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Woman pleads guilty to killing husband
Bangor Daily News ^ | 16 Nov 2009 | Walter Griffin

Posted on 11/16/2009 2:02:47 PM PST by maine-iac7

Amber Cummings, charged with murdering her husband last December, has pleaded guilty to domestic violence manslaughter and will spend at most one year in prison.

The 31-year-old Cummings entered her plea before Justice Jeffrey Hjelm in Knox County Superior Court in Rockland on Friday. Under the terms of the plea agreement, Cummings was sentenced to eight years in prison with all but one year suspended and six years probation.

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She should get a medal = from the U.S. Gov't.

Before any of you jump to conclusions, first READ - and know this. This woman very possible saved us from a horrific terrorist attack with a WMD in DC.

They say they can't release most of the details of the materials found at the house, however - this happened just down the road from me and most everything was in our little local paper.

Unbelievable.

Her husband lived off a multi-million dollar trust fund...

Information on the chemicals and details they won't release now were in the intial news reports last year, excerpt:

" State police records filed in court show that investigators found chemicals - including uranium - and plans to build a dirty bomb at the High Street home of the Cummingses. The wife also noted that her husband had Neo-Nazi extremist views.

.... In addition to four, 5-gram containers of uranium, police also found thorium, beryllium, boron, lithium metal, aluminum powder, black iron oxide, magnesium ribbons, and four gallons of hydrogen peroxide."

http://waldo.villagesoup.com/news/story/wife-admits-to-killing-husband/289246

The woman deserves a medal. And where was homeland security, the FBI, et al? Should they have not gotten a clue as to why this man was purchasing these chemicals andin this combination = dirty bomb ingredients? (Try buying and installing some grow lights for your plants and they'll swoop down on you.)

1 posted on 11/16/2009 2:02:48 PM PST by maine-iac7
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To: maine-iac7; Lazamataz

Hey Laz, here's an interesting one. Not bad looking, some say she's a patriot, a little damaged/abused, does come with a risky precedent.

2 posted on 11/16/2009 2:10:48 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: maine-iac7

Holy crapoly.....Had not heard about any of this prior to this posting. this guy was a realbad guy. Only questions are where did he get the stuff? and who provided him with funding?

She shouldn’t have been charged at all


3 posted on 11/16/2009 2:11:05 PM PST by the long march
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To: maine-iac7

I had not heard about this story either. She really should not have to spend even one day in jail.


4 posted on 11/16/2009 2:16:36 PM PST by mlizzy ("Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person" --Mother Teresa.)
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"James Cummings was shot twice in the head with a .45-caliber revolver while he slept"

messy. The facts of this case seem really vague, (other than the quote above)but it seems like she's either "not guilty" - as in justifiable homicide; or a murderer. This "guilty but . . ." verdict seems like a cop out.
5 posted on 11/16/2009 2:18:41 PM PST by crescen7 (game on)
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Bunch of hoopla by her attorney. If this gay was anything other than an eccentric collector you can bet homeland security would have been all over it.

He collected military artifacts, flak jackets, ammo, etc. and he had a bunch of DEPLETED uranium that anyone can buy in the commercial metals markets. Nothing illegal, nothing harmful, unless you filled a sack with it and whacked someone over the head.

He just loved collecting that junk.

Believe me, by these standards half the freepers that subscribe to the BANG list and collect military cr@p would be “potential terrorists.”

6 posted on 11/16/2009 2:19:50 PM PST by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: the long march
where did he get the stuff? and who provided him with funding?

He PURCHASED the stuff - he lived off a trust fund from his father - over a million a year.

So the question begs, if you buy a stick of dynamite or grow lights - it's REPORTED.

Is not this stuff?

7 posted on 11/16/2009 2:22:13 PM PST by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" Lincoln)
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To: maine-iac7

Thanks. We have summered on Islesboro for the past 60 years, so I know the area well.

Typical that the state, or maybe the FBI, refused to release any of this information even though the guy is dead so there will be no trial. Evidently someone leaked it in fairness to this woman.

I’d call it self defense. He was a nutcase terrorist, he abused his wife, and he threatened to kill his wife and daughter. Plus he had two weapons ready to hand when he slept. She was as good as s prisoner in her own house, with the child as a hostage.


