Convict [Ralph "Bucky" Phillips] Caught in N.Y. Trooper Shooting

AP via Ask.com ^ | September 9, 2006 | CAROLYN THOMPSON

[ContraryMary]

New York has the death penalty, but it hasn't been used yet. Supposed to me mandatory for cop killers. I bet he won't get it. Sad, but true.

It was overturned in 2004. Last I heard the NY Senate had revised the death penalty statute in June 2006 and passed it on to the NY Assembly. Don't know what happened to it there.

[ContraryMary]

I'm curious. How could the NY troopers take him back to NY without an extradition hearing?

They were deputized in PA.

[adamsjas]

They were deputized in PA. Don't think so, that still wouldn't allow a contested transfer.

Two theories: Hot pursuit. And Federal custody.

[Sacajaweau]

They spoke about that. It was paperwork. It happened.

[OldEagle]

I heard the NY troopers were deputy US Marshals.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Pretty damn close to Petronski/Cyborg country.

I was kinda worried about you two.

Now that he's caught, let'im rot.

[cyborg]

Heh...lots of men with CCW permits around here. I wonder how far he would have made it!

[BigSkyFreeper]

....lots of men with CCW permits around here.

Wouldn't be surprised women have CCW permits up in your neck of the woods too! LOL

Mom and dad have a 45 magnum and a 9mm pistol and I have a few of my grandfather's shotguns. LOL

[cyborg]

This is true, considering there's a hunting show for women on television!

[Mr. Buzzcut]

So much for his "suicide by cops". I guess life suddenly appeared to be more appealing.

Kinda like that "brave" Jihadist and rat fink coward bin Laden! ;)

[adamsjas]

I heard the NY troopers were deputy US Marshals.

That would not be sufficient to drag him back to NY unless he waived Extradition. In fact it doesn't matter at all.

[rawcatslyentist]

Hiding in a hole in the ground, or dressing like cattle/moosewomen, seems to be a recurring theme with the "brave" geehaidis. Must have been the leadership qualities of muuuhamhead(Pigs be inseminating her) that were inspiring them.

[muawiyah]

You might not have noticed where this guy was going, but he pretty well outlined the boundaries of the old Iroquois Confederation.

He was even in the Tuscarora territory in Pennsylvania ~ that's the area traded to the Tuscarora in the Carolinas by Daniel Boone.

The people around there aren't exactly "family and friends" ~ a more appropriate word is "tribe".

BTW, here it is 4 days later and we haven't gotten any new stuff on this guy other than a couple of pieces based on what the police are now saying, and they've backed off from the murder and robbery charges until they complete the investigation. That means taking fingerprints on recovered items, doing interviews, and so forth.

Then, too, somebody has to come up with some excuse for putting over 1,000 cops on this "escaped prisoner" detail. This was a budget buster in New York, and given their difficulties in passing a death penalty bill for cop killers, I'd suggest the budget is of much more concern to Pataki and leadership elite in the legislature than any number of dead police.