Lawyers want man using big-penis defense to show jury his erection
Lawyers in the murder trial of a Florida man who wants to show his penis to the jury went back and forth this week on whether he would need to be erect.
The trial for Richard Patterson, 65, of Margate began on Tuesday, but the judge has not ruled whether his genitals will be presented in the court room.
Patterson’s lawyers want to use his penis as evidence to argue that his girlfriend Francisca Marquinez, 60, choked to death while performing oral sex on him in 2015.
The prosecution reportedly doesn’t object, but argued at the trial that his penis must be erect, according to news station WPLG.
“Do we do it in the back? Do we do it in open court?” assistant state attorney Peter Sapak asked. “How is the defendant going to be erect when the jury views it? Because a flaccid penis, whether it be a picture or the jury actually seeing it, is completely irrelevant. It needs to be erect.”
Defense attorney Ken Padowitz slammed the prosecution’s argument, saying the court should hear from a medical expert about the logistics. Padowitz wants to call former Broward County medical examiner Ronald Wright as a witness to testify that Marquinez’s death “is consistent with being accidentally sexually asphyxiated during oral sex.”
“He’s telling the court, as if he’s a medical expert in his argument, that it matters whether the penis is erect or not,” Padowitz said. “But he’s merely speculating here since he’s never asked that question to Dr. Wright in definition, and he doesn’t, obviously, know, actually, what the expert opinion is what is needed or not needed in order for a human being to choke.”
Patterson faces second-degree murder charges and if convicted, could be sentenced to life in prison.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/05/17/judge-to-decide-if-murder-suspect-can-show-penis-to-jury/
Gorillaz Humanz Album Review
While I’m definitely tale on this there was no way I could listen to Gorillaz’ new album without writing a review on it. The Gorillaz’ new album Humanz was released back on April 28th and was their first album release in 6 years. I for one can say that this album did not disappoint.
The thing that I love about Gorillaz is the fact that they’re not defined by one specific genre. In one song you can hear a pop tune, in another you can hear a more hip hop feel and so on. There are definitely a lot of songs on this album that I have on repeat such as, The Apprentice, She’s My Collar, Carnival, Out of Body and a few others.
It seems like the theme of this album is apocalyptic/ post apocalyptic. The creator of Gorillaz, Damon Albarn got this inspiration from all the the crazy events that have happened in the past year especially with the 2016 election. You can especially hear it in the album’s song; Hallelujah Money.
I enjoy the songs hyped up tone, like Ascension, the calm and soothing sounds of Busted and Blue, the techno and r&b sounds from The Apprentice and the outer space vibe from Andromeda.
This will definitely go down as one of the Gorillaz greatest albums in my opinion. Gorillaz: Humanz, if you haven’t listened to the album go check it out now!
Inmate who lived upstanding life after he was mistakenly freed wins release
I like these kinda stories! I’m sure the racists and ignorant white folks are gonna try to say he still doesn’t deserve a second chance.
CNN)A Colorado man who was sent back to prison after being mistakenly released was told by a judge Tuesday that he is a free man.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/17/us/rene-lima-marin-freed/index.html
Girl Scout leader wanted for stealing $15K worth of cookies
And you thought you loved Thin Mints and Samoas.
A Girl Scout leader from Kentucky has gone on the run after allegedly stealing more than $15,000 worth of cookies from not only her own troop, but maybe neighboring troops as well, reports the Appalachian News-Express.
Leah Ann Vick, of Auxier, Ky., was formally indicted by a Pike County jury on a charge of “felony theft by unlawful taking,” and faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted, according to district attorney Rick Bartley.
Authorities are currently looking for Vick, 26, who they believe to be actively evading law enforcement.
The crime originally occurred on Feb. 1, per the indictment. According to the Bartley, Vick picked up a large order of cookies for her Wilderness Road chapter — and perhaps a few orders belonging to other troops — in Pikesville, Ky.
Vick was then supposed to return to pay for the cookies once they had been sold (the local troops don’t normally provide payment up front), but she never went back. The Girl Scouts also say they have no record of Vick dropping off her troop’s shipment with her girls.
“She picked up the cookies and never took them to them, so we don’t know what she did with them,” said Bartley.
“She has never paid for any of them and, anyone who has tried to contact her about them has not been able to contact her,” he added.
Authorities also confirmed that Vick has been using “several different addresses” in eastern Kentucky since going on the lam, making it that much harder for law enforcement to track her down.
