Posted on 11/22/2010 10:12:30 AM PST by DCBryan1
DEVELOPING: A jury has reached a verdict in the trial of a man accused of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy, MyFoxDC.com reports.
Ingmar Guandique is charged with murder in Levy's death nearly a decade ago.
Levy disappeared in 2001. Her case drew attention when she was romantically linked to then-Congressman Gary Condit. The California Democrat was initially a suspect but police no longer think he was involved.
Prosecutors say Levy's death fits a pattern of attacks by Guandique in 2001 in Washington's Rock Creek Park. That's where her remains were found.
Defense lawyers say the Salvadoran immigrant has become a scapegoat for a botched investigation.
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“I am not buying the result.”
Do you know anything about the evidence against the convicted murderer? Do you know anything about the lack of evidence against Condit? Please educate yourself about the facts before making uninformed statments. The evidence against the convicted murderer looked compelling to me. I have not seen any evidence that connects Condit to her disappearance or murder. Condit was thoroughly investigated during the months following her disappearance. Despite the illegal’s attacks in similar places around the same time as Chandra’s disappearance, the police did not connect the dots until several years later.
You’re not buying it because you don’t want to. Bottom line, there is no evidence sufficient to justify charging Condit in the case.
Please tell us about the compelling evidence. What was it?
You actually believe he is guilty? This is a travesty of justice. This conviction was based solely on the uncorroborated testimony of a prison snitch. It saddens me when out great justice system makes a mistake like this. I hope this man gets justice someday.
Chandra has justice because an innocent man is going to jail? I don’t know if Condit killed her, but there’s as much substantive evidence that this guy killed Chandra Levy as there is you or I killed her.
The evidence includes statements that Guandique made to a cellmate, statements that he made to police, and evidence linking him to assaults in the same area. Guandique admitted that he had seen Levy in the park. He admitted that he assaulted women in the same area of the park. I also believe his girl friend at the time had evidence although I am not sure if it was presented.
Juries tend to be swayed by self incriminating statements. Although physical evidence would have been useful, I find the circumstantial evidence compelling.
Guandique very well may have killed her, based on his previous attacks on other women in the park.
But they certainly didn’t prove he did it beyond reasonable doubt.
What the hell was that jury thinking?
Remember at first it was the lily-white guy Gary Conduit’s fault. Ooops. I guess not. Illegal alien Ingmar Guandique has been found guilty on two charges of first degree murder for the 2001 brutal killing of Chandra Levy. Lets take a look at CBS’s “summary” of the story:
Guandique, a Salvadoran immigrant, was accused of killing Levy in 2001 while she exercised in Washington’s Rock Creek Park. Her remains were found in the park roughly a year after she went missing. Levy’s disappearance made headlines when she was romantically linked to Condit, then a congressman representing central California as a Democrat, but police no longer think he was involved.
Notice a couple of things here. Because Conduit was at first blamed for the crime, then found to have nothing to do with it, they actually mention his party affiliation. Yet, when Democrats are found guilty of crimes, they conveniently leave out the party affiliation. Notice one other thing. CBS calls Guandique merely a “Salvadoran immigrant.” What’s the important word they leave out? ILLEGAL, as in illegal immigrant. But facts don’t matter to the media like CBS.
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