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Michelle Perritt

Calif. ordered to cut its inmate population  - US news - Crime & courts - msn... - 0 views

  • The Supreme Court on Monday narrowly endorsed reducing California's cramped prison population by more than 30,000 inmates to fix sometimes deadly problems in medical care, ruling that federal judges retain enormous power to oversee troubled state prisons.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      What are they planning on doing with all of these people? I hope that they just don't let them go free just because the jail is overcrowded, that would be rediculous. I would feel terrible for all of the victims and victims families.
  • The reduction is "required by the Constitution" to correct longstanding violations of inmates' rights to adequate care for their mental and physical health, the court said. In 2009, the state's prisons averaged nearly a death a week that might have been prevented or delayed with better medical care.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      These people did something to deserve to be in there. It doesn't make sense just to let them out of all the sudden. I feel like this is going to be a very bad thing for everyone. They should build another jail or transfer these prisoners to other jails.
  • To emphasize the conditions, Kennedy took the unusual step of including photos of overcrowding, including cages where mentally ill inmates were held while they awaited a bed.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I agree that this is kind of unreasonable that they have to wait to get a bed but at the same time they did go to jail for a reason. I just woudn't be the one to be making all of these crucial decisions.
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  • Scalia's number, cited in legal filings, comes from a period in which the prison population was even higher.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      What happened the last time that they prision was over populated? Did they let the majority go free, or did they transfer them? Why is this jail so crowded compared to the other jails around?
  • Michael Bien, one of the lawyers representing inmates in the case, said, "The Supreme Court upheld an extraordinary remedy because conditions were so terrible."
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      Who got this lawyer for the inmates? Who has to pay for the lawyer, is it the state? Do the inmates get to attend any of the court hearings?
  • Donald Specter, an attorney for the inmates, hailed the ruling. "This landmark decision will not only help prevent prisoners from dying of malpractice and neglect but it will make the prisons safer for the staff, improve public safety and save the taxpayers billions of dollars," he said.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      Obviously this was a problem years ago, and it is again a problem. What makes them believe that this is going to help so much when in a few years it could easily happen again?
  • Kennedy acknowledged the concern, but said the judges gave state officials flexibility in complying with the court order, including offering "early release only to those prisoners who pose the least risk of reoffending."
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      What types of inmates are they considering least threatening to society? I think that most of the people in jail are threatening to society, and thats why they are in prision instead of on the streets like everyone else.
  • Schwarzenegger also sought to reduce the inmate population by signing legislation that increased early release credits and made it more difficult to send ex-convicts back to prison for parole violations. Another law rewards county probation departments for keeping criminals out of state prisons.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      This is going to make people think that it is okay to commit a crime in CA because they won't be able to go to jail since there is no more room. I feel like this situation is a really bad one.
Michelle Perritt

Ohio executes man who said he didn't recall crimes - US news - msnbc.com - 0 views

  • The state on Tuesday executed a man who said he didn't remember fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend at the woman's Cincinnati apartment in 1984.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      Did he think by all of the sudden saying that he doesn't remember what happened that they weren't going to execute him? I'm suprised that he is getting the death penalty for killing his girlfriend. I'm suprised because a lot of people kill other people and don't get the death penalty.
  • put to death using the surgical sedative pentobarbital as a stand-alone execution drug
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      Is this type of execution painful in any way? What other techniques do they usually use with it since he is only the third person in Ohio doing just this and nothing else?
  • He declined to give a formal final statement but yelled "I love you" to his adult daughter, Michelle Connor, who was in the witness room and shouted back "I love you, daddy" after he had climbed onto a gurney. He also called out to witness Kristi Schulenberg, a friend and pen pal with whom he had kept in touch since the mid-1990s. She said she loved him, too.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I can't imagine how much pain the family has to go through. Most people get sad when they have to put their pet alseep, let alone see their dad being "put to sleep".
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  • Bedford's attorneys had pushed to block the lethal injection in a last-minute legal battle. They argued Bedford had dementia and a mild mental disability and wasn't competent enough to understand why he was being executed. They also said he was denied legal proceedings to which he was entitled.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      Why didn't they try before it was near the end? I hope that they would have had another trail or something years ago, but couldn't they have done more recent?
  • The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused the defense's request to block the execution.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      Why did he get deined? How often do people get deined the stay of execution?
  • Bedford told the state parole board in March he didn't remember the slayings but that his attorneys had told him details and he was "sorry it happened."
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      Everyone uses this as their excuse, so how do they tell if the people are telling the truth or not? I mean of course it's really no better being in an insane place but people always try.
Michelle Perritt

