Opps! Sorry... 
thought that said Larry David!
Posted on 02/21/2008 10:00:05 AM PST by SmithL
Just criminals doing the job judges won’t do.
He was acquitted of the charges related to the shooting of those police officers (with the exception of a weapons charge for possessing the gun in the first place) -- mainly because there was a legitimate question at the time as to whether he even knew they were police officers when they broke into his apartment to arrest him.
I'm not sure his death at the hands of another inmate was necessarily a case of "justice rendered" at all.
The Shawangunk redemption?
I think it was on "Cold Case Files" about a year ago. Some POS married this Plain Jane and a few months later she "fell" off a seaside cliff. It turned out the poor woman was afraid of heights and never would have gone to look over the cliff as the husband claimed.
Then the cops dug back into his first wife's "accident" and found disturbing similarities, as well as hefty life insurance polices on both women.
The court gave the guy life in prison with no parole. About a year or so later, he was found at the base of a small cliif on prison grounds - dead. He had duct tape over his mouth and the word "Gerinmo" penned on his forehead.
The prison officials concluded that it was (cough) "suicide".
That ought to happen more often to these lifers - no use to anybody and a drain on the system.
Geez, “cliif” and “Gerinmo”. Double brain-flatulence (and I read it twice!)
See #10. Beat you to it by about 3 hours! Gotta be quick-witted to beat the FR humor patrol.
I had forgotten about Larry Davis. I can remember when the standoff was on the Channel 4 news. Hard to believe that it was 22 years ago!
You know he was in prison for murder, right?
Opps! Sorry... thought that said Larry David!
If I remember correctly he was never implicated in any drug-related activity himself, so he may very well have been a vigilante of some sort -- in which case HE was actually the one who was dishing out justice to THEM.
FYI . . . One of the factors in his acquittal on most of the charges related to the police shootout was probably his outlandish (or at least it seemed so back then) allegations of police corruption and drug trafficking that was being carried out by officers in the NYPD. In light of the charges that surfaced several years later in the aftermath of the "Dirty 30" investigation (in which several dozen officers in the 30th Precinct were arrested and charged with various charges related to drug dealing -- including the means by which the group would obtain their supply of drugs by mounting covert raids on drug dens without any knowledge of their superiors), this doesn't seem so far-fetched after all.
He got more justice in prison than he did from the courts.
LOL! That’s funny. It just goes to show you that one should read all the comments before making a comment.
Davis was a dealer but also a CI. He knew a ton of stuff about a couple of dirty task force guys. He threatened to talk if he was busted on the drug dealing. He thought that the cops had a hit team out for him. He thought that they came there in such force to make sure he ended the day in a body bag. He came out shooting and got away. That’s when the six POs (some who had nothing to do with the narcotics guys, they were just back-up) got shot and Davis became a neighborhood hero.
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100% wrong.
No worries. If it's not in the first 50 posts, I'm guilty of the same.
...is justice served.
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