Posted on 12/05/2008 3:16:45 AM PST by NCDragon
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines is the target of a defamation lawsuit by the stepfather of one of three 8-year-old boys slain in 1993.
Maines spoke out for three people convicted of the slayings and alleged the stepfather was instead involved in the killings.
Terry Hobbs, stepfather of Steve Branch, who was killed in 1993 with Christopher Byers and Michael Moore, filed suit in Pulaski County Circuit Court on Nov. 25. The suit names all three members of the Dixie Chicks, but focuses on Maines.
The suit seeks compensatory and punitive damages. Hobbs claims he suffered loss of income, injury to his reputation and emotional distress.
Maines attended a Dec. 19 rally in Little Rock, where she claimed Jason Baldwin, Damien Echols and Jessie Misskelley - known to sympathizers as the "West Memphis Three" - were innocent and that supposed new evidence pointed to Hobbs.
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Well she is married to an Arab.
Oh, is she? I didn’t know that.
If he’s innocent his outrage is understandable.
More like they’ll be playing bars in San Francisco and will be known as the Chixie Dix.
Seems pretty dumb for him to engage in a pissing contest with her then. A lawsuit opens him up for all kinds of investigation.
If he’s innocent his outrage is understandable.
On the evidence of New Evidence in West Memphis Murders I'm not seeing outrage, but he doesn't appear to be one of nature's geniuses.
And having followed the case for 6 minutes ... 7 minutes now, "evidence against the convicted kids is pretty weak" is an understatement. Only the most gullible jury would not find reasonable doubt.
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Good ‘un.
That picture exemplifies their lack of character, to me, and most of the things they have done publicly, and continue to say and do, just solidifies it. Quite a legacy of inspirational motherhood for their children./s
There’s one old American traditional value that is worth hanging on to: Innocent until proven guilty.
Judging guilt by displays of appropriate emotion isn’t a replacement.
Judging outrage, or lack of same, not guilt.
No, judging emotions, not facts.
He’s not that bright to say the least. In fact, he is the type that northern bigots imagine when they think of the south. He seems straight out of central casting.
...and abortion? A necessary convenience.
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