Posted on 07/13/2005 11:59:52 AM PDT by TheOtherOne
Poor kid. She saw it and now she faces the possibility of having to relive it during trial. Maybe some jailhouse justice will intervene and she won't have to.
Good point..maybe they make the case without calling her to testify. I hope so.
Same thing happened to me once... I was reading and responding on one thread and, after my post, I found myself on an unrelated thread.
Her testimony of his confession alone should be enough to put this guy on death row without putting her through that.
I wasn't even reading that thread; it appeared after I started writing my comment. Just one of those things -- like happens so often in the liberal/Democrat bizarro universe where nothing ever makes sense and adds up. Sorry again to break everybody's train of thought. Carry on.
If she testifies at all she can be cross examined, as i understand it, but somebody else pointed put he could get death just for the murders and she might not need to testify at all.
Defense atty. Debra Opri said on CNN last night that the DA could offer Duncan life w/o parole for a guilty plea, thus saving Shasta from having to testify. I have a feeling that the DA won't even entertain such an idea.
Duncan will face murder charges for Dylan in Montana, if it can be decided that Dylan was actually murdered there.
I hope this little girl continues to recall what she needs to to get this man his just due. Then I hope, by the grace and mercy of God, that these memories are erased from her mind, never again to return. God can heal, but I think it will take the erasure of these memories.
This mutt could face the death penalty? I for one can't see how this isn't a foregone conclusion.
Did you see Shasta's older brother on cnn? He appears to be talking from jail/prison. What I caught of it, he was talking about what he would do to Duncan if he got hold of him. Anyone know what he's in for?
He should be DEAD now! And, in the old days.....the family members would have made sure he was by now.....
I say kill him, don't care how, but in the future if your gonna let one out you gotta first: pour acid on their face and blind them, castrate them, cut off their hands, remove one kneecap, install a taser system to go off every ten minutes and tattoo 'child molester' on their head.
There is no way this is the first time Duncan has killed. I recall on another thread of comments he made on his blog about another girl being missing and he feared he would be blamed.
He has remorse that he was caught.
They said he's killed a bunch.
The memories will never go away,
but having her story heard,
having people listen will help a great deal.
Remorse!?
Convicted sex offender Joseph Edward Duncan bragged to his 8-year-old captive during more than six weeks on the run, telling her how he used a shotgun and hammer to kill her family after staking out their home for days, court documents show
Yeah, remorseful he got caught.
"My mind cannot envision what could be sufficient retribution for this scumbag"
Think of a tree, pulley, some small diameter cable, and a few friends with imagination. Repeat until done.
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