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Actually, I'm surprised that this cop was charged at all. Generally, prosecutors are very reluctant to charge the cops with anything. But it looks like this cop got what he deserved.
1 posted on 06/02/2003 10:44:57 AM PDT by Henrietta
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2 posted on 06/02/2003 10:45:15 AM PDT by Henrietta
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I'm also surprised but he must have been a real piece of work. The prosecution, and probably the police department, probably knew he was bad news for a long time. Trying to have the prosecutor killed didn't earn him any extra points either.
3 posted on 06/02/2003 10:50:25 AM PDT by FreePaul
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But it looks like this cop got what he deserved.

There are few details in the article, but perhaps he was not the only one who got what he deserved.

4 posted on 06/02/2003 10:52:00 AM PDT by af_vet_1981
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To: Henrietta
Actually, I'm surprised that this cop was charged at all.

Its a lot less surprising when you read the last sentence in the article -- "Robbins is also accused of trying while in jail to hire someone to kill Feigenbaum." Feigenbaum was the prosecutor.

5 posted on 06/02/2003 10:52:29 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (South-south-west, south, south-east, east....)
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The fog starts to lift.

Robbins was arrested for shooting a man who was a suspect in another murder. Then a friend of Robbins' was busted plotting to kill the state attorney assigned to the case.

According to witnesses, Robbins, the victim (Jason Stukey) and his friend were arguing in a convenience store parking lot. It was around 4 am. Two of the men were drunk. It got ugly fast. It started to get physical when Jason Stukey tried to get inside Robbins' mini-van, assaulting him. Robbins tried to get away, but the young man wouldn't let go. Then it was an all-out brawl.

I don't see how they arrived at 2nd degree murder. I wonder if race was a factor in the prosecution.

7 posted on 06/02/2003 10:59:28 AM PDT by af_vet_1981
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The jury will hear that Robbins was out drinking with a woman named "Trouble" on the night of the shooting and that he got into a fistfight with two men who made sexual comments about her.

"The jury will not be told that Robbins' friend, Renee Jones, 40, was charged in November with trying to hire a hit man to kill Feigenbaum. Investigators have been unable to link Robbins to that case. Jones faces 30 years in prison if convicted."

As for the state's informant, "The state conceded that Fisher lost his credibility when he was charged with carjacking an elderly couple and leading police on a high-speed chase just weeks after he was granted bail."

8 posted on 06/02/2003 11:10:12 AM PDT by af_vet_1981
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