THEY NEED TO BURN THIS MAN AT THE STAKE!!

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Jury to deliberate death of girl bitten by alligators
BY SUSANNAH NESMITH
snesmith@MiamiHerald.com

WALTER MICHOT/MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Harrel Braddy is accused of leaving 5-year-old Quatisha Maycock to be eaten by alligators near Alligator Alley.
Blog | Crime Scene
Harrel Braddy is a cold-hearted murderer who left a five-year-old in the Everglades to be killed by alligators so she wouldn't be able to tell police what he had done to her mother, a prosecutor told the jury today.

Assistant State Attorney Abbe Rifkin asked the jury to consider Quatisha Maycock's final moments.

''You're five.... You're hurt. You're alone. It's dark,'' she said.

Braddy had already left Quatisha Maycock's mother, Shandelle, for dead in a sugarcane field after choking her repeatedly, Rifkin said during her closing argument in Braddy's murder trial. She reminded jurors that Shandelle Maycock said she tried to escape and save the child by jumping out of Braddy's moving car and asked them: ``how desperate would you have to be to jump out of a moving car with your child?''

Given that, and the evidence that Quatisha Maycock was still alive when alligators bit her on the head and stomach, Rifkin urged the jury to convict Braddy of kidnapping mother and child, trying to murder Shandelle and murdering Quatisha.

But Braddy's attorney, G.P. Della Fera, offered an alternative theory to explain the child's death.

He blamed her mother. The fatal blow came when Shandelle Maycock jumped out of Braddy's moving car.

''Quatisha Maycock suffered an injury and died as a result of flying out of a car and hitting her head on Ives Dairy Road,'' he said. ``It's up to you to decide whether Mr. Braddy is responsible for that.''

Jurors have spent more than a week listening to testimony in the case and were expected to begin deliberations this afternoon.

Maycock testified last week that Braddy, a friend from church, flew into a rage in her apartment one night back in 1998 when she asked him to leave. She said he told her that she had used him and twice choked her until she passed out.

The second time, she awoke in the back seat of Braddy's car with her daughter in the front seat.

She said she grabbed her daughter and jumped out of Braddy's car in a desperate attempt the save the child.

When Braddy pulled over to get the two of them, Maycock said her daughter was hurt from the fall from the car, but was able to walk. Braddy put the little girl in the front seat and shoved Maycock into the trunk. She never saw her daughter alive again.

If jurors convict Braddy of first degree murder, the trial will move to the penalty phase. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Braddy, a felon with a lengthy record that includes convictions for escape and attempted murder.

The trial has been delayed for nearly nine years because Braddy has fired a series of court-appointed attorneys and even briefly represented himself.

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just call up these guys

[lyrik]

Yet another piece of human garbage.

[swank]

This story ENRAGES me...my daughter is that age...and guess what? Children that age are very cognoscente and can carry on very profound conversations. I could never imagine my daughter in that situation.

Just looking at the ignorant smirk on his face is disgusting. People today are just plain desensitized and have lost all sight of right from wrong. That poor girl's last moments must have been filled with fear.

prick.

[JMT]

and let this motherfucker join him.

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Dead Girl's Father Confronts Killer

INVERNESS, Fla. (July 18) - The man convicted of kidnapping and raping 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford before swaddling her in garbage bags and burying her alive in his yard was likely faking mentally retardation in earlier tests, a court-appointed psychologist said Tuesday.





John Evander Couey, 48, who spent part of his murder trial earlier this year drawing in coloring books, "is not mentally retarded," clinical psychologist Gregory Prichard testified at a pre-sentencing hearing Tuesday. Prichard said the convicted killer has an IQ of 78, slightly above the 70 level generally considered retarded.

At the end of Tuesday's seven-hour pre-sentencing hearing, Jessica's father, Mark Lunsford, took the witness stand and spoke directly to the man convicted of killing his daughter.

"I hope you hear her cries as you try to sleep at night," Lunsford said, wiping tears. "I hope you see the tears run down her face as she asked you to go home. I hope you spend the rest of your life in fear of death. You will never hurt another child."

Lunsford then asked Circuit Judge Richard Howard to sentence Couey to death.

Sentencing has tentatively been set for Aug. 10.

Howard must first weigh the prosecution and defense arguments on Couey's mental competence. A 2002 U.S. Supreme Court ruling prohibits the execution of mentally retarded people.

During more than six hours of testimony, Prichard said it is easier to fake mental retardation than intelligence. He said standardized tests and interviews showed Couey was intelligent enough to manage money, take care of himself and even keep secrets.

Assistant Public Defender Daniel Lewan spent most of the hearing hours challenging Prichard's assessment. Lewan said other experts have shown Couey is mildly retarded with an IQ of 64. He asked the judge to rely on the earlier testimony.

Lewan is trying to get a life sentence. Prosecutors want Couey executed.

In March, a Miami jury brushed aside Lewan's pleas for mercy, voting 10-2 to recommend that Couey be executed for Jessica's slaying. Florida law puts the final sentencing decision in the hands of a judge, who must give great weight to a jury recommendation.

The jury convicted Couey of taking Jessica in February 2005 from her bedroom to his nearby trailer, where he raped her and buried her alive. Despite a massive search, the third-grader's body was found about three weeks after she disappeared in a grave in Couey's yard, about 150 yards from her own home.

Couey, already a convicted sex offender when he committed the crime, was arrested in Georgia and confessed to the killing. That confession was thrown out as evidence because Couey did not have a lawyer present.

The trial was moved to Miami because of intense media coverage in Citrus County.

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press.

[lyrik]

Originally Posted by JMT

and let this motherfucker join him.

