Here is some simple points to keep the fuzz from you anytime soon. Though ask a baby not to cry, it would seem impossible to do, like using birth control, being falsely accused would seem like an act of Devine Punishment if one does some simple homework keeping themselves beyond blame from the cops.
1. Do not hang out with known criminals who have any domestic violence convictions on their record. You may think you can help Mr. Smith, but what if Mr. Smith wacks his mate and then blames you for the crime?
2. Do not live in a area with a history of utter corruption. Though any police department can get systemic corruption thanks to one or two bad seeds, if those bad seed is the one under some sort of leadership position in the department, run for the hills or the nearest city.
3. Only worry about an urban area if you are a minority. Maybe suburbs and smaller communities cannot handle a minority, at least the racism is not endemic as it is in the big city.
4. Have plenty of money and prestige. Being in the upper class cuts down on false accusation for murder outside the family. No officer goes after a rich person if some stranger turns up dead. It is usually the people from the poorer classes they always go after. Poor people generally cannot afford top-notch lawyers unless the case is notorious enough to attract a high-powered legal defense team out of the belief that they understand the prosecution is abusing their power and belief in innocence is quite high.
5. Do have a criminal record. Then again maybe not in some jurisdiction. Often, smaller departments go after the person with the clean record, thinking their inexperience with the system would force a confession out of them. The only place this would not work well is the police in a big metropolis and its suburbs. A suspect with a prior record know every trick in the book more than their small-town counterparts.
6. If there are multiple suspects in a case, a police depart would go after the suspect that is not difficult to bring to justice. The most difficult suspect is the one in jail in another jurisdiction for fear the suspect would fight extradition. Even if he or she is the one who did it, the cops more likely would go after a suspect they do not have to fight the court system to obtain. It does seem right sometimes, but if the hard-to-get suspect lies to the cops who want him, they would behave as if it is the truth and guess the schmuck who gets the murder charges?
7. Assume the wrong person would be arrested in a case of a discovery of a dead body. A stiff with no doer in sight is just asking some police officers to cloud their judgement when someone fitting their possible crime reconstruction comes to mind. Though some arrests often nab the real killer, some killings result in a person or persons falsely accused. Bad policework, bad prosecuting and bad forensics are three of the biggest reasons the wrong person stands accused. Meanwhile the real killer continues to roam the street.
8. If an ex-lover is mad at you, be prepared for a cop to get an earful. Either they believe them or they don't. If you ever did something to cause an ex pain, expect a cop to haul you downtown more ofter than said ex taking you down into the ground. No crime will be overlooked when an ex is after you for money, the kids or other property.
These are just the beginning. There may be more over the course of time. But these basic rules can keep you from decades rottening in jail for making someone mad enough to frame your sorry ass, whether a criminal mastermind, overzealous office, corrupt prosecutor or combinations of the three.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Buster and Billie (1974) - A Tale of Bittersweet Romance
The setting of "Buster and Billie" is the rural part of the American South in the late 1940's, when normalcy met the post-war world. The movie starred Jan-Michael Vincent and Jean Goodfellow as unlikely lovers just finishing high school. Vincent plays Buster, a gutsy, no-nonsense model student who wants to follow his father in the farming trade. Goodfellow plays Billie, the dirt-poor lass from the wrong side of the tracks, who is the object of scorn to many a teenage boy, including the boys Buster hangs out with.
There is some excellent stand-out acting in this teen romance, from Pamela Sue Martin, who is marvelous as Buster's former flame to Robert Englund in his film debut as Whitey (long before he became Freddie Kreuger in "Nightmare on Elm Street"). Look out for Clifton James standout performance as Jake.
But the best scene is saved for last as the scene is split between the local sheriff and his people wondering about a series of petty crimes and Buster's movements of utter sorrow, but to explain more would ruin the mystery. Otherwise, if you find an uncut version, enjoy the fact that it was one of the first mainstream movies featuring full-frontal male nudity, something that was unheard of in 1974, six years after the death of the Hays' office. It earned its R rating and then some. But ladies everywhere got an eyeful of Jan-Michael Vincent in his nakedness! Daniel Petrie had some nerve letting that one through.
So for the story alone, it would deserve a DVD release or a remake. I was thinking, how about Josh Hutcherson, that young lady from "Hugo" and maybe Gavin Fink to play Whitey. Though the original was one of Petrie's masterstrokes as a filmmaker, along with "Lassie", which he directed two decades later. (The TV series was just ending in 1974 and Vincent actually had a recurring role on that classic series earlier in his acting career.)
There is some excellent stand-out acting in this teen romance, from Pamela Sue Martin, who is marvelous as Buster's former flame to Robert Englund in his film debut as Whitey (long before he became Freddie Kreuger in "Nightmare on Elm Street"). Look out for Clifton James standout performance as Jake.
But the best scene is saved for last as the scene is split between the local sheriff and his people wondering about a series of petty crimes and Buster's movements of utter sorrow, but to explain more would ruin the mystery. Otherwise, if you find an uncut version, enjoy the fact that it was one of the first mainstream movies featuring full-frontal male nudity, something that was unheard of in 1974, six years after the death of the Hays' office. It earned its R rating and then some. But ladies everywhere got an eyeful of Jan-Michael Vincent in his nakedness! Daniel Petrie had some nerve letting that one through.
So for the story alone, it would deserve a DVD release or a remake. I was thinking, how about Josh Hutcherson, that young lady from "Hugo" and maybe Gavin Fink to play Whitey. Though the original was one of Petrie's masterstrokes as a filmmaker, along with "Lassie", which he directed two decades later. (The TV series was just ending in 1974 and Vincent actually had a recurring role on that classic series earlier in his acting career.)
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
The Last Hated Minority: Our Children
To quote from the 1994 movie, "My Life in Pink"... "people are (crap)". In fact an accurate statement about all bullies in our lives. This could be all people whoever done us wrong. It is just how one person takes the abuse that they would lash out. In the Jake Nesbitt case in 1926, the man confessed that his wife made him feel bad, which in the 1920's, when women mostly were not a large part of the labor force as they are in these times, is a fatal stab at the man's maledom. His pride hurt, he proceded to kill her, burn the evidence that morning and go to work like he had nothing to do with it. I wondered if the cops back then sifted the fireplace for evidence of a recent blaze in the fireplace. I wonder what forensics these day do to find tell-tale signs in the bathtub, the plumming the floors, the sinks as well as the fireplace to figure out if what was said weeks later was true. The private eye hired by the company they worked for was indeed lucky. What if a similar crime today find guilt or innocence?
To think Nesbitt was even not allowed to die in prison of old age, but in freedom in an ordinary traffic crash in his early fifties with second wife and maybe a kid or two surviving his death! Those were simple times where good behavior said something. That a man or woman can remake themselves after something bad happening to them or to someone else that affected them. Not in today's world where one little sin and your marked for life, even if that sin was as simple as having sex with their best friend.
That friend's parents might have felt good to allow the other kid to be destroyed, even though if the prosecutor had been even more of an ass, he would have charged both boys with sexually abusing the other. No one has the right to charge kids with sex crimes ever if it is among other kids, though to support that makes people look at you strangely. It is not that we want to do that to them too. We just want a wedge removed that can be used for evil designs by any adult who cannot stand their offspring screwing their best friend in a friendly way. Parents should accept that even multiple acts of kissing, holding hands, hugging and sex will not turn their kid into a homosexual or lesbian. They may end up loving girls or for girls, boys; alas in a better way now that they learned to be tender to their mate. Whoever said boys should not hug and kiss and hold each other? Our bodies are programmed to respond to positive stimuli.
But we allow people like Angela Corey and John Bongivengo and Tom Corbett to behave like kids are property of the state and their parents. I hate to tell you this. Kids are not property as much as we adults are not property. We should not sell our kid and not get jailed? We also should not enslave another person and force them to plow our fields or do housework without attracting the feds or the state? Why does kids have to be treated like their mere chattel by us and by the state? We thought as a free country, an example for the whole world, we were beyond all that. Now we are the laughingstock of the world. with the exception of Britain, who also feel that way about sex like us. Though I have to see how many boys and girls are marked for life because they had sex with another kid and the parents went bonkers because of that.
Now who is the real abuser? Certainly in these above cases it is the adults who mentally and physically abused the kids in these cases. Forcing a kid on a register for life is the mental abuse and encourages future abuse of all kinds down the road. It screams out, "Oh boy! Let's make it easy for the named and shamed to become a real crook as an adult. Then we will feel justified we did that bad thing to him to put him in this manner." What the fick is going on around this land? As that Russian-American comedian would say, "Nice country, they still mark you as enemy of the state, just like the Soviets do."
I learned that every facet of history has a person or a people to hate to the point of outright warfare. Now that gays are out, what have we to trun against? Our own kids is now the answer to that question. Our kids are always treated like blacks were treated until recently. Kids are all colors and creeds, so hatred knows no ethnic background or sexual orientation.
LGBT's are still queasy around kids saying they are like them for they were for years equated with pedophiles in the hatred of the straights against their movement. So after people like Anita Baker objected to them, they allowed teens to be thrown under the bus of hatred. Even today, gay adults still do not accept kids seriously as one of them even though the feeling that made them what they are today originated before they were even born! So with that evidence, denying kids from their destiny is useless. They should not be afraid and stand up to a homophobic adult persecuting two boys for their feeling for each other. These two cases in Ohio were just a start. More kids are prosecuted for homosexual conduct with their mates than straight friends. There are more straights than gays in this world, but who gets the most ink? It is surely not most of the boys and girls I knew were screwing each other when parents are out on the town. It is the tow boys who seriously love each other that one parent or both of one child goes bonkers on that get busted over the boy and girl making out on the couch during the world series. Hypocrites all of those parents, who act before they think. One wonders if said act would set the real victim (the kid prosecuted to later think murderous thoughts if the wrong things happen to him, like getting raped in juvenile prison).
It makes me think this country is going downhill because we treat our next generation badly. We reap what we sow when they later screw us with worse things, like global war or the end of the world. We must stop beating up our kids. We must stop treating them as adults. We must stop persecuting them for having sex with other kids. We must start redefining childhood as well. We must make exceptions to stop overzealous prosecutors before that hurt any kid or any adult for anything. One way to start is treat kids fairly. Not prosecutor the kids for their sexual behavior. What is it with people and birth control? Fifty years and we still squabble over the Pill. Why?
To think Nesbitt was even not allowed to die in prison of old age, but in freedom in an ordinary traffic crash in his early fifties with second wife and maybe a kid or two surviving his death! Those were simple times where good behavior said something. That a man or woman can remake themselves after something bad happening to them or to someone else that affected them. Not in today's world where one little sin and your marked for life, even if that sin was as simple as having sex with their best friend.
That friend's parents might have felt good to allow the other kid to be destroyed, even though if the prosecutor had been even more of an ass, he would have charged both boys with sexually abusing the other. No one has the right to charge kids with sex crimes ever if it is among other kids, though to support that makes people look at you strangely. It is not that we want to do that to them too. We just want a wedge removed that can be used for evil designs by any adult who cannot stand their offspring screwing their best friend in a friendly way. Parents should accept that even multiple acts of kissing, holding hands, hugging and sex will not turn their kid into a homosexual or lesbian. They may end up loving girls or for girls, boys; alas in a better way now that they learned to be tender to their mate. Whoever said boys should not hug and kiss and hold each other? Our bodies are programmed to respond to positive stimuli.
But we allow people like Angela Corey and John Bongivengo and Tom Corbett to behave like kids are property of the state and their parents. I hate to tell you this. Kids are not property as much as we adults are not property. We should not sell our kid and not get jailed? We also should not enslave another person and force them to plow our fields or do housework without attracting the feds or the state? Why does kids have to be treated like their mere chattel by us and by the state? We thought as a free country, an example for the whole world, we were beyond all that. Now we are the laughingstock of the world. with the exception of Britain, who also feel that way about sex like us. Though I have to see how many boys and girls are marked for life because they had sex with another kid and the parents went bonkers because of that.
Now who is the real abuser? Certainly in these above cases it is the adults who mentally and physically abused the kids in these cases. Forcing a kid on a register for life is the mental abuse and encourages future abuse of all kinds down the road. It screams out, "Oh boy! Let's make it easy for the named and shamed to become a real crook as an adult. Then we will feel justified we did that bad thing to him to put him in this manner." What the fick is going on around this land? As that Russian-American comedian would say, "Nice country, they still mark you as enemy of the state, just like the Soviets do."
I learned that every facet of history has a person or a people to hate to the point of outright warfare. Now that gays are out, what have we to trun against? Our own kids is now the answer to that question. Our kids are always treated like blacks were treated until recently. Kids are all colors and creeds, so hatred knows no ethnic background or sexual orientation.
LGBT's are still queasy around kids saying they are like them for they were for years equated with pedophiles in the hatred of the straights against their movement. So after people like Anita Baker objected to them, they allowed teens to be thrown under the bus of hatred. Even today, gay adults still do not accept kids seriously as one of them even though the feeling that made them what they are today originated before they were even born! So with that evidence, denying kids from their destiny is useless. They should not be afraid and stand up to a homophobic adult persecuting two boys for their feeling for each other. These two cases in Ohio were just a start. More kids are prosecuted for homosexual conduct with their mates than straight friends. There are more straights than gays in this world, but who gets the most ink? It is surely not most of the boys and girls I knew were screwing each other when parents are out on the town. It is the tow boys who seriously love each other that one parent or both of one child goes bonkers on that get busted over the boy and girl making out on the couch during the world series. Hypocrites all of those parents, who act before they think. One wonders if said act would set the real victim (the kid prosecuted to later think murderous thoughts if the wrong things happen to him, like getting raped in juvenile prison).
It makes me think this country is going downhill because we treat our next generation badly. We reap what we sow when they later screw us with worse things, like global war or the end of the world. We must stop beating up our kids. We must stop treating them as adults. We must stop persecuting them for having sex with other kids. We must start redefining childhood as well. We must make exceptions to stop overzealous prosecutors before that hurt any kid or any adult for anything. One way to start is treat kids fairly. Not prosecutor the kids for their sexual behavior. What is it with people and birth control? Fifty years and we still squabble over the Pill. Why?