“It looks like she picked up the cookies and, now, she and the cookies have disappeared,” stated Bartley.
Vick’s indictment follows a similar, though more disturbing incidence of theft from a Girl Scout in California. On Feb. 17, a 12-year-old scout in Union, Calif., was robbed at gunpoint while selling cookies outside a Safeway supermarket alongside her mother. The Union City Police Department later raised $1,000 for the girl’s local troop.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/05/16/girl-scout-leader-wanted-for-stealing-15k-worth-of-cookies/
Man Hospitalized After Removing Clothes, Dousing Himself With Bleach Inside San Bernardino Stater Bros.
A man was taken to a hospital Monday night after he stripped off his clothing and doused himself in bleach in a San Bernardino Stater Bros. Market, according to police.
Shortly before 9:40 p.m., the man entered the Stater Bros. st store located in the 100 block of East 40th Street, and — for unknown reasons — eventually discarded his clothing, said San Bernardino Police Department Sgt. Mark Aranda. He also vandalized the grocery store and assaulted at least one customer, store management said.
At first, the man was only missing a shirt, and a security guard asked him to put one on, according to a statement from Stater Bros. Markets.
However, the man then walked over to the aisle containing household products and poured two gallons of bleach all over himself, the chain’s management said.
One witness said the man was also covered in blood.
“The gentleman had some blood on his arms and the manager asked him to leave, and he started pouring bleach on himself,” said Joe Lira, who tried to subdue the man with the help of another.
After that, the man went to the store’s checkout area and removed all his clothes, repeatedly jumped on and off a checkout stand and vandalized the register’s monitor, according to management. He also allegedly assaulted a customer who was waiting in line and knocked over another’s bag of groceries.
The store’s manager attempted to apprehend the man, who then ran to the deli area and jumped on the counter. The security guard, who is employed by a sub-contractor, then used a Taser to detain him.
Lira said the process required the help of him and another bystander.
“Another gentleman tried to grab his neck and I tried to grab his feet, but he was too slippery and he just went wild. And they finally Tased him and held him down till police got here,” he said.
By the time officers and medical aid arrived at the scene, the man had been detained by on-site security and store employees, according to Aranda.
“It was a frightening situation for everybody. If it wasn’t for the security guard inside and the employees detaining him, there could have been an awful ending to this tragic event,” Aranda said.
The man was transported to a local hospital for treatment, where officials said his health had stabilized.
Authorities did not disclose the man’s identity.
KTLA’s Sarah Fenton and Erika Martin contributed to this story.
Man holding human head stabs store clerk; mother found dead
A man killed his mother on Mother’s Day at a rural Oregon home, then showed up at a grocery store in a nearby town carrying a decapitated human head and began stabbing a checkout clerk before being subdued, authorities said Monday.
Officers determined the head the man was carrying belonged to his mother, the Sandy Police Department said.
An autopsy was underway Monday on the body of Tina Marie Webb, 59, the same day that her son, 36-year-old Joshua Lee Webb, was booked on charges of murder and attempted murder in the case. He has not yet made a court appearance.
The gruesome chain of events unfolded in two tiny, rural towns once known for logging about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of Portland and sent shock waves through Estacada, where most people knew the white-haired checkout clerk identified as 66-year-old Michael Wagner for his warmth and quick sense of humor.
David Webb, the father of Joshua Lee Webb, sobbed as he struggled to process his wife’s death and his son’s arrest in one horrible day.
Joshua Webb had vision problems and received Social Security payments, his father said. He lived at home so his parents could care for him, his father said, adding that they had recently bought him a dog because he wanted one.
His mother had said she believed her son was depressed, but David Webb said he never saw any indication of that when he spoke with his son.
“I never foresaw a problem. If I had I would have stopped it,” David Webb said, before bursting into loud sobs during a phone interview with The Associated Press. “I just can’t believe I lost my wife and son in one day. … I don’t know. I wish I did. I wish I had some answers, but I don’t. I waited all my life to retire with my wife, and now I can’t. That’s all I know.”
The bizarre sequence began Sunday afternoon — Mother’s Day — in Colton, a once-significant logging town about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southeast of Portland.
The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office said Webb killed his mother at their rural home, but it did not provide more details.
