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Court upholds sentence in Jesse Dirkhising case Man convicted in homosexual rape & murder
World Net Daily ^ | 09.21.03

Posted on 09/23/2003 11:05:22 AM PDT by Coleus

Court upholds sentence in Jesse Dirkhising case
Man convicted in homosexual rape, murder of 13-year-old boy keeps 25-year prison term

Posted: September 21, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Jon Dougherty
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

The Arkansas Supreme Court has upheld the 25-year sentence of a man convicted of the homosexual rape and murder of a 13-year-old boy.

The state's highest court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling which said a pair of statements made to police in September 1999 by Joshua Macabe Brown shortly after his arrest should not be thrown out.

Earlier, Benton County Circuit Judge David S. Clingler ruled although he had ''serious doubts'' about tactics used by two officers in questioning Brown after his arrest, he said there was ''no way'' he found anything Brown said was in response to any sort of promises made by police, the Fort Smith, Ark. Times-Record newspaper reported.

Brown could have received life in prison or the death penalty for his role in the killing, which gained national prominence in a column by WorldNetDaily founder and editor-in-chief Joseph Farah.

Dirkhising was found by police unconscious on the floor of a Prairie Grove, Ark. residence around 5 a.m. Sept. 26, 1999, his hands bound with duct tape and his mouth gagged.

Police later determined Dirkhising had been repeatedly raped over a period of hours, including with foreign objects, by Brown, then 22, and Davis Don Carpenter, then 38.

Police also said Dirkhising had been blindfolded and tied to a mattress in the residence, and also had possibly been drugged during the ordeal. And authorities said after the last rape he was left bound and gagged while his attackers ate a sandwich. He died of suffocation, a coroner's report found.

Carpenter, whom police say orchestrated the attack, pleaded guilty and received a sentence of life in prison.

In his high court appeal, Brown argued police promised him he could ''help himself'' by telling them what they wanted to know, the Times-Record reported. But justices agreed the comments were vague and non-specific, that Brown was of legal age when arrested and was properly advised of his rights by police.

''We cannot say that Brown was so vulnerable that his statements were involuntary, and it is apparent that the trial court did not err in denying Brown’s motion to suppress these statements,'' said Justice Tom Glaze, in the court's unanimous ruling.

Prosecutors had sought the death penalty in the case.

After his arrest, Carpenter had made statements to police about homosexual fantasies involving young boys, said authorities – statements the court later allowed, despite Carptenter's insistence he made them before he was formally arrested for the crime.

News of the Dirkhising case was surprisingly muted throughout the country, perhaps because it involved a homosexual crime, said WND readers, who voted it one of the most spiked stories of 1999.

At one point, Farah took the Washington Post to task over it, and most major newspaper's, lack of coverage of the case. In response the Post's ombudsman, E.R. Shipp, blasted Farah and WND in a column she penned defending her paper's decision to focus more attention on the death of Matthew Shepard, a homosexual student who was murdered in Wyoming in Oct. 1998.

Related stories:

Guilty verdict in Dirkhising case

Death penalty sought for 13-year-old's killers

Delay sought in Dirkhising trial

Sex fantasies evidence in Dirkhising trial

No bail in Dirkhising case

Biggest spikes of 1999

Related columns:

Mourning Jesse Dirkhising

E. R. Shipp, where are you?

Washington Post gets nasty

Jesse Dirkhising's deliverance

Not a hate crime



Jon E. Dougherty is a staff reporter and columnist for WorldNetDaily


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Philosophy; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: ak; arkansas; bias; boylover; ccrm; coverup; homosexual; homosexualagenda; jesse; jessedirkhising; lamestreammedia; mediabias; medianews; murder; napoleon; news; parenting; presstitutes; prisoners; rape; sodomy

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1 posted on 09/23/2003 11:05:22 AM PDT by Coleus
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2 posted on 09/23/2003 11:07:05 AM PDT by Coleus (Only half the patients who go into an abortion clinic come out alive.)
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To: Coleus
I still say they both should have had "Hate Crime" added to the charges!
3 posted on 09/23/2003 11:12:23 AM PDT by cuz_it_aint_their_money (I'm out of my mind...... But feel free to leave a message.)
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4 posted on 09/23/2003 11:15:28 AM PDT by Coleus (Only half the patients who go into an abortion clinic come out alive.)
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"News of the Dirkhising case was surprisingly muted throughout the country, perhaps because it involved a homosexual crime..."