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
The Key to Framing Another Person is a Crime Which Either the Victim is Mistaken or Dead
It is the oldest templete in the book of a crime, where a person or animal (yes there are those too) is framed for something they did not do.
The first step to a frameup is there has to be a victim. It does not matter if the victim is living or dead (preferred to be the latter in cases of murder). There may not even be a victim at all. Sometimes a person might fake their deaths or other deaths to make a suicide look like a murder either accidently or on purpose. Maybe there is no victim or body, but it does not matter if there is other ways to prosecute someone.
People had been thrown in prison even without a body. Just ask Vince Doan, whose was convicted in a Ohio courtroom over a decade ago without a body of the ex-grilfriend he allegedly killed in cold blood. The prosecutors used other evidence to throw him into a prison cell. So much for needing a body that may have been obliterated by the killer or by the killer's family.
But the road to a frame job starts with a body being found. Many times the real killer is caught, but other times the wrong person or people are caught. Bad science, faulty witnesses, rotten police work, bad defense lawyering and even prosecutorial misconduct can factor into each case. Thought the main ingredient is a stiff or a victim or witness so confused by the attack they could misidentify the culprit. Innocents are jailed. The real doer is free to commit more crimes.
I still say that when a minor is falsely accused of murder or any other capital crime, rest assured the real culprit is 18 or over. There is no other way another kid committed the crime unless the later work in such cases reveal this. Until we can run into a falsely accused kid for another crime committed by another kid, we can automatically assume the real doer is not only of age to know right or wrong, but would be old enough to face hard time or in many cases, death.
They also have many things working to keep them uncaught, which is why in a few cases, Josh Young of Louisville comes to mind, where the real killer hoodwinks the system to falsely accuse someone else. This is why Josh Gouker, Josh's own father falsely accused his own son. We do not understand exactly what he said that convinced the prosecution to falsely accuse the teenager for killing his stepbrother Trey Zwicker last May, but it is clear from what is out in the wild that Gouker had the method down to a science. The sudden quickness he convinced a court to claim his son two months before the murder was just as quick as it took for Gouker to take the life out of Trey's body. He made Trey's poor mother witness the murder. He threatened her. God only knows if he is doing any further intimidation of her. With the antics of Gouker's cousins proving his reach is enormous, the more he is asking for the full weight of the law coming down on him once they realized they were made into a bunch of fools by a hardened felon who proved in his earlier sins he is patently dangerous to all people, things and animals. It is almost a given that the case will fall apart once it goes to trial. None of the evidence fits Josh Young, but it sure fits Josh Gouker. Get your Joshs right, Mr. Prosecutor. Do let a Known Felon throw his son to prison for the rest of life. Drop this case before it ruins you forever.
The first step to a frameup is there has to be a victim. It does not matter if the victim is living or dead (preferred to be the latter in cases of murder). There may not even be a victim at all. Sometimes a person might fake their deaths or other deaths to make a suicide look like a murder either accidently or on purpose. Maybe there is no victim or body, but it does not matter if there is other ways to prosecute someone.
People had been thrown in prison even without a body. Just ask Vince Doan, whose was convicted in a Ohio courtroom over a decade ago without a body of the ex-grilfriend he allegedly killed in cold blood. The prosecutors used other evidence to throw him into a prison cell. So much for needing a body that may have been obliterated by the killer or by the killer's family.
But the road to a frame job starts with a body being found. Many times the real killer is caught, but other times the wrong person or people are caught. Bad science, faulty witnesses, rotten police work, bad defense lawyering and even prosecutorial misconduct can factor into each case. Thought the main ingredient is a stiff or a victim or witness so confused by the attack they could misidentify the culprit. Innocents are jailed. The real doer is free to commit more crimes.
I still say that when a minor is falsely accused of murder or any other capital crime, rest assured the real culprit is 18 or over. There is no other way another kid committed the crime unless the later work in such cases reveal this. Until we can run into a falsely accused kid for another crime committed by another kid, we can automatically assume the real doer is not only of age to know right or wrong, but would be old enough to face hard time or in many cases, death.
They also have many things working to keep them uncaught, which is why in a few cases, Josh Young of Louisville comes to mind, where the real killer hoodwinks the system to falsely accuse someone else. This is why Josh Gouker, Josh's own father falsely accused his own son. We do not understand exactly what he said that convinced the prosecution to falsely accuse the teenager for killing his stepbrother Trey Zwicker last May, but it is clear from what is out in the wild that Gouker had the method down to a science. The sudden quickness he convinced a court to claim his son two months before the murder was just as quick as it took for Gouker to take the life out of Trey's body. He made Trey's poor mother witness the murder. He threatened her. God only knows if he is doing any further intimidation of her. With the antics of Gouker's cousins proving his reach is enormous, the more he is asking for the full weight of the law coming down on him once they realized they were made into a bunch of fools by a hardened felon who proved in his earlier sins he is patently dangerous to all people, things and animals. It is almost a given that the case will fall apart once it goes to trial. None of the evidence fits Josh Young, but it sure fits Josh Gouker. Get your Joshs right, Mr. Prosecutor. Do let a Known Felon throw his son to prison for the rest of life. Drop this case before it ruins you forever.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Something Quite Common Here (clue: common among wrongfully accused people)
Let's say someone deliberately goes out of their way and hurts someone else. It is enough to send them to the hospital. Despite the brave efforts of the medical staff, this person expires. From there as required by law, the lead doctor pronounces the death at the date and time it says on their clock, which by law is required. Accuracy is of the importance, so this time is scrutinized to get the exact time down to the second if possible, the minute at best.
This is also the case in a accident or a murder seen by a good amount of people, from witnesses to medical personel, even if able, the victim themselves. A shatted timepiece freezing sometimes the time of attack if the clock mechanism somehow stopped. Time stamps on certain cameras are scrutinized. In case of murder in this interconnected age, security cameras public and private are culled by investigators often without hesitation. Other times the civilian population could offer other evidence that can point to time of death. Even public tragedies of certain people and places will not escape the collective time stamp since many people are viewing on all kinds of recording devices. As the secretary of Dallas merchant, Abraham Zapruder, once said to her boss that fateful morning, "It isn't every day that the President of the United States visits Dallas."
It is these timepieces that make crime detection a whole lot easier for law enforcement and the people they interview and scrutinize over the issues of a crime and punishment. Having a definite time of death, along with the time the crime occurred can narrow down a suspect or suspects to a mere formality. Circumstancial evidence aside cannot pin down a person more than time of day itself. No one can be two places at once unless he or she has devine attributes. So if a suspect said he was playing bingo at the local American Legion as their estranged wife is being killed, this can be checked. If this is the case, someone else my dear Melissa is behind the caper.
Then the question is the person who cannot accout for where he or she was when a crime occurred. What were they doing in the area? Did the person have a beef with the victim? Was they foul play involved with them? Are their any witnesses that can pin said person there? The mind goes on and on. Basically speaking, if they were confirmed committing the act via witness, forensics, video and photographic records, phone records, even audio from an answer maching or cell phone, the law has their crook red-handed doing the act of criminality.
Which is where the vast majority of innocents are not is those with good timekeeping and forensic reconstructions of what might have happened. These are the type of cases that are classic "open and shut". All is needed is a guilty plea from the crook and plea for a lighter sentence (mercy).
Not so in cases of a crime that occurs privately without public oversight, where sometime later, if at all, some person or something comes across the body of a person or animal that is either buried, concealed or in plain sight if one looks good. These cases call on the skills and guesswork of the same investigators who deal with cases with more lively victims, witnesses and suspects. In these cases, it is let the best guesswork obtain a plausible reconstruction of what might have occurred. Such public records normally available could be lost. Examples include camera, data, witness and even the victim, who is sadly not alive. This leads to a glaring possiblilty of the cops being right or, if they get one guess off a bit, wrong.
Which leads to this case involving Josh Young, which falls into the found the body but no idea of how the death occurred or where for that matter. Trey Zwicker fell into foul play between eleven-thirty to one in the morning. This gives the doer a ninety-minute window to do their worst. The exact time of death is pure guess worked since there was no life left in the body. So guesswork would be haphazard at best by the people at the scene and in the morgue. The Medical Examiner cannot for the life of them not give an exact time of death, even if it is right in front of them. They would say, "I say the victim expired between such and such a time on such and such a date."
That estimate would be a too-wide window for even an innocent boy of fifteen like Josh Young to say they were at home asleep during at that time period. Even though he also told authorities when he last saw Trey, along with other details of that night, it seems to have gone in one ear and out the other when Detective Scott Russ interviewed Little Josh after Gouker's interview with the same detective in Alabama. Detective Russ acted like Josh was not saying the truth once he accepted Goukers side of the story, backed by Cassie and John telling him about Little Josh meeting with them later that night and spending the night at their house. Though, as I can personally attest their timeline would have rendered Josh too tired to attend school that day at Fern Creek, which I assume he went to the morning after the murder went down.
Which leaves the time scale also being too wide for Josh Gouker, Amanda Campbell (though more victim than suspect) and his cousins, Cassie and John when one also puts the data set on them. We have all sorts of guesswork of what might have gone down, but who killed Trey is definately pinned on Gouker. He had past trouble with his wife, so taking it out on Trey would be easy. Trey has to be assumed is very protective of his mom, so the reason he died is that he first suspected Gouker's true motives about his mother. His sneaking out of the house proved to be an act of rebellion that turned Gouker into his monster mode. Amanda tried to put a stop to it but it was for nothing. My guess is Gouker made her watch him murder Trey. That he beat on her and her surviving kid, maybe even Little Josh over that month to keep the truth from being told. (This is the worse case senerio: the beatings may have been limited to just Amanda herself.) I guess Gouker did not even say anything about him doing it in front of his boy or his little stepdaughter. Though Amanda knew he did the dirty deed,she was going through an act to keep all of them alive and Gouker from becoming the same wild animal he was in the tenth of May, 2011.
Sometime from late May to early June, Amanda Campbell got her chance to get away with her daughter, though for some reason she left Little Josh alone with the Psycho. She filed that protective order, which was of a vague reference that she suspected Gouker of murdering Trey.
This is all I know of the piece, but the ink was merely dry on the protective order when Gouker and Little Josh went off into the countryside with one or two other women. The car they were in broke down. So somehow they thumbed for some rides. Though he had to be ruthless with one lady, whose kidnapping led to the end of the line for Gouker in tiny Madison, Alabama in late June.
Little Josh even had that Amber Alert issued on him with Gouker suspected of kidnapping. Since it crossed state lines, the FBI should have filed federal charges against him. With his sexual history and criminal past, Gouker should have been sent to a Federal Court in Alabama or Kentucky to face justice. Had that occurred Little Josh would have been off the hook for the killing. Further police work, including the breaking of Cassie and John would have exposed Gouker. Boldened by this, Amanda would tell the cops everything. Gouker would be facing a count of Capitol Murder in Kentucky if he ever weaseled his way out of Federal Court on the Kidnapping Charge.
Things unfortunately fell apart. Amanda was to vague in the protection order, which agitated Gouker to do his little OJ Simpson-style act. Cassie and John intimidated everyone they get their hands on, even robbed Amanda that summer. The lead detective, looking for closure fell for Gouker's bear trap. No one had the guts from CPS to file kidnapping charges against Gouker, for they were the ones who put the boy in harm's way. The final blow was Little Josh even talking to the cops on more than one occasion with no lawyer or parent present. All this put an innocent boy behind bars.
This is also the case in a accident or a murder seen by a good amount of people, from witnesses to medical personel, even if able, the victim themselves. A shatted timepiece freezing sometimes the time of attack if the clock mechanism somehow stopped. Time stamps on certain cameras are scrutinized. In case of murder in this interconnected age, security cameras public and private are culled by investigators often without hesitation. Other times the civilian population could offer other evidence that can point to time of death. Even public tragedies of certain people and places will not escape the collective time stamp since many people are viewing on all kinds of recording devices. As the secretary of Dallas merchant, Abraham Zapruder, once said to her boss that fateful morning, "It isn't every day that the President of the United States visits Dallas."
It is these timepieces that make crime detection a whole lot easier for law enforcement and the people they interview and scrutinize over the issues of a crime and punishment. Having a definite time of death, along with the time the crime occurred can narrow down a suspect or suspects to a mere formality. Circumstancial evidence aside cannot pin down a person more than time of day itself. No one can be two places at once unless he or she has devine attributes. So if a suspect said he was playing bingo at the local American Legion as their estranged wife is being killed, this can be checked. If this is the case, someone else my dear Melissa is behind the caper.
Then the question is the person who cannot accout for where he or she was when a crime occurred. What were they doing in the area? Did the person have a beef with the victim? Was they foul play involved with them? Are their any witnesses that can pin said person there? The mind goes on and on. Basically speaking, if they were confirmed committing the act via witness, forensics, video and photographic records, phone records, even audio from an answer maching or cell phone, the law has their crook red-handed doing the act of criminality.
Which is where the vast majority of innocents are not is those with good timekeeping and forensic reconstructions of what might have happened. These are the type of cases that are classic "open and shut". All is needed is a guilty plea from the crook and plea for a lighter sentence (mercy).
Not so in cases of a crime that occurs privately without public oversight, where sometime later, if at all, some person or something comes across the body of a person or animal that is either buried, concealed or in plain sight if one looks good. These cases call on the skills and guesswork of the same investigators who deal with cases with more lively victims, witnesses and suspects. In these cases, it is let the best guesswork obtain a plausible reconstruction of what might have occurred. Such public records normally available could be lost. Examples include camera, data, witness and even the victim, who is sadly not alive. This leads to a glaring possiblilty of the cops being right or, if they get one guess off a bit, wrong.
Which leads to this case involving Josh Young, which falls into the found the body but no idea of how the death occurred or where for that matter. Trey Zwicker fell into foul play between eleven-thirty to one in the morning. This gives the doer a ninety-minute window to do their worst. The exact time of death is pure guess worked since there was no life left in the body. So guesswork would be haphazard at best by the people at the scene and in the morgue. The Medical Examiner cannot for the life of them not give an exact time of death, even if it is right in front of them. They would say, "I say the victim expired between such and such a time on such and such a date."
