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POOR RICCI? You've got to be kidding. From the ABC website:

According to police documents, Richard Ricci admitted breaking into a house in the Smarts' Salt Lake City neighborhood in April 2001, and also admitted stealing some things from the Smarts' home in a separate incident.
There were people sleeping in the house at the time of the break-in at a home in the Smarts' neighborhood, according to the charges filed Thursday, and Ricci allegedly woke up a houseguest as he was looking for things to take.

Because Ricci has a criminal record stretching back 29 years and is currently on parole for a conviction for the attempted homicide of a police officer, he has been deemed a habitual criminal and all of the charges have been enhanced to first-degree felonies, Salt Lake County District Attorney David Yocom said. A conviction on any of the charges could result in a sentence of up to life in prison for Ricci, Yocom said.

They didn't pick him out of soccer practice and accuse him, he seemed a pretty logical suspect. Yea, he was innocent of this one, but he tried to kill a cop! Still feel sorry for him?

The sympathy for Ricci is, I think, similar to the sympathy many had for David Westerfield. For some reason, there is a significant minority on FR who are going to side with the "underdog."

Another example: Any time there is a report of a shooting of a LEO, esp. if by a "Right wing nut," is going to have a significant number--not a majority, but a surprising number--of posts supporting the shooter.

It's just something I've come to recognize on FR.

I have compassion for his wife. So I think, this is the Christian way to feel, when someone has been wrongly accused of kidnapping and murdering a child? Ed Smart KNEW Ricci had a criminal background when he hired him. Oh, but there are many reasons why he chose to hire the down and out, right?! I'm sure "saving a buck" never entered into the picture...LOL.

Hildy, you and Illbay are far, far, too emotionally involved in this, for some strange reason, to deal with any thing that might shatter your illusions that the Smart family is anything but the most wonderful, upstanding, pillars of the community, religious family ever put on the face of this earth.

We all fall short of the Glory of God, and you are living proof of that. Your insults heaped and hurled at fellow Freepers are proof that you are not a fair-minded person..but you can tell yourself that you are.

I'll stick to my convictions that the Smart family is exploiting the child and should stop NOW. The only way a Movie or a book can be constructed, is if there are more details provided about her 9 months missing. Without the Smarts contributing to this, there would be NO STORY..*Bleep!*

Regards, sw