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Justices Refuse Clemency for Crips Founder [Tookie William]
AP ^
| 11/30/5
| DAVID KRAVETS
Posted on 11/30/2005 4:25:43 PM PST by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO -- Crips co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams moved one step closer to the death chamber Wednesday when the California Supreme Court refused to reopen his case and halt the state's highest profile execution since the death penalty was reinstated.
Williams, in a last-ditch legal move, alleged that shoddy forensic testing and other errors may have wrongly sent him to San Quentin State Prison, where he is scheduled to die by lethal injection Dec. 13.
His lawyers asked that justices allow the re-examination of evidence that showed a shotgun registered to Williams was used to kill three people during a Pico Rivera motel robbery in 1979. They said the ballistics evidence was based on "junk science."
State prosecutors argued there was no legal basis to reopen the case. Allegations about the forensic shotgun evidence were "based upon innuendo, supposition and the patent bias of his purported expert, not upon allegations of fact,"
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: deadmanwalking; tookie; tookiedelendaest; tookiewilliams
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Tookie Delenda Est.
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posted on
11/30/2005 4:25:46 PM PST
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
Tookie goosy is Cookie
2
posted on
11/30/2005 4:27:07 PM PST
by
ARCADIA
(Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
To: SmithL
Don't worry, Ahnold will grant clemency.
3
posted on
11/30/2005 4:27:59 PM PST
by
birbear
(Admit it. you clicked on the "I have already previewed" button without actually previewing the post.)
To: ARCADIA
His NEW gang will be the Crisps.
4
posted on
11/30/2005 4:28:00 PM PST
by
SmithL
(There are a lot of people that hate Bush more than they hate terrorists)
To: ARCADIA
Tookie goosy is Cookie Not yet. Hollywood is pressuring Arnold for clemency. If he grants it, he'll sink lower than Gray Davis.
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posted on
11/30/2005 4:28:38 PM PST
by
peyton randolph
(Warning! It is illegal to fatwah a camel in all 50 states)
To: SmithL
Good bye scumbag murderer.
6
posted on
11/30/2005 4:29:16 PM PST
by
GregoTX
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
To: birbear
Don't worry, Ahnold will grant clemency.The Governater better play the Terminator and NOT grand clemency or he's political toast with his base.
7
posted on
11/30/2005 4:31:21 PM PST
by
Babu
To: SmithL
Interesting that weapon "registration" nailed one of the left's own heros.
You'd think they'd be smarter than to get caught so readily.
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posted on
11/30/2005 4:32:15 PM PST
by
muawiyah
(u)
To: Babu
The Governater better play the Terminator and NOT grand clemency or he's political toast with his base.
As I've said a couple of times today. A RINO would be a step up from what the Governater is being lately.
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posted on
11/30/2005 4:33:08 PM PST
by
birbear
(Admit it. you clicked on the "I have already previewed" button without actually previewing the post.)
To: SmithL
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posted on
11/30/2005 4:33:23 PM PST
by
RTINSC
(What, Me Worry?..My company offers French benefits...)
To: SmithL
Somebody is going to bring this the UN or the Hague before the 13th.
To: SmithL
Since when does a court grant "clemency"? I thought that was up to the governor?
To: birbear
Arnie's new Chief of Staff is ultra lib former member of the lame and recalled Gray Dufas Administration.
13
posted on
11/30/2005 4:36:02 PM PST
by
luvbach1
(Near the belly of the beast in San Diego)
To: SmithL
Mark my words, if this guys fries, LA will burn (again).
You heard it here, folks.
This is a segment of our society that is so imbued with such inverted values, with their "stop snitchin'", and their reverence for thuggery and ignorant street culture that they will go absolutely nuts when an "icon" like "Tookie" meets the justice he deserves.
Why we tolerate it is a mystery to me.
To: peyton randolph
Well all said Arnold wouldn't veto the 'gay-marriage resolution' and he did.
15
posted on
11/30/2005 4:37:00 PM PST
by
shield
(The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
To: SmithL
If there is one person that deserved this its this guy. sheesh, the worst you are the better Hollywood likes you.
I cannot say this enough, McCarthy was right about the commies in Hollywood.
To: SmithL
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posted on
11/30/2005 4:38:39 PM PST
by
Enterprise
(The modern Democrat Party - a toxic stew of mental illness, cultism, and organized crime.)
To: SmithL
Shep Smith just said that Tookie was a Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
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posted on
11/30/2005 4:39:28 PM PST
by
blam
To: SmithL
Buh-bye!!
Don't let the gates of H@ll hit in in the butt when you go in.
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posted on
11/30/2005 4:39:57 PM PST
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: SmithL
Not only is he a convicted killer he also committed crimes in prison! Arnold should "listen" to the appeal and then fry him!
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posted on
11/30/2005 4:40:45 PM PST
by
Angelas
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