Deanna's Daydreamer
04-16-2010, 06:59 PM
Here's what you see with a governmental agency, or a criminal justice system that is manned by civil servants, and applied by lawyers, as it MUST actually be.
Sooner or later, the lawyers just manage to muck it all up...... COMPLETELY.
Might take them twenty years, or twenty two hundred... but they will get there.
It's not about the justice; it's actually about the MONEY. The PUBLICITY. The art of the deal, if you will. What it comes down to are victims lost in a process that now paradigms the CRIMINAL AS THE VICTIM
once you have flipped society on its head? The criminal as victim mentality takes hold:
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Mark Spotz's appeals rejected
York County death sentence was stayed pending outcome of appeal.
By RICK LEE
Daily Record/Sunday News
Updated: 04/10/2010 07:16:18 AM EDT
Judges in two counties recently rejected appeals by convicted spree killer and death-row inmate Mark Newton Spotz.
Now 39, Spotz was convicted in April 1996, of the Feb. 2, 1995, carjacking and shooting death of 41-year-old Penny L. Gunnet of New Salem.
He also was convicted of the separate carjacking murders of June Rose Ohlinger, 52, of Schuylkill County and Betty Amstutz, 71, of Cumberland County. Spotz received the death penalty for all three first-degree murders.
Prior to committing those killings, Spotz fatally shot his older brother, Dustin Spotz, in Clearfield County. Dustin Spotz's death during a family argument preceded Spotz's 48-hour cross-state spree.
On March 25, York County Judge John S. Kennedy denied Spotz's post-conviction appeal for a new trial. Spotz based his motion on alleged ineffective counsel and trial error.
On March 30, a Clearfield County judge dismissed Spotz's post-conviction appeal there.
Spotz's Cumberland County post-conviction appeal was denied in June 2008. He has appealed that ruling to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
His post-conviction appeal in Schuylkill County was denied in 2001.
Governors Casey, Ridge, Schweiker and Rendell had signed a total of five death warrants for Spotz. Each warrant was stayed by an appellate court.
{FOUR... count that FOUR FREAKING governors have signed death warrants on this savage spree killer, and ALL FOUR OF THEM can not get his miserable hide to a needle!}
In 2001, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court stayed Spotz's execution for Gunnet's murder pending the outcome of his post-conviction appeal before Kennedy.
Kennedy's ruling does not automatically place Spotz back on the execution list.
"The governor would need to sign another warrant," York County District Attorney Tom Kearney said. "He will probably wait the 30-day appeal period. And Mark will probably appeal (Kennedy's ruling) to the (Pennsylvania) Supreme Court."
http://www.ydr.com/ci_14853230?source=rss
Sooner or later, the lawyers just manage to muck it all up...... COMPLETELY.
Might take them twenty years, or twenty two hundred... but they will get there.
It's not about the justice; it's actually about the MONEY. The PUBLICITY. The art of the deal, if you will. What it comes down to are victims lost in a process that now paradigms the CRIMINAL AS THE VICTIM
once you have flipped society on its head? The criminal as victim mentality takes hold:
---------------
Mark Spotz's appeals rejected
York County death sentence was stayed pending outcome of appeal.
By RICK LEE
Daily Record/Sunday News
Updated: 04/10/2010 07:16:18 AM EDT
Judges in two counties recently rejected appeals by convicted spree killer and death-row inmate Mark Newton Spotz.
Now 39, Spotz was convicted in April 1996, of the Feb. 2, 1995, carjacking and shooting death of 41-year-old Penny L. Gunnet of New Salem.
He also was convicted of the separate carjacking murders of June Rose Ohlinger, 52, of Schuylkill County and Betty Amstutz, 71, of Cumberland County. Spotz received the death penalty for all three first-degree murders.
Prior to committing those killings, Spotz fatally shot his older brother, Dustin Spotz, in Clearfield County. Dustin Spotz's death during a family argument preceded Spotz's 48-hour cross-state spree.
On March 25, York County Judge John S. Kennedy denied Spotz's post-conviction appeal for a new trial. Spotz based his motion on alleged ineffective counsel and trial error.
On March 30, a Clearfield County judge dismissed Spotz's post-conviction appeal there.
Spotz's Cumberland County post-conviction appeal was denied in June 2008. He has appealed that ruling to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
His post-conviction appeal in Schuylkill County was denied in 2001.
Governors Casey, Ridge, Schweiker and Rendell had signed a total of five death warrants for Spotz. Each warrant was stayed by an appellate court.
{FOUR... count that FOUR FREAKING governors have signed death warrants on this savage spree killer, and ALL FOUR OF THEM can not get his miserable hide to a needle!}
In 2001, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court stayed Spotz's execution for Gunnet's murder pending the outcome of his post-conviction appeal before Kennedy.
Kennedy's ruling does not automatically place Spotz back on the execution list.
"The governor would need to sign another warrant," York County District Attorney Tom Kearney said. "He will probably wait the 30-day appeal period. And Mark will probably appeal (Kennedy's ruling) to the (Pennsylvania) Supreme Court."
http://www.ydr.com/ci_14853230?source=rss