'Pill mill' doctor convicted of causing 4 deaths - US news - Crime & courts - msnbc.com - 0 views

  • A Chicago doctor accused of running a pill mill in an Appalachian county where painkillers are a public-health scourge was convicted Monday of illegal distribution and causing the death of four patients.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      That is completely rediculous that a doctor would do something to endanger his patients like that. I wonder how many doctors are crooked like he is.
  • The Drug Enforcement Administration considers Scioto County, where Volkman distributed the pills, one of the worst places for prescription painkiller abuse. Accidental drug overdoses driven by such addictions have surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of accidental death in Ohio.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      What kind of drugs did he give them? How did the police find out that it was this doctor? How much of the drug was prescribed?
  • 12 patients
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I think that it is a shame that they thought he killed 12 people but can only charge him with killing 4 of them. What about the families of the other 8 people?
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  • illegally prescribing Oxycodone
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I feel like this happens a lot of times. Especially with oxycodone. I saw people addicted that that drug a lot when I used to watch intervention.
  • stricter regulation
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I think it is about time that they start to regulate it more. I think there are way too many cases like this that occur.
  • Prosecutors said Volkman rarely, if ever, counseled patients on alternative treatments for pain, such as physical therapy, surgery or addiction counseling. Volkman denied the allegations and said he always acted in good faith.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I wonder why he never offered to give them any other options?
  • Prosecutors alleged Fletcher had conspired with Volkman, and Drug Enforcement Administration records show that Fletcher filled painkiller prescriptions in 2009 for two people who died of overdoses the next day.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      Are these people overdosing because they become addicted to the drug and cant handle themselves or is it that the doctor told they to take more than they were supposed to?
Michelle Perritt

Terror list suspects allowed to buy guns in US - US news - Security - msnbc.com - 0 views

  • More than 200 people suspected of ties to terrorism bought guns in the U.S. last year legally, FBI figures show.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      You would think with all of the problems that the US has with terroists, that we would be more careful about these types of issues. To me it pretty much seems like anyone can just go and buy a gun if you want to. I think that they need more control and need to do better checks on people than they currently do because it obviously isn't working very good as is.
  • It is not illegal for people listed on the government's terror watch list to buy weapons. For years, that has bothered Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who is trying again to change the law to keep weapons out of the hands of suspected terrorists.
  • The list of about 450,000 people includes suspected members of al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations, terror financiers, terror recruiters and people who attended training camps. People's names are added to and removed from the watch list every day, and most people never know whether they're on it.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      Who has acess to these documents? Is it only government pfficals or do the stores where guns are being purchased also have some way of accessing this list?
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  • The Justice Department under both the Bush and Obama administrations has supported this effort.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      If both Bush and Obama saw/see that this is a major issue than why hasn't anything been done to help stop it. I feel like this happens a lot, we see there are issues but no one ever really fixes it or waits to fix it after it's already too late.
  • NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam said the watch list lacks integrity and includes law-abiding citizens who are mistaken as having ties to terrorists.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      There are probably many people that get put on that list that aren't meant to be there, but they should understand at the same time that we need to protect this country and them buying a gun can't be as important as the Countries protection. Sometimes however, people think only of themselves.
  • President Barack Obama has steered clear of politically sensitive gun-control issues. But the Justice Department would support a bill that would help prevent terrorists from getting firearms.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I feel like President Obama never really wants to address issues. After all he is too busy with printing out more money than we have and taking vacations all over.
  • anonymity in order to discuss the process. To deny all people on the watch list from purchasing a weapon would mean the government would have to
Michelle Perritt

Woman charged in transgender beating - US news - Crime & courts - msnbc.com - 0 views

