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Posted on 03/23/2010 12:00:15 PM PDT by bamahead
HUNTSVILLE, AL. -- A Madison County district judge ruled this morning that accused UAH shooter Amy Bishop should be kept in custody and her case handed over to a grand jury to consider a capital murder charge against her.
The ruling by Judge Ruth Ann Hall followed a 25-minute preliminary hearing that featured testimony by Huntsville police investigator Charlie Gray. Gray described the investigation into the Feb. 12 shooting rampage at the University of Alabama in Huntsville that left three dead and three wounded.
Bishop, 45, is accused of killing three fellow biology faculty members and shooting three others. She was arrested at a loading dock at UAH's Shelby Center after calling her husband from a cell phone borrowed after the shootings, Gray testified.
Gray said the 9mm pistol recovered after the shooting was purchased in 1989 in New Hampshire by a New Hampshire resident on behalf of Bishop's husband Jim Anderson. Gray said federal investigators intereviewed the man who told them Anderson wanted the gun because of an ongoing dispute with a neighbor. New Hampshire does not have a waiting period for handgun purchases. Massachusetts, where Anderson was living at the time, had a waiting period, Gray said. Bishop and Anderson were married in 1989.
Bishop did not show any reaction to the testimony about the shooting. Gray said during a two-hour interview with Bishop following the shooting, she appeared to understand the questions but stressed that the shooting didn't happen, that she wasn't there and that "It wasn't me."
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Working on her insanity plea.
Execute her!
The Eddie Murphy defense.
Or Sgt. Schultz...
“...Gray said the 9mm pistol recovered after the shooting was purchased in 1989 in New Hampshire by a New Hampshire resident on behalf of Bishop’s husband Jim Anderson...”
A classic “Straw man” purchase. Already illegal. Are “they” going to prosecute?
She should totally walk, I mean she is a liberal and by definition, innocent.
I agree that she should be executed. Quickly, too — no need to wait for 10 or more years.
My husband, OTOH, thinks the jury won’t give her the death penalty because she is a woman.
Neither of us thinks the insanity plea will work.
Of course not.
"A family source said Bishop, a mother of four children - the youngest a third-grade boy - was a far-left political extremist who was "obsessed" with President Obama to the point of being off-putting."--Boston Herald, February 15, 2010
'Oddball' portrait of Amy Bishop emerges:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100215oddball_protrait_emerges_suspects_family_pals_offer_clues/srvc=home&position=0
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"The woman accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama in Huntsville was a suspect in a 1993 attempted mail bombing, according to a report by The Boston Globe.
The report broke the day after it was learned that Bishop fatally shot her brother in Braintree in 1986.
More than fifteen years ago, Bishop worked with Sylvia Fluckiger at Children's Hospital in Boston.
"I thought she was an odd-ball. Maybe socially a little awkward," Fluckiger said. "I felt she was a little bit sloppy working in the lab. But we were not friends. She came to do her experiments in our lab. I had my stuff to be done. We didn't hang out."
In 1993, Bishop and her husband, James Anderson, were reportedly questioned about a mail bomb that was sent to the Newton home of Harvard Medical School professor Dr. Paul Rosenberg.
Colleagues at Children's Hospital were suspicious at the time, because Bishop was apparently angry at Dr. Rosenberg, although no one knew why.
She is clearly not insane. She killed her own brother out of maliciousness.
No, she isn’t insane, IMO. I’m not up on AL law, but the standard definition is, if I recall correctly: (1) does not know right from wrong, and (2) unable to conform her conduct to the requirements of law.
She is a brain expert though and I guess she figures the jury will be fooled by her claims of amnesia.
I think she is a sociopath/psychopath: not sure if there is a big difference.
I usually think of sociopaths as someone who is more anti-social. It is a synonym for psychopath Psychopath is someone who has a personality disorder. Psychotic is mentally ill. There are differences between psychopath and psychotic. Psychopaths know what they do is wrong, but they do it. Psychotics for the most part do not know what is right and wrong.
Sociopath
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sociopath
Examples:
Psychotic-Seung-Hui Cho, Howard Unruh, and Andrea Yates
Psychopath-Lori Drew, Charles Manson, and Joseph Stalin
I vote execute. My daughter who is a Biology major at UAH says that is her sentiment and that of many of the students there, especially those in the Biology Dept. who personally knew the murdered teachers and the murderer as my daughter did.
Here is an article about school shooters that differentiates between psychopaths and psychotic.
http://www.schoolshooters.info/expanding-the-sample.pdf
Thank you. That looks interesting and I bookmarked it to read in a little while.
Your kindly welcome.
Playing the Looney Card, at counsel's advice. They'll try it every time.
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