Re: UPDATE: Timothy Hennis ( Innocent Victims Killer) Found GUILTY in 1985 Triple Murders


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On Apr 8, 1:47 pm, "bella" <tinydancer...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





Looks like the third time is the charm, a unanimous decision allows for
the
death penalty to be considered. Sentencing Phase starts tomorrow.
Finally
justice for Kathryn Eastburn and her two little girls.

Military jury finds soldier guilty in 1985 triple murder

Posted: 11:16 a.m. today
Updated: 28 minutes ago

FORT BRAGG, N.C. - A military jury on Thursday convicted a former Fort
Bragg
soldier of murdering a Fayetteville woman and two of her children in
1985,
and the jury will next decide whether he should be put to death for the
crimes.

Master Sgt. Timothy Hennis, 52, was found guilty of three counts of
premeditated murder after less than three hours of deliberation. Because
all
14 Army officers and enlisted personnel on the jury agreed on the
verdict,
prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty against Hennis.

Testimony in the sentencing phase of the trial was scheduled to begin
Friday
morning.

Hennis showed no reaction to the verdict. Relatives of Kathryn Eastburn
and
her daughters, 5-year-old Kara and 3-year-old Erin, hugged and cried.

Eastburn and the two girls were stabbed to death on May 9, 1985, in
their
Summerhill Road home in Fayetteville. A third daughter, who was 22
months
old at the time, was found unharmed in her crib.

Eastburn's husband, Air Force Capt. Gary Eastburn, was training in
Alabama
at the time of the slayings.

Article continues at link:

http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/7382741/

I agree that Hennis is guilty and, as far as Hennis heimself goes, I
hope he gets what he deserves.

On the other hand, I find the idea of re-trying someone who was
already found NOT guilty to be a disturbing trend towards the kind of
oppression our founders led a revolution against.

Unlike the the so-called conservatives that constitute the current
right wing, I'm very conservative about these things. The
constitution is clear about double jeopardy, even though the idea of
new evidence arising was not foreign to those that wrote the
constitution.

Mick

I understand your point, but I do think at the time the constitution was
penned, nothing like DNA was even imagined.

They certainly did imagine the idea that new evidence could come up.
The fact that it is a new type of evidence? I'm not sure that
matters.


---------------------------

I was referring to the fact that DNA is irrefutable as to whom it belongs.
Scientific evidence of that caliber wasn't conceived of when the founding
fathers were around.

This case is really no different from the Jeffrey MacDonald case, other than
it being in reverse, if you will. MacDonald went through the military
proceedings first, and then was tried in federal court. Hennis was tried
first in civilian court, but now is being court martialed through the
military proceedings.


bella




Again, a BIG *IMO*, if DNA
can be used to exonerate, as it is being used, rightly so, many years
later.
Then some allowances should be made for horrendous crimes with multiple
victims.

The founds were clear on the difference between releasing innocent
people (always good) and putting guilty people in jail (sometimes
good).


Had the Green River Killer been tried and acquitted years ago,
prior to DNA, would you want him still walking the streets? How about BTK?


I'm not even favor of double jeopardy. Does this mean there will be
some guilty people whop are allow freedom. Sure. Does it mean you
can imagine teh perpetrators of the most horrendous crimes
occasionally going free? Sure. That is the same with most of our
civil protections - occasionally they let a horrid, guilty criminal
free.

There are those of us who would like our freedoms to disappear to
prevent that from happening. Some of the founders discussed those
people - in the most disparaging words.

Mick


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