2 Women In Cult Case To Represent Themselves
Two women won't have the benefit of lawyers when they go on trial on charges they starved a 1-year-old boy to death while part of a religious cult.
Queen Antoinette and Trevia Williams have opted to represent themselves at their murder trial in Baltimore.
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http://wjz.com/local/cult.baby.charges.2.1497227.html
Whoa ! Is that legal :waitasec: I thought you could not represent yourself if you where being charged with Murder ..huh Well I guess I learn something new everyday :waitasec:
anybody in any case can represent themself, no matter the charge.
most famous one i can think of is colin fergerson, the new york subway shooter who killed a bunch of people in 1993
anybody in any case can represent themself, no matter the charge.
most famous one i can think of is colin fergerson, the new york subway shooter who killed a bunch of people in 1993
As for these women, I say good. Let them throw themselves under the bus.
This is Javon Thompson, the poor child who was starved to death by his cult-member mother when he wouldn't say Amen.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29964242/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
Body stuffed in suitcase
The boy's father, Robert Thompson, was not in court Monday. Ridgley said he was ill. Thompson was in jail when Javon was born.
After the boy died, the cult members left his body inside the apartment where they lived until it began to decompose, according to police documents and the statement of facts. In early 2007, they stuffed the body inside a suitcase and filled it with mothballs and fabric softener sheets to mask the odor.
The cult members relocated to Philadelphia, where they befriended an elderly man and stored the suitcase in a shed behind his home. It remained there for more than a year before police found it, the documents say.
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Miss Ramkissoon said that she thought she would be guaranteed eternal damnation if she did not follow [Queen] Antoinette who cited the Bible as her authority.
'It's like it's somebody else's life, but it's not,' Miss Ramkissoon said in her first interview since Javon's death.
'That is my life, and those are the choices that I've made and those were the fears that I dealt with, no matter how ridiculous they may be to somebody else.'
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'Cult members made me starve my one-year-old boy':
Mother speaks out for first time about killing of son after he refused to say 'amen' before meal (Daily Mail)
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