  • A video of the April 18 fight posted online shows two young women kicking and punching 22-year-old Chrissy Lee Polis in the head until she appears to have a seizure.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      People always go straight to actions because discussing. Why couldn't they have talked to the induvidual about the situation and not have beat them? I think it is for the lack of understanding, our world is becoming different. That's just how it is. There is going to be people who are transgendered and we just have to accept that.
  • "They kicked me in my face. They really hurt me really bad and I’m just afraid to go outside now because of stuff like this," Polis said.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      That's terrible that they scared Polis so bad that they are now afraid of leaving their house. This person has probably had an internal fight all of their life and you would think people would be more understanding. I'm sure this individuals life has not been easy thus far.
  • McDonald's issued a statement condemning the April 18 beating, and the owner of the Rosedale restaurant announced Saturday that the employee who taped the beating had been fired.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I don't agree with the employee posting the video on the internet, however I do think that it was helpful that the situation was taped. Then the police and the owner could see first hand what was going on. I don't know if I agree with this employee being fired for this.
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  • and the owner of the Rosedale restaurant announced Saturday that the employee who taped the beating had been fired.
  • An 18-year-old woman has been charged in an attack on a transgender woman over using a McDonald's restroom in a Baltimore suburb —an incident captured on video by a McDonald's employee.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I'm assuming since this girl is 18-years-old that she will be charged as an adult. I know that sometimes, however, if your 18 they can decide to still charge you as a minor. But I don't think they will choose that path in this situation.
Michelle Perritt

Police Say Man Admits Raping Teens 150 Times - Local News - Nashville, TN - msnbc.com - 0 views

  • Aarronn Arms has admitted to police he had sex with three girls more than 150 times, police said.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      Was it the same girls everytime? Why didn't the girls say anything for a while, I mean it did happen 150 times. I guess it is becuase rape victims are very afraid and think it is their fault.
  • Murfreesboro police began their investigation of 22-year-old Arms in December of last year after a mother of a 14-year-old girl reported Arms was having sex with her daughter, often times at their Harrison Drive home.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I kind of blame a little bit of this on the mother. She let it happen a few times before saying anything? Did the 14 year old girl sense that there was anything wrong with doing this?
  • "Working in conjunction with DCS (Department of Children's Services), our investigators learned that Aarronn Arms was having sex with at least three underage girls, ages 13 to 15 year old," said Evans.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      It is 3 girls that they know of, but I can imagine that he woudn't have stopped there. I can't believe a grown person would even consider doing that with someone who is so young. Do people have no morales anymore?
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  • In February, Channel 4 News first reported that Joyce Green, the mother of one of the girls, was arrested on charges of not reporting the sexual relationship between Arms and her underage daughter. Police said it happened in her Wenlon Drive mobile home.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I think that is deffinitely fair that they charged her too. What was she thinking? Did she think they were just friends, because I'm sorry I would never allow a grown man to be hanging out with my 13-year-old daughter.
  • actually impregnated two of them
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      That is absolutly terrible. I can't belive that he did that! Nothing like leaving your mark behind than getting little girls pregnant from raping them. I wonder what the girls or the parents will decide to do with the babies.
  • Police said they're now wondering if there could be more victims.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I deffinitely think that there is more victims. I think that he probably eventually got bored of the girls that he was raping and found more to prowl on.
Michelle Perritt

Judge OKs school 'boobies' bracelets - US news - Crime & courts - msnbc.com - 0 views

  • PHILADELPHIA — Breast cancer fundraising bracelets that proclaim "I (heart) boobies!" are neither lewd nor vulgar, and can't be banned by public school officials who find them offensive, a federal judge in Pennsylvania said Tuesday in a preliminary ruling.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I don't see how it is offensive when it is to help raise moeny for breast cancer. I don't think that it is anyway disrespectful to have these wrist bands and i see people wearing them everyday. I think it is cool that they found a way to make money by these braclets because people my age love them.
  • "The bracelets ... can reasonably be viewed as speech designed to raise awareness of breast cancer and to reduce stigma associated with openly discussing breast health," U.S. Judge Mary McLaughlin wrote in a 40-page ruling issued Tuesday. She added that the school district had not shown the bracelets would be disruptive in school.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I think that it is rediculous that a school would suspend 2 girls for wearing these bands. I agree that it isn't disrupting anyone by wearing these and they are for breast cancer awareness ON BREAST CANCER DAY. Schools today look too hard into getting kids into trouble for o reason. Maybe they should be more concerned about other things like all the kids that are doing drugs.
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  • An attorney for the school district did not immediately return a message seeking comment on the ruling.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      Was this case actually a big one? I didn't realize that they would have a case over such a small issue and I am suprised that the girls followed through on taking this to court.
  • The foundation — which concedes their message isn't for everyone
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I agree that their message isn't for everyone, but I do think that they are doing a good job of promoting awareness even if it is more of a controversy.
  • The ACLU has intervened in similar school disputes across the country, including a second case in Pennsylvania and one in Wyoming in which a student was allowed to keep wearing a bracelet except in the presence of two teachers who found it objectionable. But the Easton families are the first to file suit
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I thought that by winning this case that it would have been more widespread. I thought that no school would be able to bann these bracelets anymore.
Michelle Perritt

