Posted on 05/28/2010 3:47:43 PM PDT by KingofZion
A transient with a long criminal history pleaded guilty Friday to kidnapping and murdering a 17-year-old girl who was killed after failed attempts to withdraw cash from an automated teller machine with a credit card.
The plea spared Charlie Samuel a possible death sentence for the killing of Lily Burk, whose body was found inside her car in a downtown Los Angeles parking lot. Her neck and been slashed and her head beaten.
As part of his plea agreement with prosecutors, Samuel will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Samuel, 50, was on parole at the time of the killing and enrolled in a residential drug treatment center south of Koreatown. He obtained permission to leave the facility on July 24 so that he could visit a Department of Motor Vehicles office, even though the office was closed.
The 5-foot-2-inch Burk went missing the same day while visiting Southwestern Law School in the Westlake area of the city as she ran an errand for her mother, a lawyer who taught at the school.
Authorities said surveillance cameras showed Samuel driving Burk's black volvo away from the front of the law school with the high school student in the front passenger seat.
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I hope there is a special place in hell reserved for him.
Lesson to other parents: Don't send your kids to skid row to do your errands. Or you may have some unimaginable pain.
He’s a member of the diversity crowd. If he isn’t a member of the religion of peace(TM) he’ll be one very soon!
Sarcasm now off.
Prayers for this young lady and her loved ones.
re: A transient with a long criminal history
Say no more.
I think that under such circumstances, police officers should be given wide latitude to have accidental discharges of their handguns, resulting in the tragic death of such monsters.
IIRC the SCOTUS ruled fairly recently that only a jury can sentence a defendant to death.I wonder if that applies when there was no trial...like in this case.If not,why can't the judge sentence this filthbag to death? Judges are not bound by plea agreements that prosecutors might reach.
They had this scumbag on video. Were there no witnesses? Did the witnesses think that the sight of a huge middle-aged black man with his arm around a petite teenage white girl was simply a normal everyday occurrence, and to think otherwise or to have the slightest suspicion would be considered racist?
Screw Political Correctness!
There really is something rotten in this country and it is the liberal judicial system we’ve gotten foisted upon us by the lousy pols who make the rules. God help us!!
“Judges are not bound by plea agreements that prosecutors might reach.”
But that IS the agreement. He pleads guilty and gets life, not death. If the Judge were to reject that he could just get a trial. Where he MIGHT get death but he also MIGHT get a lesser sentence or he MIGHT get acquitted.
I thought that the guilty plea comes first and then the judge's sentence.I've read...or at least I *think* I've read...that when a prosecutor reaches a plea agreement all the agreement says...all that it *can* say under the law...is that if the defendant pleads guilty to "x" the prosecutor will *recommend* to the judge that the sentence be "y" but the judge is not legally bound to follow that recommendation.
Of course a lawyer could set me straight here if necessary.
He needs to be recycled into worm food.
Scum of the earth. He deserved the death penalty. There is comfort in knowing that he’ll never get the chance to harm innocent people again.
Agreed.
Why is this scum still wasting good air?
Maybe the boyfriend and father with baseball bats...
If you look at the DoJ crime statistics the diverse crowd commits a disproportionate amount of the violent crimes in our country. Any thinking individual would take heed of any diversity in their vicinity.
He avoided the death penalty when he committed the crime in California.
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