That estimate would be a too-wide window for even an innocent boy of fifteen like Josh Young to say they were at home asleep during at that time period. Even though he also told authorities when he last saw Trey, along with other details of that night, it seems to have gone in one ear and out the other when Detective Scott Russ interviewed Little Josh after Gouker's interview with the same detective in Alabama. Detective Russ acted like Josh was not saying the truth once he accepted Goukers side of the story, backed by Cassie and John telling him about Little Josh meeting with them later that night and spending the night at their house. Though, as I can personally attest their timeline would have rendered Josh too tired to attend school that day at Fern Creek, which I assume he went to the morning after the murder went down.
Which leaves the time scale also being too wide for Josh Gouker, Amanda Campbell (though more victim than suspect) and his cousins, Cassie and John when one also puts the data set on them. We have all sorts of guesswork of what might have gone down, but who killed Trey is definately pinned on Gouker. He had past trouble with his wife, so taking it out on Trey would be easy. Trey has to be assumed is very protective of his mom, so the reason he died is that he first suspected Gouker's true motives about his mother. His sneaking out of the house proved to be an act of rebellion that turned Gouker into his monster mode. Amanda tried to put a stop to it but it was for nothing. My guess is Gouker made her watch him murder Trey. That he beat on her and her surviving kid, maybe even Little Josh over that month to keep the truth from being told. (This is the worse case senerio: the beatings may have been limited to just Amanda herself.) I guess Gouker did not even say anything about him doing it in front of his boy or his little stepdaughter. Though Amanda knew he did the dirty deed,she was going through an act to keep all of them alive and Gouker from becoming the same wild animal he was in the tenth of May, 2011.
Sometime from late May to early June, Amanda Campbell got her chance to get away with her daughter, though for some reason she left Little Josh alone with the Psycho. She filed that protective order, which was of a vague reference that she suspected Gouker of murdering Trey.
This is all I know of the piece, but the ink was merely dry on the protective order when Gouker and Little Josh went off into the countryside with one or two other women. The car they were in broke down. So somehow they thumbed for some rides. Though he had to be ruthless with one lady, whose kidnapping led to the end of the line for Gouker in tiny Madison, Alabama in late June.
Little Josh even had that Amber Alert issued on him with Gouker suspected of kidnapping. Since it crossed state lines, the FBI should have filed federal charges against him. With his sexual history and criminal past, Gouker should have been sent to a Federal Court in Alabama or Kentucky to face justice. Had that occurred Little Josh would have been off the hook for the killing. Further police work, including the breaking of Cassie and John would have exposed Gouker. Boldened by this, Amanda would tell the cops everything. Gouker would be facing a count of Capitol Murder in Kentucky if he ever weaseled his way out of Federal Court on the Kidnapping Charge.
Things unfortunately fell apart. Amanda was to vague in the protection order, which agitated Gouker to do his little OJ Simpson-style act. Cassie and John intimidated everyone they get their hands on, even robbed Amanda that summer. The lead detective, looking for closure fell for Gouker's bear trap. No one had the guts from CPS to file kidnapping charges against Gouker, for they were the ones who put the boy in harm's way. The final blow was Little Josh even talking to the cops on more than one occasion with no lawyer or parent present. All this put an innocent boy behind bars.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Give Me Five: People who justifed trying children as Adults
In my first "Gimmie Five" installment, we look at the five individuals who doomed the future of all kids from 9 to 16, because of numerous quirks in the law in each state affected, overzealous prosecutors and maybe the victim's family going "age blind" when it comes to justice. I go from personal seriousness of their crimes against society.
1. Willie Bosket (1978): New York Times reporter Fox Butterfield in "All Good Children" decribed Bosket in his book as an intellgent man from a long line of criminals of both genders, dating back to slavery days in pre-Civil War South Carolina. The man's daddy even earned a degree from the University of Kansas! Willie started getting into trouble with the law since he was five. Despite all that and his scholastic record, Bosket tried to be a good wannabe, but a rash decision of criminality at fifteen in 1978 left him in juvenile hall. His conviction for murder in juvenile court led to rash changes in New York law that lowered the age of criminal transfer to thirteen in a number of cases from assult to murder. It was borderline racist when it passed overwhelmingly, but Bosket's bad behavior as an adult literally justified the change of the law. Bosket was barely out of trouble when he: tried to break out of a juvenile facility; four years after that, he was out 100 days when he assulted another man at the arpartment complex he and the man were living at; then he was convicted of assult and arson in actions related to his assult conviction. He struck out and was given twenty five years to life in prison for his habitual-offender status. Since then, he had not been a model prisoner. He is currently held in a specially-made cell in isolation with limited contact due to periodic attacks on guards and other prisoners over the years. (Just like Hannibal Lechter!) Now known as 84A6391, Bosket is now housed in that special cell at the Woodbourne Correctional Facility. He not up for parole until 2062, which means he is going to die there.
2. Eric Smith (1993): Thirteen-year-old Smith did a dumb thing which made him fall for the Bosket law in a big way. Not even born when the law was passed, the boy not only killed four-year-old Derrick Robie in their Upstate New York town of Savona, he raped and mangled the little kid. In 1994, he was convicted as an adult for the murder in the second degree despite a valient defense of his actions, which was felt was caused by a mental disorder. He was given nine years to life, the maximum penalty at the time for his crimes. He tried hard to get released after serving nine years, but the little boy's family want him to die in prison, afraid of Smith's intentions of moving back to Savona if released. They have never accepted any of the young man's apologies since that day their boy was found dead. It is like they have no heart of forgiveness despite Eric's letters and interviews with the media which has him forgiving himself for something he would never would have done as a grown-up. Since 2002, Smith has been denied parole five times. Nothing will ever change as long as members of Robie's family still harbor ill feeling and evil thoughts about the older boy for what he did to their little boy. This year will see Smith go up for parole again and get rejected for a sixth time. Sometimes, there is no forgiveness, even for undersized kids with glasses and red hair.
3. Cameron Kocher (1989): Five years before Smith's major crime came this case set in neighboring Pennsylvania. Cameron Kocher was accused of shooting and killing his seven-year-old neighbor and friend Jessica Carr in cold blood over a video game she beat him in over and over again. The prosecutor of this case at the time was making a name for himself in the Pocono Mountain political scene. So he thought he can try nine-year-old Cameron as an adult. He might has well have written his resignation papers that day. The blond-haired, blue-eyed kid, who never was in serious trouble in his short life, was facing life without parole for first-degree murder as an adult. Unlike fellow Pennsylvanian, Jordan Brown (whose own charges were false to the point of insanity), Kocher was released to his parents on $50,000 bail. Three long years past before it was learned that the prosecutor made a big mistake in his accusations agaist the boy. Kocher was sentenced as a juvenile on reduced charges and given probation. Karr's family was further devistated and never forgave either the boy or the state. Though questions of even innocence waft through the Poconos to this day, no one ever looked again at this murder or properly investigated the crime in the first place. The magical bullet that killed Carr was never found that day or ever, leading me to believe maybe the Carrs or their neighbors concealed it or someone else killed her. Also it was never really positive if Kocher even fired the .33 caliber rifle that day. The neighbors, who she was riding snowmobiles with the day she was killed that snowy day in the winter of 1989, were having domestic troubles. The lady left the man, leading the man to kick in the door of a family friend's house in an altercation that October, over six months after Jessica's death. The violation of his restraining order saw the man face jail time for the crime of passion. Also, the prosecutor in the original case who wanted to send Kocher to a life sentence had his career destroyed in a scandal involving child abuse, serving more time than Cameron did in jail. As of this year, Kocher has not gotten into any trouble. Let us hope it stays that way.
4 and 5. Mitchell Scott Johnson and Andrew Douglas Golden (1998): Two boys, one bad day and two different fortunes for the two blood brothers and best friends. Four kids and one teacher killed, with ten other people injured in a shooting spree on Mar. 25, 1998 outside their middle school in Jonesboro during the Golden Age of School Shootings (1998 to 2001). Mitchell was thirteen. Andrew was just eleven and a half. The prosecutor in the case later said if not for their ages, the boys would have been facing the death penalty or an adult charges like life without parole. Though both boys were sentenced in juvenile court, people affected by the shooting never forgave the kids or the state for trying them as juveniles. But I have to thank the prosecutor for the right decision for once. The results in retrospect led to two different fortunes. This is due to the nature of the two families. Andrew had a better family structure, so when released on his birthday in 2007, he started out with a clean slate, leaving Mitchell in the dust. (Andrew also had heard by that time of the older ex-buddy's misadventures.) Mitchell's life after release in 2005 was not so good, he was put in prison twice: once for drug charges and another for theft, financial identity fraud and drug possession. In 2008, the older man was sentenced to four years in jail. These days, it is much easier for Arkansas to persecute kids as young as eleven as adults in a variety of senerios. Time will only tell when another falsely-charged juvenile will show that said laws are patently unfair and illogical.
1. Willie Bosket (1978): New York Times reporter Fox Butterfield in "All Good Children" decribed Bosket in his book as an intellgent man from a long line of criminals of both genders, dating back to slavery days in pre-Civil War South Carolina. The man's daddy even earned a degree from the University of Kansas! Willie started getting into trouble with the law since he was five. Despite all that and his scholastic record, Bosket tried to be a good wannabe, but a rash decision of criminality at fifteen in 1978 left him in juvenile hall. His conviction for murder in juvenile court led to rash changes in New York law that lowered the age of criminal transfer to thirteen in a number of cases from assult to murder. It was borderline racist when it passed overwhelmingly, but Bosket's bad behavior as an adult literally justified the change of the law. Bosket was barely out of trouble when he: tried to break out of a juvenile facility; four years after that, he was out 100 days when he assulted another man at the arpartment complex he and the man were living at; then he was convicted of assult and arson in actions related to his assult conviction. He struck out and was given twenty five years to life in prison for his habitual-offender status. Since then, he had not been a model prisoner. He is currently held in a specially-made cell in isolation with limited contact due to periodic attacks on guards and other prisoners over the years. (Just like Hannibal Lechter!) Now known as 84A6391, Bosket is now housed in that special cell at the Woodbourne Correctional Facility. He not up for parole until 2062, which means he is going to die there.
2. Eric Smith (1993): Thirteen-year-old Smith did a dumb thing which made him fall for the Bosket law in a big way. Not even born when the law was passed, the boy not only killed four-year-old Derrick Robie in their Upstate New York town of Savona, he raped and mangled the little kid. In 1994, he was convicted as an adult for the murder in the second degree despite a valient defense of his actions, which was felt was caused by a mental disorder. He was given nine years to life, the maximum penalty at the time for his crimes. He tried hard to get released after serving nine years, but the little boy's family want him to die in prison, afraid of Smith's intentions of moving back to Savona if released. They have never accepted any of the young man's apologies since that day their boy was found dead. It is like they have no heart of forgiveness despite Eric's letters and interviews with the media which has him forgiving himself for something he would never would have done as a grown-up. Since 2002, Smith has been denied parole five times. Nothing will ever change as long as members of Robie's family still harbor ill feeling and evil thoughts about the older boy for what he did to their little boy. This year will see Smith go up for parole again and get rejected for a sixth time. Sometimes, there is no forgiveness, even for undersized kids with glasses and red hair.
3. Cameron Kocher (1989): Five years before Smith's major crime came this case set in neighboring Pennsylvania. Cameron Kocher was accused of shooting and killing his seven-year-old neighbor and friend Jessica Carr in cold blood over a video game she beat him in over and over again. The prosecutor of this case at the time was making a name for himself in the Pocono Mountain political scene. So he thought he can try nine-year-old Cameron as an adult. He might has well have written his resignation papers that day. The blond-haired, blue-eyed kid, who never was in serious trouble in his short life, was facing life without parole for first-degree murder as an adult. Unlike fellow Pennsylvanian, Jordan Brown (whose own charges were false to the point of insanity), Kocher was released to his parents on $50,000 bail. Three long years past before it was learned that the prosecutor made a big mistake in his accusations agaist the boy. Kocher was sentenced as a juvenile on reduced charges and given probation. Karr's family was further devistated and never forgave either the boy or the state. Though questions of even innocence waft through the Poconos to this day, no one ever looked again at this murder or properly investigated the crime in the first place. The magical bullet that killed Carr was never found that day or ever, leading me to believe maybe the Carrs or their neighbors concealed it or someone else killed her. Also it was never really positive if Kocher even fired the .33 caliber rifle that day. The neighbors, who she was riding snowmobiles with the day she was killed that snowy day in the winter of 1989, were having domestic troubles. The lady left the man, leading the man to kick in the door of a family friend's house in an altercation that October, over six months after Jessica's death. The violation of his restraining order saw the man face jail time for the crime of passion. Also, the prosecutor in the original case who wanted to send Kocher to a life sentence had his career destroyed in a scandal involving child abuse, serving more time than Cameron did in jail. As of this year, Kocher has not gotten into any trouble. Let us hope it stays that way.
4 and 5. Mitchell Scott Johnson and Andrew Douglas Golden (1998): Two boys, one bad day and two different fortunes for the two blood brothers and best friends. Four kids and one teacher killed, with ten other people injured in a shooting spree on Mar. 25, 1998 outside their middle school in Jonesboro during the Golden Age of School Shootings (1998 to 2001). Mitchell was thirteen. Andrew was just eleven and a half. The prosecutor in the case later said if not for their ages, the boys would have been facing the death penalty or an adult charges like life without parole. Though both boys were sentenced in juvenile court, people affected by the shooting never forgave the kids or the state for trying them as juveniles. But I have to thank the prosecutor for the right decision for once. The results in retrospect led to two different fortunes. This is due to the nature of the two families. Andrew had a better family structure, so when released on his birthday in 2007, he started out with a clean slate, leaving Mitchell in the dust. (Andrew also had heard by that time of the older ex-buddy's misadventures.) Mitchell's life after release in 2005 was not so good, he was put in prison twice: once for drug charges and another for theft, financial identity fraud and drug possession. In 2008, the older man was sentenced to four years in jail. These days, it is much easier for Arkansas to persecute kids as young as eleven as adults in a variety of senerios. Time will only tell when another falsely-charged juvenile will show that said laws are patently unfair and illogical.
