Re: School Shooter Convicted on Gun Charge
- From: "Stan Engel" <Stan_engel@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:45:11 +0700
"tiny dancer" <tinydancer357@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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While I'm certainly not a *fan* of this guy, this has the
sound of a 'set up' to me.
It certainly sounds like a 'set up' to me also. I wonder who made the
anonymous tip to the police - and why. It seems unconstitutional to me to
stop and search a vehicle based on an anonymous tip. Did he voluntarily give
permission to search his vehicle? Why we he do such a thing if there was no
advantage? Could it be that the search was really not voluntary?
By the way, you made a rather curious statement: "While I'm certainly not a
*fan* of this guy..." I'm certainly not a fan of Mitchell Johnson either but
I don't feel the need to start off by saying that. Neither am I a fan of
various murderers, rapists and child molesters who I think have been treated
unjustly. I don't see the need for saying I disapprove of their crimes
because I feel "that goes without saying." Yet you felt the need to preface
your remarks with the words, "While I'm certainly not a *fan* of this
guy..." Why?
School Shooter Convicted on Gun Charge
By JON GAMBRELL
Associated Press Writer
Posted: Today at 6:09 p.m.
Updated: 17 minutes ago
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - A federal jury convicted a 23-year-
old man on an obscure weapons charge Tuesday,
apparently unaware that 10 years ago he and another boy
killed four classmates and a teacher in a schoolyard
ambush.
Yes that certainly is an obscure charge. I wonder why it was invoked. My
feeling is that somebody in the federal DOJ decided that Mitchell Jonson's
punishment for the Jonesboro shootings was insufficient.
Mitchell Johnson faces 10 years in prison and a $250,000
fine when he is sentenced in the next 45 days on a count of
possessing a firearm while being a drug user.
Wow, we can really fill up the jails if that law is invoked regularly. I'm
not talking just Negroes here but White folks too. Maybe some group regulars
can have their own kids arrested for "possessing a firearm while being a
drug user."
Johnson was arrested on New Year's Day 2007 after police
stopped his van and said they found a bag of marijuana in
his pocket and a 9 mm pistol and a 20-gauge shotgun in
two bags. Police said they stopped the van after getting an anonymous tip
about drugs in the vehicle.
Thank God for anonymous tipsters. They're better than search warrants.
In 1998, Johnson, then 13, and 11-year-old schoolmate
Andrew Golden opened fire as students and teachers left
Jonesboro Westside Middle School after Golden pulled the
fire alarm. The boys killed English teacher Shannon Wright
and four students ages 11 and 12. They wounded 10 other > people.
Should I feel obligated to say "While I'm certainly not a *fan* of this
guy"?
Government lawyers did not bring up Johnson's violent
past. The only clue during the two-day trial came during
jury selection, when potential panelists were asked
whether Johnson's name sounded familiar.
Mitch Wright, the widower of the teacher killed March 25,
1998, watched Tuesday's court session along with his son
Zane, who was 2 at the time of the shootings. The boy
"wanted to see what this person looked like," Wright said during a break
in the trial.
State courts sent Johnson and Golden to a juvenile prison
until their 18th birthdays. Federal prosecutors then got
them locked up until they turned 21.
Thank God for double jeopardy!.
Johnson left prison with an "adjudicated" record - meaning
he could own firearms.
Prosecutors in the trial that ended Tuesday presented
evidence that Johnson regularly used marijuana. The
defense offered drug tests that showed no drug usage by
Johnson and testimony from witnesses who said they had
never seen Johnson use drugs or possess drug
paraphernalia.
A prosecution witness testified Tuesday that Johnson often > smoked
marijuana, but he later acknowledged that he lied > under oath when he
denied that he personally owned a
gun.
So the "evidence" is the word of someone who lied under oath. I doubt that
Dustin David Wynboom will be indicted for perjury.
Yes, this is a set-up.
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