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Deanna's Daydreamer
07-22-2009, 05:03 PM
Real nice pillar of the community we have here, and now apparently the taxpaying women of Delaware will have to pay for YET ANOTHER TRIAL. Way to go you pricks on the Supreme; anyone wanna bet that every judge on the Supreme is a man? One quick check and I was close! There's ONE woman and FOUR men:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_Supreme_Court

Different day? Same old shit. They always said it's a man's world...well?

If it's a man's world then it's a man's FAULT.
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Supreme Court orders new trial for death row inmate James Cooke
Published: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 7:00 PM CDT
The Delaware Supreme Court has ruled that convicted murderer James Cooke should receive a new trial in the 2005 rape and slaying of University of Delaware student Lindsay Bonistall.

The divided high court ruled that public defenders erred in entering a guilty but mentally ill plea on Cooke's behalf, even though he did want the plea entered.
http://www.newarkpostonline.com/articles/2009/07/22/news/doc4a66559a73160415005817.txt
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Timeline
April 27, 2005 James Cooke Jr. breaks into Cheryl Harmon's apartment at 11 Thorn Lane in Newark, Del., across an alley from his home, and steals two rings with her name on them.


April 30

• 1 a.m.: Cooke confronts Amalia Cuadra in her West Park Place house and threatens to kill her if she doesn't turn over money and credit cards. He demands that she take her clothes off but flees when she yells, "Christina, Christina," her roommate's name.
• 4:19 a.m.: Cooke tries to use one of Cuadra's credit cards at a nearby automated teller machine.


May 1

• 1:15 a.m.: Lindsey Bonistall returns to her apartment at 81 Thorn Lane.
• 2:45 a.m.: Firefighters respond to reports of smoke at Bonistall's apartment and extinguish a fire. They leave to battle another fire a few blocks away.
• 12:30 p.m.: Fire officials and a Newark detective return to Bonistall's apartment and find her body under charred debris in the bathtub. She had been gagged, raped and strangled.


May 2, 2005 Cooke disguises his voice on a 911 call to Newark police in which he claims the killing and the Harmon burglary were the work of a white supremacist drug gang. He uses Harmon's name and the name of Cuadra's roommate, which had not been made public, helping police link the three crimes.


Late May Cooke's bosses at a shoe store tell police they recognize Cooke in a poster showing a surveillance photo from the ATM.


June 6 Cooke is arrested in Wilmington, Del., on charges in the second break-in. He is charged that week in Bonistall's killing when results of DNA testing, with odds of 1 in 676 quintillion that it was someone else, link him to the rape.


Jan. 23, 2007 Cooke's trial begins.


March 8 Cooke is convicted of first-degree murder after the jury rejects his lawyers' contention that he was guilty but mentally ill.


March 21 The jury recommends the death penalty for Cooke.


Yesterday Superior Court Justice Jerome Herlihy finds that the aggravating factors outweigh the mitigation and sentences Cooke to death by lethal injection.
http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070607/NEWS02/706070385
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In Memoriam
Lindsey Marie Bonistall


May 5, 2005--Lindsey Marie Bonistall, 20, a UD sophomore from White Plains, N.Y., was murdered May 1.

At UD, Ms. Bonistall was an English/journalism major, and she had published several articles in The Review, the student newspaper.

UD President David P. Roselle said, “The entire University of Delaware community is shocked and saddened by this terrible tragedy. We extend our deepest sympathies to the members of the Bonistall Family as well as to her family of friends here on the University campus.”

According to an obituary released by the family, Ms. Bonistall attended St. Anthony Elementary School in West Harrison and graduated as a Presidential Award recipient from Good Counsel Academy.

A talented gymnast, she was a member of the nationally ranked Good Council Cheerleading and Empire State All Star Cheerleading Teams. She was awarded the Westchester County Cheerleadership Scholarship and coached cheerleading on a local and national level for the Universal Cheerleading Association. Ms. Bonistall also was the captain of her high school soccer and track team, an active volunteer and a leader on the Mayor’s Youth Council in White Plains.

The obituary reads, in part, “With her bright smile and mischievous manner, it was clear early on she would embrace life with incredible humor and affection.... It is said we measure the significance of our lives by valuing the lives of others. Lindsey exemplified this by consistently seeing the best in those she touched and living her life honoring the family mantra of ‘love one another.’ Life without her warm smile, comical ways and heartfelt hugs will be a challenge. Yet we know in our hearts she will be with us through our own journeys every step of the way.”

She is survived by her parents, Mark and Kathleen Bonistall; an older sister, Kristen; her grandmothers and many aunts, uncles and cousins.

