Posted on 01/23/2005 12:12:12 PM PST by 4.1O dana super trac pak
What if a fifth, racially-mixed jury found him guilty and sentenced him to death?
~ Blue Jays ~
The justice system has been damaged because it reinforces the legal precedent of freeing killers based on technicalities. The next one freed may only have spent five years in prison.
I wonder what technicalities got him off.
The 5th Circuit Court (the most Conservative court in the US) believes it and that is all that really matters.
Tango, Romeo, Oscar, Lima, Lima...on my smoke!
~ Blue Jays ~
What does that mean?
LOL!!! I got it.. not enough coffee ;-)
The facts of the case are that if the state had at least one member of the Grand Jury that was black the killer would still be at Angola. Unfortunately, the system was unfair back then and we must expect the state to be more just than any murdering scum.
There's no way that a jury made up of honest people with just average intelligence could come to any verdict but murder.He stuck a knife in the heart of a victim who was begging for her life after his bullet didn't kill her.If this animal ends up killing again I hope it's the jury members who suffer from it.People who shoot intruders are sentenced more harshly than this creep.
"...LOL!!! I got it.. not enough coffee ;-)
Nothing a quick trip to Dunkin' Donuts can't solve!
I'm still shaking my head about a FReeper who in some small "understands" why a violent predator should be out with us, mixing in society. The sad part is that he/she is "OK" with this resolution of the situation.
~ Blue Jays ~
And that getting an unfair trial in his eyes is worse than murder itself! Unbelievable.
Agreed.
What bothers me about the fourth trial is that Rideau received three trials, all resulting in convictions, and then on another appeal his original indictment is challenged. Why wasn't this matter reviewed or considered to have been precluded as a matter of law when the first re-trial occurred? Shouldn't a new indictment have been required which would have made the original indictment moot?
What a glorious crock of condescending you know what you are peddling here. Louisiana paying for its sins?? You make me want to throw up. I detest superciliousness in all its forms particularly the one you are sending out.
And I am born and bred in Louisiana my people having come here prior to the purchase. This bastard with a white or a black jury is guilty, he confessed and you are seeing his freeing as some weird punishment for Louisiana.
Black Louisianians were voting in the 60's. I was there.
See, Louisiana v. United States, 380 U.S. 145 at 151-52 (1965), in which the court found that interpretation tests, such as Louisiana's requirement that an applicant give a reasonable interpretation of any section of the state or federal constitution, were adopted for the frank purpose of disfranchising Negroes, it being understood that the registration officers would use their discretion for that purpose. And, when the United States attorney general succeeded in having a state literacy statute declared unconstitutional, another slightly different one would be enacted to take its place.
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