Jury finds man guilty in NJ triple murder trial - US news - msnbc.com - 0 views

  • NEWARK, N.J. — A 20-year-old man was convicted Tuesday of murder in the execution-style slayings of three college-bound friends in a Newark, N.J., schoolyard in 2007.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I think it is terrible when people have such bad rage that they would kill three of their friends. When they say execution style does that mean that he chopped their heads off? It's a shame to see that 3 people around my age dead.
  • All three victims were shot in the back of the head as they knelt in front of a wall, and one was slashed with a machete. A fourth victim was slashed and shot but survived and testified against Alfaro.
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    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I would hope that the 4th victum will be living proof that this man should go to jail for life. I can't imagine what it would feel like to the 1 out of 4 people who survived such gruesome attacks.
  • As the verdicts were read, about a dozen of the victims' family members hugged and wept softly in the gallery.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      What did he get from getting 16 out of 17 counts? What made the jury decide against charging him with the 17th count? Do they have to look at each count seperate?
  • Alfaro's half-brother and another man are already serving multiple life sentences for the killings. Three defendants' cases are pending.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I don't understand how many people were actually involved in this case because at first they made it seem like just one person and now that I read this further they make it seem like there was a whole group of people who were invovled. Was this gang related?
  • but Alfaro is likely to spend the rest of his life in prison.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I hope from all the suffering that these families have had to go through that he gets life in Prision because if deffinitely doesn't seem right if he doesn't.
  • Alfaro admitted joining the gang several months before the crimes, but testified he was shocked that night when he realized what was happening. According to Alfaro, Godinez had told him there were "rivals" at the playground, which he took to mean rival gang members.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I don't get what the point of being in a gang is. It is basically just a life of crime and violence and what do the people get out of it? It just doesn't make sense. Also is it legal to be in a gang in the first place, like if the police find out that your in a gang can you be arrested for that only?
  • Alfaro admitted to police that he slashed Hightower with the machete before she and the others were shot. But on the witness stand, he denied doing it and said he was pressured by a detective to change his statement to conform to what other defendants had already told police.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      It is pretty stupid to admitt something and then try to say that you actually didn't say it. They have him on record!
Michelle Perritt

Saudi man pleads not guilty to terror charge - CNN.com# - 0 views

  • A Saudi Arabian man
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      It seems as though the Countries in the Middle East are always trying to do something to the American people. I'm not saying that it is all people from the Middle East, but I just don't understand why they would want to harm so many innocent people for no reason at all.
  • Koenig also set a trial date of May 2 for the 20-year-old, who faces life in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I hope by life in Prision they mean life in Prision without the chance to get parole because we don't want people like this back in society. I can't believe that he is 20 years old and has already planned something as extreme as this.
  • According to court records, federal investigators say Aldawsari conducted online research into how to construct an improvised explosive device, or IED, using several chemicals as ingredients. He also "acquired or (has) taken a substantial step toward acquiring most of the ingredients and equipment" needed for the bomb, documents said.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I think it is a shame that someone like that would waste their knowledge of another language and use it for bad instead of good. I also think that it is pretty messed up that if you want to build a bomb all you have to do is look up the steps on the interent.
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  • He had excelled in high school to take advantage of scholarship opportunities offered by Saudi companies to get to the United States, he wrote, and had been planning to commit a terrorist attack in the United States for years, according to the affidavit.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      So obviously he is a smart person. He got a scholarship to come here and just plan something against us. Osama bin Laden is still affecting us today even though he is dead. That is really a shame that someone would want to be like him.
  • One e-mail allegedly contained a message stating that "one operation in the land of the infidels is equal to 10 operations against occupying forces in the land of the Muslims."
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I don't understand what this statement is saying. Is it saying that 1 attack here is equal to 10 attacks there?
  • Investigators learned the shipment involved the toxic chemical phenol, which can be used in making the explosive trinitrophenol, also known as TNP or picric acid.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      It's amazing that we have to be so careful about everything now because of what happened on 9/11, but I'm happy to know that people are watching out for us because i know something like this could deffinitely happen again.
Michelle Perritt

