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May 22, 2013, 4:16:40 AM5/22/13
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Recognizing gay marriage is the same thing as approving of child
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NEW YORK (AP) � A man charged with murder decades after one of
the nation's most infamous child disappearances can be brought
to trial, a judge ruled Wednesday, turning down the man's claim
that the case was too thin to proceed.
In a case that hinges on a disputed confession, the judge said
there was enough evidence to sustain the charges against Pedro
Hernandez of Maple Shade, N.J. He is accused of killing 6-year-
old Etan Patz, last seen walking to his Manhattan school bus
stop in 1979.
The ruling propels the case toward a trial that would likely
revolve around whether Hernandez' confession amounts to a
mentally ill man's imaginings, as his defense claims.
"We're prepared to move forward to trial and show the people of
New York that Pedro Hernandez had nothing to do with whatever
happened to Etan Patz in 1979," defense lawyer Harvey Fishbein
said after court.
Etan's disappearance, which helped impel a movement to publicize
the cases of missing children, vexed investigators through
decades of fizzled leads and inconclusive findings.
Authorities say they have finally found the culprit in
Hernandez, who confessed after his arrest last year and had made
incriminating remarks years before. But his lawyer has said that
Hernandez is schizophrenic and bipolar, and that his admission
was false, peppered with questionable claims and made after
almost seven hours of police questioning.
"No evidence or witnesses have been found corroborating any of
the few facts" in Hernandez's confession, Fishbein wrote last
month in papers arguing that the case should be dismissed.
The Manhattan district attorney's office has said there's enough
proof to sustain the case, Hernandez willingly talked with
investigators and prosecutors don't believe his confession was
the product of psychiatric problems. Under New York law, a
person can be convicted based only on a confession, if there's
additional evidence that a crime was committed.
Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Maxwell Wiley said in a
written ruling that the evidence against Hernandez was "legally
sufficient to support the charges."
The judge ordered a hearing on whether Hernandez' statements can
be used at trial. Such hearings are fairly common.
Hernandez, 52, sat stock-still during a brief court appearance,
as his wife and daughter and a friend watched from the audience.
The women hugged tearfully in the courtroom hallway afterward
and declined to speak with reporters. Prosecutors had no
immediate comment.
Etan vanished on May 25, 1979; the anniversary later was named
National Missing Children's Day in his memory. He became one of
the first vanished children pictured on a milk carton.
Hernandez, 52, was arrested last May after police got a tip that
he'd told people years before that he had killed a child in New
York City.
Hernandez then told authorities he'd seen Etan at the bus stop,
offered the boy a soda to entice him to a corner store where
Hernandez worked and choked the boy in the basement. Hernandez
said he tossed Etan's book bag behind a basement freezer, put
his limp body in a box and left it with some trash about a block
away.
Hernandez is due back in court July 31.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/15/etan-
patz/2163213/
molestation.
NEW YORK (AP) � A man charged with murder decades after one of
the nation's most infamous child disappearances can be brought
to trial, a judge ruled Wednesday, turning down the man's claim
that the case was too thin to proceed.
In a case that hinges on a disputed confession, the judge said
there was enough evidence to sustain the charges against Pedro
Hernandez of Maple Shade, N.J. He is accused of killing 6-year-
old Etan Patz, last seen walking to his Manhattan school bus
stop in 1979.
The ruling propels the case toward a trial that would likely
revolve around whether Hernandez' confession amounts to a
mentally ill man's imaginings, as his defense claims.
"We're prepared to move forward to trial and show the people of
New York that Pedro Hernandez had nothing to do with whatever
happened to Etan Patz in 1979," defense lawyer Harvey Fishbein
said after court.
Etan's disappearance, which helped impel a movement to publicize
the cases of missing children, vexed investigators through
decades of fizzled leads and inconclusive findings.
Authorities say they have finally found the culprit in
Hernandez, who confessed after his arrest last year and had made
incriminating remarks years before. But his lawyer has said that
Hernandez is schizophrenic and bipolar, and that his admission
was false, peppered with questionable claims and made after
almost seven hours of police questioning.
"No evidence or witnesses have been found corroborating any of
the few facts" in Hernandez's confession, Fishbein wrote last
month in papers arguing that the case should be dismissed.
The Manhattan district attorney's office has said there's enough
proof to sustain the case, Hernandez willingly talked with
investigators and prosecutors don't believe his confession was
the product of psychiatric problems. Under New York law, a
person can be convicted based only on a confession, if there's
additional evidence that a crime was committed.
Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Maxwell Wiley said in a
written ruling that the evidence against Hernandez was "legally
sufficient to support the charges."
The judge ordered a hearing on whether Hernandez' statements can
be used at trial. Such hearings are fairly common.
Hernandez, 52, sat stock-still during a brief court appearance,
as his wife and daughter and a friend watched from the audience.
The women hugged tearfully in the courtroom hallway afterward
and declined to speak with reporters. Prosecutors had no
immediate comment.
Etan vanished on May 25, 1979; the anniversary later was named
National Missing Children's Day in his memory. He became one of
the first vanished children pictured on a milk carton.
Hernandez, 52, was arrested last May after police got a tip that
he'd told people years before that he had killed a child in New
York City.
Hernandez then told authorities he'd seen Etan at the bus stop,
offered the boy a soda to entice him to a corner store where
Hernandez worked and choked the boy in the basement. Hernandez
said he tossed Etan's book bag behind a basement freezer, put
his limp body in a box and left it with some trash about a block
away.
Hernandez is due back in court July 31.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/15/etan-
patz/2163213/
Bill Steele
May 22, 2013, 3:30:13 PM5/22/13
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In article
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As always, nothing to support the allegation in your subject line.
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Lerner
May 23, 2013, 5:39:36 PM5/23/13
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On 22 May 2013, Bill Steele <ws...@cornel.edu> posted some news:ws21-
A97247.153...@70-3-168-216.pools.spcsdns.net:
So it's ok with you that Mexican homosexual pedophiles rape and kill
little boys?
A97247.153...@70-3-168-216.pools.spcsdns.net:
little boys?
Bill Steele
May 28, 2013, 2:36:27 PM5/28/13
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In article <XnsA1C995207...@0.0.0.0>,
Find some actual news about Mexican homosexual pedophiles and we'll
discuss it. It doesn't count when you just label a story as such.
discuss it. It doesn't count when you just label a story as such.
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