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VAN DAM MURDER VERDICT [VERDICT IN: GUILTY!]
ABC radio

Posted on 08/21/2002 10:03:52 AM PDT by wallcrawlr

I just heard this at noon.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: horndog; kidnapping; molestation; vandam; westerfield; westerfieldrailroad
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To: marajade
Her parents weren't on trial in this case, Westerfield was.

They weren't on trial, but IMO, they supplied enough reasonable doubt to aquit.

281 posted on 08/21/2002 11:30:26 AM PDT by southern rock
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To: southern rock
Wait, I thought he was obviously innocent because the poor girl's parents were swingers

Doesn't make him innocent. It creates reasonable doubt, however, IMO.

IMO, you flunk Logic 101. Blood doesn't lie.

282 posted on 08/21/2002 11:30:27 AM PDT by arm958
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To: Henrietta
Even one drop of blood, one strand of hair, and one fingerprint was enough to bring the jury to conviction.
283 posted on 08/21/2002 11:30:51 AM PDT by marajade
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To: Mrs Mark
You are free to believe whatever you wish.
284 posted on 08/21/2002 11:30:54 AM PDT by OldFriend
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To: marajade
Do you think it's impossible for a jury to come to a verdict that's inconsistent with the facts of the case, and do so for their own reasons?
285 posted on 08/21/2002 11:30:57 AM PDT by Steve0113
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To: P-Marlowe
I hope these threads get the death penalty. But I'm afraid we'll never hear the end of how this "good man" was framed by a vast conspiracy of swingers, law enforcement, crooked judges, crooked attorneys and stupid jurors.
286 posted on 08/21/2002 11:31:02 AM PDT by wimpycat
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To: P-Marlowe
No, Avila is guilty. I only fawn over the innocent ones.
287 posted on 08/21/2002 11:31:40 AM PDT by crystalk
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To: wimpycat
"thanks for the running commentary. please keep narrating"

I had to step away for a few minutes to catch my breath..
288 posted on 08/21/2002 11:32:03 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
I want to thank you for pinging me to the threads as this case developed. I know a lot of people are disappointed. But that would have been true with any verdict.

I'm very glad that I was not on the jury. I hadn't formed a conclusion, I only prayed that God's will be done and I'm sure that it was.

289 posted on 08/21/2002 11:32:04 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: bluesagewoman
Ping
290 posted on 08/21/2002 11:32:15 AM PDT by Dogrobber
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To: southern rock
"They weren't on trial, but IMO, they supplied enough reasonable doubt to aquit."

How is that? They had her blood on his jacket, her hair in his motorhome, and her fingerprints in his motorhome...


291 posted on 08/21/2002 11:32:25 AM PDT by marajade
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To: marajade
He's gotta house in San Diego County that's worth nearly 400,000 dollars...

Now I KNOW you haven't been following the case. He signed the house over to his lawyer months ago to cover attorney fees.

292 posted on 08/21/2002 11:32:32 AM PDT by Steve0113
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To: marajade
The house was signed over to feldman, probably for legal fees
293 posted on 08/21/2002 11:32:36 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8
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To: Peach
Oh, yeah, the "system" worked...it proved that innocent men can be railroaded, and that juries are just rubber stamps for corrupt judges and prosecutors.

I am sick at this verdict.

294 posted on 08/21/2002 11:32:37 AM PDT by Henrietta
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To: luckodeirish
The men on the Menendez jury were going out of their minds with the illogic of the women who thought the boys couldn't possibly have killed their mother.

Sadly, women often tend to blame the victim rather than the perpetrator.

295 posted on 08/21/2002 11:32:48 AM PDT by OldFriend
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To: Slip18
possibly in about 100 years, he may get the death penalty

Yeah...that's the only thing. All the death penalty is going to mean for this guy is that he will be kept isolated and protected from the general prison population. Death penalty for murderers of adults is probably as severe as punishment gets. But, from what I hear, being in the general prison population (especially certain cell blocks and the guards usually know which ones) for ANY child murderer/molester would be MORE severe than the death penalty for this guy.

296 posted on 08/21/2002 11:33:44 AM PDT by hispanarepublicana
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To: Steve0113
"Do you think it's impossible for a jury to come to a verdict that's inconsistent with the facts of the case, and do so for their own reasons?"

Sure... it happens all the time... But there was DNA evidence in this case ...


297 posted on 08/21/2002 11:33:44 AM PDT by marajade
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To: marajade
He's gotta house in San Diego County that's worth nearly 400,000 dollars...

Signed over to Feldman in March, please try to keep up ...

298 posted on 08/21/2002 11:33:53 AM PDT by dread78645
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To: marajade
He's gotta house in San Diego County that's worth nearly 400,000 dollars...

His house and patents were signed over to Feldman. Westerfield is broke!

299 posted on 08/21/2002 11:34:45 AM PDT by nycgal
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
"The house was signed over to feldman, probably for legal fees ..."

I thought I heard that he had signed it over to his son just after he got arrested?


300 posted on 08/21/2002 11:34:52 AM PDT by marajade
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