Posted on 06/22/2003 8:43:39 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
I answered that in post #83.
He came to Benton Harbor last week after a white cop chased a black guy on a motorcycle. He crashed into a building at a high speed, and died.
Two nights of rioting followed. jerkson came to call for "peace and unity".
It certainly is.
You can't make this stuff up. Guy spends last days in ladies windshield, now this.......
Dead man lived in van with mother's body buried under beer cans
By The Associated Press
(3/12/03 - DENTON, TEXAS) —
Bodies of a man and his mother were found in the front seat of a trashed-out van in the front yard of their Denton Texas residence, and police say they likely died months apart.
No cause of death has been determined, but police say they saw no obvious signs of foul play in the deaths of James Barry Mack, 48, and his mother, Margie Stuckey Mack, 87. Mack was found dead behind the wheel of the 1993 Dodge van registered to him. His mother was found dead in the passenger seat, buried under a mound of beer cans that filled the entire van up to the head rests, the Denton Record-Chronicle reported in its Wednesday editions. Mack apparently lived in the van and drove it around town with his mother's body inside, said Denton Detective Sgt. Lenn Carter.
"We had a welfare concern call there in December, and it's possible she was already dead then," Carter said. A neighbor said the gas had been cut off in the Mack residence for nonpayment and Mack had been staying in the van, running the engine to keep warm. The neighbor said she occasionally brought gasoline to Mack so he could keep the engine running.
Monday afternoon, a neighbor made a 911 call, saying she had not seen Mack recently. Police broke into the house when they could not rouse anyone. According to the police report, the house was filled with dog feces and cat litter, and an officer had to wade through knee-high piles of empty cans in one room. Officers then broke into the van, which had dark-tinted windows.
They found Mack slumped in the driver's seat, undressed from the waist down. Two emaciated dogs were in the van, and the officers called animal control to take them. "While we were waiting, the dogs would stand on him and honk the horn," Carter said. "They really wanted out of that van."
It was only after they began moving beer cans that they discovered the body of Mack's mother in the passenger seat. She also was partially undressed, and the lower half of one of her arms was missing. Police said they believe the starving dogs were responsible, though a sack of dog food was found buried underneath the cans.
According to tax records, taxes on the property had not been paid in the past two years. The huge back yard was overgrown in high weeds and scrub trees so dense the house is secluded from its back neighbor.
Neighbors said they did not remember the yard being mowed. Kyla Welch, whose house backs up to the side of the Mack house, told the Record-Chronicle that her neighbor did not appear to work and was a bit eccentric. But she said both were friendly enough to wave or speak when she saw them in the yard in the past eight years they have been neighbors. Welch said she had noticed recently that when she looked into the yard, Mack was sitting in the van.
"We did kind of notice they were out there all the time with the engine running. I just thought he was smoking in the van because of his mother's health," she said. "You never saw any lights in the house, but I thought they stayed in the back. You never saw anyone visiting," Welch said. "They were kind of odd, but they never bothered anybody."
Thanks !Here is a link to their website. Not sure if they have a video feed there or not:
The punishment for intoxication manslaughter in Texas is two to twenty years. If the jury assesses a sentence of ten years or less, they can sentence a defendant to community supervision rather than confinement.
I have it on now too.
I watched yesterday and couldn't quite believe what I was hearing the soap opera defense attorney say in his opening statement. As in: she couldn't be guilty of murder because she was drunk on liquor, high on drugs, and gosh darn, she felt real bad about what happened. Jurors, just magine the dead of night horror for my client, to have a 200 pound man crashing through your windshield, glass flying! Why, she was terrified!
Is that a legitimate defense? He said:
she's guilty of not stopping to give aid and tampering with evidence...that's all, and the only reason she didn't turn sherself in was cause she got some real bad advice.
No doubt in my mind that if this trial involved a white woman, she and her white male conspirators would be charged with hate crimes. But not to worry, this trial will be over real quick, and I predict this gal's going to a Texas prison for a real long time.
TUESDAY:
I'm astounded to hear a forensic scientist tell the court, under questioning by the prosecution, that the blood stains found in the car were not compared to the blood type of the victim. He said it was determined to be blood. He said he didn't compare the hair samples either.
Could I have possibly misunderstood this?
If not, I can't imagine the defense using this information as any kind of proof that his client is innocent, but it sure seems like an important omission to me
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