Posted on 11/05/2007 9:52:41 AM PST by raccoonradio
Lawyers for accused Logan airport bomb prankster Star Simpson have asked that a judge, not a jury of her peers, decide the MIT sophomore’s fate.
But they’re also hoping Simpson’s Dec. 3 bench trial date in the East Boston Division of Boston Municipal Court won’t be necessary.
Defense attorney Thomas Dwyer Jr. this morning filed a motion to dismiss the single charge of possession of a hoax device Simpson, 19, faces. He argued that no reasonable person could have believed the getup that nearly got his client killed by state police on Sept. 21 “could function as such a machine.”
According to Dwyer, the light-up star shirt Simpson wore to the airport to pick up her boyfriend was “a homemade electronic nametag” she designed for her coursework as an electro-engineering and computer science major. But police feared it was a suicide explosive and surrounded her at gunpoint
In addition to showing off her “technological ingenuity,” Dwyer said Simpson’s intent was “that in lieu of the generic nametag distributed at the MIT Career Fairs, she would build a shirt that lit up in the shape of a star, informing potential employers of her first name.”
The highly accomplished Simpson chose more conservative attire for her brief appearance this morning before Judge Paul Mahoney: a loose-fitting maroon top, long black skirt and black tights.
Dwyer said the alleged blob of clay Simpson was clutching in her hand at the airport was actually a “pink rose” she had made to welcome her beloved home.
I want a pony.
A lot of smart people have no common sense.
You have to ask John Edwards for one.
She doesn’t have any peers. Just ask her.
I think that the charge against her is inappropriate, but then again, they don’t have a charge against stupid.
Should get down on her knees every morning and thank whatever goddess she believes in that she isn’t worm food.
Which reminds me of something:
I’ll be making a leather jacket with a few pounds of Christmas tube lighting, powered by a battery. I guess it would be safe to say there’s no way I’d get that passed Customs? Even if I were to take it out at Check In, show it to the supervisor, turn it on, lock it in my baggage and put the key away right in front of them? Then after that, there’s whatever countries in Europe I have to go through.
I was telling NonValue that he has to ask John Edwards for a pony.
Boo-hoo. She should have thought this through first.
State Police cudda saved us all this expense with one little squeeze of the trigger.
Ship it. Declare the contents. Insure the package.
They should have just shot her and been done with it.....
Exactly—and btw “techies” and performance artists
are defending her actions, from a quick web search I
did (one said she bought a T-shirt of some sort
for the Star Simpson legal defense fund. D’oh!)
If there’s a FedEx Kinko’s at European airports with employees that speak English, then it sounds like a plan.
Thanks
This bimbo should do some jail time, people like this have zero common sense and they tend to get away with a lot of things. This is a post 9-11 event and IMO she’s lucky she’s still alive, some cop could have gone off and shot this twit, we’ve had a couple of incidents like this and all the idiots have gotten off without any kind of punishment.
Neither do many police or TSA employees. The police are flat out wrong in this case, and should all be fired.
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