Visitations will be held from 5-9 p.m., Thursday, May 5, and from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m., Friday, May 6, at McMahon, Lyon & Hartnett Funderal Home, 491 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains, N.Y. The Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m., Saturday, May 7, at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church, 85 Harrison St., Harrison, N.Y.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to: Victims Assistance Services, Elmsford, N.Y., telephone (914)345-3113.

Condolence notes may be sent in care of McMahon, Lyon & Hartnett Funeral Home, 491 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains, NY 10605.

photo of victim:
http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2005/mar/LindseyBonistall.jpg
photo of perpetrator:
http://media.amw.com/multimedia/fileRepository/db/458/326/Cooke_Jam_prim-cap-lg.jpg

Cops working Lindsey Bonistall's murder case wanted nothing more than to catch her killer and put him behind bars. After all, his crime was vicious -- they say he raped and strangled the 20-year-old, then set her apartment on fire to destroy the evidence. Luckily, the killer's firey plan failed -- investigators were left with enough evidence to carry out a solid investigation. At Lindsay's home, the killer left cryptic writing on the wall. However, cops have yet to disclose the message.

On June 7, 2005, cops hauled in James E. Cooke on home invasion charges. The incident occured on April 30, 2005 and crime cops believed the invasion was linked to Lindsey's murder. Sure enough, one week later, cops say they had "physical evidence" proving he was also responsible for Lindsey's grisly murder.


"Physical Evidence" Links Cooke To Murder
Ever since Lindsey was found murdered in her apartment off-campus at the University of Delaware on May 1, 2005, cops were investigating a possible connection between her murder and a home invasion that had occured the night before the murder. The victim of the home invasion attack was lucky enough to survive -- only her ATM card was stolen. Soon after the attack, ATM surveillance cameras captured video of the attacker trying to withdraw money using the card. Cops posted flyers around town hoping someone would recognize his face and turn him in. They hoped the man in the ATM surveillance could answer for the home invasion as well as provide investigators with answers in Lindsey's case.

On May 31, 2005, Newark, Del. cops received a tip from one of Cooke's aquaintances, who told them they'd seen his picture on a wanted poster. Cops followed up on the tip and spoke with Cooke's girlfriend. Cops say she confirmed his involvment in the April 30 home invasion when she told them she had seen Cooke in posession of some stolen items from the attack.

Once they had Cooke on burglary charges, it was only a matter of time before they could link him to Lindsey's murder. According to cops, "physical evidence" left at Lindsey's crime scene matched evidence they were able to get from Cooke, confirming his responsibility for the heinous crime.
http://www.amw.com/fugitives/capture.cfm?id=31698&refresh=1

Deanna's Daydreamer
07-22-2009, 05:24 PM
302-577-8425

Delaware Supreme Court, may I help you?

Yes, hi.... this is Mark Thomas of Germantown, Tennessee.

Yes, hi.

I'd like to leave a message for a few judges who are on this court. May I do that?

Yes, you can. I can do that for you.

Good. I read that Myron Steele, Randy Holland, Jack Jacobs, and Henry Ridgely are the four men on this court. Is that still true?

Yes it is.

I'd like to leave a message for all four of them.

I can do that for you, Mister Thomas.

Excellent. Here it is. I'd like to say that the overturning of James Cooke's death sentence is a travesty beyond compare for the taxpaying women of Delaware, and I want ask a question of each of these men. If their OWN daughter.... had died like Lindsey Bonistall died, would any of you have overturned her killer's death sentence for such mundane reasons as cited? I want you to tell these four men that I honestly do not know how they can look themselves in the mirror every morning and shave.

gasp.

I want you to tell them that as far as I am concerned, this case has been set back five years by the despicable actions of the Delaware Supreme Court. And I have one final comment. Please tell them that I hope their dreams are haunted by the murder of this girl, and that they wake up at night because of it. Can you tell them that?

Yesssss. I think I have all this down.

Good. Thank you.

Deanna's Daydreamer
07-22-2009, 05:32 PM
:45 p.m., May 10, 2006--About 150 people stood under the trees in The Grove on a beautiful spring day to remember Lindsey Bonistall, the 20-year-old English/journalism student whose life ended tragically May 1, 2005, when she was murdered in her off-campus apartment.

“We have gathered today to celebrate Lindsey Bonistall's life and to honor her memory on the first anniversary of her death,” UD President David P. Roselle said as he opened the memorial service.