Robbers steal Tampa couple's life savings - Local News - Tampa, FL - msnbc.com - 0 views

  • As Rodriguez bent to kiss his wife, Osilia, goodbye just after 2 a.m., one of the men shoved open the door and the two burst inside. The impact knocked the octogenarian couple to the hallway floor.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I heard before that robbers often watch you for a few days to see what your schedule is like so that they can come at the perfect time. That is a good reason not to post anything on facebook or the internet saying that your out of town.
  • The first ransacking search of the tiny house on West State Street missed the strongbox tucked in the corner of the bedroom closet. They threatened Juan Rodriguez, who said Tuesday he wasn't scared for himself but was concerned about his wife.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      What made this older couple victums? Often older people aren't left with that much money because they have to save for their retirement. Also they live in a small house, it's not like they look rich.
  • "Maybe they heard we had a box," Juan Rodriguez said. "Maybe they heard we got money. You know what I mean?"
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      Who would they have heard it from if not even their family knew that they had this money? That's what is not making sense to me.
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  • Police described one intruder as 5 feet, 8 inches or 5 feet, 9 inches tall, with a thin face and dark eyes. He was wearing jeans and white tennis shoes. The second was 5 feet, 6 inches tall, in his early 20s, wearing jeans and a black, hooded jacket.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      It always helps when the victum has a pretty good idea of what the people looked like. It is easier then for the police to find the people behind it. I wonder how long they would have to go to jail for this type of crime.
  • Her aunt and uncle didn't trust banks but no one was aware they had amassed that much cash.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      DId they not trust banks because of the Great Depression? Assuming of course that they did live through that period of time.
Michelle Perritt

Boy, 12, faces 9 charges in parents' deaths - U.S. news - msnbc.com - 0 views

  • 12-year-old Colorado boy accused of fatally shooting his parents and wounding two siblings show prosecutors filed nine charges against him, including two counts of first-degree murder.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I think that even though he is only 12 years old he still knew what he was doing. I deffinitely think that he should be charged as an adult because he not only killed both of his parents but he also wounded 2 of his siblings. After killing one parents he already knew it was wrong but he stilled killed the other.
  • boy tried to hurt his 5-year-old sister with a knife and stabbed and shot his 9-year-old brother
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      How did this child become so violent? I have no idea what would set a 12 year old boy off so bad that he had to hurt his family including his little brother and sister. He needs to be put away so he can't hurt other people. I think that he could deffinitely be even more dangerous as an adult.
  • Prosecutors have not decided whether to charge the boy as an adult.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I want to know their thoughts about why they would even consider not charging the boy as an adult. It seems rediculous to me to even think about not charging him as so.
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  • nistry at the local Evangelical Free Church. Her husband served as a church elder and was a snack delivery driver.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      You would think that a boy with this kind of upbringing would think about his actions before doing them.
  • The Longs, both in their early 50s, had seven children; four are grown and no longer live at home.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      Maybe the boy was envious of his other 6 brothers and sisters. Maybe they got more attention than he did, but does that give him the excuse to committ first degree murder?
Michelle Perritt