How Normal was the Life of Josh Gouker and his former Lover, Ms. Young
I wonder how normal her life was over the last fourteen years of her life. She was in most part a teen mother or close to adulthood. I got to see what her age was relative to Gouker and their son. We know that Gouker was seventeen when Little Josh was born.
Typically in the late teens the range of girls when guys are sexually active is from early to late teens, with a good precentage active within their age group. What is troubling with guys fifteen to eighteen (roughly) is those who might either hook up with a young girl or a young woman. The one end with a younger girl looking at a older guy as more mature and more likely to support any baby that comes out of such union. The other end looking for a mature woman as a mother substitute. Tradition might hold that an young girl looks on the older boy as the father substitute and the younger guy looking at the older girl or woman as a mother substitute. Though both couples playing the sharp edge of society's view toward said relaitionships.
Take Christian Fernandez's parents for instance. At twelve years old, it was an older guy who impregnated Christian's mother and in effect paid the price for said pregnancy. In the effect on Christian's mother seeing both mother and son put in foster care, I see society not only going down hard on the daddy, but the mommy too. Such young pregnancy's disrupt both, posing its own unique circumstances for the parents and the child.
Take for instance the daddy. Such unions might meet with immediate disapproval from both sets of the parent's parents. Often the younger member's parents accusing the older member of the relationship for knocking up their daughter. (I wonder why it is the daddy that gets the worst of the social beating.) This is why the greater the age gradient, the bigger chance for the older male partner or the younger male partner to run from their part in the pregnancy and evential rearing of the child.
Also it is the older male parter or the older female partner to face a variety of criminal charges resulting in their sexuality. This often see these parents disadvantaged from the start of the parenthood. Often left with a jail sentence and registering as a sex offender, though as low as a level-one, least likely to reoffend, it could mean their means of supporting the child and the mother and themselves to be dead in the water. There goes their future in the heartbeat of the child produced from the relationship. Even if the pregnacy is ended via abortion or the child placed for adoption or even miscarried (this is a teenage girl), the record follows a person forever in many states. Ruined for life just as the state deems them as such.
Gouker was seventeen when his son was born, so how old was Josh's mom? Maybe from backtracking their couples misfortunes, along with their son's life can we maybe deduce how all three spiraled downward into this tangent which presents a reality where Josh Young is falsely accused of murder by his old man. Something in Gouker's life was disjointed in the year after Josh's mom and Gouker's ex-lover left this planet. I wonder what it was. The most-common explaination is jealousy of Little Josh's prospects compared to Gouker's own. Overlapping that was the growing suspecions in that of his stepson, who was suspecting that Gouker was physically and mentally abusing his mom, Amanda.
That night in May it just snapped for Joshua Gouker to the point that Gouker killed him, maybe behind the high school or somewhere close. Remember the area is in the middle of huge shopping area southeast of the airport with a nearby suburban neighborhood, so there would be few places Gouker could have done the dirty deed. Also, as I read these pages of drivel, I gauge that between eleven and one is the timeframe the crime might have occurred. So the victim did indeed sneaked out of the house while Gouker and Amanda had their alone time. One of them must have realized that Trey was not there. Whether Gouker went alone or had Amanda with him is anyone's guess, but I was erring on Gouker maybe by himself. If Amanda was with him, she was not with him when the murder occurred, but he would have either lied about it or told her of the deed, threatening to kill her too if she talked about it the cops. Why indeed that July would Gouker's cousin and boyfirend rob her of some property if they were not part of a conspiracy? Why did Amanda not do much talking either in Gouker's presence or alone with a cop? Her protective order was the first indication that something was out of the ordinary with Gouker and his treatment of her since the murder of her boy. Gouker's running off with one or two females and his son was equivalent of a signed confession. (The case of the dad in Seattle who blew himself up, along with his two sons in front of a social worker waiting outside is much as saying, I killed someone, now watch me avoid criminal responsibility.)
Gouker's talking with the cops after his arrest later that month and their waiting until he was back in their correctional system to formally charge his son is the result of a conspiracy of three people. Namely, Gouker's cousin and boyfriend (cousin in terms of relationship), who lied to the cops about Little Josh coming over to their house later that night. This is going on as Gouker changed clothes and dragged Amanda along for that Circle K ciggy run. This would have left Little Josh alone with his little step-sister, oblivious of what went on while they slept. It is quite possible that sometime between leaving the Circle K to the afternoon of the discovery of Trey's body that Gouker got together with his cousins Cassie and John to statergize and keep Amanda from spouting off to the cops about what he did to her boy. (Mr. Zwicker did notice at the scene of the crime, Amanda's appearence and emotions toward the crime and Gouker. He thought his ex-lover was being abused.) Gouker just got Amanda to pretend the moment the body was discovered that they were just getting home and found Trey has not gone to school that day. That they were not informed by Seneca High School of this anomaly before one that afternoon is pure speculation at if they even got the call. They knew a whole lot more than they let on to the cops that day or up to the middle of June when Amanda had enough of Gouker, filing the protection order. Afraid of his own arrest for murder, Gouker fled with Little Josh.
So in order to prevent his evential prosecution, the second part of his frame-up came into being, namely to spout of his falsehoods to a stumped lead detective, whom he had deceived from day one. The next was to use his cousin and their friends to intimidate any possible witness who could refute him, even down to what Cassie and John did to poor Amanda that July. The protection order shocked Gouker, who took Little Josh. That prompted the Amber Alert. Next Gouker and company's missteps on the road from Louisville to Tennessee to Alabama was guarenteed to eventially result in arrest. (It was the dumbest crime spree I ever heard of!) When it seemed that Little Josh was rid of his old man, the old man comes back and frames for Trey's death. Then it takes until November to even charge the boy with the murder. By that time, Gouker and company, not to mention the prosecution, had all their ducks in a row. They will not budge, not until this fall. God only knows if Josh, nearly the same age his old man was when he was born, will be found innocent. What will the State do to Gouker once they know they were duped? Even if the jury hears this one, what if the jury is hung, but the net effect the truth about Gouker is the reason? One would speculate innocence or a hung jury would result in Gouker be the time his son turns seventeen will be the one facing the capital murder charges, on top of the actions he and his people did to frame Josh, resulting in not just him but at least two other people getting jail time. It is a matter of time, Mr. Gouker, before your sin is paid in full in this world and in the next. The clock is ticking. The Death Chamber in Frankfort is awaiting a possible victim; it might be you.
Typically in the late teens the range of girls when guys are sexually active is from early to late teens, with a good precentage active within their age group. What is troubling with guys fifteen to eighteen (roughly) is those who might either hook up with a young girl or a young woman. The one end with a younger girl looking at a older guy as more mature and more likely to support any baby that comes out of such union. The other end looking for a mature woman as a mother substitute. Tradition might hold that an young girl looks on the older boy as the father substitute and the younger guy looking at the older girl or woman as a mother substitute. Though both couples playing the sharp edge of society's view toward said relaitionships.
Take Christian Fernandez's parents for instance. At twelve years old, it was an older guy who impregnated Christian's mother and in effect paid the price for said pregnancy. In the effect on Christian's mother seeing both mother and son put in foster care, I see society not only going down hard on the daddy, but the mommy too. Such young pregnancy's disrupt both, posing its own unique circumstances for the parents and the child.
Take for instance the daddy. Such unions might meet with immediate disapproval from both sets of the parent's parents. Often the younger member's parents accusing the older member of the relationship for knocking up their daughter. (I wonder why it is the daddy that gets the worst of the social beating.) This is why the greater the age gradient, the bigger chance for the older male partner or the younger male partner to run from their part in the pregnancy and evential rearing of the child.
Also it is the older male parter or the older female partner to face a variety of criminal charges resulting in their sexuality. This often see these parents disadvantaged from the start of the parenthood. Often left with a jail sentence and registering as a sex offender, though as low as a level-one, least likely to reoffend, it could mean their means of supporting the child and the mother and themselves to be dead in the water. There goes their future in the heartbeat of the child produced from the relationship. Even if the pregnacy is ended via abortion or the child placed for adoption or even miscarried (this is a teenage girl), the record follows a person forever in many states. Ruined for life just as the state deems them as such.
Gouker was seventeen when his son was born, so how old was Josh's mom? Maybe from backtracking their couples misfortunes, along with their son's life can we maybe deduce how all three spiraled downward into this tangent which presents a reality where Josh Young is falsely accused of murder by his old man. Something in Gouker's life was disjointed in the year after Josh's mom and Gouker's ex-lover left this planet. I wonder what it was. The most-common explaination is jealousy of Little Josh's prospects compared to Gouker's own. Overlapping that was the growing suspecions in that of his stepson, who was suspecting that Gouker was physically and mentally abusing his mom, Amanda.
That night in May it just snapped for Joshua Gouker to the point that Gouker killed him, maybe behind the high school or somewhere close. Remember the area is in the middle of huge shopping area southeast of the airport with a nearby suburban neighborhood, so there would be few places Gouker could have done the dirty deed. Also, as I read these pages of drivel, I gauge that between eleven and one is the timeframe the crime might have occurred. So the victim did indeed sneaked out of the house while Gouker and Amanda had their alone time. One of them must have realized that Trey was not there. Whether Gouker went alone or had Amanda with him is anyone's guess, but I was erring on Gouker maybe by himself. If Amanda was with him, she was not with him when the murder occurred, but he would have either lied about it or told her of the deed, threatening to kill her too if she talked about it the cops. Why indeed that July would Gouker's cousin and boyfirend rob her of some property if they were not part of a conspiracy? Why did Amanda not do much talking either in Gouker's presence or alone with a cop? Her protective order was the first indication that something was out of the ordinary with Gouker and his treatment of her since the murder of her boy. Gouker's running off with one or two females and his son was equivalent of a signed confession. (The case of the dad in Seattle who blew himself up, along with his two sons in front of a social worker waiting outside is much as saying, I killed someone, now watch me avoid criminal responsibility.)
Gouker's talking with the cops after his arrest later that month and their waiting until he was back in their correctional system to formally charge his son is the result of a conspiracy of three people. Namely, Gouker's cousin and boyfriend (cousin in terms of relationship), who lied to the cops about Little Josh coming over to their house later that night. This is going on as Gouker changed clothes and dragged Amanda along for that Circle K ciggy run. This would have left Little Josh alone with his little step-sister, oblivious of what went on while they slept. It is quite possible that sometime between leaving the Circle K to the afternoon of the discovery of Trey's body that Gouker got together with his cousins Cassie and John to statergize and keep Amanda from spouting off to the cops about what he did to her boy. (Mr. Zwicker did notice at the scene of the crime, Amanda's appearence and emotions toward the crime and Gouker. He thought his ex-lover was being abused.) Gouker just got Amanda to pretend the moment the body was discovered that they were just getting home and found Trey has not gone to school that day. That they were not informed by Seneca High School of this anomaly before one that afternoon is pure speculation at if they even got the call. They knew a whole lot more than they let on to the cops that day or up to the middle of June when Amanda had enough of Gouker, filing the protection order. Afraid of his own arrest for murder, Gouker fled with Little Josh.
So in order to prevent his evential prosecution, the second part of his frame-up came into being, namely to spout of his falsehoods to a stumped lead detective, whom he had deceived from day one. The next was to use his cousin and their friends to intimidate any possible witness who could refute him, even down to what Cassie and John did to poor Amanda that July. The protection order shocked Gouker, who took Little Josh. That prompted the Amber Alert. Next Gouker and company's missteps on the road from Louisville to Tennessee to Alabama was guarenteed to eventially result in arrest. (It was the dumbest crime spree I ever heard of!) When it seemed that Little Josh was rid of his old man, the old man comes back and frames for Trey's death. Then it takes until November to even charge the boy with the murder. By that time, Gouker and company, not to mention the prosecution, had all their ducks in a row. They will not budge, not until this fall. God only knows if Josh, nearly the same age his old man was when he was born, will be found innocent. What will the State do to Gouker once they know they were duped? Even if the jury hears this one, what if the jury is hung, but the net effect the truth about Gouker is the reason? One would speculate innocence or a hung jury would result in Gouker be the time his son turns seventeen will be the one facing the capital murder charges, on top of the actions he and his people did to frame Josh, resulting in not just him but at least two other people getting jail time. It is a matter of time, Mr. Gouker, before your sin is paid in full in this world and in the next. The clock is ticking. The Death Chamber in Frankfort is awaiting a possible victim; it might be you.
Friday, March 2, 2012
On the Road to Ruin, It is Often the Adults' Fault Some Ordinary Kids Get Ruined for Life
Adults do not trust children. In fact I think a majority of people, mainly men, are afraid of kids, especially boys. It is as if society lost trust of their kids with adults, even those who are in their kid's life most often, such as school teachers, mentors, family friends and even relatives. The way we superorganize our kids makes us wary of anything that would knock them off their schedule of soccer games, swim meets and structured playtime with their friends. We overprotect our kids to the point that we do not realize that as a boy or girl grows older, they would desire some independence from the rat race of life. Whatever happened to playing alone, wandering away from home with a friend or visiting anyone that they are concerned about, from their grandparents or maybe the guy who daddy works with everyday (whether or not he has kids of his own). It is as if we lost our trust in anyone, even the cops on the street.
When I was a kid, a cop would not make me scared half to death. Whenever I seen one at school, it was just the cop who comes to the school only when he was needed. Most of the time, he was there to give advice on crime prevention, when to call for help and other benign events. He and his people would only be needed for their real job when some idiot really acted up. Though pulling a knife was the only time a kid needed a trip downtown, not when they burped in class or talked back at their teacher.
