Date:
Ohio police charged a convicted sexual predator with 5 counts of aggravated murder hours after four more bodies were taken from the man's backyard and a skull was removed from his basement.
Anthony Sowell, 50, also was charged Tuesday with rape, felonious assault and kidnapping, Cleveland police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho said.
The gruesome new discovery comes after 6 bodies were found last week in the Sowell's house, bringing the total number discovered there to 10. Authorities do not know whether the skull belongs to an eleventh victim.
Sowell will be arraigned Wednesday.
Cadaver dogs unsuccessfully searched Sowell's backyard throughout the day, but found the remains while using a backhoe to dig up portions of the yard, Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath said Tuesday night.
"It appears that this man had an insatiable appetite that he had to fill," McGrath said.
He couldn't say specifically where in the backyard the bodies were discovered or if any of them were decapitated, but said the skull was found wrapped in a paper bag in a bucket in Sowell's basement.
The police chief said he hopes the coroner’s office will be able to identify the gender of the victims by Wednesday morning.
Police will be working throughout the night, McGrath said, adding that they will be searching walls and ceilings of the house on Wednesday.
"We will do everything to confirm there is nothing else there," he said.
The county's sheriff's office routinely checked on Sowell because he was a registered sexual predator. The most recent visit was Sept. 22, according to McGrath.
Sowell is reportedly not fully cooperating with police and has asked for a lawyer.
Sowell did, however, give authorities information that led them back to his house, a high-ranking authority on the scene told Fox 8 in Cleveland.
FoxNews.com's Michelle Maskaly and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
BLACK ON BLACK CRIME DESTROYING SAFE NEIGHBORHOODS!!!
BLACK JURY NULLIFICATION IS IT SAFE TO KEEP ALLOWING THIS TO EFFECT LOCAL COURTS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD???
The jury system was established because it was felt that a panel of informed citizens, drawn at random from the community, and serving for too short a time to be corrupted, would be more likely to render a just verdict by judging both evidence and the law. Jury nullification is the process whereby a jury in a criminal case nullifies a law by acquitting a defendant regardless of the weight of evidence against him or her." Widely, it is any rendering of a verdict by a trial jury which acquits a criminal defendant despite that defendant's violation of the letter of the law—that is, of an official rule, and especially a legislative enactment. Strictly speaking, a jury verdict which rules contrary to the letter of the law pertains only to the particular case before it is guilty of Jury nullification. Today a Jury who responds to public opinion rather than law are getting more and more frequent. Sadly their decisions in fact have the effect of writing legislation.
History & Development in the USA: Jury nullification appeared in the pre-Civil War era when juries sometimes refused to convict for violations of the Fugitive Slave Act. During the 20th century, especially in the Civil Rights Movement, several all-white juries acquitted white defendants accused of murdering blacks. In the 21st century, many discussions of jury nullification center around drug laws that some consider unjust either in principle or because they are seen to discriminate against certain groups.
Problem: legal scholars claim jury nullification effects 3–4% of all jury trials who get caught up in following current public opinions or being P.C. result in the recent rise in hung juries. The only people profiting are lawyers as the effect on local neighborhoods is devastating. This evidences juries have begun to consider cases based on their own views about the validity or fairness of the laws themselves that are being judged.
Worst Case Example: The O. J. Simpson murder case has been described as the most publicized criminal trial in American history, in which O. J. Simpson, former NFL American football star and actor, was brought to trial for the 1994 murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. Simpson was acquitted in 1995 after a lengthy trial—the longest jury trial in California history. Why was Simpson able to skirt justice? A: Simpson hired a high-profile defense team led by Johnnie Cochran and F. Lee Bailey. Los Angeles County believed it had a solid prosecution case, but Cochran was able to persuade the jurors that there was reasonable doubt about the DNA evidence (then a relatively new type of evidence in trials) - including that the blood-sample evidence had allegedly been mishandled by lab scientists and technicians - and about the circumstances surrounding other exhibits. Cochran and the defense team also alleged other misconduct by the Los Angeles Police Department. Simpson's celebrity and the lengthy televised trial riveted national attention on the so-called "Trial of the Century". By the end of the criminal trial, national surveys showed dramatic differences between most blacks and most whites in terms of their assessment of Simpson's guilt.
Police officers came under attack while they tried to help a dying man at the G20 protests in London's financial district Wednesday night.
The victim was found by a member of the public unconscious in the street near the Bank of England just before 7:30 p.m.
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said officers arrived on the scene to help and had to move the casualty away for urgent treatment after bottles were thrown at them by protesters.
The man was eventually pronounced dead at the hospital. According to one protester at the scene he was in his 30s. Ninety people were arrested during a first day of protests marking the summit.
The Met Police spokesman said: “A member of the public went to a police officer on a cordon in Birchin Lane, junction with Cornhill to say that there was a man who had collapsed round the corner.
WATCH COP LAND A NON PC FILM DEALING WITH THESE ISSUES
No comments:
Post a Comment