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gozgals
Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 2892 Location: A Place Called Vertigo
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Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:01 am Post subject: Estranged Husband Is Freed, Kills Wife |
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The justice system just can't make any mistakes when a womans life is in danger. We MUST keep the criminals behind bars. Now that this man was released, he was free to kill his wife who tried so hard to keep him away.
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Estranged Husband Is Freed, Kills Wife
Friday, January 18, 2008
POMONA, Calif. — Monica Thomas-Harris got the chilling news just before Christmas: Her estranged husband, jailed for abducting and threatening her, had been released.
A frantic Thomas-Harris rushed to the district attorney's office, begging for an emergency protection order that would allow police to arrest him if he came near her. But it was the Friday evening before Christmas, and no judge was available. The next business day was Monday, but that was Christmas Eve, and her husband's lawyer was on a long vacation and couldn't be reached for a hearing.
Less than two weeks later, Thomas-Harris, 37, was dead, shot in a motel room by her husband in a murder-suicide.
The case has shaken California's legal system, led to an internal investigation by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, and prompted demands from victims' advocates and family members for an explanation of how the husband managed to get out of jail while he awaited sentencing.
"It was around the holidays, people were on vacation. It just seems like we were so close, but not close enough," said Pamela Booth, director of the branch of the district attorney's office that oversees the Pomona courthouse. "That's one of the really tragic things about this."
By all accounts, Thomas-Harris' death resulted from a holiday-related chain of unfortunate circumstances and missed opportunities.
Among them: The prosecutor and the judge who originally handled the case were both on vacation when the deal to release Curtis Harris was struck. The prosecutor filling in that day relied on the judgment of Harris' attorney, who had known Harris for only a month. And a vital piece of paperwork — a probation report warning Harris was a danger to his wife and unsuitable for release — was overlooked or ignored in the holiday shuffle.
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rd
Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 9273 Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:16 am Post subject: |
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What in the world do these people think the bastard is going to do when released WAITING FOR SENTENCING? Are these lawyers out of their freaking minds!!!!
We know a defense lawyer will take money to spring Satan from Hell. We also know that this worthless excuse for humanity is NOT going to make arrangements for his mother, he is going to MURDER his ex-wife if he can find her, restraining order or no restraining order. MURDER! Do you freaking stupid lawyers understand that? Will you ever?
How many people have to die because you lawyers let thugs out of jail, even awaiting sentencing. You're freaking idiots.
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maresy
Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 61
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:11 am Post subject: |
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rd,
Couldn't have said it better. Judges should be held accountable for their misjudgments. There should be a review board like they have for doctors. |
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jane
Joined: 22 Sep 2002 Posts: 3225
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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These judges and defense attorneys should have to billet the thugs in their own homes or the homes of their children and grandchildren - if they wouldn't trust the bastards there, why subject other innocent people to them? _________________ "There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known."
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gozgals
Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 2892 Location: A Place Called Vertigo
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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You have stated that before Jane, and I agree. This poor woman had to die for nothing. It is just not fair. The coward also took his own life.
Goz
Quote: | "I think it's disgusting that a judge, a district attorney — even his own defense attorney — would have the background they have on a person like this and would permit him to leave court," said Thomas-Harris' father, James Thomas. "What was his business? To go right out and find my daughter and kill her." |
SO SAD! |
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