This is a little funny:
http://www.twismor.com/april07/lynn.htm
The review of "The Reaping" is funny too (from an atheist's point of
view):
http://www.twismor.com/april07/reaping.htm
On 25 mar, 03:24, johac <jhachm...@remove.sbcglobal.net> wrote:
In article <03eb035melmuifoolh087n2jq5t9oc6...@4ax.com>,
stoney <sto...@the.net> wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17772814/?GT1=9145
Ga. jury convicts woman in antifreeze death
Former 911 operator faces death penalty in boyfriend's killing
Updated: 6:27 p.m. ET March 24, 2007
DALTON, Ga. - {AP} A former 911 operator was convicted Saturday of
murdering her boyfriend by poisoning him with antifreeze.
LynnTurnercould face a death sentence in the 2001 killing of Randy
Thompson, a Forsyth County firefighter and the father of her two
children. The same jury that convictedTurnerwill return to court at 9
a.m. Monday to decide whether to impose that sentence.
She is already serving a life sentence for the 1995 death of her
husband, GlennTurner, a Cobb County police officer. The murder charge
in Thompson's death was filed after that 2004 conviction
The trial went to the jury Saturday morning following closing arguments
on Friday.
After the verdict was announced, members of both Thompson's andTurner's
family wept.Turnerdid not look back as she was led out of the
courtroom.
Attorney said he had a tough job
Defense attorney Jimmy Berry indicated the verdict was not unexpected.
"You know when you've got one conviction already it's really tough to
convince a jury she had nothing to do with the second (death)," he said.
Of the jury's sentencing deliberations, he said: "I hope we've got some
people on there who will give us a little benefit of the doubt."
District Attorney Penny Penn declined to comment after the verdict.
Turner, who had maintained her innocence in both cases, did not testify
in either trial.
In closing arguments Friday, Penn said the motive in both cases was
Turner's greed for the victims' life insurance money.
What a sweetie!
Defense claims character assassination
Lawyers forTurner, 38, rested their case earlier Friday after a defense
toxicologist testified that while one of the victims showed signs of
antifreeze poisoning the other did not, casting doubt on the prosecution
theory that the deaths were similar.
Defense lawyers have argued there's no direct evidence proving murder.
Police didn't launch a criminal investigation of the deaths until a few
months after Thompson died.
Prosecutors said tests on their bodies showed they were poisoned with
ethylene glycol, a sweet but odorless chemical in antifreeze. During
Turner's 2004 trial they suggested it could have been placed in foods
such as Jell-O.
Beware of women offering Jello.
Penn said during her closing argument Friday that even though no one saw
her do it,Turnerwas the last person with both men before they became
ill and was the last person to give them anything to eat or drink.
Defense lawyer Vic Reynolds said the prosecution's evidence adds up to
character assassination, not murder. "They can predict. They can assume,
but that isn't the law," Reynolds said.
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