Lawyers: D.C. Sniper Muhammad Beaten Badly as a Child

Associated Press ^ | April 25, 2008 | MATTHEW BARAKAT

[hosepipe]

Aw.. poor man.. NOW hang em high..

[ml/nj]

And this is relevant because?

The lawyer should be disbarred for wasting the Court's time.

ML/NJ

[calex59]

Oh,yeah, that excuses him alright. It is ok to kill people if you were beaten as a child. What BS.

[ThreePuttinDude]

Muhammad's brothers and sisters would have testified that they and Muhammad were
regularly beaten by aunts, uncles and grandparents while growing up in Louisiana,
when he was known as John Allen Williams.

What do they mean would have testified? Wasn't it a big enough case for them
to get involved in at the time? This is total BS

[SkyDancer]

Here comes the “poor beaten child” defense ....

[poobear]

I was beaten with hands, fists, belts, hairbrushes, glass ashtrays, lamps, hell I once has a guitar broken over my head!

I never once in my 50 years on this planet intentionally harmed anyone.

This defense gets quite old with me!!!!

[Moonman62]

Muhammad's brothers and sisters would have testified that they and Muhammad were regularly beaten by aunts, uncles and grandparents while growing up in Louisiana, when he was known as John Allen Williams.

Why didn't his brothers and sisters turn into mass murdering Muslims?

[RichInOC]

Not badly enough, apparently.

[Dagnabitt]

Sorry muslim pederast. It’s time for you to die. When you do, we’ll laugh and mock your supporters.

[bonehead4freedom]

Sad story, I'm sure all his trauma will be cured with a simple injection.I wonder what those victims felt as they were gunned down going about their everyday lives?I think it's so funny that the anti death penalty people never want to bring the victims up at all.

[boomop1]

Show that little violin.

[gaijin]

Here's the weird thing: don't know about the older guy, but the YOUNGER one had a perfectly fine childhood. The parents bent over backwards to try and set this brat straight, but he was hell-bent on bullying and bothering everyone around him.

The FBI shrink that evaluated him wrote a whole book about it; the boy's legal team tried to make it like he was juuuust fine before the dastardly old guy came along and ruined him, but that was 100% fiction.

The younger brat was just a reallllllly bad egg, and was determined to do some seriously evil stuff.

Oh a little known fact --he (the younger brat) almost did manage to escape from the FBI; he was in a holding cell and managed to displace ceiling paneling. He had crawled 1/2 out the building b4 the authorities knew what was up.

[RightOnline]

I don’t care if he was forced to sodomize the family dog. NO excuse.

Next.........................

[Neoliberalnot]

The amazing ability of lawyers to fabricate the truth is an entertaining sideshow for most trials of mass murderers.

[wvguy]

Well, that’s sad. I hope they execute him as gently as possible.

Ten shots from a bushmaster (one for each victim he slaughtered), at one yard. At least I think it's 10. If I'm wrong, adjust the shot count accordingly.

I live really close to where he did some of his dirty work. I'd much prefer Vlad the Impaler carry out the execution. But that's just me. -)

[Joe Boucher]

Sorry to hear this as I am sorry to hear of any abuse of kids.
As an adult he killed folks and terrified a whole area of the country.
Hang him.

[bilhosty]

“John Allen Muhammad was regularly whipped with hose pipes and electrical cords and beaten with hammers and sticks by family members during a brutal childhood,”

Good,they sould of it im harder.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Maryland “Freak State” PING!

[kcvl]

So, are his brothers and sisters all murderers too? If not, what does that have to do with anything?

How many people have abusive childhood’s and still don’t kill anyone?

[kcvl]

Millette's ruling did not technically ban the testimony of Muhammad's brothers and sisters, but trial attorneys Peter Greenspun and Jonathan Shapiro did not want to put the evidence on without testimony from their mental-health expert, Mark Cunningham, to explain the neglect's effect on Muhammad's development, according to the brief.

The appellate lawyers said in their brief that "Muhammad apparently did not want to acknowledge his horrific childhood" and planned to deny any abuse, either on the witness stand himself or in interviews with the government's mental-health expert.