Posted on 12/15/2010 7:37:05 PM PST by moonshinner_09
JAMES CITY COUNTY, Va. (WAVY) - There was another heartbreaking delay in court Wednesday for the family of a 16-year-old girl who police say was raped and murdered nearly six years ago by an illegal immigrant who is also deaf and mute.
Unless Oswaldo Martinez, who prosecutors say is a perfect DNA match to the killer, learns enough sign language to communicate with his attorney, he might never stand trial.
The body of Brittany Binger was discovered in January 2005 on a patch of grassy land right in front of the mobile home park where she lived in James City County.
In court Wednesday the judge ruled that Martinez, in the country illegally from El Salvador, is still not yet competent to stand trail because he has not yet learned enough sigh language, even though experts at Central State Hospital have been teaching him sign language for nearly six years now. Prosecutor Nathan Green said hospital officials indicate Martinez is making progress in his ability to communicate.
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I bet he would understand a firing squad!
A .45 awakening would make sign language irrelevent.
Do you think he can read lips ?
total nonsense...he understands perfectly well...you don’t go through 25 or so years of life without understanding what’s going on....let’s all of us sit around and feel sorry for this piece of trash....better than that....lock his butt up forever....read my lips NO PAROLE
This is disgusting...just more pandering to Illegal Aliens.
Sorry, no. He deserves the 50-cent solution.
What’s the point of having court houses and judges. They collect money and return no justice.
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