The fear of lawsuits is just one of the reasons why schools call the law and start expulsion procedures at the drop of a hat. It is easy to just cuff and send the kids downtown than let the educators themselves deal with minor problems or even when a kid accidentally brings a bad thing to school with no intention to use it on anyone.
They think: if we just gave this kid detention and other parents learn about it from their kids, things will be thrown, parents will be waiting to let it out. "How dare you just gave Billy detention for that knife he had in his backpack. I do not care if it was an accident. You should have had the cops arrest him. I am going to sue if you do not call the cops and throw Billy's rear end in jail now." Really, if I was a principal I have to calm this lady down. I have to try to give her my reasons I did not call the cops. I talked to his parents. The boy and his daddy take backpacks to their work. Daddy had a nail file in his, but that morning he took Billy's pack by mistakes. I do know if you know this, he opened the pack and saw his kid's books and papers. Billy opened his and found his daddy's ipad and memos. His daddy even got to the front office the same time Billy's pal noticed the nail file and told the teacher. Billy was sent down to the office to see me. There was daddy with the other backpack! I have to say we all had a good laugh over coffee and donuts. I just gave the boy him janitor duty for a week and that was that.
Ms. Judy would be ashamed she got paranoid about a kid who never had as much as a police record. Accidents happen, she said sadly. I got to say I am sorry I got mad without knowing why I am mad at Billy or you, Mr. Smith. Glad we talked. I do not get out much anymore.
The good thing that comes out of that talk is that Ms. Judy's kids now hang out with Billy. The only thing remotely dangerous is sledding down Suicide Hill on their sleds or jumping over fences.
The above is just a story I made up, but it could be true. Though some people cannot be ever persuaded that the majority of kids are decent people to be around with 24/7. It is those problem kids we need to look out for. These are the ones that need more supervision, control, reform and other ways to prevent further trouble for themselves and others. Though "problem child" can be anyone... even good decent kids could be labeled that whenever an adult gets that fear.
When I was a kid, a cop would not make me scared half to death. Whenever I seen one at school, it was just the cop who comes to the school only when he was needed. Most of the time, he was there to give advice on crime prevention, when to call for help and other benign events. He and his people would only be needed for their real job when some idiot really acted up. Though pulling a knife was the only time a kid needed a trip downtown, not when they burped in class or talked back at their teacher.
The fear of lawsuits is just one of the reasons why schools call the law and start expulsion procedures at the drop of a hat. It is easy to just cuff and send the kids downtown than let the educators themselves deal with minor problems or even when a kid accidentally brings a bad thing to school with no intention to use it on anyone.
They think: if we just gave this kid detention and other parents learn about it from their kids, things will be thrown, parents will be waiting to let it out. "How dare you just gave Billy detention for that knife he had in his backpack. I do not care if it was an accident. You should have had the cops arrest him. I am going to sue if you do not call the cops and throw Billy's rear end in jail now." Really, if I was a principal I have to calm this lady down. I have to try to give her my reasons I did not call the cops. I talked to his parents. The boy and his daddy take backpacks to their work. Daddy had a nail file in his, but that morning he took Billy's pack by mistakes. I do know if you know this, he opened the pack and saw his kid's books and papers. Billy opened his and found his daddy's ipad and memos. His daddy even got to the front office the same time Billy's pal noticed the nail file and told the teacher. Billy was sent down to the office to see me. There was daddy with the other backpack! I have to say we all had a good laugh over coffee and donuts. I just gave the boy him janitor duty for a week and that was that.
Ms. Judy would be ashamed she got paranoid about a kid who never had as much as a police record. Accidents happen, she said sadly. I got to say I am sorry I got mad without knowing why I am mad at Billy or you, Mr. Smith. Glad we talked. I do not get out much anymore.
The good thing that comes out of that talk is that Ms. Judy's kids now hang out with Billy. The only thing remotely dangerous is sledding down Suicide Hill on their sleds or jumping over fences.
The above is just a story I made up, but it could be true. Though some people cannot be ever persuaded that the majority of kids are decent people to be around with 24/7. It is those problem kids we need to look out for. These are the ones that need more supervision, control, reform and other ways to prevent further trouble for themselves and others. Though "problem child" can be anyone... even good decent kids could be labeled that whenever an adult gets that fear.
A Crash Course in Juvenile Misjustice
Where did we all go wrong in the field of juvenile justice? I am sorry to say that it was over forty years in the making. The current system began to implode in the mid the late 1970's. This was a backlash at the 1960's, directed at two groups that were empowered by that decade but did not take the time to even notice the system changing to reflect that reality.
The first group affected was all minority groups. The old saying, "if black, stay back" coined by Michael Harrington back in the late 1950's in "The Other America" was so much in force in the seventies. White people, having lost the struggle for racial intergration, started to enact laws that would negatively affect the minority community for years to come. Starting with youth, the whites passed laws that made it more easy for prosecutors to charge all youth as adults for certain crimes. Largely limited to serious, capital crimes, the laws saw thousands of youths of all colors and creeds moved in the adult system than ever before. The laws mostly affected non-whites due to their innate limitations. One of them being the innate reactions by whites to blacks in general.
Then there was youth in general, especially the poor and minorities. They were empowered with great strides in the right to vote, greater recognition of their civil rights and a sense of civic responsibility. That changed with the seventies when a bad economy, compined with a spike in crime brought another wave of unfounded fear in the adult community, the ones that make the laws of the land. By the eighties, times got a little better for the country, but not enough to sate the scared people. Their unfounded fears of violent youth, more specificly minority youth continued.
The ninties brought this unfounded fear to a head. This was the era where the boogieman became the superpreditor. Suddenly, laws were strengthened to protect against this new emerging menace which never came and never would come. Most of the country thanked these stregthened laws to bring down the crime rates in the late 1990's, but was not the real reason.
The real reason for the drop in crime, as described in the book, "Freakinomics", publish the following decade is the legalization of abortion via "Roe vs. Wade" in 1973. The book decribed the phenominon, saying that because of this empowerment to females, unwanted babies were aborted instead of brought into this world to be neglected, abused and empowered to break the law as a result of their parent's indifference to their upbringing.
It seems like something out of the Twighlight Zone, but for all those left to be born, the paranoia hangs like a hammer to smash their dreams at the slightest hint of wrongdoing.
The first group affected was all minority groups. The old saying, "if black, stay back" coined by Michael Harrington back in the late 1950's in "The Other America" was so much in force in the seventies. White people, having lost the struggle for racial intergration, started to enact laws that would negatively affect the minority community for years to come. Starting with youth, the whites passed laws that made it more easy for prosecutors to charge all youth as adults for certain crimes. Largely limited to serious, capital crimes, the laws saw thousands of youths of all colors and creeds moved in the adult system than ever before. The laws mostly affected non-whites due to their innate limitations. One of them being the innate reactions by whites to blacks in general.
Then there was youth in general, especially the poor and minorities. They were empowered with great strides in the right to vote, greater recognition of their civil rights and a sense of civic responsibility. That changed with the seventies when a bad economy, compined with a spike in crime brought another wave of unfounded fear in the adult community, the ones that make the laws of the land. By the eighties, times got a little better for the country, but not enough to sate the scared people. Their unfounded fears of violent youth, more specificly minority youth continued.
The ninties brought this unfounded fear to a head. This was the era where the boogieman became the superpreditor. Suddenly, laws were strengthened to protect against this new emerging menace which never came and never would come. Most of the country thanked these stregthened laws to bring down the crime rates in the late 1990's, but was not the real reason.
The real reason for the drop in crime, as described in the book, "Freakinomics", publish the following decade is the legalization of abortion via "Roe vs. Wade" in 1973. The book decribed the phenominon, saying that because of this empowerment to females, unwanted babies were aborted instead of brought into this world to be neglected, abused and empowered to break the law as a result of their parent's indifference to their upbringing.
It seems like something out of the Twighlight Zone, but for all those left to be born, the paranoia hangs like a hammer to smash their dreams at the slightest hint of wrongdoing.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Somebody had to be Blade
Blade Reed was only 13, when his older brother led him to commit unthinkable crimes. Blade did not really fire the round that killed that old man, but the law fell the old fallacy of "guilt by association". The older boy, who was 16 with a extensive record of delinquency, was dealt with under the prescriptions of the law. However the other boy had the whole law library thrown at him, though at his age he was acting like an eight-year-old, five years below the average IQ of 100. In the color-blind system, it did not even matter. The family wanted this to happen to these children. To all of them, the kids were both beyond help.
With his mentality, it was all the better he was to locked up almost forever. Being mentally-challenged at 13 in an adult penal institution like the Wasbash Correctional Institute is much like putting a big target on yourself. You are still a little past puberty. For sex-starved inmates, the smooth skin of many juveniles and their naivety, not to mention their gullibility could be a lethal mix. Instant rape bait! This is why we should never ever put children of any age in this type of facility. Too many people with not a lot to lose would love to get their meat hooks on a boyish-looking prisoner. They are not going anywhere and neither are the potential victims. No wonder many young people in these prisons eventually go mad.
There was an old article of drawings in Mad Magazine called, "A Mad Look at Prisons" in old issue. My favorite drawings exemplify my plight of the term, "stir crazy". The crook is sitting in his cell next to his roommate, passionately thinking at the girl who loves him. As time goes by the vision get faded and slowly disappears. Then in its place the vision is replaced with a vision of the face of his roommate. Suddenly he realizes he is not that way. He is going insane in the last panel now. His cellmate is sitting there with what I think is a big smile on his face. The moral of the story if this is a big problem for adult prisoners with long jail time, then it has to be even harder for a kid like Blade Reed.
Over the course of his incarceration, he story has read like a Steven King tale rewritten by John Grisham. He has been raped, beaten, thrown into the hole (solitary confinement's prisoner slang) and had numerous human-rights violations made against him over the time in there since December 2009. That was when he was fourteen and the time was around Christmas Eve. Some present to be literally rape bait and a boxing dummy for a bunch of sex-depraved, nightstick-happy prisoners and guards.
http://justice4juveniles.com/index.php?topic=570.0
Just look at the entries in Dan "not the movie star" Dailey's Blog. They are not fairy tales. They sound to me like somebody's idea of fun and games on an innocent boy. No one has to be Blade. Envision it as your son or daughter. If we do not get this kid out of this house of horrors, Blade will share with the late Evel Knievel of having every bone in his body broken, though it will not be with a motorcycle and gravity. For Blade, it would be the ruthlessness of the population at that prison.
He is now sixteen years old. His mentality is still quite young eight to tens years old. His body may be that of a kid in his late teens, but his mentality is that of a child. We should not allow that to an eight to ten years old. So why should we allow that to a mentally-challenged kid of sixteen? You have to decide for yourself.
With his mentality, it was all the better he was to locked up almost forever. Being mentally-challenged at 13 in an adult penal institution like the Wasbash Correctional Institute is much like putting a big target on yourself. You are still a little past puberty. For sex-starved inmates, the smooth skin of many juveniles and their naivety, not to mention their gullibility could be a lethal mix. Instant rape bait! This is why we should never ever put children of any age in this type of facility. Too many people with not a lot to lose would love to get their meat hooks on a boyish-looking prisoner. They are not going anywhere and neither are the potential victims. No wonder many young people in these prisons eventually go mad.
There was an old article of drawings in Mad Magazine called, "A Mad Look at Prisons" in old issue. My favorite drawings exemplify my plight of the term, "stir crazy". The crook is sitting in his cell next to his roommate, passionately thinking at the girl who loves him. As time goes by the vision get faded and slowly disappears. Then in its place the vision is replaced with a vision of the face of his roommate. Suddenly he realizes he is not that way. He is going insane in the last panel now. His cellmate is sitting there with what I think is a big smile on his face. The moral of the story if this is a big problem for adult prisoners with long jail time, then it has to be even harder for a kid like Blade Reed.
Over the course of his incarceration, he story has read like a Steven King tale rewritten by John Grisham. He has been raped, beaten, thrown into the hole (solitary confinement's prisoner slang) and had numerous human-rights violations made against him over the time in there since December 2009. That was when he was fourteen and the time was around Christmas Eve. Some present to be literally rape bait and a boxing dummy for a bunch of sex-depraved, nightstick-happy prisoners and guards.
http://justice4juveniles.com/index.php?topic=570.0
Just look at the entries in Dan "not the movie star" Dailey's Blog. They are not fairy tales. They sound to me like somebody's idea of fun and games on an innocent boy. No one has to be Blade. Envision it as your son or daughter. If we do not get this kid out of this house of horrors, Blade will share with the late Evel Knievel of having every bone in his body broken, though it will not be with a motorcycle and gravity. For Blade, it would be the ruthlessness of the population at that prison.
He is now sixteen years old. His mentality is still quite young eight to tens years old. His body may be that of a kid in his late teens, but his mentality is that of a child. We should not allow that to an eight to ten years old. So why should we allow that to a mentally-challenged kid of sixteen? You have to decide for yourself.
Monday, February 20, 2012
None Dare Call It Conspiracy, But I Do
Say that I was a prosecutor and a cold-blooded murder occurred. Once I learn about it from this cop I know on the force that it was that young informant that did the crime, it should be open and shut. Problem is that certain cop learned of the crime from the informant himself. Now that is a major thing. But to arrest that man for that crime would mean worse things for me.
You see I was up for reelection that Spring and my opponent has accused me of illegally using my discretionary fund contrary to the law I had sworn to uphold and defend. This informant has received some secret payment to supply me and the law the names and evidence of people involved in narcotics and other drugs in exchange for immunity from the law as it pertains to him. Now that he has murdered someone, arresting him would expose my criminal dealings with this crook, who threatens to sing my sins out to the world. That would give me a pink slip and a trip to jail. It would ruin my career to the point of disbarrment.
What do I do? Frame an innocent person is the only way out of this debacle. I can get his handler to mislead the investigation. I would get her to bully witnesses that say that the innocent did the crime. Since it is her word agaist his, he would be arrested and I get away with conspiracy to commit murder. The press will warp the crime as yet another boy gone bad. I would prosecutor this kid using circumstantial evidence. He is sentenced to life without parole. I would be long gone when the truth comes out. Piece of cake anyone?