Joshua Webb then showed up at a Thriftway in downtown Estacada, about 12 miles to the north. When he entered the small grocery store, he was covered in blood, had a large “kitchen-type” knife and was carrying a severed human head, authorities said.
He began stabbing a store employee, but he was quickly overwhelmed by other employees, who held him until police arrived, authorities said.
“He didn’t say anything after he was subdued,” said Ernie Roberts, interim police chief in nearby Sandy, Oregon, said Monday.
“He was in like a catatonic state, wasn’t speaking to anybody,” Roberts said, adding that the only thing he said during the encounter before his arrest was that he was thirsty. Sandy provides police services for Estacada, which also has around 2,500 residents.
Wagner, the grocery store checkout clerk, was hospitalized and was expected to survive.
Residents who gathered outside the police tape Monday said Wagner had worked for years at the store, first at the produce department and then at the checkout counter.
Customers stopped by in a steady stream to drop off balloons as a tribute in front of the store and to sign a giant get-well poster. A small collection of candles also grew on the other side of the parking lot, just in front of yellow police tape that covered nearly an entire block.
Inside Lew’s Drive-In, next door to the grocery store, customers talked of nothing but the stabbing and of Wagner, whom everyone seemed to know. Customers who had been in the grocery store during the stabbing took refuge in the diner Sunday, but nobody had seen much, said Marvin Flora, the diner’s owner.
“It was traumatic, but it happened so fast that nobody really saw what was going on,” he said. “One lady came in this morning and said she actually saw somebody come in with something that was bloody and was carrying something with his arm.”
As residents swapped stories, Flora stood by a growing cluster of balloons and shouted out details of Wagner’s condition to drivers who slowed along the main street to check in.
“He’s super nice and outgoing. He’s the epitome of what this place stands for,” he said. “He always has jokes for you in the line, and he goes out of the way to know your name.”
South Carolina mom beats 6-year-old son for making grandma Mother’s Day card instead of her
A South Carolina woman beat her 6-year-old son after he made a Mother’s Day card for his grandmother and not one for her, cops said.
Shontrell Murphy, 30, was charged with cruelty to children after admitting she hit him, local Fox affiliate WBRC reported.
Cops were called to her mother’s house in Spartanburg Thursday where they found the grandmother with Murphy’s daughter and bawling son.
The daughter told cops that Murphy found the card and fumed when she realized it wasn’t for her, WBRC reported.
Murphy started ripping up the card, her daughter told cops, then hit her son several times on the head.
Cops found shards of the handwritten card on the floor, the news channel reported.
Murphy’s children told police their mom violently hit them on a regular basis and lived in fear of her.
Cops said Murphy told them she did hit her kids, but argued she “does not believe it was in a hard or violent manner.”
The boy was later transported to the hospital for evaluation and later released
Daughter Living at Home Allegedly Killed Her Father After Her Parents Tried to Evict Her
A 31-year-old woman was accused in the Tuesday shooting death of her 66-year-old father in South Carolina.
Brittany Simpson, who was charged with murder and possession of a firearm during a violent crime, was denied bond on Thursday, according to WCBD News 2.
The murder suspect had been staying at her parents’ house without paying rent, according to court reports obtained by The Post and Courier, though she had allegedly helped cover the utility costs until March, when her mother allegedly sought her eviction.
Simpson had allegedly first implicated an intruder in father Robert Simpson’s shooting death, which allegedly occurred early Tuesday, until Mount Pleasant police said they found her clothes and a gun submerged in a creek, according to The Post and Courier.
The suspect’s attorney, David Aylor, could not comment to PEOPLE on whether Simpson has been speaking with her family, nor her eviction notices by her family. This is her “first run-in with the law,” he said.
“The only thing that I can confirm is that Brittany was currently on disability and was not working,” Aylor told PEOPLE. “Though she wasn’t currently working, she was still a pretty active person in regards to recreational activities and things like that, her disability wasn’t hampering her from that.
In Brooke Simpson’s alleged 911 call, which she placed shortly after 6 a.m. Tuesday, Brittany had said, “Someone just came in the back door. Someone just came right in.”
According to The Post and Courier, Brittany’s sister Brooke reportedly questioned how she knew what happened to their father, and police claimed Brittany later confessed to carrying out the crime herself.
Brooke reportedly told officers she did not know of anyone who would want to hurt her father, but that Brittany had been given a 24-hour notice to leave the home by that day, according to the court reports cited by Live 5 News.
