GUILTY MI - Jane Bashara, 56, dies in contract killing, Grosse Pointe Park, 25 Jan 2012 #3

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Joe Gentz won't withdraw guilty plea for 2nd degree murder in Jane Bashara's death

Man who pleaded guilty to role in Grosse Pointe Park woman's murder to ask judge to reconsider plea

Author: Halston Herrera, Senior News Editor for ClickOnDetroit.com, hherrera@wdiv.com

Published On: Jul 16 2013 11:03:04 PM EDT Updated On: Jul 17 2013 12:10:43 PM EDT

DETROIT -
Joe Gentz has changed his mind about withdrawing his guilty plea to second-degree murder in the death of Grosse Pointe Park mother Jane Bashara.

During a court hearing Wednesday, Gentz said he was taking back the letter he wrote to the court asking Judge Vonda Evans to reconsider the plea.

Evans scolded Gentz for going back and forth...

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/...ath/-/1719314/21009118/-/q543btz/-/index.html

I've always questioned whether or not Joe Gentz is competent to stand trial. This is yet another example of how he doesn't seem to understand exactly what is going on and is easily influenced by his attorneys. :moo:
 
Handyman Will Stick By Guilty Plea In Grosse Pointe Park Murder

July 17, 2013 11:22 AM

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DETROIT (WWJ) – It’s yet another strange development in the already bizarre murder case of former Grosse Pointe Park businessman Bob Bashara and his handyman turned hitman.

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Reporting Charlie Langton

WWJ Legal Analyst Charlie Langon said Judge Vonda Evans wasn’t having any patience with Gentz in this, shouting, “This is not a game,” and that his behavior was wasting taxpayer dollars.

As it turned out, said Langton, the whole thing hadn’t been Gentz’s idea to begin with.

“In court today it was revealed that Joe Gentz found what was called a ‘jailhouse lawyer’ who manipulated Gentz into writing a letter to Judge Vonda Evans, asking him to withdraw his guilty plea,” Langton said.

“But when Gentz’s real lawyer, Susan Reed, explained that withdrawing his guilty plea would automatically reinstate first degree murder charges — for which Gentz could spend the rest of his life in prison — Gentz had second thoughts.”​
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Read more: http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/07...raw-guilty-plea-in-grosse-pointe-park-murder/
 
Bashara attorney says no plea deal

Kathy Ryan Staff writer

July 18, 2013


We won’t be taking a plea. We plan to go to trial.”

That was the pronouncement of attorney Mark Procida, who is the public defender now representing Bob Bashara on first degree murder charges in the death of his wife, Jane.


Read more: http://www.grossepointenews.com/Articles-News-i-2013-07-18-250445.114135-Basharaattorney-saysno-plea-deal.html ( or Click )
 
August 19, 2013 at 1:13 pm

Prosecutor: Desire for kinky sex led Bashara to have wife killed

George Hunter /The Detroit News

Detroit— Prosecutors said Monday they plan to introduce evidence showing Bob Bashara’s penchant for kinky sex was a motive for murdering his wife, and that he contacted several people about having her killed before settling on his handyman, Joseph Gentz.

Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Lisa Lindsey said during a hearing at Frank Murphy Hall of Justice Monday that in the months leading up to Jane Bashara’s Jan. 24, 2012, murder, Bob Bashara asked several friends if they knew anyone who would kill or “rough someone up” for money. Among those he allegedly contacted was an acquaintance from the BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadomasochism and masochism) lifestyle...

From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130819/METRO01/308190061#ixzz2cRA5eHY0
 
Darkman00 said:
Bashara attorney says no plea deal

Kathy Ryan Staff writer

July 18, 2013


We won’t be taking a plea. We plan to go to trial.”

That was the pronouncement of attorney Mark Procida, who is the public defender now representing Bob Bashara on first degree murder charges in the death of his wife, Jane.


