Virginia Lawyer Faces Murder Charge in Florida (Motive: Saw Palmetto)

Pensacola News Journal ^ | June 26, 2002 | Sean Smith

[Shermy]

A Virginia attorney charged in the stabbing death of a Perdido Key man on the man's wedding day was indicted Tuesday on charges of first-degree murder.

William Clyde Harbour, 52, an international law attorney for the Joint Forces Command at Norfolk (Va.) Naval Air Station, is scheduled to be arraigned at 9 a.m. Friday in the Escambia County Courthouse.

[Shermy]

So I was thinking, this over a plant? Then I looked up "saw palmetto". It's an aphrodisiac, sold by many herbal remedy companies. Maybe he needed some for the wedding night.

[Grampa Dave]

Also, it is marketed for guys with prostrate problems. It supposedly helps the problem and prevents it from coming back. I hadn't heard about the so called aphrodisiac effect.

However if a guy had severe and chronic prostatitis and saw palmetto cured that, the end result might be a desirable one.

[APBaer]

"Then I looked up "saw palmetto". It's an aphrodisiac, sold by many herbal remedy companies. Maybe he needed some for the wedding night."

He doesn't need it now, he's stiff as a board, all over.

[crystalk]

Posters above have misunderstood. The attorney is the one who claimed to have prostate trouble, and to be seeking the saw palmetto. It is he that COMMITTED the murder of the Florida good old boy, and for incomprehensible reasons.

The saw palmetto needs to be concentrated greatly, as in the dried berry products freely available on the open market in nearly all supermarkets, wal-marts, health food stores etc.

It grows wild in Fla all over, of course, but can hardly justify this attorney's presence on Brown's property with a lethal bayonet knife, and with a gun and ammunition in nearby car trunk.

It was the Florida man who was to have been married in a matter of days, and is now dead.

[another cricket]

1.)Witnesses identified Harbour as the man who pursued and repeatedly stabbed Brown, who collapsed in the street after the initial attack at his home, the report stated.
2.)"I don't think they have first-degree murder. (Harbour) steadfastly maintains he had no intent to do harm to anyone."

Since when does inflicting multiple stab wounds mean that no harm is intended?

Does not compute..... Smoke now pouring out of ears... Augh!

a.cricket

[arthurus]

Since when does inflicting multiple stab wounds mean that no harm is intended?

He was just trying to show the guy his neat new knife and the dam thing just went off.

[Shermy]

"Does not compute..... Smoke now pouring out of ears."

Yeah, and I posted a thread with "Lawyer Faces Murder Charge" and there's only a few replies. Everyone occupied with the Pledge issue, I guess. :)

[folklore]

If the guy was stabbed while saying the pledge....that would be a hit!

[Shermy]

Indeed! Why didn't he think of that...

BTW, not nice to see someone of importance in our govt. doing this.

[folklore]

Someone of importance? HE IS A LAWYER. Throw him in the gulf and hope he dosen't bite a kid.

[another cricket]

He was just trying to show the guy his neat new knife and the dam thing just went off.

Transcript from hearing.

"You mean to tell me you were just standin' on a street corner..."
"Uh-huh."
Had your knife out..."
"Yep."
Cleaning your fingernails..."
"That's what I was doing"
"And this guy came around the corner and ran into that knife one time and it killed him?"
"Heck no your honor. That would be silly. He ran into that knife fourteen times and it killed him!"

a.cricket

[APBaer]

Of course it was bad, Dude, Woody got confused and smoked Palmetto instead of hemp, and his tongue stod up at attention and touched his nose.