and where is the reporter to collect his Pulitzer for excellence in reporting?
Posted on 12/09/2007 6:49:58 AM PST by Daffynition
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. -- First, a homeless child rape suspect turned violent in a Seminole County courtroom. Then he was forced to wear a mask on his face to keep him from spitting, before the jury returned a guilty verdict late Thursday afternoon.
Antonio Rosales is accused of raping a 10-year-old girl. Before court could even begin Thursday, a judge had to decide if Rosales was competent to stand trial after a violent outburst Wednesday.
After a brief hearing Thursday, Rosales told a judge he wanted to be left out of the courtroom because he said he might lash out again. Initially, a team of deputies brought 41-year-old Antonio Rosales into the courtroom wearing a bizarre mesh head-covering and a mask. Authorities said they put it on him after he threatened to spit at people.
It was the second strange scene in two days. Wednesday afternoon, Rosales erupted in the courtroom as prosecutor Anna Valentini made her closing argument.
The illegal immigrant from Guatemala is on trial for the attempted murder and sexual battery of a 10-year-old girl in Casselberry in 2003. A court appointed doctor said Rosales was insulted by the allegation he's a child molester.
"This is someone who told me that was he is insulted," court-appointed doctor Jeffrey Danziger said.
Despite the outburst, the judge found Rosales competent to continue his trial. During that hearing, extra deputies surrounded Rosales, who promised to behave.
But, before the jury returned, Rosales asked to stay out of the courtroom so he wouldn't hear the same disturbing details of how prosecutors say he pulled a girl into the woods and tried to kill her four years ago.
"He strangled her so much it left bruises on her face and insect bites all over her body," Anna Valentini said in court Thursday.
Late Thursday afternoon, the jury returned a guilty verdict against Rosales on charges of kidnapping, attempted murder and sexual battery after deliberating for around two hours. Rosales faces a mandatory life sentence, but has to stand trial for murder in Arizona.
and where is the reporter to collect his Pulitzer for excellence in reporting?
Why can’t we just shoot this SOB?
A plastic bag would have worked better!
Anyone can say anything. 
First, a homeless child rape suspect turned violent in a Seminole County courtroom.First, I thought he was talking about a homeless child who was a rape suspect.
Then, I thought he was talking about a person suspected of raping homeless children.
Then, on the third parse, I got what this idiot reporter was trying to say:
the suspect, a homeless man accused raping a child, ...
Well, we wouldn’t want to insult him now, would we?
Late Thursday afternoon, the jury returned a guilty verdict against Rosales on charges of kidnapping, attempted murder and sexual battery after deliberating for around two hours. Rosales faces a mandatory life sentence, but has to stand trial for murder in Arizona.
Rope, tree, horse - problem solved.
I knew high collars would come back.
Despite the outburst, the judge found Rosales competent to continue his trial.Well, gee, thanks for the Captain Obvious reasoning there, judge.
Otherwise, I guess all you have to do to avoid being tried is to outburst...
Mike Huckabee, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Everyone just relax: He’s here only to rape the children Americans are too lazy to.
First, I thought he was talking about a homeless child who was a rape suspect.
Then, I thought he was talking about a person suspected of raping homeless children.
Then, on the third parse, I got what this idiot reporter was trying to say:
the suspect, a homeless man, accused of raping a child, ...
Amazing! The idiot newsperson/proofreader who wrote this probably got nothing but "A's" all the way through public school too.
Right. Of.
Great picture. And so to the point of this story.
Well, we wouldn’t want to insult him now, would we?
I wouldn’t have taken 2 hours to find him guilty. More like 2 nanoseconds.
He strangled her so much it left bruises on her face and insect bites all over her body
While I have no sympathy for the rapist, strangling the child did not cause insect bites.
See #19.
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