Read more: http://www.grossepointenews.com/Articles-News-i-2013-07-18-250445.114135-Basharaattorney-saysno-plea-deal.html ( or Click )
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This piece of work doesn't get it, eh? I bet the defense is going to be based on bashing the handyman, nothing else. Master Bob is really a delusional *advertiser censored*.
 
seattlechiquita said:
This piece of work doesn't get it, eh? I bet the defense is going to be based on bashing the handyman, nothing else. Master Bob is really a delusional *advertiser censored*.
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Good luck with that ;) Methinks that the Prosecutor's got BB by the Bs :D
 
thanks for the updates Bette ... got tied up today .. and totally missed it until now :)

Here is one more:

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Prosecutors: Bob Bashara's alternative lifestyle part of motive for murder

8:08 PM, August 19, 2013

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By Elisha Anderson

Detroit Free Press Staff Writer


New details of the case against Bob Bashara emerged in a Detroit courtroom Monday as prosecutors laid out the time line of hundreds of phone calls that took place on the Grosse Pointe Park businessman’s phone — before and after his wife’s death — and gave what they called part of Bashara’s motive.

Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor Lisa Lindsey said Bashara sought people to do physical violence to a human being for money in the months leading up to Jane Bashara’s death, including a person he knew from his lifestyle in BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadomasochism).

Bashara’s attorney quickly objected to the mention of BDSM and questioned its relevance.

“We’ve taken such strong measures to make absolutely sure that everything was sealed” defense attorney René Cooper said. “And then within three sentences, we’re hearing about the BDSM lifestyle.”

There will be upcoming testimony and discussion about that lifestyle, Lindsey countered.

“The BDSM lifestyle is going to be a part of his motive for committing this crime,” she said.

Lindsey cited several witnesses who said they had conversations with Bashara about violence prior to his wife’s death.

One friend, identified as witness No. 63, was asked by Bashara if he knew anyone who would “rough somebody up” for money, saying he needed it done to a tenant, prosecutors said.

Another conversation with witness No. 151 dealt with Bashara asking to have a woman “T-boned or run over by a car,” Lindsey said during the pre-examination hearing that took place before 36th District Judge Kenneth King.

In addition, a text message sent by Joseph Gentz more than a month before Jane Bashara’s death showed Gentz’s state of mind before the killing, prosecutors said.

“When you get up, I really need to talk about something. If I know something about someone about to do someone in, where do I go?” the text message read. “I have to watch my (expletive). Please call me hon, I do not want to die.”
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Bashara will be transferred to the Wayne County Jail as attorneys prepare for his preliminary examination scheduled for Sept. 9, Cooper said after the hearing.


Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20130819/NEWS02/308190034/Bob-Bashara-Jane-Bashara-court-murder
 
“We’ve taken such strong measures to make absolutely sure that everything was sealed” defense attorney René Cooper said. “And then within three sentences, we’re hearing about the BDSM lifestyle.”
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Bob's new attorney, I guess ... Public Defender (?)

If it's this one ... -- pretty good match for BB, I suppose :rolleyes:

http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Rene-Cooper/443225208

Rene Cooper

Lawyer faces exposure charges
www.freep.com, 11 Nov 2005

Rene Cooper, 51, who works for the Legal Aid and Defender Association of Detroit, was charged by Wayne County prosecutors with three counts of indecent exposure after the women, ages 19, 22 and 27, flagged down an officer.

They said Cooper pulled down his pants and exposed himself around 6 p.m. Oct. 31 before running down the street with his pants down, according to a police report.He was arrested a short time later.

Cooper did not return phone calls Thursday.
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According to court records, Cooper has three previous indecent-exposure arrests.In one case, he was acquitted, and another was dismissed.

In 1995, he pleaded no contest to indecent exposure and resisting arrest and was ordered to go through a counseling program, court records said.His law license was suspended for six months.

While neither an admission of guilt nor a declaration of innocence, a no contest plea is treated as a conviction.
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Read more: http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Rene-Cooper/443225208

and here is PDF granting his Reinstatement:

http://www.adbmich.org/coveo/opinions/2010-02-23-07o-175.pdf

hmmmm .... :facepalm:

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Attorney Rene A. Cooper of Detroit; serial pervert

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http://www.noethics.net/News/index....l-pervert&catid=184:attorney-pervs&Itemid=101

( The Committee to Expose Dishonest and Incompetent Judges, Attorneys and Public Officials )
 
Darkman, do we know I BBs trial will be streamed live? Not familiar with local courts there.
 
seattlechiquita,

I would imagine it will be... I am not local there either .. I am in Winnipeg, Canada

But generally trials like that are streamed live.
 
Darkman00 said:
seattlechiquita,

I would imagine it will be... I am not local there either .. I am in Winnipeg, Canada

But generally trials like that are streamed live.
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MB! I lived in the prairies myself for about 7 years. SK and AB.
 
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