Several feet away from The Grove, a wooded area south of Alison Hall West, stood a tall pink dogwood sapling, filled with new blossoms, that was planted in Ms. Bonistall's honor. Beside it, a plaque read, “Lindsey Marie Bonistall, March 20, 1985-May 1, 2005. May she be remembered with peace and love.”

“It is important that we remember Lindsey for her hard work, her affectionate nature and her desire to bring peace to the lives of others,” Roselle said. “To that end, we have planted a beautiful pink dogwood tree here in The Grove. It is along a walkway between Memorial Hall--home of the Department of English--and the Perkins Student Center--home of the student newspaper The Review--and it is a path that Lindsey would have often walked. The dogwood will bloom every year on May Day so that as we welcome the spring, we will welcome Lindsey's spirit into our hearts.”

He called her a “vibrant young woman whose enthusiasm and passion for life touched many members of the University of Delaware community.” Roselle said the tragic nature of her death should not be allowed to overwhelm the beauty of the way she lived her life.

Monsignor Michael Szupper, director of the Saint Thomas More Oratory and Catholic Campus Ministry, led the gathering in a prayer, recalling Bonistall's vibrant spirit. “She tried to catch the world with an embrace and grateful heart,” he said. He asked for a blessing on the tree planted in her honor that will share the fruits of spring with everyone just as Bonistall “shared her song with the music of friends.”

Bonistall's friends Christine Bush, Nicole Gengaro and Jonathan Little, seniors at UD, recalled her humor, her joy for life and her wisdom.

“The laughter was never ending. I thought I'd spend my life talking and laughing with you. When you left for good, I didn't know how life would go on. I feel privileged to know that you considered me your best friend and platonic life partner,” Bush said.

Gengaro remembered how she and Bonistall helped each other through the transition from high school to college.

“This past year has been hard,” she said. “There have been so many times I've stopped in the middle of a moment knowing how you'd enjoy it with me.”

Bonistall's boyfriend Jonathan Little, a senior read from the lyrics to John Lennon's song, “Bless You.”

Bless you wherever you are
Windswept child on a shooting star
Restless spirits depart
Still we're deep in each other's hearts
And remember though love is strange
Now and forever our love will remain

He said Lindsey was a beautiful woman with a unique personality filled with wisdom and love.

Bonistall's friend, John Visconi, a senior political science major, played the medley “Somewhere Over the Rainbow/Beautiful World” on his guitar.

Ben Yagoda, professor of English and Bonistall's teacher, said “9/11 and Lindsey's death changed my classes forever.” He said that he and his students began to talk about how to cover something so terrible both on a global and personal level. He thanked Bonistall's family and friends for creating PEACE OUTside Campus, a foundation dedicated to promoting safe living environments in off-campus student communities.

Yagoda also introduced the recipient of the Lindsey Marie Bonistall Memorial Scholarship, Emily Picillo from Middleton, Mass., a senior English/journalism major and city editor for The Review. The scholarship was created by UD to be awarded annually to an outstanding senior student of journalism.

Bonistall's father, Mark, thanked everyone who attended the service including Roselle, Newark Mayor Vance Funk, Cynthia Cummings, UD associate vice president for campus life, and Robert Davis, vice president for university development and alumni relations.

Roselle ended the ceremony by telling the Bonistalls, “We join you in your sorrow, but we look forward to the future.”

Article by Barbara Garrison

http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2006/may/bonistall051006.html

Georgia
07-23-2009, 12:05 AM
The crime that was commited was a horrible senseless act against an innocent woman. I am so very sorry for all the families that are involved and the fact that they will now have to go through the unfathomable situation of another trial. James Cooke was found guilty of these crimes by evidence and witnesses and his guilt will be proved again in this second trial as well.

However, I sincerely hope that you are never wrongly accused of a crime and your only chance is a retrial due to an error that was made by your public defender.

The judicial system works because it is the same for everyone. As horrifc as this crime is, it takes a strong man or woman (if Carolyn Berger was involved) to accept that a wrong has been made against the system and it needs to be righted. Especially in this situation it is not a popular choice to be made but it is the only choice that could be made once these justices take their oaths of office.

I can appreciate your convictions of standing up for women who have been wronged. However, I believe that by doing so in this situation you are doing a disservice to the judicial system as a whole.

For, if you were to receive that what you are asking for -unequal rights among the judicial system- you would actually be cheapening the system for the entire state.


(I'm certain you were not the only person to call and voice your opinion to this situation. I am almost certain you were the only person from Germantown, TN to do so and I'll be interested to ask Chief Justice Steele about it the next time I see him.)

