AP: Abortion Doctor's Killer Convicted Again

Full article: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/25/ap/national/mainD8MSFQL80.shtml

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Doesn't their schtick justify murder to save the unborn?

Guess saving his ass is more important than his convictions, in this case.

So long, sucker.

and looked through his telescopic sight at an unsuspecting man standing in his own goddamned kitchen and dropped him. What could be more heroic?



Too bad his years of being quoted and admired by the dregs in his violent, mentally ill, right-wing trolls' club are coming to an end, as he disappears behind bars in his little orange jumpsuit.

associated himself with. Isn't there a war against terrorism going on?

associated himself with?
Oh, wait a minute...

but i could make an exception in his case.


ROT IN HELL.

yes they have their little passive grannies that stand with their signs, but there are the folks like the ones I encountered during a Kerry rally that tried to push me into traffic because i didn't agree with them.

This guy deserves life in prison for killing that doctor.

I encountered them during a civil trial that Planned Parenthood brought against them and i was a sub court reporter.

Flip Benham, Randall Terry, all those guys are scary. Being in the same room with them gave me PTSD.

Too bad I can't sue them for having to breathe the same air they did at that time.

a good book by Mark Juergensmeyer. It explains what is wrong with these people.
ISBN # 0-520-24011-1

an "abortion doctor"; it made him a gynecologist.

They should call him & his accomplices what they are - terrorists.

This does smack of double jeopardy.

He is serving a state sentence for murder and now he gets to serve a federal sentence for violating the U.S. Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. Two different charges here but both charges and convictions based on murdering the physician. The Federal charges were not for murder per se.

The line of reasoning would follow thusly.

Someone murders someone who is in the military. Do you charge him with treason as well as murder? Why not charge him with assualt and battery too? Why not throw in attempted murder as well? How about damaging government property? Technically you can argue for all of these. So why not? None of these other charges would be murder per se.

Charge him with murder. Put him away for life. Leave it at that.

He did not.

And since he was convicted on the first, what difference would it make ANYWAY?

It's hardly unusual for one person to face multiple charges related to the same crime. You'd have a fuck of a lot of precedence to overturn if you could convince anyone that that was double jeopardy.

Dupe

In current law, this doesn't fall under double jeopardy because of the "separate sovereign" exception in addition to the point you raised regarding different charges. Separate soverigns (states are considered separate entities from the federal government) are not precluded from both filing charges on the same crime. Double jeopardy seems to apply only to charges from the same sovereign entity. I'm wrong on both counts in current common law. You were correct.

I still have a strong objection to the modern practice of applying every charge conceivable to a crime (Usually just to force a plea bargain). This man deserves to be put away for life. But it is this practice combined with mandatory minimums that has contributed heavily to our ridiculous prison population.

The practice in general still strikes me as wrong and wasteful. He should have been charged once, given a life sentence, and it should have been left at that. A second trial is a waste of taxpayer money at the very least.

my ass.

Pro life means the death penalty is ok and killing somebody who is pro choice is ok.

I will defend his right to life, ESPECIALLY when he is placed in the same cell as a 300 pound bodybuilder :evilgrin: