It's the first thing I do in the morning before going to get the pile of s*** know as the Boston Globe:
"In third trial, man guilty in 1991 slayings" by BRIAN SKOLOFF | Associated Press, January 24, 2014
PHOENIX— A jury returned guilty verdicts Thursday against a man tried for a third time in the 1991 killings of nine people, including six monks, at a suburban Phoenix Buddhist temple.
Johnathan A. Doody was 17 when he was accused of participating in the slayings at the Wat Promkunaram temple.
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He was found guilty in 1993 and sentenced to 281 years in prison. But an appeals court threw out his conviction in 2011 after ruling that investigators improperly obtained his confession.
Doody’s second trial ended in October with a mistrial after jurors failed to reach a verdict. His third trial began Dec. 4.
Jurors deliberated for five full days before finding Doody guilty of nine counts of first-degree murder and 11 armed robbery and burglary charges.
The jury foreman said that jurors debated the truthfulness of testimony from the man authorities said was his accomplice.
Doody’s sentencing is set for March 14. He faces multiple life sentences.
Doody’s father rested his head in his hands after the verdict was read, overcome with grief, his eyes welling with tears.
‘‘I’m just at a loss for words,’’ Brian Doody said while sitting in the courtroom gallery. ‘‘I just don’t understand.’’
Barb Heller, a friend of some of the victims and a spokeswoman for the temple, said temple members are glad that the case is finally over, and that Doody will remain in prison.
‘‘To us, it just proves everything we knew, and justice was served twice,’’ Heller said. ‘‘But it doesn’t bring back the victims.’’
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"Bus crashes after driver is attacked" Associated Press, January 24, 2014
PHOENIX — A 25-year-old California resident, Maquel Donyel Morris of Los Angeles, attacked the driver of a Greyhound bus early Thursday as it traveled down an Arizona highway, causing the bus to swerve and throw passengers from their seats before it went off the road, injuring 24 people, authorities said. Morris reportedly was hallucinating and was taken to a hospital for a drug-induced condition….
What pharmaceutical was he prescribed, or was it just a bad acid trip?
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Time to wipe clean what is left:
"Ariz. woman tried to kill family, police say" Associated Press, December 31, 2013
PHOENIX — An Arizona woman tried to fatally stab her ex-husband and poison her four children with prescription narcotic drugs, including a teen daughter who was found dead in her home on Christmas Day, police said Monday.
Things are wor$e than the illegal drugs!
She lured the man to her apartment and stabbed him repeatedly before he was able to flee. Connie Villa, 35, was arrested Sunday after being released from a hospital on suspicion of one count of first-degree murder and four counts of attempted murder in the Christmas Day attack in Casa Grande, about 50 miles south of Phoenix.
It was not immediately known whether she had an attorney. A possible motive hasn’t been disclosed, but investigators have found no history of mental illness or previous calls to the home during their initial inquiry. The investigation was ongoing….
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"Police review journal of Ariz. teen held captive" by Jacques Billeaud | Associated Press, November 29, 2013
TUCSON — Police are reviewing a journal they say a 17-year-old girl kept while she and her two younger sisters were imprisoned by their mother and stepfather for up to two years.
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Police Chief Roberto Villasenor said investigators were combing through the diary for evidence in a criminal case against the mother, 32, and stepfather, 34.
He declined to reveal the diary’s contents but said the teen kept one of her most prized possessions — a photo of singer Enrique Iglesias — in the journal. ‘‘It did contain a lot of information that I feel will be useful,’’ Villasenor said.
Investigators said the two younger girls, ages 12 and 13, escaped through the window of the bedroom they shared and alerted a neighbor Tuesday after the stepfather tried to break down the room’s door and was brandishing a knife.
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Also see: Ariz. child abuse reports not investigated
Sorry I didn't investigate that for you as I post this flush.