It would be so perfect to be a prosecutor to frame an innocent boy on two counts of capital murder as an adult. No worry someone would expose your creepy dealings with the person who really committed the crime. No worry the Attorney General would see through your charade built on a house of cards glued together with spackling and Elmer's glue.
For you see exposing the crime implicates him too, for he said it was alright to do everything to protect the asset, that is the informant, no matter what crimes he does while free. We want those prosecutions of all those scufflaws. It is all that we live for, not if the truth gets trampled on the way over where we want to be. No one dares call it a conspiracy. It is like your people are living a Land of Make-Believe, where what we say is done and what is gone gets snuffed out of that world we made.
But in the real world, when politicians arrange to accuse someone else of a crime to protect an informant who commits that same crime, it is called conspiracy. It is a felony. It carries the same sentence as the crime it covers up: usually life without parole or maybe the Death Penalty. Politicans are not above the law. They can confuse and violate the defendant's civil rights all they want, but it will not mean a hill of beans once the truth does come out. There is no statute of limitations for it much like murder. So this would haunt them forever.
Maybe it is good to confess your sins when confronted finally. The court may be merciful. Maybe they would spare your royal neck, but it will come a steep price. No longer would your family see you as Mr. Right. Your opponents would leap for joy, for they told the people so about you. Your friends would say you let them down. You are just another human being. You would be right there in the state prison with the people you previously put away. (They are just dying to see you suffer the same way you made them suffer.)
And they will all know it was a conspiracy.
You see I was up for reelection that Spring and my opponent has accused me of illegally using my discretionary fund contrary to the law I had sworn to uphold and defend. This informant has received some secret payment to supply me and the law the names and evidence of people involved in narcotics and other drugs in exchange for immunity from the law as it pertains to him. Now that he has murdered someone, arresting him would expose my criminal dealings with this crook, who threatens to sing my sins out to the world. That would give me a pink slip and a trip to jail. It would ruin my career to the point of disbarrment.
What do I do? Frame an innocent person is the only way out of this debacle. I can get his handler to mislead the investigation. I would get her to bully witnesses that say that the innocent did the crime. Since it is her word agaist his, he would be arrested and I get away with conspiracy to commit murder. The press will warp the crime as yet another boy gone bad. I would prosecutor this kid using circumstantial evidence. He is sentenced to life without parole. I would be long gone when the truth comes out. Piece of cake anyone?
It would be so perfect to be a prosecutor to frame an innocent boy on two counts of capital murder as an adult. No worry someone would expose your creepy dealings with the person who really committed the crime. No worry the Attorney General would see through your charade built on a house of cards glued together with spackling and Elmer's glue.
For you see exposing the crime implicates him too, for he said it was alright to do everything to protect the asset, that is the informant, no matter what crimes he does while free. We want those prosecutions of all those scufflaws. It is all that we live for, not if the truth gets trampled on the way over where we want to be. No one dares call it a conspiracy. It is like your people are living a Land of Make-Believe, where what we say is done and what is gone gets snuffed out of that world we made.
But in the real world, when politicians arrange to accuse someone else of a crime to protect an informant who commits that same crime, it is called conspiracy. It is a felony. It carries the same sentence as the crime it covers up: usually life without parole or maybe the Death Penalty. Politicans are not above the law. They can confuse and violate the defendant's civil rights all they want, but it will not mean a hill of beans once the truth does come out. There is no statute of limitations for it much like murder. So this would haunt them forever.
Maybe it is good to confess your sins when confronted finally. The court may be merciful. Maybe they would spare your royal neck, but it will come a steep price. No longer would your family see you as Mr. Right. Your opponents would leap for joy, for they told the people so about you. Your friends would say you let them down. You are just another human being. You would be right there in the state prison with the people you previously put away. (They are just dying to see you suffer the same way you made them suffer.)
And they will all know it was a conspiracy.
Pennsylvania: Even their State Capital was Built on Corruption
Today is the third annivesary of the death of Kenzie Houk and her unborn son. It is a case-study in corruption in a system that was supposed to arrest the person who actually did the crime. They did not even do that.
The original prosecutor in the case was fighting for re-election in 2009. He knew to arrest the right person would ruin his career. Johnny Bongiveno was using this killer to bust others like him, who was dealing narcotics to other people. How would he know? Maybe the doer's handler informed him this was exactly he was going to do that. So Johnny set in motion the lies, deceit, the long years in juvenile detention with no bail. Even Cameron Kocher had it this hard. (Though the person behind his unjust prosecution later got in trouble himself.)
Now the press wants full access to the closed juvenile case on the grounds of the years this festered in the adult system. Then they can justify their persecution of the boy all this time.
I am now in favor of only a partial victory. No should should not be allowed in the courtroom, but should get a summery of what went down and then the final opinion. They should be like a classroom seeing a guidence film back in the day. They would have no power to interfere in the case. They will however see the crusifixtion of their action heros without being able to stop it. They bought the boy's guilt, now they should see this boy found innocent and going free from his chains. Then their shame would be complete. That is what they get for not pursuing the politicians with fire and sword over their gross abuse of power.
Obstruction of Justice is a crime even prosecutors and governors face in these types of cases.
Scandal is the bedrock of this state.
Just look at their state capital building in Harrisburg. A devistating fire reduced the old building to a shell in 1897. A decade later in 1907, there was a huge rukus over its replacement. The cost overruns in tems of funishings and frills on the original estimate to replace the ediface, which was completed the previous year, brought with it people with sticky fingers. Edwin Sydney Stuart, the newly elected Govenor had to face the business end of this scandal, which resulted in six arrests: chief interior furnishing contractor John H. Sanderson, chief architect Joseph M. Huston, former State Treasurer William L. Mathues, Superintendent of Public Grounds and Buildings James Shumaker, Auditor General William P. Snyder, and Pennsylvania Construction Company official and ex-Congressman H. Burd Cassel. Fifty hearings, two hundred witnesses, four thousand pages of litigation and numerous court sessions later saw these six men convicted in the conspiracy. (Mathues died shortly before he was sentenced.)
Over the 105 years since that scandal things have not gotten better in Harrisburg.
The original prosecutor in the case was fighting for re-election in 2009. He knew to arrest the right person would ruin his career. Johnny Bongiveno was using this killer to bust others like him, who was dealing narcotics to other people. How would he know? Maybe the doer's handler informed him this was exactly he was going to do that. So Johnny set in motion the lies, deceit, the long years in juvenile detention with no bail. Even Cameron Kocher had it this hard. (Though the person behind his unjust prosecution later got in trouble himself.)
Now the press wants full access to the closed juvenile case on the grounds of the years this festered in the adult system. Then they can justify their persecution of the boy all this time.
I am now in favor of only a partial victory. No should should not be allowed in the courtroom, but should get a summery of what went down and then the final opinion. They should be like a classroom seeing a guidence film back in the day. They would have no power to interfere in the case. They will however see the crusifixtion of their action heros without being able to stop it. They bought the boy's guilt, now they should see this boy found innocent and going free from his chains. Then their shame would be complete. That is what they get for not pursuing the politicians with fire and sword over their gross abuse of power.
Obstruction of Justice is a crime even prosecutors and governors face in these types of cases.
Scandal is the bedrock of this state.
Just look at their state capital building in Harrisburg. A devistating fire reduced the old building to a shell in 1897. A decade later in 1907, there was a huge rukus over its replacement. The cost overruns in tems of funishings and frills on the original estimate to replace the ediface, which was completed the previous year, brought with it people with sticky fingers. Edwin Sydney Stuart, the newly elected Govenor had to face the business end of this scandal, which resulted in six arrests: chief interior furnishing contractor John H. Sanderson, chief architect Joseph M. Huston, former State Treasurer William L. Mathues, Superintendent of Public Grounds and Buildings James Shumaker, Auditor General William P. Snyder, and Pennsylvania Construction Company official and ex-Congressman H. Burd Cassel. Fifty hearings, two hundred witnesses, four thousand pages of litigation and numerous court sessions later saw these six men convicted in the conspiracy. (Mathues died shortly before he was sentenced.)
Over the 105 years since that scandal things have not gotten better in Harrisburg.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Pennsylvania's Courts Acting Like Slugs
The date is set for March 28 for the media to get to bellyache why they need to attend the juvenile trial of Jordan Brown, falsely accused of killing his dad's girlfriend/fiance and their unborn son. The press never had an even keel from day one of this case on Feb. 20, 2009. In fact, I think they never even considered the other side of this case. The "reasonable doubt" that should be part of every court case flew out the door to the tune of Nancy Grace's theme song.
No case is Open and Shut as we think it is all the time. There is no such thing as serious scutiny of the prosecution alongside with the defense. Both have demons that need to be fairly concidered before passing judgement. Though the press seem uncomfortable to even listen to the other side. Better to delete the comment section than get screwed by their reader backlash.
The press indeed should had just left it alone. They should have pressed for just a notifiction after it is over of guilt or innocence, along with the complete opinion for them to scrutinize. They should made to wait, but a private trial and a public ruling would satify their and our curiosity.
Decicions though do not sell newspapers or make TV or radio or internet stories more interesting. They want drama that only observing this type of case would generate. Nothing else mattered until they got their way. Hense, this suit by three newspapers. When the date of March 28, 2012 comes, it would be a delay of over six months since the so-called case could have ended with the expected wailing of sorrow from the Houks as they observe this poor boy's persecution end with the complete dismissal of the charges, never to be refiled due to the many violations the State did to bring the case this far.
The Superior Court can indeed find for the papers. The trial should go public in order to expose the dark forces behind Brown's persecution and unfair imprisonment. I do not side with the juvenile's lawyers or the judge to close the case anymore to the public. The public should see this farce of a case as it is. They should all see Jordan found innocent. Only then will those nasty politicians who did this outrage to American Justice face a future where they will join Jerry Sandusky in prison.(I wonder if Tommy should beg not to paired up with Jerry.)
No case is Open and Shut as we think it is all the time. There is no such thing as serious scutiny of the prosecution alongside with the defense. Both have demons that need to be fairly concidered before passing judgement. Though the press seem uncomfortable to even listen to the other side. Better to delete the comment section than get screwed by their reader backlash.
The press indeed should had just left it alone. They should have pressed for just a notifiction after it is over of guilt or innocence, along with the complete opinion for them to scrutinize. They should made to wait, but a private trial and a public ruling would satify their and our curiosity.
Decicions though do not sell newspapers or make TV or radio or internet stories more interesting. They want drama that only observing this type of case would generate. Nothing else mattered until they got their way. Hense, this suit by three newspapers. When the date of March 28, 2012 comes, it would be a delay of over six months since the so-called case could have ended with the expected wailing of sorrow from the Houks as they observe this poor boy's persecution end with the complete dismissal of the charges, never to be refiled due to the many violations the State did to bring the case this far.
The Superior Court can indeed find for the papers. The trial should go public in order to expose the dark forces behind Brown's persecution and unfair imprisonment. I do not side with the juvenile's lawyers or the judge to close the case anymore to the public. The public should see this farce of a case as it is. They should all see Jordan found innocent. Only then will those nasty politicians who did this outrage to American Justice face a future where they will join Jerry Sandusky in prison.(I wonder if Tommy should beg not to paired up with Jerry.)
Off Night Tonight
Blasted TV busted tonight, but if you are reading this and you are a big fan of Survivor don't forget 8:00 p.m. eastern or pacific on CBS. This time, the island in the Samoas is the backdrop. But the contests begins with the guys vs. the gals. It really is the battle of the genders. Oh my! Check your local listings for alternate listings on other networks. Good night and good luck.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Top 12 TV Tonight (2/14)
All Times Eastern
1. Glee [8:00 pm, Fox]: Sometimes I say Gleepers are thhe scum of the earth, becuase they are not real teenagers, just hairy men and women who obviously shave themselves down and act 15 years old. Tonight they ditched the Love and went to a show honoring Whitney Houston, how did they not change the descrpition on the on-screen guides? Or is it next week?
2. American Experience [9:00 pm, PBS]: Tupperware and why that food never rots normally.
3. The Biggest Loser [8:00 pm, NBC]: More weight and no love makes for a good evening.
4. Florida at Alabama [7:00 pm, ESPN]: College showdown down south.
5. Miami at Indiana [7:00 pm, NBATV, regional networks]: The NBA game tonight...
6. Zamora FC at Boca Juniors [7:00 pm, Fox Deportivo]: Copa in Spanish!
7. Valkyrie: The Plot to Kill Hitler [8:00 pm, MHC]: Somehow they came close to wacking Adolf, but best laid plans and paranoia make strange bedfellows.
8. Top Hat (1935) [8:00 pm, TCM]: Fred and Ginger!
9. Aliens Love Sigourney Weaver Night [8:00 pm, IFC]: The original movie that started it all, along with the second sequel that made us even more squemish.
10. Valentine Double Feature [7:00 pm, HBO]: At seven, Ginnifer Goodwin and Kate Hudson co-star in "Something Borrowed" (2011). At nine, HBO debuts the original documentry, "The Loving Story", about the infamous late 1960's case that legalized interratial marriage in the USA, Loving vs. Virginia. It was indeed a world without love.
11. The Birds (1963) [8:00 pm, Retro]: Please get these birds out of the schoolyard and off of Tippi Hedren. See kids what happens when you feed the pigeons in the park.
12. The Babe (1992) [7:00 pm Encore Family]: Everyone loves George Herman Ruth. I'd boo Roseanne Arnold too.
Honorable Mention: Reflections of Whitney [8:00 pm, TV1]
Late Night Roulette
ABC
Kevin Nealon is on "Jimmy Kimmel Live". Music: Robin Thicke
NBC
Leno: Tyler Perry and old lady Dorothy Custer with the music performed by The Cranberries.
Jimmy Fallon: Donald "The Donald" Trump and Idris Elba with music by Jake Owen.
Carson Daly: Michael Hastings, Leslye Headland and Bear Hands on the music.
CBS
Letterman: Viola Davis; music: Mark Ronson, Eryka Badu, the Dap Kings and Zigaboo Modeliste. Swimsuits are cool!
