New York Police Officers Shot: Two NYPD Officers patrolling a public housing project in the Bronx were shot Thursday night. Fox News reports that a male and female officer, whose names have not be released, were shot when they encountered two people in a seventh-floor stairwell in the complex by a man who was later found dead by an apparently self-inflicted wound. Both officers are expected to recover from their injuries. In January another officer was shot and injured in the Bronx when he responded to reports of a street fight.
CA Sex Offender on Probation Arrested For Rapes: A registered sex offender free on probation in Whittier California as been arrested for sexually assaulting two teen-aged girls. ABC7 reports that 28-year-old Richie Corvera abducted a 15-year-old girl in a high school parking lot last Friday and assaulted her at a nearby motel. A day earlier in the same parking lot Corvera lured a 14-year-old girl into his car and assaulted her in a motel. Police believe that there may be additional victims. Thank goodness California is addressing its over-incarceration problem by keeping low-level offenders like Corvera on the streets under light supervision.
Ninth Circuit Voids AZ Death Sentence: A divided panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned the death sentence of a brutal Tuscon murderer. Madison Alder of Cronkite News reports that the Court's two-judge majority lead by Judge Stephen Reinhardt announced that all of the lower courts which had reviewed and rejected murderer Robert Douglas Smith's claim that he was intellectually disabled during the murder were wrong, and that a low IQ test in 1964 proved that Smith was too retarded to have been responsible for the kidnapping, rape and grisly murder of 29-year-old hitchhiker Sandy Owen. Subsequent tests found that Smith had a near normal IQ. After raping her twice, Smith initially tried unsuccessfully to strangle Owen to death, then held her down while an accomplice stabbed her several times, which also failed to kill her. Smith then tried to break the woman's neck. She was finally killed after they crushed her head with a rock.
CA Sex Offender on Probation Arrested For Rapes: A registered sex offender free on probation in Whittier California as been arrested for sexually assaulting two teen-aged girls. ABC7 reports that 28-year-old Richie Corvera abducted a 15-year-old girl in a high school parking lot last Friday and assaulted her at a nearby motel. A day earlier in the same parking lot Corvera lured a 14-year-old girl into his car and assaulted her in a motel. Police believe that there may be additional victims. Thank goodness California is addressing its over-incarceration problem by keeping low-level offenders like Corvera on the streets under light supervision.
Ninth Circuit Voids AZ Death Sentence: A divided panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned the death sentence of a brutal Tuscon murderer. Madison Alder of Cronkite News reports that the Court's two-judge majority lead by Judge Stephen Reinhardt announced that all of the lower courts which had reviewed and rejected murderer Robert Douglas Smith's claim that he was intellectually disabled during the murder were wrong, and that a low IQ test in 1964 proved that Smith was too retarded to have been responsible for the kidnapping, rape and grisly murder of 29-year-old hitchhiker Sandy Owen. Subsequent tests found that Smith had a near normal IQ. After raping her twice, Smith initially tried unsuccessfully to strangle Owen to death, then held her down while an accomplice stabbed her several times, which also failed to kill her. Smith then tried to break the woman's neck. She was finally killed after they crushed her head with a rock.
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