Lawmakers: Illinois to abolish death penalty - U.S. news - msnbc.com - 0 views

  • Gov. Pat Quinn intends to abolish the death penalty in Illinois, two sponsors of the legislation said Tuesday.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I agree with the death penalty, so I don't think that it should be taken away. If there is no penalty worse than life in jail I belive that people won't take doing crimes as seriously as they do since we do have the death penalty.
  • Quinn's office declined to comment Tuesday about his intentions. He has said he personally supports the death penalty when properly implemented and would make a decision on the bill based on his conscience.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I think that he should really reconsider taking the death oenalty away completely. To me it is neither cruel or unusual. If you killed a bunch of people than you deserve to die too. The way that they persue capital punishment doesn't even hurt the person.
  • "I've heard from many, many people of good faith and good conscience on both sides of the issue. And I've tried to be very meticulous and writing down notes and studying those notes and books and e-mails. They've really spoken from the heart. I've been very proud of the people of Illinois," Quinn said recently.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I don't think that he listened to both sides of the arguments if he is just getting rid of it anyways. Maybe instead of getting rid of it he shoulf just compromise and make it harder for people to give the death penalty but still have it in place.
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  • Quinn were to sign the bill, it is unclear what he'd do about the 15 inmates currently on Illinois' death row.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I think its strange that they hold people on death row for so long. It doesn't take long to kill someone from using the death penalty but yet we waste spaces in prisions all over with the people just waiting on death row. They should just get it over with already.
  • Prosecutors would still be able to seek the death penalty and juries could still impose it until the law took effect.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      What would be the point of that? If they are just going to get rid of it anyways then they will probably just put all the people from death row in jail for life. No need to go threw all of the trouble if there just going to put the person in jail for life anyways.
Michelle Perritt

Fla. police: Toddler raped at SeaWorld - U.S. news - Crime & courts - msnbc.com - 0 views

  • ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida authorities say a 26-year-old man raped a 2-year-old girl at SeaWorld Orlando and saved pictures of the crime on his cell phone, local media reported Friday.
  • ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida authorities say a 26-year-old man raped a 2-year-old girl at SeaWorld Orlando and saved pictures of the crime on his cell phone, local media reported Friday.
  • ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida authorities say a 26-year-old man raped a 2-year-old girl at SeaWorld Orlando and saved pictures of the crime on his cell phone, local media reported Friday.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      That is so discusting. A 2 year old little innocent girl was raped by a 26-year old male. What even goes through your mind to want to rape a small child? Let alone rape anyone in general. I hope he gets the death penalty for this and not just jail time.
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  • ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida authorities say a 26-year-old man raped a 2-year-old girl at SeaWorld Orlando and saved pictures of the crime on his cell phone, local media reported Friday.
  • ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida authorities say a 26-year-old man raped a 2-year-old girl at SeaWorld Orlando and saved pictures of the crime on his cell phone, local media reported Friday.
  • ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida authorities say a 26-year-old man raped a 2-year-old girl at SeaWorld Orlando and saved pictures of the crime on his cell phone, local media reported Friday.
  • ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida authorities say a 26-year-old man raped a 2-year-old girl at SeaWorld Orlando and saved pictures of the crime on his cell phone, local media reported Friday.
  • ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida authorities say a 26-year-old man raped a 2-year-old girl at SeaWorld Orlando and saved pictures of the crime on his cell phone, local media reported Friday.
  • ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida authorities say a 26-year-old man raped a 2-year-old girl at SeaWorld Orlando and saved pictures of the crime on his cell phone, local media reported Friday.
  • ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida authorities say a 26-year-old man raped a 2-year-old girl at SeaWorld Orlando and saved pictures of the crime on his cell phone, local media reported Friday.
  • ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida authorities say a 26-year-old man raped a 2-year-old girl at SeaWorld Orlando and saved pictures of the crime on his cell phone, local media reported Friday.
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  • ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida authorities say a 26-year-old man raped a 2-year-old girl at SeaWorld Orlando and saved pictures of the crime on his cell phone, local media reported Friday.
  • ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida authorities say a 26-year-old man raped a 2-year-old girl at SeaWorld Orlando and saved pictures of the crime on his cell phone, local media reported Friday.
  • after her mother had asked him to briefly watch the toddler inside the theme park,
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      Did the mother know him before asking him to watch her little girl? If she didn't that was a really stupid mistake on her part. You should never leave your child with a stranger.
  • Grzybowicz told investigators that he didn't know how the photos got onto his cell phone, according to media reports.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      He should know how they got on his vell phone considering it is HIS cell phone and he emailed it to HIS email. No one would just take his phone out of his pockt and take pictures of gim raping a girl, they would have put a stop to it.
  • A warrant indicates Grzybowicz faces charges of sexual battery and lascivious molestation on a child younger than 12, according to the Sentinel.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I wonder what the type of punishment for this type of crime would be? I would hope it would be really high.
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Pa. priest defends self on radio in sex abuse case - U.S. news - msnbc.com - 0 views

