RACIST FIEND IS GUILTY IN MALL SLAYING (TARGETED WHITE LADY)

New York Post ^ | 7/12/2006 | JIM FITZGERALD,

[Jameison]

A black man who confessed to fatally knifing a White Plains woman because she was white was convicted yesterday of murder as a hate crime. A Westchester jury took just 4 1/2 - including 45 minutes spent re-watching his videotaped confession - to find Phillip Grant guilty of murder and possession of a weapon.

"As long as she had blond hair and blue eyes, she had to die," Grant said on the video.

Grant, 44, had admitted killing Concetta Russo-Carriero, 56, in the parking garage of the Galleria shopping mall, a block from the courthouse in downtown White Plains. He used a knife stolen from a box of cutlery at a Sears store in the mall.

Grant had served the maximum term for a rape conviction, and from the time of his arrest the killing spurred calls for a civil-commitment law that could keep violent sex offenders off the streets after their prison time is served.

After the verdict, Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore said, "Phillip Grant was released into our community from state prison as a ticking time bomb. He exemplifies why civil-commitment laws are needed."

The victim's son Jonathan Russo also backed such a measure, though he said it would be "too late for my mom."

He called Grant "a vicious animal" and thanked cops and prosecutors for putting him away "so he will never be able to commit such a heinous crime again."

Russo-Carriero's father, Ted Granata, said, "When that animal stuck a knife in my daughter's heart, he stuck it in our heart, too."

Outside the courthouse, Russo confronted defense lawyers Eugene Traynor and Mary Patricia Long, telling Traynor he was "a disaster of a person."

[mylife]

It wasnt premeditated.
He took the perps spay can? spray can and used it on what was dear to the perp.

But your right about the ball bat.
A female friend of mine, and also in So Cal was being harrased by punks while hubby was out to sea.
She chased them into an arroyo and beat the crap out of 2 of them with a broom stick. that was the end of it.

There is no morality involved in the law as it is dictated by Gov

[A Strict Constructionist]

It's easy to find the homeowner, it takes work and Cops getting out of their patrol cars to catch the real criminal in the act, or the DA probably want prosecute. In this case the real criminal made it easy. He probably went to the DA, who was looking for voters and so an arrest warrant was issued so that he could get good press from the MSM.

[mylife]

Its taken me along time to realize that the system isnt moral its based in legalities

The law becomes muddled in clouds of PC BS and the basic wrongs are neglected

[freedumb2003]

But your right about the ball bat.

My advice: Preplan your nonplanned reaction.

[mylife]

I guess what bugs me in this case is that its murder plain and simple. and I hate to see case law drawn into the murky world of PC.

[mylife]

but never admit to it

[freedumb2003]

but never admit to it

Admit to what? (*whistles aimlessly*)

;)

[Blue Jays]

Hi All-

Colin Ferguson had some serious "Black Rage" going on when he shot those six people to death and injured nineteen on the Long Island Railroad.

~ Blue Jays ~

[jocon307]

"Hate crime laws are useful for petty crimes like simple assault, harassment and vandalism..."

Yes, yes, very good post. I say that because I agree with you, of course!

[A Strict Constructionist]

I agree with you completely, to be somewhat trite, when your dead your dead. Degree of hate is irrelevent. A jury will take this into consideration. I personally think laws that take a simple charge like murder and differentiate between victims, eg. race, a cop, a government official etc. should be declared unconstitutional. The crime is murder. All men are created equal especially in death.

[mylife]

You know what Im saying