James Herard, 19
Posted on 12/03/2008 2:55:18 PM PST by WilliamReading
When asked why they shot patrons of the Delray Beach Dunkin' Donuts who were lying on the ground during a robbery last week, one of the men arrested said he "just wanted to up the body count," according to Broward Sherrif Sgt. Neal Glassman, a robbery detective.
Glassman said James Herard, 19, told him he had no soul and could shoot him and another detective and it wouldn't mean anything.
"It was sport," said Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti at a news conference this afternoon. "These are just cold-blooded thugs who enjoyed doing this."
Three men, who claim affiliations to the notorious Crips gang, have admitted to their involvement in the recent Dunkin' Donuts robberies and shootings which left five victims.
Herard, Calvin Weatherspoon, 20, and Jonathan Jackson, 23, were arrested Tuesday in an unrelated case when they admitted their roles in the robberies to investigators, according to Broward County Sheriff's officials. Law enforcement agencies are still looking for at least one other man they believe was involved in the crimes.
All three men have a history of arrests ranging from assault on a police officer and drug possession to counterfeiting.
The case broke open on Tuesday when Lauderhill police working in a high-crime neighborhood spotted a white Camry similar to the one spotted leaving one of the stores. Police thought the car was suspicious and followed it as it stalked a man walking his pit bull.
When two men jumped out of the car and attacked the man and tried to steal his dog, police arrested them and called the Sheriff's Office.
In interviews with detectives, the three men admitted their involvement in the Dunkin' Donuts shootouts in Tamarac, Sunrise and Delray Beach, as well as a 7-Eleven robbery in Pompano, and boasted about their involvement in the Crips gang.
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“Three men, who claim affiliations to the notorious Crips gang...
Yep.....
They will be back on the street again if the past is any clue.
Behead them in public.
“Kill em, Kill em all!”
lynch the bastards.
Yet another reason to carry concealed...
This group has been terrorizing South Floridians with their brazen shoot-ups of local Dunkin’ Donut shops, and have forced the early closure of several of the stores.
Their tactic is to violently takeover the store, leave with some petty cash, and shoot people randomly for kicks as they leave the store. They left one innocent bystander permanently paralyzed as he was sitting with a cup of coffee.
And they were out on the street....why?!
Legacy
Channon Christian and Chris Newsom deaths
Study used to show flaws in sentencing of carjacking defendants
By Jamie Satterfield (Contact)
Saturday, November 22, 2008
For decades now, defense attorneys have challenged the constitutionality of the death penalty by offering educated guesses at the thought processes of jurors holding a killer’s fate in their hands.
But attorneys defending suspects in one of Knoxville’s most notorious and heinous crimes are serving up a new and compelling twist on that age-old claim by citing what actual capital case jurors said was going on inside their heads.
“The U.S. Supreme Court has made it clear that social science research and studies of capital sentencing schemes must use actual jurors from capital punishment trials,” attorneys Tom Dillard and Steve Johnson wrote on behalf of fatal carjacking suspect George G. Thomas.
In a motion since adopted by defense attorneys for the three remaining suspects in the torture slayings of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, the pair of legal eagles insists a study funded by the National Science Foundation has finally accomplished just that.
“The Capital Jury Project is an extensive multiyear project covering 14 states which has collected the post-sentencing survey data of over 1,200 actual death penalty jurors,” Johnson and Dillard wrote.
“The Capital Jury Project researched the decision-making process of actual jurors during the course of their trials and identified specific points during the trial and specific influences regarding how actual jurors reached their final sentencing decisions,” they wrote.
The results, the attorneys contend, prove what the defense bar has long contended - the death penalty trial process is fatally flawed.
Prosecutors Leland Price and Takisha Fitzgerald are seeking the lives of suspects Letalvis Cobbins, Lemaricus Davidson, Vanessa Coleman and Thomas as punishment for their alleged involvement in the January 2007 slayings of Christian and Newsom.
Knox County Criminal Court Judge Richard Baumgartner on Friday held a brief hearing to dispatch routine motions. But he is reserving for another day the more legally novel claim presented in Thomas’ case.
Among the claimed revelations cited in the Capital Jury Project:
n Jurors decide whether to flip the switch on a suspect’s life as soon as they deem the defendant a killer.
“When I knew in my heart he was guilty … I knew he should get death,” a Florida juror said.
n A juror’s race, religion and age all shape his or her decision-making process.
“Nearly two-thirds of white jurors vote for death on the first vote, compared to about one-third of black jurors,” the study noted.
They will be in prison a minimum of ten years each. Jeb Bush put some pretty tough penalties for using a handgun in a robberry.
One look at the mug shots tells the entire story.
Maybe the ACLU can get the confession tossed out?
This is but one tiny peek into the results of a nation trying to shove aside the God who raised her up from nothing into the greatest country in the history of the world. One tiny result of the culture of death represented by abortion. One tiny result of a society that increasingly rejects traditional morals and instead demands that its citizen embrace every imaginable depravity.
The bad news? It’s all downhill from here unless there’s a huge change of heart in this country.
MM
James Herard, 19
Ya mean “Midnight Basketball” wasn’t enough to keep them from a life of senseless, wanton violence and murder?
“..why?!”
So that crime in our cities will get so bad we have to give up all our liberty to the government.
Jonathan Jackson
Calvin Weatherspoon
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