Deanna's Daydreamer
08-28-2009, 06:44 PM
Click on this link:
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/local_news/epaper/2009/08/28/0828dunbar.html?cxntlid=inform_sr
and listen to the audio report where you can hear
EXACTLY what kind of rape monster exists in this country.
These inner city jackals ought to be castrated, and have hormone therapy, and then spend the rest of thier wretched lives in a Supermax.
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By BRIAN SKOLOFF, Associated Press Writer Brian Skoloff, Associated Press Writer – 12 mins ago
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090828/ap_on_re_us/us_gang_rape_teens_6
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A 20-year-old man convicted Friday in the brutal gang rape attack on a woman and her young son in a South Florida housing project could face up to eight life sentences in prison.
A jury panel deliberated 5 1/2 hours before convicting Tommy Poindexter of rape, kidnapping, assault and burglary. Another jury was still deliberating the fate of Nathan Walker, 18, who faces similar charges. The two were tried together but with separate juries.
A third defendant, Avion Lawson, 16, pleaded guilty and testified against Poindexter and Walker. A fourth defendant, now 17-year-old Jakaris Taylor, is set for trial next month.
The defendants made limited admissions to the attack, but also tried to deflect blame. Lawson claims he raped the woman once, then left soon after. Poindexter's attorney says her client raped the woman, but didn't participate in any other crimes. Walker's attorney hasn't acknowledged any guilt.
Authorities say fingerprints and DNA found on clothing and condoms inside the apartment identified the defendants. They are still seeking additional suspects.
Poindexter showed little emotion as the verdict was read, occasionally bowing his head and resting his chin on his clasped hands. Deputies say he asked to be handcuffed during the reading because he wasn't sure he could control himself.
He looked over his shoulder as he was led out of the courtroom and mouthed, "I love you," to family members in the gallery. They cried and quickly left the courtroom, shouting obscenities as they walked from the building.
His defense attorney declined to comment until after his sentencing on Oct. 13.
Poindexter was convicted on eight of 13 counts. The jury found him not guilty on several counts related to the suspects having forced the mother to perform oral sex on her son.
During the trial, prosecutors told jurors that it didn't matter how many of the crimes each defendant actually participated in — they were all equally responsible for the entire episode since they were present inside the apartment.
However, jurors seemed to have believed the defense's argument that Poindexter was only guilty of the crimes he either committed or was physically present for. He was convicted on all counts related to assaults that took place in the woman's bedroom, but not on charges for attacks that happened in the bathroom, such as forcing the mother and son into oral sex.
Earlier in the week, the female victim described for jurors the terrifying night of June 18, 2007, in her public housing complex apartment a few miles from downtown West Palm Beach.
She recounted how she prayed for her life and cried in pain as she was repeatedly raped and her son beaten by 10 masked, gun-toting teens. Then she testified about being forced to perform oral sex on her son. The victims were then doused with chemicals in an attempt to clean the crime scene.
Throughout the attack, the suspects demanded money, but she had none. The victims had fled even worse poverty in their native Haiti several years earlier, landing in the crime-plagued Dunbar Village housing complex where the attack occurred.
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By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 28, 2009
WEST PALM BEACH — Jurors have found Nathan Walker Jr., guilty of eleven counts of sexual battery, kidnapping, burglary and grand theft auto in the brutal assault of a Dunbar Village woman and her son.
Earlier this afternoon, a separate jury returned guilty verdicts on eight counts of sexual battery, kidnapping and burglary against Tommy Poindexter for the same assault.
Jurors acquitted him on three additional sexual battery counts, one count of impairing by impeding telephone and one count of promoting sexual performance by a child.
Poindexter faces multiple life sentences when he is sentenced Oct. 13.
Poindexter, 20, was standing as the judge read the verdict, then slumped into a chair as his weeping relatives left the courtroom.
The jury announced it had reached a verdict at 3:15 p.m., with lawyers immediately gathering in the courtroom along with a crowd of onlookers and Poindexter's family.
This morning, attorneys completed closing arguments in the case of co-defendant Walker Jr., 17. Jurors are now deliberating that case.
Walker and Poindexter are charged with the same list of crimes stemming from the attack.
The two were tried together, but have separate juries.
"You jurors are probably hearing things you never imagined in your life you would ever have to hear," Assistant State Attorney Aleathea McRoberts said in closing arguments to Walker's jury.
It doesn't matter which defendant committed which crime, she said. Since they were acting together, both are equally guilty.
McRoberts called the crimes "sheer enjoyment at terrorizing two helpless human beings."
Walker's attorney, Robert Gershman, urged jurors to find his client not guilty. He faulted what he said is sloppiness and lack of specificity by a crime scene investigator, and said not stopping criminal acts by others is not the same as committing them.
"Literally standing in that room and watching it occur and not stopping it is not the same as criminal intent to find him guilty," Gershman said.
In closing statements Thursday, prosecutors urged the jury to convict Poindexter.
Assistant State Attorneys Craig Williams and McRoberts asked jurors to follow the legal theory of principals and find that since he was present at the woman's apartment, he is responsible for all the acts of violence against her.
Poindexter had confessed to just one crime, penetrating the woman once.
"Tommy Poindexter," said McRoberts. "Who you know now beyond all reasonable doubt committed the most egregious, unspeakable crime a human being could commit against another human being."
Public Defender Carey Haughwout urged jurors to evaluate each of the charges individually and think what true evidence links Poindexter to each one.
"Mere presence is insufficient to establish participation," she said. That instruction, which Haughwout sought, will be given to jurors before they begin deliberations and could be pivotal in the number of convictions Poindexter receives.
"You get so overwhelmed by the nature of this crime, that anybody who was there, who was connected, is guilty across the board," Haughwout said. "We are trusting you will do what you swore to do."
