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Religions > Atheism |
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"Jason Spaceman" |
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01 Nov 2006 06:43:33 PM |
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The Hovind Trial: Prosecutors rest case against Hovind |
From the article:
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Nicole Lozare
The prosecution has rested its case in the trial of Pensacola evangelist and
tax protestor Kent Hovind and his wife, Jo.
The defense will not present a case.
Kent Hovind is charged with 58 federal counts, including failure to pay
$473,818 in employee-related taxes. Jo Hovind and her husband also are
charged with 44 counts of evading bank-reporting requirements.
IRS agent Scott Schneider led the four-year IRS investigation of Kent
Hovind, a creationist who owns Dinosaur Adventure Land on North Palafox
Street and is founder of Creation Science Ministries.
This morning, Schneider wrapped up 2 1/2 days of testimony, answering
questions from the defense about his experience in Iraq as an Army
interrogator.
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Read it at
http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061101/NEWS01/61101006
or http://tinyurl.com/yaq47w
I'm confused. A few days ago the Pensacola News Journal said that the case
could go to the jury by Thursday. Yesterday they said that the defense
subpoenaed 10 witnesses, thus creating the impression that the trial would
last beyond Thursday. Now they are saying that the defense will not
present a case. What's going on?
J. Spaceman
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| User: "bullpup" |
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| Title: Re: The Hovind Trial: Prosecutors rest case against Hovind |
01 Nov 2006 07:20:55 PM |
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"Jason Spaceman" <notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org> wrote in message
news:eibevk$nh0$1@news.datemas.de...
From the article:
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Nicole Lozare
The prosecution has rested its case in the trial of Pensacola evangelist
and
tax protestor Kent Hovind and his wife, Jo.
The defense will not present a case.
Kent Hovind is charged with 58 federal counts, including failure to pay
$473,818 in employee-related taxes. Jo Hovind and her husband also are
charged with 44 counts of evading bank-reporting requirements.
IRS agent Scott Schneider led the four-year IRS investigation of Kent
Hovind, a creationist who owns Dinosaur Adventure Land on North Palafox
Street and is founder of Creation Science Ministries.
This morning, Schneider wrapped up 2 1/2 days of testimony, answering
questions from the defense about his experience in Iraq as an Army
interrogator.
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Read it at
http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061101/NEWS01/61101006
or http://tinyurl.com/yaq47w
I'm confused. A few days ago the Pensacola News Journal said that the
case
could go to the jury by Thursday. Yesterday they said that the defense
subpoenaed 10 witnesses, thus creating the impression that the trial would
last beyond Thursday. Now they are saying that the defense will not
present a case. What's going on?
I think he's getting ready to go for a plea bargan agreement or he's setting
up to try to get a re-trial by claiming his defense was incompetant
However it ends, I predict Hovind will proclaim victory, even if he gets ten
years in the federal pen.
Boikat
--
"I reject your reality, and substitute my own"
-Adam Savage, Mythbusters-
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: The Hovind Trial: Prosecutors rest case against Hovind |
01 Nov 2006 06:54:09 PM |
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Jason Spaceman wrote:
From the article:
-------------------------------------------------------------
Nicole Lozare
The prosecution has rested its case in the trial of Pensacola evangelist and
tax protestor Kent Hovind and his wife, Jo.
The defense will not present a case.
Kent Hovind is charged with 58 federal counts, including failure to pay
$473,818 in employee-related taxes. Jo Hovind and her husband also are
charged with 44 counts of evading bank-reporting requirements.
IRS agent Scott Schneider led the four-year IRS investigation of Kent
Hovind, a creationist who owns Dinosaur Adventure Land on North Palafox
Street and is founder of Creation Science Ministries.
This morning, Schneider wrapped up 2 1/2 days of testimony, answering
questions from the defense about his experience in Iraq as an Army
interrogator.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Read it at
http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061101/NEWS01/61101006
or http://tinyurl.com/yaq47w
I'm confused. A few days ago the Pensacola News Journal said that the case
could go to the jury by Thursday. Yesterday they said that the defense
subpoenaed 10 witnesses, thus creating the impression that the trial would
last beyond Thursday. Now they are saying that the defense will not
present a case. What's going on?
They don't want to give the prosecutor a chance to call rebuttal
witnesses?
I imagine the defense attorney thinks that if he talks up how religious
Hovind is, the jury will decline to convict him.
Actually, most likely Hovind has told his attorney that he'll have to
ask god for his fee, since Hovind has no money. Consequently, the
attorney is winding up the trial as quickly as possible without getting
himself in trouble with the Bar.
J. Spaceman
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| User: "Desertphile" |
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| Title: Re: The Hovind Trial: Prosecutors rest case against Hovind |
02 Nov 2006 09:05:16 AM |
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Jason Spaceman wrote:
From the article:
-------------------------------------------------------------
Nicole Lozare
The prosecution has rested its case in the trial of Pensacola evangelist and
tax protestor Kent Hovind and his wife, Jo.
The defense will not present a case.
Kent Hovind is charged with 58 federal counts, including failure to pay
$473,818 in employee-related taxes. Jo Hovind and her husband also are
charged with 44 counts of evading bank-reporting requirements.
IRS agent Scott Schneider led the four-year IRS investigation of Kent
Hovind, a creationist who owns Dinosaur Adventure Land on North Palafox
Street and is founder of Creation Science Ministries.
This morning, Schneider wrapped up 2 1/2 days of testimony, answering
questions from the defense about his experience in Iraq as an Army
interrogator.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Read it at
http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061101/NEWS01/61101006
or http://tinyurl.com/yaq47w
I'm confused. A few days ago the Pensacola News Journal said that the case
could go to the jury by Thursday. Yesterday they said that the defense
subpoenaed 10 witnesses, thus creating the impression that the trial would
last beyond Thursday. Now they are saying that the defense will not
present a case. What's going on?
What Rev Hovind told reporters and what his lawyer told reporters may
be two vastly different things. I can easily see Rev Hovind bragging he
has ten defense witnesses: his lawyer would never call even one defense
witness--- it would be so detremental to the defense that it would
border on malpractice. There's not a chance in Hell that any witness
will testify in defense of Hovind: his lawyer would never allow it.
The defense appears to be:
1) Cults are not required to pay certain taxes, such as income tax
witholding from employee pay
2) His cult's employees were not really employees, but "religious
workers"
3) "Religious workers" are exempt from some forms of taxation
4) His cult's property and income belong to one or more of the
Christian gods, and not the Hovinds
5) The Hovinds are pennyless
6) The Hovinds did not know they were evading bank reporting laws when
they were withdrawing $10 and $20 bills from their gods' bank accounts
There are no witnesses Hovind can produce to testify in support of the
defense, since trhe defense is absurd and false. It is no less absurd
than having a witness insist robbing banks is legal.
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