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Here is the story...
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/12/atlanta.shooting/index.html
I woke up and turned the news on and they said he is now linked to a murder of a federal customs agent (4th murder charge). Will the case be taken to federal court now? What happens to the rape charges? Do they overlook the rape charge for now because the murders out weight it? What’s everybody’s take on it?
JMH85
The Reaper
03-12-2005, 13:29
In cases like this, I really regret that Summary Execution is prohibited for civilians.
TR
I don't think you're alone in that thought TR. A gentleman living at the apartment complex who was interviewed on Fox by johnny-on-the-spot Geraldo said he would have preferred a different outcome. When questioned further he mentioned wishing something a bit more "permanent" than capture would have taken place. (paraphrased...but that was the gist of it)
mumbleypeg
03-12-2005, 14:43
I am of the opinion that justice should sometimes just be swift and terrible.
The Reaper
03-12-2005, 14:58
Lets review this sordid story.
Rapes and sodomizes his girlfriend.
Murders a judge, a clerk, and a deputy in front of witnesses in the courthouse. Kills another LEO (ICE agent). Brutalizes several other people.
Gets surrounded, waves a white flag, and surrenders. What the hell is this, a video game? Is he going to find the Lord, rehabilitate himself, and become a model citizen upon his release?
As soon as he was printed, IDed, and could be dragged in front of another judge, witnesses should have testified, sentence should have been pronounced and with any justice at all, he should be treading the gallows about sundown tomorrow.
The system is broken.
TR
As soon as he was printed, IDed, and could be dragged in front of another judge, witnesses should have testified, sentence should have been pronounced and with any justice at all, he should be treading the gallows about sundown tomorrow.
The system is broken.
TR
Couldn't agree more. Instead he'll spend several years in jail/death row at our expense. For what? He gave up all rights when he took away the rights of others by killing them. Scum like this do not deserve to live.
alphamale
03-13-2005, 01:41
Why shoot the court reporter? She just sits there and types.
This guy, among other things, is clever. He surrendered in such a way (waving a white tee-shirt) that someone taking him out would be absolutely legally in-the-wrong.
Saw the video of him walking out of the courthouse and in the parking garage. Hands in pants. Casual, cool saunter. You'd never know he had just murdered 3 people.
FrontSight
Yeah, saw that too FS. Don't get it. This guy should have had more chains around him than "Christmas Past".Granted there was a ton of FBI, cops, and ATF, but still. Then again, they could have been hoping he tried some crap again. I would have. It had to really piss off and frustrate the cops that got him, I mean the fact that they couldn't take him out then and there. I would have wanted to, would have frustrated me. The thing is he had been aquitted in his earlier trial for the rape charges by an 8 to 4 jury vote, this resulted in a "mistrial". Why, I have no clue. Perhaps RL or AL can clarify.
At any rate..... here's what I always thought about to do with these buttholes, gangbangers and such... you know, these guys that think they are soooooo BAD. Insert them anywhere, throughout the decades in any combat situation, now you don't want them as part of your team or unit. I mean into the nasty crap allllllllll alone, they're tough right? Ask the guys that ran SOG out here how far waving something white would have got them. Think the whitest thing they could have waved would have been there ass. Perhaps that's where getting your ass shot off came from. Anyway, sure would cut down on the prison population, saving us tons of money. That could be wasted elsewhere.
alphamale
03-13-2005, 05:33
12B,
re: Ghost of Christmas Past
The first spirit to visit Scrooge.
The other fast-thinking clever person was the reporter who got beat up. By refusing to get in the trunk, he saved his own life. Stats for being moved involuntarily to a secondary location are really bad. You might as well put on a toe tag.
I wonder why he decided to murder the fed agent later that day. Maybe he didn't give up his car. Or maybe Nichols didn't want to leave another witness.
