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rd



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 2:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think it's worth it if you can go for the death penalty, which they are in two of the upcoming trials.

If he was already convicted to die then it would just give him years of extra time for appeals. In other words, the more people you kill, the longer you get to live. The good people of Louisiana are way smarter than that.

If he's just going to get more life sentences then I agree with the 64%. I'm not sure whether they know he could get death or are pretty sure it'll just keep going down the way this one went.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 2:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

rd, the good people of Baton Rouge definitely know that the upcoming EBR Parish trial is death penalty, and the one following that in Lafayette, La., 3 hours south of BR by car, where he killed his only black victim, Dene (pronounced DeNAY) Colomb, age 23, Nov. 21, 2002. There is the same DNA evidence for these trials as the one this week in WBR parish where he was convicted. I think the 64% are concerned with their $ since it's so poor around here, and figure "life" in prison for DTL is acceptable. Plus, it's so stupid, the same DNA evidence and we have to pretend he might be innocent. It's all really dumb, and people have just had enough of that *^!#@*! DTL.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 9:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is a monster who should be put to death as soon as all his victims have their day in court.

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from www.foxnews.com (fair use)

La. Serial Killings Suspect Guilty in Second Trial, Could Face Death
Associated Press
Tuesday, October 12, 2004

BATON ROUGE, La. — A jury took just 80 minutes to find a serial killings suspect guilty of first-degree murder Tuesday in the death of a 22-year-old Baton Rouge woman.

Jurors will begin deliberations Wednesday on whether Derrick Todd Lee, already sentenced to life in prison for another killing, should be executed for the slaying of Charlotte Murray Pace in May 2002.

Lee, 35, sat stone-faced after the verdict was read, while the victim's mother began to shake and cry.

"I feel like somewhere, [she] must be real proud that it happened this way," Ann Pace told reporters outside the courthouse, breaking into sobs. "There is evil in the world and he is the personification of that."

Prosecutors took eight days to present their case, which included gruesome crime scene photos and evidence from Pace's murder and four other killings authorities have attributed to Lee. DNA evidence was used to connect Lee to the Pace murder, and a nurse testified that Lee tried to brutally rape and kill her in July 2002.

Lee's lawyers declined to call any witnesses, saying the prosecution had failed to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt. The defense also questioned the memory of Diane Alexander, the nurse who claimed she was attacked, and said the DNA evidence was unreliable.

"The state in this case simply has the wrong man," defense attorney Mike Mitchell said in his closing argument.

He later said he wasn't surprised by the verdict: "Jury members came in with their opinions and that was hard to overcome."

Authorities arrested Lee in May 2003 following a 10-month investigation that included taking DNA samples from more than 2,500 men in southern Louisiana. Using DNA evidence, police eventually linked Lee, a former truck driver, to the murders of seven women from 1998 to 2003.

For Lee to be executed, the jury will have to vote unanimously for the death penalty. Complicating the issue will be a defense claim, filed during jury selection, that Lee is mentally retarded, and therefore cannot be legally executed.

"This is halftime in the trial," prosecutor John Sinquefield said.

Outside the courthouse, victims' family members traded hugs and shed tears, with some wondering whether jurors will agree on death.

"If anybody deserves to get the death penalty, he definitely does," said Lynne Marino, the mother of victim Pam Kinamore.

In closing arguments Tuesday, Sinquefield told jurors Lee was a predator who strangled, beat and stabbed Pace and four of the other women he is accused of slaying while seeking a "few minutes of sexual gratification."

"He's strong, he's young, he has his weapons with him. ... He can kill you with his bare hands, and he demonstrated it in these cases," Sinquefield said.

In his closing, Mitchell said that DNA evidence against his client was questionable because the analysis was done by law enforcement employees who trained one another in at least one lab that wasn't accredited.

Mitchell also asked how Lee could murder several women without leaving behind other kinds of evidence, such as a fingerprint or a tire track. He also said police testified that some items were found at the murder scenes they couldn't match to anyone.

Sinquefield said Lee took the items that bore his fingerprints, including phones and an iron he used to beat the women, but that he couldn't erase his DNA.

Pace's body was riddled with more than 80 stab and puncture wounds from a flathead screwdriver and a knife. She had just graduated from Louisiana State University.

Lee was convicted in August in the beating and stabbing death of 21-year-old graduate student Geralyn DeSoto. He was sentenced to life in prison in that case.

Copyright 2004 FOX News Network, LLC.
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