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5 posted on 09/23/2003 11:27:42 AM PDT by EdReform (Support Free Republic - Become a Monthly Donor)
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To: Coleus
Didn't the killers of Matthew Shepherd get the death penalty? How much worse to homosexually rape and murder a young boy, yet this slug gets off with 25 years (and he'll probably be sprung after only serving a few by a Clinton-appointed judge).
6 posted on 09/23/2003 11:32:28 AM PDT by white trash redneck
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To: Coleus
Three to four made for television movies will be forthcoming, I'm sure.
7 posted on 09/23/2003 11:33:53 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: Coleus
I remember this.He was gagged with his own underpants!I don't remember seeing a motion-picture decrying this behavior(ala Matthew Shepard)!!I also don't remember this being PROMINENTLY reported by The Majors!!!Did I miss something!!!!!!!!!!!
8 posted on 09/23/2003 11:38:00 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: AD from SpringBay
Don't Hold Your Breath!!
9 posted on 09/23/2003 11:38:57 AM PDT by bandleader
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Ping
10 posted on 09/23/2003 11:40:14 AM PDT by EdReform (Support Free Republic - Become a Monthly Donor)
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To: Coleus
I'll be watching for NBC's, CBS' & ABC's news divisions to cover this story. Not.
11 posted on 09/23/2003 11:42:28 AM PDT by martin_fierro (Great Googlymoogly!)
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To: All
A google news search found four media outlets besides WND with the story.

Benton County Daily Record, AR - Sep 19, 2003

HomeTown channel.com, AR - Sep 18, 2003

KPOM-TV, AR - Sep 18, 2003

Fort Smith Times Record, AR - Sep 19, 2003

I am reminded of the Washington Post ombudsman's response to hundreds of inquiries asking why didn't the Post carry more than just one small wire service story about the murder.

It didn't happen locally, said the ombudsman, and besides there is nothing to learn from the story.

A search of www.WashingtonPost.com for Dirkhising found zero -- nothing.

A search of www.WashingtonPost.com for "Matthew Shepard" found 21 hits.

The Washington Post is published in Laramie, Wyo?

Oh, did I mention that there is NO bias in the media. Pass it on.

12 posted on 09/23/2003 11:48:53 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael
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To: Coleus
Well this is bound to be Dan Rather's lead story for tonight...NOT!
13 posted on 09/23/2003 12:02:43 PM PDT by capt. norm (You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.)
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To: capt. norm
You beat me to it.

Rather, Jennings, Brockaw, et al could not care less.

14 posted on 09/23/2003 12:46:23 PM PDT by Skooz (All Hail the Mighty Kansas City Chiefs)
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To: Coleus
Never forget.
15 posted on 09/23/2003 12:46:56 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy (For victory & freedom!!!)
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To: Coleus; Jim Robinson; JustAmy; jkphoto; Mama_Bear; ladyinred; chadsworth
This must be what the Fresno Human Relations Commission thinks is "hate speech". And this is one of the reasons they think we're a "hate group".
16 posted on 09/23/2003 12:48:49 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy (For victory & freedom!!!)
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To: EdReform
"When it comes to sex, I don't give a s--t what anyone's trip is. . . . I have no sexual standards in my head that say this is good or this is bad. Homosexual -- that only means to me that he enjoys sex with a man and I enjoy sex with a woman. It's all legitimate to me." -- Governor Arnold Mapplethorpe Schwarzenegger (R. CA)
17 posted on 09/23/2003 5:26:20 PM PDT by Kevin Curry ([Arnold's] lust for power is not rooted in strength, but in weakness)
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To: Coleus
Bump.
18 posted on 09/23/2003 7:39:13 PM PDT by fatima (Jim,Karen,We are so proud of you.Thank you for all you do for our country.4th ID)
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To: Coleus
BTTT
19 posted on 09/29/2003 3:39:02 PM PDT by GrandMoM ("What is impossible with men is possible with GOD -Luke 18:27)
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