www.justiceforchandra.com

[benn]

That predator initiative is working better. Maybe I should start another topic and copy a little information from their web. That is only for California, but it should have a lot in common with other states.

benn

[rd]

That sounds pretty good, benn. I'll look forward to trying it when it's working.

rd

[benn]

Hello rd, there must have been some mixup by the people trying to get enough signatures for the initiative. The url is working fairly well now, but the time for getting signatures seems have to ended in April sometime. I thought they were just starting out getting signatures.

Well, if they did get enough signatures then the initiative will be voted on in November, but the first I heard about it was yesterday when I started looking up plans to control predators.

Here the url is again: www.projectkidsafe.org

benn

[rd]

Just look at this guy's record. They never should have let the bastard out to start with, much less let this creep or any violent felon roam around unmonitored looking for their next victim.

rd

from www.msnbc.com (fair use)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14956063/

Sex offender gets death for killing student
Body of woman from University of North Dakota found in Minnesota ravine
Associated Press
Sept 22, 2006

FARGO, N.D. - Jurors on Friday sentenced a convicted sex offender to death for kidnapping and killing University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin, whose body was found in a Minnesota ravine nearly five months after she disappeared.

It was North Dakota’s first death penalty case in more than a century. The state does not have the death penalty but it is allowed in federal cases.

Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., 53, of Crookston, Minn., looked straight ahead and showed no emotion as the sentence was announced.

The jury reached its decision after more than a day and a half of deliberations. The same federal jury convicted Rodriguez on Aug. 30 on a charge of kidnapping resulting in Sjodin’s death.

Rodriguez’s mother, Dolores, and sister, Ileanna Noyes, cried as the verdict was announced, as did a number of the jurors. Members of Sjodin’s family looked somber and stared straight ahead. They shared hugs outside the courtroom.

Sjodin, 22, of Pequot Lakes, Minn., disappeared from a Grand Forks shopping mall parking lot on Nov. 22, 2003, and her body was found the following April in a ravine near Crookston.

Authorities said she was beaten, raped and stabbed.

Out of prison 6 months before killing
Rodriguez, who got out of prison about six months before the killing, was charged under federal law because Sjodin was taken across state lines.

U.S. Attorney Drew Wrigley, in his statements to jurors, said the death penalty would be the “right thing, in the right case.” He stood near her portrait and asked for justice.

Rodriguez’s attorney, Richard Ney, asked the jury for mercy after calling psychologists and Rodriguez’s family to talk about his childhood of poverty, abuse and exposure to farm chemicals. Ney also said Rodriguez had been anxious about being released from prison after serving more than 20 years for assaults on three women in 1975 and 1980.

© 2006 The Associated Press.

[jane]

Ney also said Rodriguez had been anxious about being released from prison after serving more than 20 years for assaults on three women in 1975 and 1980.

So here, Nev seems to be suggesting Dru's death was the fault of the state for letting Rodriguez out. Sensible Rodriguez was anxious, but the state wasn't sensible enough to be anxious. Yet if Nev had been on hand during the parole hearing he would have been singing an entirely different tune.

[rd]

well, you can throw that in with the exposure to the farm chemicals, and what you end up with still belongs in the barnyard.

rd

[gozgals]

Another creep who should not have been walking the street. Glad he is getting the death penalty but he will have to wait toooooo long on death row. He should be out in the desert doing hard labor (alone) the rest of his life.

Goz

[rd]

The bastard will die now, but not soon enough. He shouldn't have been let out of prison after all his previous assaults to start with.

And he certainly shouldn't have been allowed to roam free without his movements recorded.

Track offenders with GPS recorders!

rd


Judge Sentences Killer of College Coed Dru Sjodin to Death
Fox News - AP
February 08, 2007

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250923,00.html

[gozgals]

It would be nice if they would just throw him out the back door and execute him today. A nice slow hanging is what I would like to see. Just my two cents. Such a waste to CARRY him on death row for a long period of time.

Gozgals

Rd states:

[gozgals]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,302637,00.html

Minnesota Settles Slain Student Dru Sjodin Wrongful Death Suit for $300K


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Wednesday, October 17, 2007


ST. PAUL — The state of Minnesota has reached a settlement with the family of Dru Sjodin, a college student who was kidnapped and killed almost four years ago by a convicted sex offender who was released from prison a few months before the crime.