Craig Ferguson: Betty White; music: Joss Stone with Dave Stewart
PBS
Charlie Rose: ?
Other Late Shows
Conan Tonite [11:00 pm, TBS]:Reese Witherspoon, RZA and Intergalactic Nemesis
Wendy Williams [Midnight, BET]: Jerry O'Connell and Rebecca Romijn (glad to see Jerry has settled down).
Daily Show [11:00 pm, Comedy Central]: Ricky Gervais
The Colbert Report [11:30 pm, Comedy Central]: William J. Broad. Yoga?
Extra [Syndication]: Oh Whitney!
Access Hollywood [Syndication]: The First Lady Interview, Part Three and Valentine's Day in the Entertainment World. Also more Whitney Houston news.
Steve Wilkos [Syndication]: I caught you Cheating and more proof that love sometimes ends with blows.
Happy viewing tonight.
1. Glee [8:00 pm, Fox]: Sometimes I say Gleepers are thhe scum of the earth, becuase they are not real teenagers, just hairy men and women who obviously shave themselves down and act 15 years old. Tonight they ditched the Love and went to a show honoring Whitney Houston, how did they not change the descrpition on the on-screen guides? Or is it next week?
2. American Experience [9:00 pm, PBS]: Tupperware and why that food never rots normally.
3. The Biggest Loser [8:00 pm, NBC]: More weight and no love makes for a good evening.
4. Florida at Alabama [7:00 pm, ESPN]: College showdown down south.
5. Miami at Indiana [7:00 pm, NBATV, regional networks]: The NBA game tonight...
6. Zamora FC at Boca Juniors [7:00 pm, Fox Deportivo]: Copa in Spanish!
7. Valkyrie: The Plot to Kill Hitler [8:00 pm, MHC]: Somehow they came close to wacking Adolf, but best laid plans and paranoia make strange bedfellows.
8. Top Hat (1935) [8:00 pm, TCM]: Fred and Ginger!
9. Aliens Love Sigourney Weaver Night [8:00 pm, IFC]: The original movie that started it all, along with the second sequel that made us even more squemish.
10. Valentine Double Feature [7:00 pm, HBO]: At seven, Ginnifer Goodwin and Kate Hudson co-star in "Something Borrowed" (2011). At nine, HBO debuts the original documentry, "The Loving Story", about the infamous late 1960's case that legalized interratial marriage in the USA, Loving vs. Virginia. It was indeed a world without love.
11. The Birds (1963) [8:00 pm, Retro]: Please get these birds out of the schoolyard and off of Tippi Hedren. See kids what happens when you feed the pigeons in the park.
12. The Babe (1992) [7:00 pm Encore Family]: Everyone loves George Herman Ruth. I'd boo Roseanne Arnold too.
Honorable Mention: Reflections of Whitney [8:00 pm, TV1]
Late Night Roulette
ABC
Kevin Nealon is on "Jimmy Kimmel Live". Music: Robin Thicke
NBC
Leno: Tyler Perry and old lady Dorothy Custer with the music performed by The Cranberries.
Jimmy Fallon: Donald "The Donald" Trump and Idris Elba with music by Jake Owen.
Carson Daly: Michael Hastings, Leslye Headland and Bear Hands on the music.
CBS
Letterman: Viola Davis; music: Mark Ronson, Eryka Badu, the Dap Kings and Zigaboo Modeliste. Swimsuits are cool!
Craig Ferguson: Betty White; music: Joss Stone with Dave Stewart
PBS
Charlie Rose: ?
Other Late Shows
Conan Tonite [11:00 pm, TBS]:Reese Witherspoon, RZA and Intergalactic Nemesis
Wendy Williams [Midnight, BET]: Jerry O'Connell and Rebecca Romijn (glad to see Jerry has settled down).
Daily Show [11:00 pm, Comedy Central]: Ricky Gervais
The Colbert Report [11:30 pm, Comedy Central]: William J. Broad. Yoga?
Extra [Syndication]: Oh Whitney!
Access Hollywood [Syndication]: The First Lady Interview, Part Three and Valentine's Day in the Entertainment World. Also more Whitney Houston news.
Steve Wilkos [Syndication]: I caught you Cheating and more proof that love sometimes ends with blows.
Happy viewing tonight.
Monday, February 13, 2012
TV Tonight (2/13) (All times Eastern)
PBS (chack local listings)
8:00 p.m Antiques Roadshow: The appraisers are looking at collectables in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Included are letters from actor Monty Wolley and songwriter Cole Porter and a pretty bunch of other stuff people would otherwise discard as junk.
9:00 p,m. Himalaya with Michael Palin: The former Python alum meets the Bhutan Royal Family, who give them a sample of Butanese culture.
10:00 p.m. Slavery By another Name: You though the slaves were set free by Abe Lincoln in 1863 during the American Civil War. Guess again when one hears other tales of human entrapment of their neighbors with such things as sharcropping and chain gangs. Oh, what about slavery in other lands other than the USA? This documentry is narrated by actor Laurence Fishburne.
Midnight: Charlie Rose: A talk with NYC police commissioner Raymond Kelly is scheduled.
ABC
8:00 p.m. The Batchelor 16: Six ladies... only one goes to walk down the isle with Mr. Rich Dude, the others go home to watch the wedding and cry...
10:00 p.m. Castle: What is that body I see yonder?
12:02 a.m Jimmy Kimmel: David Alan Grier... music by Lana Del Rey
CBS
8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Sitcoms
10:00 p,m. Hawaii Five-O: "When the Governor gets here, call me."
11:35 p.m. Letterman: Reese Witherspoon and the music guses is Kasabian
12:37 p.m. Craig Ferguson: Carol Burnett, who else?
NBC
8:00 pm. The Voice: Part Three of the Tryouts... who is that voice or name that contestant.
10:00 p.m. Smash: Smoosh says the Callback.
11:35 p.m. Jay Leno: J Lo aka Jennifer Lopez, Music act is The Civil Wars...
12:37 a.m. Jimmy Fallon: Nicolas Cage; Chef John Besh
1:36 a.m. Carson Daly: Christina Milian, K. Flay,,, Music by the Speakers...
Fox
8:00 p.m. House: Nun in the Hospital
9:00 p.m. Alcatraz: Landmines Get in the Way or was That Your Foot?
The Other Cable/Sat Highpoints
Iowa State at Baylor [7:00 pm, ESPNU]: Bears are coming off a loss to Kansas.
Kansas at Kansas State [9:00 pm, ESPN]: The battle of the state is up tonight in Manhattan, Ks.
San Jose at Washington [7:30 pm, NBC Sports]: The big game tonight in the NHL...
The 136th Westminster Dog Show [8:00 pm, USA]: Bow wow... Man's best friend...
WWE Monday Night Raw [9:00 pm, USA]: The soap opera, except with body slams and high drama.
Minnasota at Orlando [7:00 pm, NBA Network]: The big game tonight...
Conan Tonight [11:00 pm TBS]: Ice T and Coco; Adam Pally.... music: Wale and Miguel...
Daily Show and Colbert Report [11:00 pm Comedy Central]: Fawzia Koofi on with Jon Stewart... Bill McKibben in Colbert... cough...
BET Honors 2012 [9:00 pm, BET]: More Whitney Moments?
Wendy Williams [Midnight, BET]: Busy Phillips is the guest star.
Oprah's Next Chapter [10:00 pm, OWN]: O in Brooklyn!
Z (1969) [8:00 pm TCM]: Topical with all the rioting in Greece these days... Yves Montand and Irene Papas co-star in this political who-done-it.
Idiocracy (2006) [8:00 pm, IFC]: Luke Wilson and Dax Shepard get stupid.
Pulp Fiction (1994) [8:00 pm HBO Zone]: John Travolta and Uma Thurman do the tango.
The Green Mile (1999) [8:00 pm TMC]: Tom Hanks and more about that thing called innocence. Oh Yeah!
The Preacher's Wife (1996) [8:00 pm Flix]: The late Whitney Houston channels her mom, Cissy Houston for her role as a song belting wife of preacher Denzel Washington.
8:00 p.m Antiques Roadshow: The appraisers are looking at collectables in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Included are letters from actor Monty Wolley and songwriter Cole Porter and a pretty bunch of other stuff people would otherwise discard as junk.
9:00 p,m. Himalaya with Michael Palin: The former Python alum meets the Bhutan Royal Family, who give them a sample of Butanese culture.
10:00 p.m. Slavery By another Name: You though the slaves were set free by Abe Lincoln in 1863 during the American Civil War. Guess again when one hears other tales of human entrapment of their neighbors with such things as sharcropping and chain gangs. Oh, what about slavery in other lands other than the USA? This documentry is narrated by actor Laurence Fishburne.
Midnight: Charlie Rose: A talk with NYC police commissioner Raymond Kelly is scheduled.
ABC
8:00 p.m. The Batchelor 16: Six ladies... only one goes to walk down the isle with Mr. Rich Dude, the others go home to watch the wedding and cry...
10:00 p.m. Castle: What is that body I see yonder?
12:02 a.m Jimmy Kimmel: David Alan Grier... music by Lana Del Rey
CBS
8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Sitcoms
10:00 p,m. Hawaii Five-O: "When the Governor gets here, call me."
11:35 p.m. Letterman: Reese Witherspoon and the music guses is Kasabian
12:37 p.m. Craig Ferguson: Carol Burnett, who else?
NBC
8:00 pm. The Voice: Part Three of the Tryouts... who is that voice or name that contestant.
10:00 p.m. Smash: Smoosh says the Callback.
11:35 p.m. Jay Leno: J Lo aka Jennifer Lopez, Music act is The Civil Wars...
12:37 a.m. Jimmy Fallon: Nicolas Cage; Chef John Besh
1:36 a.m. Carson Daly: Christina Milian, K. Flay,,, Music by the Speakers...
Fox
8:00 p.m. House: Nun in the Hospital
9:00 p.m. Alcatraz: Landmines Get in the Way or was That Your Foot?
The Other Cable/Sat Highpoints
Iowa State at Baylor [7:00 pm, ESPNU]: Bears are coming off a loss to Kansas.
Kansas at Kansas State [9:00 pm, ESPN]: The battle of the state is up tonight in Manhattan, Ks.
San Jose at Washington [7:30 pm, NBC Sports]: The big game tonight in the NHL...
The 136th Westminster Dog Show [8:00 pm, USA]: Bow wow... Man's best friend...
WWE Monday Night Raw [9:00 pm, USA]: The soap opera, except with body slams and high drama.
Minnasota at Orlando [7:00 pm, NBA Network]: The big game tonight...
Conan Tonight [11:00 pm TBS]: Ice T and Coco; Adam Pally.... music: Wale and Miguel...
Daily Show and Colbert Report [11:00 pm Comedy Central]: Fawzia Koofi on with Jon Stewart... Bill McKibben in Colbert... cough...
BET Honors 2012 [9:00 pm, BET]: More Whitney Moments?
Wendy Williams [Midnight, BET]: Busy Phillips is the guest star.
Oprah's Next Chapter [10:00 pm, OWN]: O in Brooklyn!
Z (1969) [8:00 pm TCM]: Topical with all the rioting in Greece these days... Yves Montand and Irene Papas co-star in this political who-done-it.
Idiocracy (2006) [8:00 pm, IFC]: Luke Wilson and Dax Shepard get stupid.
Pulp Fiction (1994) [8:00 pm HBO Zone]: John Travolta and Uma Thurman do the tango.
The Green Mile (1999) [8:00 pm TMC]: Tom Hanks and more about that thing called innocence. Oh Yeah!
The Preacher's Wife (1996) [8:00 pm Flix]: The late Whitney Houston channels her mom, Cissy Houston for her role as a song belting wife of preacher Denzel Washington.
People Are Sheep
People have a certain herd mentality that boggles the mind of any rational creature whose supposed they were not the ones being led astray by their emotions. The Politicians want us to all march to their drumbeat of morality. I ask: why their morality? Why cannot we march to our own morality when their morality is to do the the wrong thing.
We see in the way we treat our young this "do the wrong thing" happen over and over again.
There is a certain classist and racist mantra behind the "try all kids as adults" for certain crimes. The Politicians say that our Juvenile Courts cannot cope with a child who is accused of certain crimes that are deemed "capital". Why is this? I think it is the way the system of juvenile justice was never about punishment and more on reform. This has never been a winning proposition for anyone who lost their loved one to a kid. It is to them that they see this human getting another chance at life where their loved one is six feet underground or in a nice little urn.
Murder, rape, high treason, arson (though not a real capital crime) and assorted petty crimes make people turn "age blind" toward any suspect. They do not care since the crime has made them a nervous wreck. To then have a cop then tell you the culprit is not even old enough to drive or vote is not enough to change their shaken mind. Sometimes the hurt ones might carry a prior grudge against the culprit. I seen this in many of survivor or family member. Even if they have sympathy for the culprit it is a rare thing, for they might be alone in their circle of friends and relations.
In this Blog, I will follow the injustice meted out on our youngsters and even a few adults wronged over the course of this blog. I will go over the history of our justice system. I will show where we broke off into this adult tangent of late. Though we in many lands prosecuted children as adults since before the founding of this country. It was a modern invention to try any child or teen as an adult for "serious" crimes since the 1950's. But this was not an epidemic until the late 1970's when the five-year juvenile term given to fifteen-year-old Willie Bosket spurned a paranoid and borderline racist New York State Legislature to charge anyone 13 and up as an adult for serious crimes. (What were they thinking?)
I will follow three infamous cases on the blog. These three kids are either innocent or in the case of one overcharged due to the actions of a crazy woman who calls herself a prosecutor. The following are those lucky three who may never have the chance to meet but maybe in spirit.
