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I I am a former English teacher who taught in Yonkers, NY for 33 very successful years, but I was born and bred in "da Bronx." I have also taught two college Ed courses, aInd I have lectured at Teachers College, Columbia University. I am now writing the story of Sid Rudich who was marked for a mob hit in October 1987. We're calling this staggering memoir THE LAS VEGAS SQUEEZE. This October, 2010, my wife and I had the honor (and I mean that) of dining with Mr and Mrs Griffin. It is not a frequent occurrence that there is an immediate "simpatico" when two couples meet for the first time. In the case of the four of us breaking bread at the Franklin Hotel in Rome, NY, we all hit it off like old friends. Perhaps, I now have a mentor. THE BEST in this field: Denny Griffin!A M D GMannyPost a CommentOops!The words you entered did not match the given text. Please try again. 11 Comments
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time? To let the punishment fit the crime
Sir william gilbert
I had thought and posted on CRIME WIRE that the Pleasantville, NY shooting of Danroy Henry, Jr might be the scoop of 2010-2011! It is being covered from L A to
N Y. Here is an excerpt from THE BOSTON HERALD: Stories differ in fatal shooting By Laura Crimaldi and Christine McConville Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - Updated 2 weeks ago E-mail Print (698) Comments Text size Share Buzz up! Two drastically different stories of the chain of events that led to the death of a Pace University student from Easton emerged yesterday as his childhood friend recounted how his buddy was handcuffed and left on the ground after being shot by cops. Danroy Henry Jr., 20, died of gunshot wounds after being shot by a Pleasantville, N.Y., police officer outside Finnegan?s Grill in Thornwood, N.Y., Sunday at about 1:19 a.m., cops said. ?To handcuff D.J. after he?s been shot and to lay him on the ground face down bleeding and to be left there like some wild, wounded animal . . . that just shouldn?t happen,? said Thomas Parks, whose stepson, Brandon Cox, 20, survived the police shooting with a wound to his left arm. A third man in the vehicle also survived. ?D.J.?s last words to Brandon were, ?They shot me. They shot me. They shot me.? I mean, this is America. You don?t expect that,? said Parks, speaking outside his Easton home with Cox and his wife, Donna, by his side. Cox, a junior at Stonehill College, said Henry repeatedly shouted he was shot as officers pulled him out of the car.
Welcome to our newest member, my editor, Arleen Conner !
This is the next national BLOW UP -- AOL carried the controversy today -
PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. -- On his back, Danroy Henry Jr. had a tattoo of angel wings. He spent the last hour of his life dancing and socializing in a restaurant filled with sports paraphernalia and Halloween decorations like wispy ghosts and plastic skulls. Henry, a cornerback for Pace University's football team, was known as "D.J.'' He would have celebrated his 21st birthday Friday preparing for Saturday's Division II home game against New Haven. Instead, Henry's teammates, friends and family will gather in Boston for a memorial service because Henry died on Oct. 17 behind the wheel of his car with three police bullets in his body. It happened hours after a homecoming game against Stonehill in suburban Westchester County north of New York City. His death -- and many of the disputed details surrounding it -- opened what his coach has called a raw wound. Issues raised by the case include alcohol use, racial bias and appropriate response of law enforcement in a tense and chaotic scene. Michael Sussman,* a civil rights lawyer representing the Henry family, alluded this week to other shootings of black men by white police officers around the New York area in recent years. Earlier this month, a Harlem man was shot and killed by a Pelham Manor police officer. ______ Michael Sussman is a feared attorney - The Yonkers Federation of Teachers (of which I was a member in good standing for 33 years) dealt with him many years ago. I may try to contact him. ----- Hello Denny; Hello Bear -
?Justice is incidental to law and order.? ----- J Edgar Hoover
Now think about that.
"When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him."
EuripDES
"When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him."
Euripades
Re: D P - I have to say emotion is entering the crevices of my logic. I'm researching Tony (Tough Tony) Spilotro from the Vegas mob (played by Joe Pesce in the movie CASINO, BTW) - and I am simultaneously thinking of Connecticut and what must be decided there by the jury, plus we had a stabbing murder Wednesday here in a Rehab in Ellenville,, N Y. Now it's getting too close to home. . This same "kid"who stabbed a security guard to death, then hijacked a nurse and kept stabbing her while she drove him to his short lived freedom and escape. He is now under arrest - THANK GOD !
(Oct. 5) -- Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-born U.S. citizen who tried to detonate a deadly bomb in New York's Times Square, was defiant to his judgment day. As a judge sentenced him to life in prison today, he smiled. "I'm happy with the deal that God is giving me," he said. "God is great."
Horrifying ! (Oct. 5) -- Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-born U.S. citizen who tried to detonate a deadly bomb in New York's Times Square, was defiant to his judgment day. As a judge sentenced him to life in prison today, he smiled. "I'm happy with the deal that God is giving me," he said. "God is great."
The DPIC is a highly respected source of some of the most thorough studies on the topic of D P and Deterrence. The DEATH PENALTY INFORMATION CENTER is where I culled this piece of research from the esteemed Stanford Law Review. However, in formulating one's view on the D P, a visit to the site itself may be valuable. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/discussion-recent-deterrence-stud
ies Here is the summary of the Stanford Law Review - "The Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate: A new edition of the Stanford Law Review contains an article entitled Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate. The article examines and performs comparison tests on recent studies that have claimed a deterrent effect to the death penalty. Authors John J. Donohue of Yale Law School and Justin Wolfers of the University of Pennsylvania state their goal and conclusions: "Aggregating over all of our estimates, it is entirely unclear even whether the preponderance of evidence suggests that the death penalty causes more or less murder." (58 Stanford Law Review 791 (2005))." So, wading deeper into the topic of the D P, at this point I would have to say that one might have to rely more on a JUSTICE argument than one of "provable" deterrence. |
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