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/local_news/epaper/2009/08/28/0828dunbar.html?cxntlid=inform_sr
and listen to the audio report where you can hear
EXACTLY what kind of rape monster exists in this country.
These inner city jackals ought to be castrated, and have hormone therapy, and then spend the rest of thier wretched lives in a Supermax.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
By BRIAN SKOLOFF, Associated Press Writer Brian Skoloff, Associated Press Writer – 12 mins ago
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090828/ap_on_re_us/us_gang_rape_teens_6
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A 20-year-old man convicted Friday in the brutal gang rape attack on a woman and her young son in a South Florida housing project could face up to eight life sentences in prison.
A jury panel deliberated 5 1/2 hours before convicting Tommy Poindexter of rape, kidnapping, assault and burglary. Another jury was still deliberating the fate of Nathan Walker, 18, who faces similar charges. The two were tried together but with separate juries.
A third defendant, Avion Lawson, 16, pleaded guilty and testified against Poindexter and Walker. A fourth defendant, now 17-year-old Jakaris Taylor, is set for trial next month.
The defendants made limited admissions to the attack, but also tried to deflect blame. Lawson claims he raped the woman once, then left soon after. Poindexter's attorney says her client raped the woman, but didn't participate in any other crimes. Walker's attorney hasn't acknowledged any guilt.
Authorities say fingerprints and DNA found on clothing and condoms inside the apartment identified the defendants. They are still seeking additional suspects.
Poindexter showed little emotion as the verdict was read, occasionally bowing his head and resting his chin on his clasped hands. Deputies say he asked to be handcuffed during the reading because he wasn't sure he could control himself.
He looked over his shoulder as he was led out of the courtroom and mouthed, "I love you," to family members in the gallery. They cried and quickly left the courtroom, shouting obscenities as they walked from the building.
His defense attorney declined to comment until after his sentencing on Oct. 13.
Poindexter was convicted on eight of 13 counts. The jury found him not guilty on several counts related to the suspects having forced the mother to perform oral sex on her son.
During the trial, prosecutors told jurors that it didn't matter how many of the crimes each defendant actually participated in — they were all equally responsible for the entire episode since they were present inside the apartment.
However, jurors seemed to have believed the defense's argument that Poindexter was only guilty of the crimes he either committed or was physically present for. He was convicted on all counts related to assaults that took place in the woman's bedroom, but not on charges for attacks that happened in the bathroom, such as forcing the mother and son into oral sex.
Earlier in the week, the female victim described for jurors the terrifying night of June 18, 2007, in her public housing complex apartment a few miles from downtown West Palm Beach.
She recounted how she prayed for her life and cried in pain as she was repeatedly raped and her son beaten by 10 masked, gun-toting teens. Then she testified about being forced to perform oral sex on her son. The victims were then doused with chemicals in an attempt to clean the crime scene.
Throughout the attack, the suspects demanded money, but she had none. The victims had fled even worse poverty in their native Haiti several years earlier, landing in the crime-plagued Dunbar Village housing complex where the attack occurred.
------------------------------------------------------------
By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 28, 2009
WEST PALM BEACH — Jurors have found Nathan Walker Jr., guilty of eleven counts of sexual battery, kidnapping, burglary and grand theft auto in the brutal assault of a Dunbar Village woman and her son.
Earlier this afternoon, a separate jury returned guilty verdicts on eight counts of sexual battery, kidnapping and burglary against Tommy Poindexter for the same assault.
Jurors acquitted him on three additional sexual battery counts, one count of impairing by impeding telephone and one count of promoting sexual performance by a child.
Poindexter faces multiple life sentences when he is sentenced Oct. 13.
Poindexter, 20, was standing as the judge read the verdict, then slumped into a chair as his weeping relatives left the courtroom.
The jury announced it had reached a verdict at 3:15 p.m., with lawyers immediately gathering in the courtroom along with a crowd of onlookers and Poindexter's family.
This morning, attorneys completed closing arguments in the case of co-defendant Walker Jr., 17. Jurors are now deliberating that case.
Walker and Poindexter are charged with the same list of crimes stemming from the attack.
The two were tried together, but have separate juries.
"You jurors are probably hearing things you never imagined in your life you would ever have to hear," Assistant State Attorney Aleathea McRoberts said in closing arguments to Walker's jury.
It doesn't matter which defendant committed which crime, she said. Since they were acting together, both are equally guilty.
McRoberts called the crimes "sheer enjoyment at terrorizing two helpless human beings."
Walker's attorney, Robert Gershman, urged jurors to find his client not guilty. He faulted what he said is sloppiness and lack of specificity by a crime scene investigator, and said not stopping criminal acts by others is not the same as committing them.
"Literally standing in that room and watching it occur and not stopping it is not the same as criminal intent to find him guilty," Gershman said.
In closing statements Thursday, prosecutors urged the jury to convict Poindexter.
Assistant State Attorneys Craig Williams and McRoberts asked jurors to follow the legal theory of principals and find that since he was present at the woman's apartment, he is responsible for all the acts of violence against her.
Poindexter had confessed to just one crime, penetrating the woman once.
"Tommy Poindexter," said McRoberts. "Who you know now beyond all reasonable doubt committed the most egregious, unspeakable crime a human being could commit against another human being."
Public Defender Carey Haughwout urged jurors to evaluate each of the charges individually and think what true evidence links Poindexter to each one.
"Mere presence is insufficient to establish participation," she said. That instruction, which Haughwout sought, will be given to jurors before they begin deliberations and could be pivotal in the number of convictions Poindexter receives.
"You get so overwhelmed by the nature of this crime, that anybody who was there, who was connected, is guilty across the board," Haughwout said. "We are trusting you will do what you swore to do."