that she would have been out on bail. The article doesn't state as to what that bail would have been.
It shouldn't matter to anyone that she is probably illegal. What should matter is that a confession was probably coerced and that the police did not seem to care whether or not they had the guilty person.
Actually here's how it plays out. The illegal immigrant falsely accused and jailed gets an ACLU lawyer and sues the city of New York for muchos pesos and never has to go back to Mexico or work the rest of her life. It's another great American success story !!!
You did a good job of summing it up btw.
Under Bush it's against the law the defend the border. Those border patrol agents broke the Bush law. Maybe a prisoner exchange can be worked out. Two patriotic agents sent to Mexico in exchange for two million alien invaders with amnesty.
Bush - let's do amnesty right away for illegals and slowly process a pardon for the agents doing their jobs. Amnesty is assured while a pardon is a maybe.
No more RINO presidents, please.
I'm going to guess that the case was adjourned so many times due to an impossibly full docket, resulting from too few judges bound by too many rules dealing with too many motions filed by too many defense lawyers.
So, it wasn't that she didn't do it (that remains to be seen), it was that they couldn't prove it and besides, she is retarded. So her lawyer scams the system. A lawyer defending an American citizen in Mexico in that way would be summarily disbarred. I am sick to death of the Mexican consuls getting involved in our criminal justice system. She should be deported because she is here illegally. Or has Bush included every last mentally retarded person in Mexico in his open borders for all invitation?
If so, prepare yourself for a flood of poorly-picked vegetables and lawnmower accidents.
I'm also guessing that the majority of adjournments were initiated by her PD, who, I'm also guessing, was way overworked (As was the DA, I bet.)
Per Mayor Bloomberg and PC Kelly crime is down in New York City. However, we have this -
January 16, 2007
The Number of Unsolved Murders in New York City
There are now 9,082 unsolved murders in New York City going back to 1985. That figure is a moving target of course. They are adding to that number all the time. Roughly 150 - 200 or more murders go cold every year, and try as they might, they are not going back and solving that many each year (of the older, cold cases).
That picture was take at one of the Property Clerk warehouses. Those barrels contain homicide evidence.
Posted by Horn at 08:40 AM | Comments (0)
http://www.echonyc.com/~horn/restless/
Didn't know a retarded person could sneak across the southern boarder and make it all the way to new york. Just more BS the attorney threw at the wall thinking something would stick.
Correction those barrels contain evidence that some cop hasn't seen fit to steal.
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