  • Joseph DiGregorio was one of three priests removed from the ministry while their cases are being reviewed by the Philadelphia archdiocese after they were named as child molestation suspects in a scathing grand jury report. The archdiocese also pledged to reopen complaints made against 34 other priests still on the job.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      People would think that you could trust your own priest, but this just proves that you really can't trust anyone. I think it is such a shame that so many priests are being sexual predators.
  • "Any statement she made concerning me is an absolute lie, completely and totally a lie," DiGregorio said in an interview with the station. "I never once touched her. I never once groped her or did anything inappropriate."
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      It seems like such cases like these are always he says she says types of cases. How does the jury decide based off of little fact and more of peoples words?
  • earlier grand jury report, in 2005, blasted the church for ignoring or dismissing sexual-abuse complaints made against 63 priests in the archdiocese over many decades.
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  • raping boys in the late 1990s or endangering children by co
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      Why would the church ignore such actions? Don't the people realize how much of a big deal this actually is? I think that they would think differently if that was them, or their child.
  • vering up the crimes. An
  • "Let's be accurate and let's condemn those who did something, and not just group or grab a number of priests and we'll throw them to the wolves," he said. "That's what I think is happening here."
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      He says all of this but how can he prove himself innocent? It just seems like he doesn't have much of a case, but at the same time neither does the other side.
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Suspect in deadly New York stabbing spree returns to court - CNN.com - 0 views

  • he will be appointed a lawyer.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      If you are appointed a lawyer are they worse than they normally would be? Also who pays for the lawyer, the state? I guess that the taxes would take care of appointed lawyers.
  • Maksim Gelman was arraigned Sunday in Brooklyn Criminal Court on four counts of murder, one count of attempted murder, one count of assault, two counts of robbery and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, Brooklyn District Attorney's office spokesman Jonah Bruno said.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      He certainly has a very long rapsheet. A man like this definitely deserves to be put away for a VERY long time. I think it is interesting however because i watch a lot of shows dealing with this kind of stuff such as law and order, 48 hours mystery and dateline.
  • "This was a set-up, man."
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I feel like guilty people always have lame excuses such as these. He really doesn't have an argument if he has done so many bad things.
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  • Authorities said Saturday that Gelman allegedly stabbed three people to death, hit and killed a man with a car, slashed at least five other people and carjacked two vehicles before he was wrestled to the ground early Saturday while attempting to break into the cab of a subway car.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      All of that in one day just seems crazy. I can't believe that someone would want to hurt innocent people.
  • Police said Gelman got into a dispute with his mother at her Brooklyn home about 5 a.m. Friday after she refused to let him take her 2004 gray Lexus. The suspect's stepfather, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, intervened and was stabbed 11 times. Kuznetsov, 54, died, while Gelman's mother -- who survived unscathed -- alerted authoritie
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      People seem to always take out their problems on other people, which isn't fair but is true. Some people just handle their anger and frustration better than others.
  • Police believe the suspect eventually abandoned the Pontiac, which was later found near a Brooklyn railroad line he was known to frequent as a graffiti artist. Shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday, Gelman allegedly got into a cab in Brooklyn and stabbed the driver. As of Saturday, that driver was in stable condition.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      This man just kills everyone that comes in his way. It doesn't make any sense to me how he could do that. Is he insane?
  • Soon after, the officers -- with aid from off-duty New York police Det. Marcelo Razzo and an unnamed civilian nearby -- wrestled Gelman to the ground. No one was hurt in that scuffle, during which a knife fell to the ground.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      Thank goodness that they caught hime because who knows how many people he could have ended up killing. Not that he didn't already kill too many as it is.
  • "she had to die."
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      That sounds like a messed up man. He was obviously in a rage.
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Jury finds New York TV executive guilty of murder for wife's beheading - CNN.com - 0 views