FrontSight
Yeah close FS... Marley, Scrouge's 7 year dead partner, was the FIRST ghostyguy to visit. Chap1 was about Marley, clad in chains. Chap2 was about spirit #1....Chap3 about spirit #2 and so on. Thing is you are correct outside the fact that the Chap1 Marley wasn't labeled by Dickens as a "spirit", chapter-- titlewise anyway. Dammit!! Read the book a ton of years ago.. ever since have seen theatre things on it...... and now, I'm wondering why Marley. the spirit wasn't designated as spirit ONE? Perhaps in 1843 when Dickens wrote the book...... "Spirit" was the designation of choice. Interesting' Not bad for a gal that grew up watching The Math Channel :) Back to thread.
That reporter was right in what he did and it kept him alive,more than likely he would be a dead man if he hadn't done what he did in his situation. attack or git! He murdered that fed agent for the same reason he greased the others. It wasn't about another witness, he already had plenty. Now , leave him alive bound and stuff. in a trunk... whatever. maybe. Doubt it. He is simply another sick f**k..... plenty out there.
Think about this!! He wiill have a defense lawyer. As much press and the heinous murders he committed, he'll draw a bunch of known name lawyers. Umm maybe not, let's see if the cochrans and so on come out. Maybe a new star might arise, make his/her career. TR is right, the system is broken!! I'm a FOG, Ive watched it break up for decades. Well, time to sit back and watch/wait.
Goggles Pizano
03-14-2005, 09:47
Couldn't agree more. Instead he'll spend several years in jail/death row at our expense. For what? He gave up all rights when he took away the rights of others by killing them. Scum like this do not deserve to live.
I too agree with this. See Mumia abu-Jamal for further with regard to "justice for all-primarily the victims!".
The Reaper
03-14-2005, 09:51
Is there any doubt that he maliciously committed multiple capital crimes?
TR
Goggles Pizano
03-14-2005, 10:37
If that question was for me Sir I can say there is NO DOUBT this animal is guilty! I would have preferred the "he tried to escape" take down (saves money and settles the issue for the families of the slain). If the guys on the job in Philly had done it that way we could have been spared this Mumia garbage for the last 25 years.
Patton said punishment is not revenge against the guilty, its salvation for the innocent. Someone needs to pull the plug on this guy.
alphamale
03-21-2005, 04:24
Hindsight is always 20/20, but the 2 most amazing details about this so far is:
(from AP story)
Fulton County Sheriff Myron Freeman did not answer questions about why a 51-year-old, 5-foot female deputy was left alone with an uncuffed, 6-foot-1, 200-pound former college linebacker on trial for rape.
[...]
Although he asked a reporter whose car he stole for directions to a busy mall, the suspect spent as many as 12 hours milling around outside the mall, undetected, before assaulting a couple and killing a federal agent.
The Reaper
03-21-2005, 08:43
Hindsight is always 20/20, but the 2 most amazing details about this so far is:
(from AP story)
Fulton County Sheriff Myron Freeman did not answer questions about why a 51-year-old, 5-foot female deputy was left alone with an uncuffed, 6-foot-1, 200-pound former college linebacker on trial for rape.
[...]
Although he asked a reporter whose car he stole for directions to a busy mall, the suspect spent as many as 12 hours milling around outside the mall, undetected, before assaulting a couple and killing a federal agent.
Silly FS.
Didn't you hear the Fulton County DA?
"A woman can do anything that a man can do."
Several incidents of female officers being overpowered by inmates recently here in NC as well.
I would not have put a 120 lb., 51 year old male officer by himself on Nichols' detail either.
TR
alphamale
03-21-2005, 08:59
Yea. You know I know better than that.
AngelsSix
03-23-2005, 07:08
Funny, I just spoke to a gentleman here in the local area that works DOC. He told me (to my utter disbelief), that frequently female deputies or CC folks will take a prisoner to court or on a prison transfer and the inmate will be in the front seat (next to their weapon!) unchained and sometimes no cuffs!! And these CC people travel alone. We're talking medium security inmates here, not minimum. Scary stuff. Sort of makes you wonder who runs the DOC around here......I do know we have had more than one escape in NC as well.