Slain Teacher's Tape Reveals More Evidence

CNN ^ | 11.07.02

[Coleus]

TOM'S RIVER, New Jersey (CNN) -- A teen-ager was sentenced Friday to life in prison for carjacking and killing a teacher, who managed to record secretly the attack and her desperate pleas to be spared.

Michael LaSane, 17, will not be eligible for parole for 30 years. He pleaded January 27 to felony murder in the death of Kathleen Weinstein, 45.

[Coleus]

I find it incredible that the majority of the same folks who call themselves "pro-choice" when it comes to abortion are anti-choice (pro-death) when it comes to self-defense. >>>

They feel the same with the issue of School choice.

[Coleus]

That's true, but that was not the point the FReeper I was responding to had made. He was saying that she WOULD have been packing.>>

he was talking to me I guess. I don't recall saying the word "would" and I'm not going to resort to petty nit picking with words nor am I going to re-read all the posts to find the word "would" or see where it was implies. NJ law prevents residents from carrying and to make you happy I will now use the word "Could".

And yes, more than likely, a presumed liberal social worker in the Education field probably would not have been carrying a handgun if NJ had provided for such a law.

[Coleus]

Please don't reduce everyone to your political position.>>

Who is everyone, I am posting "my own" opinion on an internet bulletin board where it is allowed and encouraged? I am not "your" spokesperson, I do not know you. So who is everyone and what exactly do you think is my "political" position?

[mrustow]

In #102 you grant my point, but two minutes later, in #103, say you don't know what I'm talking about. What am I missing here?

[yarddog]

You are comparing the most innocent of all human life with a criminal convicted of killing.

Really a sick distorted way of looking at things.

[Coleus]

Most pro lifers are against the death penalty except for extreme cases as the Catholic Church allows. The problem is the democrats who not only allow the slaughter of the innocents, 45 million of them so far, they also parole cop killers like tom trantino who received a "life" sentence and are now trying to get Mumia out of prison in PA. Trantino was actully walking the streets alive and well until he beat up his girlfriend. So much for Democrat Prison Reform.


NJ has yet to execute anyone except for thousands of innocent children per year in abortion mills, teenage abortion rates are the highest in NJ. And these NJ teachers allow abortion, they vote democrat, kick out abstinence lecturers from their convention, hand out condoms in schools, facilitate abortions for teens and actually encouraged union members to go to a pro death rally in DC on April 25th.

Abortion and euthanasia don't democrats just kill ya

and parole convicted murderers with life sentences from prison.

[Coleus]

Gun control is against the Constitution, you idiot.

the God-given rights afforded mankind, the rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness are founded in the Declaration of Independence and granted to Americans in the Bill of Rights where Government was created to secure these rights and to make sure these rights will remain granted to individual Americans to protect their Life, family, and property in order to be happy.

Didn't you ever go to school? If you did, it must have been a public school taught by secular humanists/Marxists.

[Coleus]

she needed a gun, NOT a tape recorder.

that worked just as well as the panic button.

[Coleus]

Man accused of killing teacher to go on trial in September

 

Michael LaSane, 27, of Beachwood is expected to go on trial for murder in September.

TOMS RIVER — A judge on Tuesday scheduled a September trial date for a Beachwood man accused a decade ago of carjacking and murdering a Middletown schoolteacher who secretly recorded her final words with her killer.  Superior Court Judge James N. Citta scheduled jury selection to begin for Michael LaSane on Sept. 19.

LaSane, now 27, of Beachwood, is charged with the murder of Kathleen Stanfield Weinstein in Berkeley on March 14, 1996, and with felony murder, kidnapping, robbery and carjacking. Weinstein, 45, was a Tinton Falls resident and a special-education teacher at Thorne Middle School in Middletown. She had a son who was 6 years old when she was abducted from the former Caldor Shopping Mall on Route 37 in Dover Township and driven to a wooded area in Berkeley's Manitou Park section, where she ultimately was smothered with her own raincoat to stop her from screaming.

Before she was killed, she used a microcassette recorder to tape herself pleading with LaSane for 46 minutes to take her 1995 Toyota Camry and spare her life, authorities have said. LaSane reportedly had said he wanted Weinstein's car as a present to himself for his 17th birthday the following day.

In 1997, LaSane waived his right to juvenile treatment and pleaded guilty in Superior Court to felony murder. He had been sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole before serving 30 years. However, in 2004, he won an appeal granting him the right to withdraw his guilty plea on the basis that he received ineffective assistance from his trial attorney, Kevin Daniels, because the attorney had a one-night stand with the defendant's mother. LaSane withdrew his guilty plea Feb. 17.

[NJNative]

i went to school with michael in 1996 at central regional in bayville. me myself i was always a troublemaker and i went to prison at the young age of 18. but at that time i only knew of him but have never met him, never heard of him being violent, never read about him in the paper, never even heard a word about drugs. there have been the rumors that he was not the killer but was his brother who committed the crime, i dont know what happened on that day. but since then that i can recall 2 other 17 year old convicted killers in ocean county new jersey, one of whom i know...but maybe its whats in jerseys water that makes murders out of the youth. since living in ct, i read in a paper that in 2002 a 16 year old kid in camden was arrested on suspicion of commiting 6 murders and possibly a 7th, how is it at 16 hes a career criminal with no tools but a gun?

[Eagles6]

Sad that her family has to relive this horror. All law abiding citizens should be armed and proficient. If you live in one of the few states that your masters won't "allow" you to defend yourself then change the law or move.

Kathleen Weinstein, Channon Christian, Jennifer Ross, Andrea Nance, Jill Creighton, Susan Best, Dana Plakis.... Anybody see a pattern?

[Charles Henrickson]

Michael LaSane:

[RunningWolf]

Yes that is true, and it applies to more than car jacking. It could be a young hitch-hiker picked up by the wrong people.

I believe it is called crime scene one and crime scene two.
Your odds are better fighting for your life at crime scene one, where he has less control.

[Coleus]

Your odds are better fighting for your life at crime scene one, where he has less control. >>

That's what all the experts say. I'm surprised they don't teach this in the schools. It's one key element to keep a child alive.