Posted on 09/11/2012 12:20:10 PM PDT by raccoonradio
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Court officials say a former professor has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting three colleagues and wounding three others at a faculty meeting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Amy Bishop on Tuesday pleaded guilty to one count of capital murder involving two or more people and three counts of attempted murder.
Prosecutors were seeking the death penalty against the Harvard-educated Bishop. Sentencing in the case will be after a Sept. 24 hearing.
The former biology professor previously had pleaded innocent by reason of insanity in the February 2010 shooting.
Bishop also is charged with killing her brother in Massachusetts in 1986. That shooting was originally ruled accidental, but the Alabama slayings prompted a new investigation and charges.
Good grief. The crime happened more than two and a half years ago. We’re just now getting a plea?
What was her Kos avatar? “RedcommieProf” maybe?
"Publish or AND perish."
She also is a liberal, Obama-loving loon.
wikipedia:
She sat quietly at the meeting for 30 or 40 minutes, before pulling out a 9 mm handgun “just before” 4:00 p.m. CST, according to a faculty member. Joseph Ng, an associate professor who witnessed the attack, said: “[She] got up suddenly, took out a gun and started shooting at each one of us. She started with the one closest to her, and went down the row shooting her targets in the head.”According to another survivor, Debra Moriarity, dean of the university’s graduate program and a professor of biochemistry, “This wasn’t random shooting around the room; this was execution style.” Those who were shot were on one side of the oval table used during the meeting, and the five individuals on the other side, including Ng, dropped to the floor.
After Bishop had fired several rounds, Moriarity said that Bishop pointed the gun at her and pulled the trigger, but heard only a “click,” as her gun “either jammed or ran out of ammunition.”
She described Bishop as initially appearing “angry,” and then following the apparent weapon malfunction, “perplexed.” Ng said Moriarity then attempted to stop Bishop by approaching her and asking her to stop, and then helped the other survivors push Bishop from the room and block the door. Ng said “Moriarity was probably the one that saved our lives. She was the one that initiated the rush.”
The suspected murder weapon, a 9 mm handgun, was found in a bathroom on the second floor of the building. Bishop did not have a permit to carry a concealed weapon, as required by state law. She was arrested a few minutes later outside the building.Shortly after her arrest, Bishop was quoted as saying, “It didn’t happen. There’s no way.” When asked about the deaths of her colleagues, Bishop replied, “There’s no way. They’re still alive.”
She probably believes in ACGW too.
CAGW.
That is not too unusual in capital murder cases if they are defended. Claiming an insanity defense also strings things along for an indefinite number of months, depending on the availability of experts for tests and the results of those tests and so on. Capital murder cases are monsters to move, and if the defendant is wily and has a good defense attorney, delay is the norm.
But the Alabama slayings led to a new investigation and charges. In the university shooting, police and people who knew Bishop have described her as being angry over the school’s refusal to grant her tenure, a decision that effectively would have ended her employment in the biology department at UAH.
The gunfire killed Bishop’s boss, biology department chairman Gopi Padila, plus professors Maria Ragland Davis and Adriel Johnson. Professors Joseph Leahy, staff aide Stephanie Monticciolo and assistant professor Luis Cruz-Vera were shot and wounded. Leahy has returned to teaching at the school.
thanks for that update, I had forgotten she killed her brother.
I’m sure this Harvard Educated lunatic prof. just forgot to read the sign that said no weapons are permitted on campus. /sarc Someone with a Concealed Carry could have saved lives....
If you’d even read the excerpt, you’d know that she is just changing her plea, there was a previous plea already entered.
Harvard doesn't graduate lunatics, do they?
Oh, wait.........
Good point. I thank you for pointing out my error.
Good point. I thank you for pointing out my error.
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