Blondie in Spokane
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I'm quite sure he will roll in a heartbeat, if he hasn't already....he doesn't exactly look like the "honorable" type to me, judging by that mugshot.
I'm quite sure he will roll in a heartbeat, if he hasn't already....he doesn't exactly look like the "honorable" type to me, judging by that mugshot.
Also Bumping with prayers...
Does anyone know if the tire store where one of the bad guys worked was searched?
Maybe where old tires would be kept?
I so agree with this - he's no upright standing citizen.
I've been trying to read up on the death penalty in Kansas during work quiet times - it seems there is one but hasn't been, well 'applied' in quite a while. Maybe some of our Kansas cousins can expound on this further.
Another search of the Hollister property, and Mr. Hollister's brother's property, concluded March 19.
another snip from your link woof:
did we know the brother's property was searched?
thanks for that son of a bowman! You may not be a lawyer but you have the brains to be one! Great post!Given the lack of urgency for arresting someone and getting them off the street I think it is reasonable to conclude the prosecutor is faced with one or both of the following situations...
1. The suspect or suspects have already been arrested or are otherwise incapable of committing additional crimes while the specifics of the case are worked out.
2. The case is so complex that there are interdependencies and chains of logic that, if broken in any way, could provide an effective defense to the suspects.
RoHo's arrest certainly supports #1.
A quick search of Kansas conspiracy statutes and case law show that there are numerous pitfalls that could wreck a case against others involved in the crime who did not commit the actual murder. I'm not a lawyer and reading of the cases can be dense, but nearly every appeal I read had a compelling dissenting opinion that could turn a case depending on the judge hearing it. This, obviously, supports #2.
Given the lack of urgency for arresting someone and getting them off the street I think it is reasonable to conclude the prosecutor is faced with one or both of the following situations...
1. The suspect or suspects have already been arrested or are otherwise incapable of committing additional crimes while the specifics of the case are worked out.
2. The case is so complex that there are interdependencies and chains of logic that, if broken in any way, could provide an effective defense to the suspects.
RoHo's arrest certainly supports #1.
A quick search of Kansas conspiracy statutes and case law show that there are numerous pitfalls that could wreck a case against others involved in the crime who did not commit the actual murder. I'm not a lawyer and reading of the cases can be dense, but nearly every appeal I read had a compelling dissenting opinion that could turn a case depending on the judge hearing it. This, obviously, supports #2.
http://www.hiawathaworldonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=21&ArticleID=4124
Charges will not be filed this week:sheesh:
It is easier to prove that someone who disappeared was murdered if the person led a stable life, Morrison said. And the longer they remain missing, the easier it is to show they were victims, he said. As the Johnson County prosecutor in 1990, Morrison obtained murder convictions against Richard Grissom in the deaths of three young women who disappeared in June 1989 and whose bodies were never found. According to court records, all three women were known to be reliable. They weren't likely to disappear unless they had been harmed.
At least four Kansas inmates are serving life sentences in bodyless murder cases. A fifth was paroled in January 2007 after serving more than two decades in prison.