Deanna's Daydreamer
07-24-2009, 12:14 AM
Well thank you for responding,

ahhhhhh....

Georgia.

I can appreciate that you are really popular around here? I can also appreciate that you might feel I have done a 'disservice' to the judicial system. But let me

ASK YOU THIS:

Do you understand crime in America? Have you read 2 THOUSAND capital cases? Do you know the rape statistics, the molestation stats, the murder rates by culture, the carjacking statistics, the home invasion stats? Do you understand the entire macro situational CRAPOLA.... of crime... in AMERICA?

James Cooke was convincted by a jury of his peers (all of whom apparently wasted their F* TIME, if you bothered to read what this group of bozos on the Supreme did)

and they saw

ALL the evidence

of this crime.

There is NO DOUBT whatso-fucking-EVER... that James Cooke rape murdered this innocent girl

whom he did NOT.... even... KNOW.

And YOU, Georgia....... can rest assured that I will KEEP ON DOING... what I am doing.

Thank you for your input? But I've been doing this for about 20 plus years, and I pretty much already know what I am doing. And if you really DO know Myron Steele? Tell him I said that I hope he is haunted by dreams of what happened to this girl, and that I hope he wakes up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat.... after seeing in living colour what ACTUALLY happened to her. I hope he wakes up night after night-- truly SEEING

what lies beneath

everything in this case... right down to what James Cooke wrote on the walls.

Tell him that the prosecutor in the case is going to take James Cooke right back to trial, and right back to a death sentence, and that the ONLY THING that these PRICKS on this court did?

Was to set this case back five years.

All they did was torment the family of this innocent victim. That is what they accomplished. Must be nice.... to look yourself in the mirror as a man.... and know that you helped an intrusion rape murderer (forcible vaginal rape, and forcible anal rape, since you were interested in the case) to escape the justice that 12 citizens felt he deserved.

What a COOL GUY you are Myron Steele.

http://judgepedia.org/images/0/05/Delawarecourt2004.jpg

A justice who lets a 20 year old girl's blood... run off his hands with a legal opinion;

ya traded in your conscience.......... when ya passed the bar.

Georgia
07-24-2009, 10:17 AM
ASK YOU THIS:

Do you understand crime in America? Have you read 2 THOUSAND capital cases? Do you know the rape statistics, the molestation stats, the murder rates by culture, the carjacking statistics, the home invasion stats? Do you understand the entire macro situational CRAPOLA.... of crime... in AMERICA?

I do live in the same country you do- so yeah, I think I understand crime in America.


James Cooke was convincted by a jury of his peers (all of whom apparently wasted their F* TIME, if you bothered to read what this group of bozos on the Supreme did)

and they saw

ALL the evidence

of this crime.

There is NO DOUBT whatso-fucking-EVER... that James Cooke rape murdered this innocent girl

whom he did NOT.... even... KNOW.?

Like knowing her would have made it any better a situation?


There was never any doubt as to the conviction, it was an error of the state appointed attorney for Cooke that is causing the need for a retrial.





And if you really DO know Myron Steele?

Yeah, I really DO know Myron Steele. My husband was his law clerk. You got a problem with that?

spinetingler
07-24-2009, 03:59 PM
Yeah, I really DO know Myron Steele. My husband was his law clerk. You got a problem with that?

Smack. Down.

Paula's Pedophile Poet
07-24-2009, 04:02 PM
A talented gymnast, she was a member of the nationally ranked Good Council Cheerleading and Empire State All Star Cheerleading Teams. She was awarded the Westchester County Cheerleadership Scholarship and coached cheerleading on a local and national level for the Universal Cheerleading Association. Ms. Bonistall also was the captain of her high school soccer and track team, an active volunteer and a leader on the Mayor’s Youth Council in White Plains.


I approve of this outrage over the killing of a pretty white cheerleader/athlete.

bgrassgal
07-24-2009, 08:32 PM
I approve of this outrage over the killing of a pretty white cheerleader/athlete.

Is there anything of DD's you DON'T approve of?



Sheesh...

Deanna's Daydreamer
07-24-2009, 11:49 PM
If your husband knows him....

as you say that he DOES?

Then call Myron Steele and tell him that I said he is a gutless COWARD.

There is NO FREAKING WAY

that any man can have his daughter die in the manner that this girl really DID die....

and vote to overturn the justice system's verdict in this case. But since it was NOT Myron Steele's DAUGHTER that died? IMAGINE THAT. He, along with some OTHER PRICKS on that court of FOOLS.... have now set this case back five years or more!