1, Jordan Brown: This littlle package of misery was made this way when he was charged for the murder of Kenzie Houk and her unborn fetus within a day of the murder. The original prosecutor, John "Johnny" Bongivengo, used this boy to further his political career. It backfired big time against the guy who took his office, Josh Lamancusa, who beat him in the primary and went on to win the seat in the courthouse. Since Lamancusa talked with Jordan's dad (Kenzie's fiance) about defended his son (he declined), it left to the Attorney General, Tom Corbett, who continued this madness despite any evidence connecting Jordan to the crime. He went on to the Governor's chair and left this to his successor, Linda Kelly, who along with her lapdog Anthony Krasek, continue this madness almost three years since the murder. They do not seem to look into this boy's innocence. But why do they not look into Kenzie's ex-boyfriend, Adam Harvey? What about the abuse he gave Kenzie? What about the two restraining orders? What about the threats he made to Kenzie and her parents in 2008? What about the paternity case Adam lost to Kenzie two weeks before the murder? They will not look into it because they and Johnny were involved in drug busting in Lawrence County for many years. Before the murders, Johnny used under-the-table payments to an informant for names and info on a planned drug bust. Somehow, Adam found out about the informant being in bed with the county and thought this man can be talked into rubbing out his ex-girlfriend. He knew once news reached Johnny that his informant was behind a murder, Johnny would do anything to prevent this informant's arrest for murder. (It would expose his illegal payments to the informant.) This is where the informant's handler had a wild idea to frame Jordan Brown, for she was given a hard time by the boy when she "interrogated" him at the school around midday about a few hours after the killing. The State of Pennsylvania is committing what amounts of High Treason by holding this boy this long. They are just as bad as Johnny Bongivengo, for I guess they wanted to cover up the original crime (the under-the-table payments to the informant). The delays in this case are what believe an epiphany by the prosecution that they have a big chance of the boy being found innocent in juvenile court. This boy must be set free, and I know he will before this summer. (If not Tom Corbett and Linda Kelly are bigger crooks than Al Capone and Ma Baker.)
2. Christian Fernandez: Jacksonville, nestled in a land of fruits and swamps, has a bad track record with juveniles, just like the rest of the State. One day in April while looking after his little brother, David, twelve-year-old Christian was becoming angry with his mischievous three-year-old brother. This was to the point of knocking him into some furniture (details are conflicting). David was seriously hurt. Like a good boy, Chris got in touch of his mom, but unlike other moms, this one delayed taking the kid to the ER for three house. She searched the web, did everything to delay the treatment of her sick child. By the time David was brought to the ER that evening, it was much too late. Then the justice system failed the family again. The two were arrested by the cops. For some unknown reason Christian was charged as an adult for first-degree murder, but his mother was given lesser charges. The mother was only a kid of 12 when she had the eldest boy. Three kids later and 24, the mother was in and out of her kids' life. Christian was shunted from foster homes and homes of relations. The first real chance to be a family ended with this senseless tragedy. The fruitcake of a Prosecutor, Angela "Angle" Corey is the fifty-something nitwit who behind the overcharging. She said she never intended to overcharge the boy, but never once offered to reduce the charges, she only piled on a sex charge on the boy when the people who have the boy's five-year-old half-brother jumped on the persecution gravy train. This is a city without pity outside the Latino community, who know an abuse when they see it. Why is it over 15,000 people on a petition think Angela Corey is wrong about the kid? Why is it the sex charges ever came up? (It is fakery and Corey's insurance policy if she ever lost her bid to life without parole so the boy as a man will have to live out his days as a sex offender.) Let's hope some new lawyers can fix this damage when this case gets a jury to show the this boy is overcharged and needs a juvenile court not an adult court.
3. Josh Young: Finally from Mohammad Ali's hometown is another case of a poor white boy framed by his old man. Josh Gouker has spun a tale to police and Jefferson County prosecutors, who were stumped about a case in May, when a bunch of kids came across a dead body behind Liberty High School in a wooded area. The naked body was identified as Trey Zwicker, a thirteen-year-old kid. Authorities were stumped so much that they confused the site as the crime scene when the obvious was more likely a dump site. Why would a kid with the fatal injuries naked in the middle of a wooded area? Somehow, Trey was murdered somewhere else and dumped there after the killer took some time to strip the body. That would mean the primary crime scene was somewhere else. It would mean the killer needed a vehicle to transport the body. The secondary would be devoid of evidence of a smuggler, a possible murder weapon and blood and maybe evidence someone took the body and just dumped it there (which would be evidence by maybe one set of footprints). Josh was obvious set up by his old man, who kidnapped his son a couple of weeks later. An Amber Alert was issued on the kid, Josh Young. The man and another woman kidnapped a woman in their crime spree, which was stopped in Alabama. The cops even arrested the boy, oblivious of his missing status. Once they realized this, they dropped the charges and sent him home to Kentucky. However, Josh Gouker had other plans. As Alabama authorities were interrogating Gouker, he spun a tale that somehow got back to the stumped investigators. Gouker said he said his son killed Trey in cold blood and he kidnapped him because he was "afraid of losing him too". In late June, Louisville cops charged the boy of fifteen with capital murder as an adult. Josh in his interrogation, emphatically denied he was the person who killed his step-brother. However he was charged and held on $10,000 bail, but it took until for a Grand Jury to formally charge him. This was because the Kentucky cops could not get their meat hooks on Gouker until October. Now the kid is facing charges for something he did not do. But why did Gouker blame his son? My guess is he such a creep that he thinks the cops and prosecutors are so stupid. I suspect he only gained custody of his son the same way he murdered Josh's biological mother and made it look like a suicide! I think he staged the body much the same way to make someone else get charged. He had the boy for two months before he killed Trey Zwicker. Now Gouker is using his people to bully his own family to make them think Josh Young is the one who killed Trey Zwicker. Why in God's name are you making it more difficult for yourself, Gouker. One day they will find your son innocent of all charges. Then they are going to come after you. I will not rest until your fat behind and bald head is in Frankfort, waiting your turn in the Chair. No father bears false witness against their son and gets away with it.
So in this long post you have my prime choice innocents, who I will fight to the end by all legal means to free or maybe (in Christian's case) reduce the charges so these three souls will not be ruined for life by the crook system of our country, who make the poor and the Non-white citizens into fodder for their prisons. God willing, these three people will be forever used to show the system needs fixing. Racism and Classism is alive and well in 2012 and these cases are three proofs that it exists.
We see in the way we treat our young this "do the wrong thing" happen over and over again.
There is a certain classist and racist mantra behind the "try all kids as adults" for certain crimes. The Politicians say that our Juvenile Courts cannot cope with a child who is accused of certain crimes that are deemed "capital". Why is this? I think it is the way the system of juvenile justice was never about punishment and more on reform. This has never been a winning proposition for anyone who lost their loved one to a kid. It is to them that they see this human getting another chance at life where their loved one is six feet underground or in a nice little urn.
Murder, rape, high treason, arson (though not a real capital crime) and assorted petty crimes make people turn "age blind" toward any suspect. They do not care since the crime has made them a nervous wreck. To then have a cop then tell you the culprit is not even old enough to drive or vote is not enough to change their shaken mind. Sometimes the hurt ones might carry a prior grudge against the culprit. I seen this in many of survivor or family member. Even if they have sympathy for the culprit it is a rare thing, for they might be alone in their circle of friends and relations.
In this Blog, I will follow the injustice meted out on our youngsters and even a few adults wronged over the course of this blog. I will go over the history of our justice system. I will show where we broke off into this adult tangent of late. Though we in many lands prosecuted children as adults since before the founding of this country. It was a modern invention to try any child or teen as an adult for "serious" crimes since the 1950's. But this was not an epidemic until the late 1970's when the five-year juvenile term given to fifteen-year-old Willie Bosket spurned a paranoid and borderline racist New York State Legislature to charge anyone 13 and up as an adult for serious crimes. (What were they thinking?)
I will follow three infamous cases on the blog. These three kids are either innocent or in the case of one overcharged due to the actions of a crazy woman who calls herself a prosecutor. The following are those lucky three who may never have the chance to meet but maybe in spirit.
1, Jordan Brown: This littlle package of misery was made this way when he was charged for the murder of Kenzie Houk and her unborn fetus within a day of the murder. The original prosecutor, John "Johnny" Bongivengo, used this boy to further his political career. It backfired big time against the guy who took his office, Josh Lamancusa, who beat him in the primary and went on to win the seat in the courthouse. Since Lamancusa talked with Jordan's dad (Kenzie's fiance) about defended his son (he declined), it left to the Attorney General, Tom Corbett, who continued this madness despite any evidence connecting Jordan to the crime. He went on to the Governor's chair and left this to his successor, Linda Kelly, who along with her lapdog Anthony Krasek, continue this madness almost three years since the murder. They do not seem to look into this boy's innocence. But why do they not look into Kenzie's ex-boyfriend, Adam Harvey? What about the abuse he gave Kenzie? What about the two restraining orders? What about the threats he made to Kenzie and her parents in 2008? What about the paternity case Adam lost to Kenzie two weeks before the murder? They will not look into it because they and Johnny were involved in drug busting in Lawrence County for many years. Before the murders, Johnny used under-the-table payments to an informant for names and info on a planned drug bust. Somehow, Adam found out about the informant being in bed with the county and thought this man can be talked into rubbing out his ex-girlfriend. He knew once news reached Johnny that his informant was behind a murder, Johnny would do anything to prevent this informant's arrest for murder. (It would expose his illegal payments to the informant.) This is where the informant's handler had a wild idea to frame Jordan Brown, for she was given a hard time by the boy when she "interrogated" him at the school around midday about a few hours after the killing. The State of Pennsylvania is committing what amounts of High Treason by holding this boy this long. They are just as bad as Johnny Bongivengo, for I guess they wanted to cover up the original crime (the under-the-table payments to the informant). The delays in this case are what believe an epiphany by the prosecution that they have a big chance of the boy being found innocent in juvenile court. This boy must be set free, and I know he will before this summer. (If not Tom Corbett and Linda Kelly are bigger crooks than Al Capone and Ma Baker.)
2. Christian Fernandez: Jacksonville, nestled in a land of fruits and swamps, has a bad track record with juveniles, just like the rest of the State. One day in April while looking after his little brother, David, twelve-year-old Christian was becoming angry with his mischievous three-year-old brother. This was to the point of knocking him into some furniture (details are conflicting). David was seriously hurt. Like a good boy, Chris got in touch of his mom, but unlike other moms, this one delayed taking the kid to the ER for three house. She searched the web, did everything to delay the treatment of her sick child. By the time David was brought to the ER that evening, it was much too late. Then the justice system failed the family again. The two were arrested by the cops. For some unknown reason Christian was charged as an adult for first-degree murder, but his mother was given lesser charges. The mother was only a kid of 12 when she had the eldest boy. Three kids later and 24, the mother was in and out of her kids' life. Christian was shunted from foster homes and homes of relations. The first real chance to be a family ended with this senseless tragedy. The fruitcake of a Prosecutor, Angela "Angle" Corey is the fifty-something nitwit who behind the overcharging. She said she never intended to overcharge the boy, but never once offered to reduce the charges, she only piled on a sex charge on the boy when the people who have the boy's five-year-old half-brother jumped on the persecution gravy train. This is a city without pity outside the Latino community, who know an abuse when they see it. Why is it over 15,000 people on a petition think Angela Corey is wrong about the kid? Why is it the sex charges ever came up? (It is fakery and Corey's insurance policy if she ever lost her bid to life without parole so the boy as a man will have to live out his days as a sex offender.) Let's hope some new lawyers can fix this damage when this case gets a jury to show the this boy is overcharged and needs a juvenile court not an adult court.
3. Josh Young: Finally from Mohammad Ali's hometown is another case of a poor white boy framed by his old man. Josh Gouker has spun a tale to police and Jefferson County prosecutors, who were stumped about a case in May, when a bunch of kids came across a dead body behind Liberty High School in a wooded area. The naked body was identified as Trey Zwicker, a thirteen-year-old kid. Authorities were stumped so much that they confused the site as the crime scene when the obvious was more likely a dump site. Why would a kid with the fatal injuries naked in the middle of a wooded area? Somehow, Trey was murdered somewhere else and dumped there after the killer took some time to strip the body. That would mean the primary crime scene was somewhere else. It would mean the killer needed a vehicle to transport the body. The secondary would be devoid of evidence of a smuggler, a possible murder weapon and blood and maybe evidence someone took the body and just dumped it there (which would be evidence by maybe one set of footprints). Josh was obvious set up by his old man, who kidnapped his son a couple of weeks later. An Amber Alert was issued on the kid, Josh Young. The man and another woman kidnapped a woman in their crime spree, which was stopped in Alabama. The cops even arrested the boy, oblivious of his missing status. Once they realized this, they dropped the charges and sent him home to Kentucky. However, Josh Gouker had other plans. As Alabama authorities were interrogating Gouker, he spun a tale that somehow got back to the stumped investigators. Gouker said he said his son killed Trey in cold blood and he kidnapped him because he was "afraid of losing him too". In late June, Louisville cops charged the boy of fifteen with capital murder as an adult. Josh in his interrogation, emphatically denied he was the person who killed his step-brother. However he was charged and held on $10,000 bail, but it took until for a Grand Jury to formally charge him. This was because the Kentucky cops could not get their meat hooks on Gouker until October. Now the kid is facing charges for something he did not do. But why did Gouker blame his son? My guess is he such a creep that he thinks the cops and prosecutors are so stupid. I suspect he only gained custody of his son the same way he murdered Josh's biological mother and made it look like a suicide! I think he staged the body much the same way to make someone else get charged. He had the boy for two months before he killed Trey Zwicker. Now Gouker is using his people to bully his own family to make them think Josh Young is the one who killed Trey Zwicker. Why in God's name are you making it more difficult for yourself, Gouker. One day they will find your son innocent of all charges. Then they are going to come after you. I will not rest until your fat behind and bald head is in Frankfort, waiting your turn in the Chair. No father bears false witness against their son and gets away with it.
So in this long post you have my prime choice innocents, who I will fight to the end by all legal means to free or maybe (in Christian's case) reduce the charges so these three souls will not be ruined for life by the crook system of our country, who make the poor and the Non-white citizens into fodder for their prisons. God willing, these three people will be forever used to show the system needs fixing. Racism and Classism is alive and well in 2012 and these cases are three proofs that it exists.
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