The family had taken steps to seek more than $1 million in damages in a wrongful death lawsuit.

The $300,000 agreement — finalized in July but not made public until this week — protects the state from being sued over Sjodin's death at the hands of Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., a convicted rapist who was released from state prison six months before Sjodin disappeared.

Sjodin, of Pequot Lakes, Minn., was last seen leaving her job at a Grand Forks mall on Nov. 22, 2003. Her body was found the next April in a ravine near Crookston, Minn., where Rodriguez had been living with his mother. Authorities said she had been beaten, raped and stabbed.

A federal jury in North Dakota convicted Rodriguez for Sjodin's kidnapping and killing and sentenced him to death.

The family's attorney argued in a 2004 letter that state authorities were partly responsible for Sjodin's death. A state Department of Corrections psychologist had decided against recommending Rodriguez for civil commitment as he finished serving a 23-year sentence for stabbing and trying to abduct a woman.

The settlement — signed by Sjodin's father, Allan Sjodin, on June 20, and Corrections Commissioner Joan Fabian on July 9 — releases the Corrections Department and other state agencies from those claims.

State authorities also avoided admitting any errors.

"This agreement does not constitute an admission of any liability, an admission of a violation of state or federal law, or an admission of any wrongdoing by the state," the settlement reads.
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Click link for rest of story

[rd]

It's a sorry task Dru Sjodin's family had to do in memory of Dru. That being to make the state think two and three times and hopefully more before letting these convicted felon sexual predators out loose to roam around unmonitored looking for their next victim.

What do you think they're going to do, get a job and become a civilized person repentant for the evil they have done throughout their lives? You think they got any better hanging out in a prison for 23 years?

Not a chance. We know what they're going to do. Now what are we going to do about it? Just wait for them to drive around to find their next victim so we can search for another body?

Only sheep have an excuse for being that stupid.

rd

[jane]

Speaking of driving around looking for their next victim - I don't think they should be allowed to hold a driver's licence, a vehicle, or vehicle licence - that's if allowed out of jail (which I don't think they should be). This goes for sexual predators, murderers/attempted murderers, and kidnappers/attempted kidnappers.
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"There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known."
Christ

[rd]

Fox News is running an update on Dru Sjodin's tragic abduction and disappearance. The sex offender is still awaiting execution, still going through one appeal after another to spare his life.

The Fox News article reports that prosecutors say not enough is being done to stop sex offenders. We knew that, everyone knows that. The only ones happy about it are the sex offenders.

And those lawyers worried about their civil rights and life instead of the victim's civil rights and life.

rd

from www.foxnews.com (fair use)

Five Years After High-Profile Murder, Fight for Tougher Sex Offender Laws Continues
Associated Press
November 22, 2008

FARGO, N.D. — The five years since the abduction and murder of a University of North Dakota student have brought tougher laws against sex offenders. Top state and federal prosecutors say it's not enough.

Dru Sjodin, a UND senior from Pequot Lakes, Minn., was taken from the parking lot of a Grand Forks shopping mall on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2003, after talking with her boyfriend on her cell phone. Her body was discovered in a ravine near Crookston, Minn., five months later. Authorities said she had been beaten, raped and stabbed.

Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., a convicted rapist from Crookston, was sentenced to death for kidnapping and killing the 22-year-old Sjodin. He is in a federal prison in Indiana awaiting execution while his lawyers prepare to argue an appeal.

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State and federal lawmakers have since tried to bolster that protection. A dozen new laws against sex offenders have been enacted in North Dakota since Sjodin was killed. Minnesota has taken similar steps. The names of victims have been attached to federal legislation, including the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, Katie's Law, and Dru's Law.

North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said the case has created an intolerance toward sex offenses that was long overdue. But more is needed, he said.

"You're never satisfied. You can always do things better," Stenehjem said. "There are serious offenses and this has resounded with the public and the legislature and the judiciary."

(snip)

Sjodin's family has been active in promoting sex offender legislation. Her mother, Linda Walker, spent three years working on Dru's Law, which created a national sex offender registry. She is a member of the Surviving Parents Coalition, which seeks to stop predatory crimes.

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,456448,00.html