Conviction

Driver, Victims Talk About Toyota Crash
02/22/2010
On June 10, 2006 Koua Fong Lee was returning from church with his family when his Toyota Camry hit an Oldsmobile at a St. Paul, Minnesota intersection, killing the driver and a passenger in the Oldsmobile. Lee is now serving an eight-year-sentence for vehicular homicide, but he has always maintained that his brakes didn't work. (ABC News) (VIDEO)
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/toyota-flaws-free-convict-9906986&tab=94...

St James Holiness Church of God in Christ in Toledo may have a set a nauseating new low. The church has had four convicted pedophiles operating in ministry with the Pastor’s knowledge. But that’s only the beginning of this shocking story which truly symbolizes why drastic reform is needed in COGIC now.

The pastor of St James, William James, Jr. didn’t put the men out of the church, it took legal action against them to stop their predatory activities.

Just saw this article on 13 ABC's website:

"He drove the getaway car in the shooting that killed Matthew Dugan
A teen convicted of being the getaway driver in a murder one year ago is now working for the city of Toledo.
A judge sentenced Dymon Bolton to four years in prison last December, but he was paroled in May. His attorney says he's working for the city this summer.
Toledo's hiring practices are unclear when it comes to hiring convicted felons. It's on a case-by-case basis and there's no set policy.

A law professor is putting up the warning flag on this proposed law (HB 1966) and the very vague terms in it. It is being based on the tragic events that lead up to the death of Megan Meier and interestingly enough, the woman who intimidated Megan was convicted, so apparently current laws do work. One has to wonder then why this a one is being proposed. Read it yourself and see how alarmingly vague it is, how it appears to open up a whole can of worms if passed and how that could toss a bucket of cold water on free speech.
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2 examples from the blog:

I can't believe they will get off with just a fine.
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Three staff members for Vote Today Ohio, an independent get-out-the-vote organization supporting Barack Obama, pleaded guilty in Franklin County this afternoon to voter fraud.

The three came to Ohio from states where Obama was likely to win in an effort to swing Ohio's electoral college vote toward their candidate, Judge Charles A. Schneider said. The judge gave all three 60 days in jail but suspended it if they paid a $1,000 fine. He also ordered a year's probation.

According to the WNWO website Troy Neff has been senteced for his DWI. It looks like he pleaded no contest to the charge. The judge gave him a $500 fine. He has been sentenced to 180 days at the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio. 177 days of that sentence have been suspended, leaving Neff to serve three days behind bars.
He has been placed on inactive probation for six months. This means Neff will be required to have drug screenings and attend AA meetings until Sept. 9, 2009.

A week before former President George W. Bush was to come to Columbus for a fund-raiser in October, 2003, Tom Noe invited Larry Kaczala to meet him for breakfast at the Toledo Club.

Noe, a top fund-raiser for the Bush campaign, had an agenda for his meeting with Mr. Kaczala, who then was the Lucas County auditor and the county government's only Republican officeholder:

The former GOP power broker wanted Mr. Kaczala to help him make illegal contributions to the Bush campaign.
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No need to fret, come to Toledo, get endorsed as a Democrat and you can get back into political office rather quickly.
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) - A man convicted of stealing $20 from a toddler's piggy bank has been sentenced to six years in prison. Four-time convicted burglar Ryan Mueller was convicted Thursday of felony burglary as a repeat offender in a Sheboygan, Wis., court.

In its quest for answers regarding the expenditure of $80,000 in taxpayer money to renovate part of the city-owned Erie Street Market, Toledo City Council yesterday took the unusual step of subpoenaing a concert promoter selected by Mayor Carty Finkbeiner to renovate and revitalize that venue.

 I was struck by the contrast of two killers -  the Thompson guy who killed 3 North Toledo guys, he laughed at the camera.  Gagnon at least has a conscience and showed remorse.  

TOLEDO, OH (AP) -- A Michigan man will spend 43 years in prison for a wrong-way crash in Toledo that killed a mother and four children from Maryland.

Jack Lessonberry talks about the Blade coverage of Wack.

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By serving as GOP executive director, Ms. Wack did just that. She was
not a mere behind-the- scenes functionary; she dealt with the media and
the public and wasn't shy about saying what she thought about Democrats.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) - An inmate awaiting trial on a murder charge is suing the county, complaining he has lost more than 100 pounds because of the jailhouse menu.

Broderick Lloyd Laswell says he isn't happy that he's down to 308 pounds after eight months in the Benton County jail. He has filed a federal lawsuit complaining the jail doesn't provide inmates with enough food.

I love it. Taken from Forces.org:
ADIOS, Mother-______!!! Don't drop the soap!!

EXTRA: Italian Antismoking Hero Gets Three Years

18th April 2008

Girolamo Sirchia is a perfectly sinister antismoker: hypocritical,
paternalistic, arrogant to the extreme, ex-smoker (the worst kind of
anti), fanatical ideologist, morally clueless, a born crook. He can

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case about whether—for the first time in decades—a criminal can be executed for a crime that isn't murder. Patrick Kennedy was convicted in 2004 for the rape of a child, his 8-year-old stepdaughter, and the state of Louisiana contends that his crime is tantamount to murder and worthy of death.

Harry Weatherholt (Mr. Harry) was sentenced today to 12 years in prison for the sexual battery of a 13 year old Leverette Junior High School student. If I heard it correctly on Fox news, former school board members (no names given) spoke up for him. This is appalling if true.

Eyewitness to Murder - The King Assassination

Geraldine McCalland, firefighter Judi Imhoff, and Capt. Carla Stachura, who sued the city over gender discrimination, were found guilty administratively of secretly taping conversations in the workplace and were fired last February. Toledo Firefighters Local 92 appealed the termination of the three firefighters and asked for the arbitration. Captain Stachura was reinstated in December; Ms.

"Toledo's African-American community is frustrated
with the city, at least one black minister is praying for the city, and
Councilman Michael Ashford says Mayor Carty Finkbeiner has a record of
discrimination.
Mr. Ashford, reacting yesterday to the finding of the Ohio Civil Rights
Commission that Mr. Finkbeiner retaliated against three black employees

since we have been posting a lot about drunk driving, i saw another article to add to the discussions..... no, i usually don't follow celebrity stories, but i liked the creative punishment in this one.

Lohan to work in morgue as punishment

LOS ANGELES - Lindsay Lohan is about to see dead people.