No freaking WAY! There is NO WAY.... that any father of a DAUGHTER... having looked at this case..... would have overturned this VERDICT, and keep in mind that the good citizens of Delaware actually showed up to do their DUTY.... as citizens.... and they watched this trial.

That jury in Delaware told....

THEY TOLD....

the GOD DAMN STATE of DELAWARE..... what they thought of James Cooke, Georgia!

Tell Myron Steele........ that I will be writing him a letter to express my complete and total exasperation with this case. There is NO DOUBT that James Cooke did an intrusion rape murder in this case;-- for crying out loud they have a PHOTO of him.... using HER

ATM card!

How much more did you NEED, Myron? What would it have taken, Myron Steele? Did you need VIDEOTAPE of James Cooke sodomizing a 20 year old girl? And then murdering her? Then burning her apartment down around her? YOU FUCKING PRICK JUDGE; how do you live with yourself? How do you look yourself in the mirror and shave?

How any male judge can live with the ghost of dead girls in his wake.... I will never know.

You call that pathetic man up on the phone if you know him.... and you TELL HIM....... the victims rights movement is GAINING STRENGTH....... in America.

And that he can certainly expect to hear from us.

And please tell him... that as far as I am concerned? A freaking STRIPPER.... at a Knoxville strip club... who is trying to make enough money to buy diapers for her daughter.... has more integrity and more honesty than ANY freaking judge like him in Delaware!

Paula's Pedophile Poet
08-01-2009, 10:52 AM
sodomizing a 20 year old girl...a freaking stripper

iaotp.

GA's Love Slave
08-03-2009, 09:25 AM
Dude, try actually reading the opinion from the court (in particular, note how the Justices voted). Most of what you have spewn here has no basis in reality or fact.

DnB
08-03-2009, 03:08 PM
Dude, try actually reading the opinion from the court (in particular, note how the Justices voted). Most of what you have spewn here has no basis in reality or fact.

~R, you're talking to a wall.

PrinceWince
08-03-2009, 08:05 PM
Rape Monster was the worst muppet.

bgrassgal
08-03-2009, 10:50 PM
~R, you're talking to a wall.

Yep. Classic post and run. In his case, it's not a bad thing. He rarely actually responds directly to a post. He just keeps up his ramblings. (except in this thread)

trancendyce
08-04-2009, 01:48 AM
he is probably enjoying all this attention. especially since he has been so alone over here until lately.

DnB
08-04-2009, 07:28 AM
Yep. Classic post and run. In his case, it's not a bad thing. He rarely actually responds directly to a post. He just keeps up his ramblings. (except in this thread)

Oh, I know. I've been sparring with JJJ/SS/DD for over 10 years now. Geez, he must be really really old by now. Heh. :rolleyes:

trancendyce
08-04-2009, 09:30 AM
you know what seems really weird to me? this whole section is specifically stated to be for talking/posting about "knox" politics, yet no one ever uses it for this. sometimes the blab is just so odd.

bgrassgal
08-04-2009, 02:36 PM
you know what seems really weird to me? this whole section is specifically stated to be for talking/posting about "knox" politics, yet no one ever uses it for this. sometimes the blab is just so odd.

That's because douchebags keep it full with crap threads ;)

Raincrow
08-04-2009, 03:58 PM
That's because douchebags keep it full with crap threads ;)

http://www.harpercollins.com/harperimages/isbn/large/2/9780007271702.jpg

trancendyce
08-04-2009, 11:45 PM
That's because douchebags keep it full with crap threads ;)

no, not really. it wasn’t always like this over here. it used to be virtually empty. then we had the secret garden for a little while, till it became not so secret anymore, which always happens (too many tourist show up and ruin paradise/the fun). then it was empty again for a while. later, most ddd posts started showing up over here (though apparently not by his own design because at first he complained about it) so eventually it became his. back when it was empty and especially when it was the garden i used to spend a lot of time over here. in spite of how it is described in the header title, it wasn’t used for knox politics even when there was nothing else here.

Deanna's Daydreamer
08-05-2009, 02:35 AM
I wouldn't expect you to understand, madame.....

and even though I haunt these hallways I don't own them.

But as far as your critique goes?

Hell ya lose a few good soldiers in any war.

Your lack of ability to understand and comprehend the full mass of the victims rights movement does not translate into me being somehow

the only fool in a garden you once liked.

trancendyce
08-05-2009, 05:29 AM
if you are addressing me, you are mistaken. there was no critique from me toward you or anyone else for that matter.

http://www.katelsen.com/img/flowers%20for%20the%20dead.jpg