8 posted on 11/16/2009 2:24:09 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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The facts of this case seem really vague, (other than the quote above

Did you read both newspaper accounts?

Other than being on the scene at the time, how much more details do you need?

9 posted on 11/16/2009 2:24:59 PM PST by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" Lincoln)
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Geez...sounds like a movie of the week. It’s even got child porn...yecchh.


10 posted on 11/16/2009 2:26:42 PM PST by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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aluminum powder, black iron oxide, magnesium ribbons,

Ingredients for thermite, perfectly legal, search youtube there about a thousand videos of people making that stuff in their backyards and burning up fry pans and blowing up propane tanks. It's the American (redneck) way.

Why did he have stuff like this? Who cares?

Why do I have an M-1 Garand? Because I CAN.

11 posted on 11/16/2009 2:27:12 PM PST by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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Holy crapoly.....Had not heard about any of this prior to this posting.

When it happened, I watched and waited for to hit the national news. After all, this guy was building a dirty bomb that he was planning on setting off in Washington DC! Would that not qualify as national news - topical - and fit the "Peoples Right to Know"?

Never a peep.

Which makes me nervous - wondering what else is going on that we don't hear about.

12 posted on 11/16/2009 2:29:15 PM PST by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" Lincoln)
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It’s even got child porn...yecchh.

Well, I would have shot him for the child porn.

The rest of the stuff was just her claims about what he said, and some testimony from a psychiatrist-for-hire.

13 posted on 11/16/2009 2:31:14 PM PST by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: maine-iac7

A million bucks a year from a trust fund indicates a pretty large trust. Who is his dad? And why was this guy engaged in terroist activities? I want to know if he had any leanings like T. McVeigh, who though portrayed as a loyal nutcase American, really had spent way too much time with Abu Saayef to be anything other than a lily white patsy for the Islamists.


14 posted on 11/16/2009 2:32:07 PM PST by the long march
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And why was this guy engaged in terroist activities?

He didn't commit any terrorist activities, and didn't take one step toward constructing a bomb.

He had TONS of military and wierd crap. He was an eccentric collector. Nutty, and should have been put away for child porn, but the "terrorist" bit is nonsense.

15 posted on 11/16/2009 2:35:11 PM PST by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: crescen7
"James Cummings was shot twice in the head with a .45-caliber revolver while he slept"

Probably safe to assume he continued sleeping.

16 posted on 11/16/2009 2:35:48 PM PST by meadsjn
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Riiiggghhhhttt - just a good ole boy from the south (he came up here from the south) who happened to be a nao-nazi who had access to millions of dollars and whose collection just happened to contain all the chemicals for a dirty bomb - which he told his wife he was making - just fantasizing about setting it off in DC and taking her and the daughter with him to die in the process...

right- nothing to see here -

you also say: "If this gay was anything other than an eccentric collector you can bet homeland security would have been all over it.

Right! Just like they were all over the jihardist Hassan.

17 posted on 11/16/2009 2:36:49 PM PST by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" Lincoln)
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Not bad looking, some say she's a patriot...

I see talk shows and the lecture circuit in her future as an activist. God bless her and her child. May she never suffer a moment of moral remorse (although the practical consequences are steep) for ridding the world of a scumbag nutcase.

18 posted on 11/16/2009 2:36:52 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Obama makes Bush his blame czar. --Mark Steyn)
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happened to contain all the chemicals for a dirty bomb

How did he have "all the ingredients for a dirty bomb"? He had DEPLETED uranium.

What did he have or do that was illegal?

You're probably one of those people that would see a .22 on the sidewalk and call 911. The whole "terrorist" bit was a construct of the wife's AFTER she blew his brains out. Why didn't she grab the kid and run and call homeland security? Because they would have looked at his collection of cr@p and laughed at her.

She killed him, and got her attorney to makethese provokative leaks and make it seem like having an eccentric collection of perfectly legal and harmless stuff was the terrorist act of the century.

Come on. Get you head out of your b&tt and look at the facts here.

19 posted on 11/16/2009 2:43:34 PM PST by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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I'd hit it.

Then I'd shackle it.

20 posted on 11/16/2009 2:50:14 PM PST by Lazamataz (DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
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