"Teen guilty of Ecuadoran’s bias killing" by Associated Press | April 20, 2010
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — Jeffrey Conroy, 19 and a former high school athlete, shook his head slightly when the verdict was announced in the packed courtroom. He was acquitted of two counts of murder, including one count as a hate crime, but was convicted of manslaughter, gang assault, and conspiracy in the stabbing death of Marcelo Lucero.
He also was found guilty of three counts of attempted assault in an attack on Lucero’s friend, as well as two other Hispanic men before the stabbing....
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"Cornell student convicted of killing wife" by Associated Press | April 21, 2010
ITHACA, N.Y. — A Cornell University doctoral student from New Zealand who says a mental disorder made him think his wife had been replaced by an impostor was convicted of murder yesterday for slashing her throat on a park trail in central New York and torching their home to destroy evidence....
Defense psychiatrist Dr. Rory Houghtalen said Blazej Kot, 25, suffered from a personality disorder that made him fear he was being tested by unseen forces, leading him to believe he could only end the conspiracy by killing Caroline Coffey, a postdoctoral researcher at the Ivy League school, who he believed was a lookalike.
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"Cornell confronts suicides, reputation; Lookouts posted on campus bridges" by Mary Esch and Michael Hill, Associated Press | March 18, 2010
ITHACA, N.Y. — The steep, rocky gorges bounding Cornell University, an Ivy League school known for its spectacular gorges and haunted by a reputation for suicides, add to the beauty of this school of 20,000 students in upstate New York’s Finger Lakes region. Students must cross over at least one of them to enter the main campus town. The bridge over that gorge is a busy crossing, as students who live on campus use it frequently to visit shops and cafes. But the gorges, at least 100 feet deep in some places, also have figured into student suicides and very likely contributed to Cornell’s reputation as a “suicide school.’’
Something in the water up there?
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"N.Y. wants man who spread HIV locked up" by Associated Press | April 29, 2010
BUFFALO — A sex offender who infected at least 13 women with the AIDS virus should be locked up indefinitely under a civil law meant to keep the most dangerous offenders out of communities even after they complete prison sentences, the state said yesterday.
I will do you one better:
Problem solved and one less scum in the world.
The attorney general’s office described 33-year-old Nushawn Williams in court papers as a mentally disturbed, sex-obsessed drug user who was unruly and sometimes violent during his 12 years in prison and would probably infect more women if freed.
Yeah, bend him over the basket.
He pleaded guilty in 1998 to charges of statutory rape and reckless endangerment after his behavior set off a panic in the small western New York town of Jamestown, where the convict was known as “Face’’ to the sometimes drug-addicted women and girls he charmed for sex....
Oh, he sounds like a real charmer.
Under a three-year-old statute, the state can lock up a sex offender indefinitely if it proves the person has a mental abnormality and is likely to offend again....
And that is a VERY SLIPPERY SLOPE!
Better off doing it my way.
And if I'm wrong?
I don't see or read too many complaining about all the innocent Muslims were are slaughtering, so you will just have to bite the bullet, America.
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I mean, hey, it's not like they ever frame or misidentify people around here.
"Police tell wrong parents that son is dead" by Associated Press | April 30, 2010
MASTIC BEACH, N.Y. — It was a 90-minute nightmare.
Alfred and Geri Esposito of Mastic Beach were told Saturday morning that their son Freddy and another passenger had been killed in a collision with a tractor-trailer on a Pennsylvania highway.
It turns out Freddy wasn’t dead. He was asleep on a couch in an apartment he rents with his brother. The dead man was one of his former fraternity brothers — a revelation that both relieved and upset the Espositos....
I would overlook that and be HAPPY as HELL that the KID is ALIVE!
The mix-up began when Pennsylvania troopers found Freddy Esposito’s driver’s license in the hands of one of the men killed in the wreck — 18-year-old Paul Richards of Santa Cruz, Calif.
And that family, which thought there son was alive.... aaaaahhh!
Geri Esposito said her son and Richards may have shared a fraternity house as students at Stony Brook University. She suspects Freddy, 26, may have lost his ID and never realized it. Freddy Esposito was not available to comment; his mother said he is upset at the deaths of his friends....
Yes, death is always upsetting unless it comes to war criminals, looters, or perverts.
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Yeah, we always get it right in AmeriKa.