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Dead Girl's Father Confronts Killer

INVERNESS, Fla. (July 18) - The man convicted of kidnapping and raping 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford before swaddling her in garbage bags and burying her alive in his yard was likely faking mentally retardation in earlier tests, a court-appointed psychologist said Tuesday.





John Evander Couey, 48, who spent part of his murder trial earlier this year drawing in coloring books, "is not mentally retarded," clinical psychologist Gregory Prichard testified at a pre-sentencing hearing Tuesday. Prichard said the convicted killer has an IQ of 78, slightly above the 70 level generally considered retarded.

At the end of Tuesday's seven-hour pre-sentencing hearing, Jessica's father, Mark Lunsford, took the witness stand and spoke directly to the man convicted of killing his daughter.

"I hope you hear her cries as you try to sleep at night," Lunsford said, wiping tears. "I hope you see the tears run down her face as she asked you to go home. I hope you spend the rest of your life in fear of death. You will never hurt another child."

Lunsford then asked Circuit Judge Richard Howard to sentence Couey to death.

Sentencing has tentatively been set for Aug. 10.

Howard must first weigh the prosecution and defense arguments on Couey's mental competence. A 2002 U.S. Supreme Court ruling prohibits the execution of mentally retarded people.

During more than six hours of testimony, Prichard said it is easier to fake mental retardation than intelligence. He said standardized tests and interviews showed Couey was intelligent enough to manage money, take care of himself and even keep secrets.

Assistant Public Defender Daniel Lewan spent most of the hearing hours challenging Prichard's assessment. Lewan said other experts have shown Couey is mildly retarded with an IQ of 64. He asked the judge to rely on the earlier testimony.

Lewan is trying to get a life sentence. Prosecutors want Couey executed.

In March, a Miami jury brushed aside Lewan's pleas for mercy, voting 10-2 to recommend that Couey be executed for Jessica's slaying. Florida law puts the final sentencing decision in the hands of a judge, who must give great weight to a jury recommendation.

The jury convicted Couey of taking Jessica in February 2005 from her bedroom to his nearby trailer, where he raped her and buried her alive. Despite a massive search, the third-grader's body was found about three weeks after she disappeared in a grave in Couey's yard, about 150 yards from her own home.

Couey, already a convicted sex offender when he committed the crime, was arrested in Georgia and confessed to the killing. That confession was thrown out as evidence because Couey did not have a lawyer present.

The trial was moved to Miami because of intense media coverage in Citrus County.

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press.

I cannot even look at that motherfuckers pictures without my stomach turning. I have never in my life wanted to personally choke and beat the life out of someone I have not even met. Because these things are in news so much lately my wife and I often talk about if people like this should be put to death or left in jail to be tortured and suffer. We both go back and forth on different points, like its more of a drain on tax payers to keep them alive might as well just treat them as if they are human trash and just be done with it.Then of course we both know that people like this usually don't last long in prison and in all likelyhood will get what they so deserve.

If I were this child's father I don't think I could contain myself. I would absolutely try everything I could to personally kill him with my own hands I just couldn't imagine the pain and anger the parents must feel from this I really think its something that will never leave them.

[Clubhopper11]

Why these folks are still breathing is beyond me. ???

[swirlundergrounder]

Originally Posted by Clubhopper11

Why these folks are still breathing is beyond me. ???

And that's that's so fu*ked up about our justice system...

[JMT]

here's another gem of a story...

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Sex-abuse case dropped because of delays in search for interpreter

ROCKVILLE, Maryland (AP) -- Charges against a man accused of raping and repeatedly molesting a 7-year-old girl have been dropped because the court took too long to find an interpreter fluent in his native West African language.

Montgomery County Circuit Judge Katherine D. Savage dismissed the nearly three-year-old case against Mahamu Kanneh last week, saying the delays had violated the Liberian immigrant's right to a speedy trial.

"This is one of the most difficult decisions I've had to make in a long time," Savage said from the bench Tuesday. She said she was mindful of "the gravity of this case and the community's concern about offenses of this type."

Prosecutors are considering whether to appeal the dismissal. They cannot refile the charges.

Police arrested Kanneh, of Gaithersburg, in August 2004 after witnesses told police he assaulted the girl multiple times. He spent one night in jail and was released on a $10,000 bond with the restriction that he have no contact with minors.

Prosecutors at first maintained Kanneh could understand the proceedings without translation into his native Vai, a tribal language that linguists estimate is spoken by about 100,000 people mostly in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Prosecutors pointed out that Kanneh attended high school and community college in Montgomery and spoke to detectives in English.

A court-appointed psychiatrist recommended that an interpreter be appointed and judges who handled subsequent hearings heeded that advice. But officials could not find a competent interpreter of Vai who would stay.

The first interpreter stormed out of the courtroom in tears because she found the facts of the case disturbing. A second interpreter was rejected for faulty work. A third Vai interpreter was located, but at the last minute, that person had to tend to a family emergency.

In recent weeks court officials had found a suitable interpreter, but Savage ruled that too much time had already passed.

Prosecutor Maura Lynch had argued that dismissing the indictment "after all the efforts the state has made to accommodate the defendant would be fundamentally unfair."

Kanneh's attorney, Theresa Chernosky, declined to comment.

Loretta E. Knight, the court clerk responsible for finding interpreters, said her office searched exhaustively for a speaker of Vai. She said court officials contacted the Liberian Embassy and courts in all but three states.

The Washington Post reported that it identified three Vai interpreters Thursday with help from the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters, including one in Gaithersburg.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/22/charges.dismissed.ap/

[web_norah]

as if killing this man really solves the justice problem or undo what he's done ...way to go death penalty supporters!