The victim was still alive when officers arrived and one of them kicked in the master bedroom door to help him, according to supplemental reports released by Mount Pleasant police. Firefighters were sent in and began providing medical care but Simpson died, the reports said.
The suspect attended the University of Miami and the College of Charleston and “was very well liked in both of those communities,” Aylor tells PEOPLE.
“Obviously, it’s a tragic situation for this family as a whole,” he said. “She’s taking it day by day, as we will the case, to determine what our next steps are and how the case will proceed.”
The Mount Pleasant police were unable to comment to PEOPLE about the case.
via: https://www.yahoo.com/news/daughter-living-home-allegedly-killed-170408307.html
CONVICTED FELON HIRED AS VICE PRINCIPAL OF CHESTER HIGH SCHOOL
Freddie Dean Smith has a lengthy record, but that hasn’t stopped him from bouncing around from state to state applying for jobs working with kids.
A quick Google search of his name easily turns up reports of his sordid past. So, we are asking how he slipped through the cracks and into a Delaware County high school.
Article after article written by New York journalist Robert Cox documents a decade of investigations into the elusive Freddie Dean Smith.
“This is a guy who keeps managing to keep slipping through the cracks, and to me is a dangerous, sick individual who does not belong anywhere near children,” Cox said.
Cox says Smith was denied teachers certifications in Maryland and Virginia, but somehow this convicted felon landed in Chester High School.
“This is somebody with a criminal record. I can’t imagine that any parent would want someone like that as an administrator at their child’s school,” said Cox.
A background check and records obtained by Action News show in 2002 he was found guilty of eluding police, which is a felony. And in 2001 and 2003 in two separate incidents in South Carolina he was charged with sex crimes for approaching women in two different stores, and exposing himself and touching himself in a lewd fashion.
We went to Chester High School looking for Smith and answers. Superintendent Dr. Juan Baughn directed us to a written statement they provided, which says in part: “Mr. Smith was only with the school district for one day as per diem assistant principal. He took part in training sessions, during which he had no unsupervised contact with students.” We told the superintendent how some people say Smith is unfit to be around kids.
“He is not around our kids. He is not around our kids. He is not here,” Baughn said.
Sources tell Action News that Smith was hired for the last six weeks of class at Chester High School using an emergency certification to fill a void after the principal left and a vice principal was promoted.
The Pennsylvania Department of Education could not tell us if Smith has a valid Pennsylvania teaching certification, and the Department of Human Services would not tell us if any background checks were run as required by law, citing privacy concerns.
The superintendent said the school district did a background check themselves. Smith worked there on May 2nd, last week for a single day, until his criminal past was revealed.
And while we were not able to track down Freddie Dean Smith, Cox says that is no surprise. He’s been trying for a decade, and he wonders if and when Smith will show up somewhere else.
“Freddie Dean Smith is a very elusive figure who understands how to game the system and avoid public scrutiny from the media,” Cox said.
Cox tells us that Smith is still licensed in the state of New York, and he has been able to get jobs using that certification in other states that have reciprocal agreements with New York.
Full statement from Chester Upland School District:
It is our standard procedure to conduct criminal background checks on all new hires before they begin employment with the school district. The check performed on Freddie Dean Smith did not reveal any misconduct related to sexual assault.
Mr. Smith was only with the school district for one day as per diem assistant principal. He took part in training sessions during which he had no unsupervised contact with students.
He is no longer with the district. As always, the safety and well-being of our students is our highest priority.
via: http://6abc.com/news/convicted-felon-hired-as-vice-principal-of-chester-high-school/1973641/
UNDERCOVER AGENTS FIND REGISTERED CHURCH TO BE SEX CLUB
Undercover inspectors have determined that a building registered as a church was being operated as a sex club.
WTVF-TV reports that the city of Nashville has filed a complaint against the owners for “maintaining a public nuisance by permitting acts of lewd conduct” and violating a state law banning sex clubs from operating within 1,000 feet of a school.
The longtime downtown swingers club underwent a conversion in 2015 when it relocated to a run-down office park in the community of Madison, calling itself a church because the new location is near the back of the private Goodpasture Christian School.
Two codes inspectors paid $40 to enter the facility in March and filed affidavits detailing sex acts they witnessed within.
The city is seeking to close the club.
via: http://abc7chicago.com/news/undercover-agents-find-registered-church-to-be-sex-club/1988838/