  • second-degree murder for beheading his wife.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      Why would he kill his wife? Why couldn't he just divorce her in the first place and if he was going to kill her why did he pick such extreme measures?
  • that the long knife used by her husband had left marks on his office's tile floor.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      That seems so wrong and gross. How can you go from once loving someone to basically sawing off their head so hard that it leaves marks on a tile floor?
  • According to prosecutors, Aasiya Hassan had filed for divorce less than a week before she died.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      Is that his reasoning for killing his wife? It makes more sense just to wait one more week and then be done with her and he would have never had to talk to her again.
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  • "It ended with 'Mo' Hassan in fear of his very life," he told jurors. "Mo Hassan killed his wife, but he is not guilty of murder in the second degree."
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I don't feel like this is a good argument at all. So because she threatend to embarrass him he felt inclined to have to kill her.
  • Police earlier said they had responded to several domestic violence calls at the couple's home, but no one had ever been arrested.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      Domestic violence cases need to be taken more into consideration because it seems like a lot of bad issues come out of them and it never seems like the police really deal with the problem itself.
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Police investigated abuse case weeks before mom allegedly killed kids - CNN.com - 0 views

  • n investigation of physical abuse involving a Florida mother against her teen daughter, closing the case weeks before the woman admitted killing the girl and her brother because they were "mouthy."
  • the woman admitted killing the girl and her brother because they were "mouthy."
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I can't believe that a mother would kill her own two children for being mouthy. Shouldn't mothers and fathers love their children unconditionally? It just seems crazy to kill your children for anything let alone just mouthing off.
  • "Our belief was that she didn't snap -- she planned this," Tampa, Florida, police spokesperson Laura McElroy told HLN's Vinnie Politan on Monday.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      I think that she is right! This lady doesn't deserve to be released on a bond after what she did.
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  • Calyx told police that days earlier her mother repeatedly hit her while they were driving home, before she was able to run to a safe spot in her room. The girl said that a month and a half earlier, her mother had hit her so hard in the face it caused her lip to bleed.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      Obviously this lady was dangerous before. They should have looked more closely into this case and maybe none of this would have happened. They need to take more into consideration of what the child says, and note that they are scared and put in danger just for talking to the police. 
  • "Parents can discipline their children using physical force, as long as there's no injury," said McElroy. "That's why there was no criminal offense at that time."
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      You can beat your child for nothing if it leaves no bruises? Thats terrible that it's not considered abuse right then and there. I can understand one spank on the butt, but thats about it.
  • Police later found writings in the house, thought to be from Schenecker, in which she spelled out her intentions in detail.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      Thats absolutely terrible. I hope that she gets the death penalty and not just life in prison. People like her deserve to get the eye for an eye treatment. 
  • Judge Walter Heinrich said at the hearing that Schenecker likely will undergo a psychiatric evaluation, according to CNN affiliates WTSP and WFTS.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      If they give her a lesser case because she's "crazy" that isn't really justice at all. I feel like we let too many people undergo lesser penalties because their "crazy". She still killed 2 people!
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With doctor in jail, brother of dead woman vows, 'We want justice' - CNN.com - 0 views

  • The brother of a woman who prosecutors say died during complications from an abortion at a Pennsylvania medical clinic hopes the doctor who performed allegedly illegal procedures will never practice again.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      Do these types of complications occur often? I wonder how many doctors are in jail for the same kind of situation as this one?
  • Dr. Kermit Gosnell is charged with seven first-degree murder charges related to the deaths of seven viable babies, and one third-degree murder in the death of Mongar. He is being held without bail.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      Why did it take so long to convict him if this has happened with 7 other people? It doesn't seem like the doctor should have been practicing in the first place if this has happened so many times.
  • Williams called the facility "a house of horrors" that performed "botched and illegal abortions" and that was full of containers of fetuses' body parts.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      It sounds like a really dangerous place in the first place. I wonder why the women didn't go some where that is more safe or did some other kind of research?
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  • after getting a referral from a Washington, D.C., medical clinic, she went to Gosnell's practice.
    • Michelle Perritt
       
      Why would the refer her to such a dirty and nasty place like this one? That doesn't make sense coming from a medical clinic.
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