www.justiceforchandra.com

[Rainbow]

Hi Skipper and friends!
I feel that Mr. C.'s grooming for possibly Secretary of Agriculture and then, may be even the Presidency, explains some of the willingness by law-enforcement to participate in the cover-up elements of this case.
Isn't the Secretary of Agriculture in the line of presidential succession, if something happens to the President, Vice-President, etc.? Does anyone remember that from Civics class?

[jane]

You're kidding, Rainbow - i never knew that! I know it's president, vice-president, then speaker, I thought. Maybe Secretary of State comes into it somewhere, since Alexander Haig thought he was in charge when Reagan got shot (I'm no spring chicken, as you can tell!) Haig was wrong, but maybe somewhere in the pecking order.
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[jane]

I saw in Yahoo answers that Secretary of State was eliminated because it is an appointed position.
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[sigsky]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession

Here you go. Secretary of Agriculture is in there.

Some very scary names. Janet Napolitano?

[jane]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession
Vice President
Speaker
Presedent pro tempore of the Senate
Secretary of State (?)
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Defense
Attorney General
Secretary of the interior
Secretary of Agriculture
and it keeps going
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[Rainbow]

Wow! Thank you, Sigsky, and Jane! Go the head of the class!

[jane]

http://stgnews.com/archive/387
excerpt:

....In announcing today's verdict, U.S. Attorney Machen and Chief Lanier praised the efforts of the many people who worked on the investigation from MPD and other agencies. They especially noted the hard work of MPD Detectives Kenneth "Todd" Williams, Anthony Brigidini and Emilio Martinez.

They also expressed appreciation to members of the MPD Mobile Crime Lab, including John Allie, Charles Egan, Mike Miller, James Holder and John Holder; Joseph Kish, of the United States Park Service; Glenn Luppino, Chris Cunningham, John Bozak, Todd Ritacco, Craig Lane and Sgt. John Gott of the United States Park Police; Sue Fisher, from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons; Special Agent Jane Dombowski, of the FBI's Connecticut Field Office; forensic analysts and technicians from the FBI Laboratory at Quantico, and Dr. David Hunt from the Smithsonian Institution.

They also expressed gratitude to those who worked on the case from the U.S. Attorney's Office, including Kim Herd, Katina Adams and David Foster, of the Victim Witness Assistance Unit; Lawrence Grasso, of the Intelligence Unit; Assistant Acting Chief Elizabeth Trosman and Deputy Chiefs Mary McCord and John Mannarino, of the Appellate Division; Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Ambrosino, Special Counsel for DNA and Forensic Evidence Litigation; Leif Hickling, Kimberly Smith, Joe Calvarese and Thomas Royal, of Litigation Services, and Paralegals Candace Battle, Deborah Joyner and Kwasi Fields. Additionally, they thanked Assistant U.S. Attorneys Daniel Friedman and Kevin Flynn, former Assistant U.S. Attorney Elisa Poteat, and the Washington Field Office of the FBI, which participated in the early investigation of the case.

They further acknowledged the dedicated efforts of Yvonne Bryant, of the Victim Witness Assistance Unit, whose help was invaluable leading up to and during the trial.

Finally, they praised the work of Assistant U.S. Attorneys Amanda Haines, Fernando Campoamor-Sanchez, and Christopher Kavanaugh, who prosecuted the case.

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[jane]

http://www.tbd.com/articles/2010/11/chandra-levy-murder-trial-with-verdict-attorneys-show-how-to-win-a-case-even-when-there-s-not-much-o.html

I like the title of this article: "With verdict, attorneys show how to win a case, even when there's not much of one"

In fact, I like the whole article.
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[rd]

[rd]

They appreciated this group that spent the entire trial saying how screwed up they are, therefore pay no attention to the evidence we screwed up.

DC is a wasteland of idiots.

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[rd]

from AP:
The other was testimony from a prison inmate who said Guandique confided to him that he killed Levy.

Actually DC prosecutors had three or four cellmate confession inmates dating back to 2001. They just stopped after the first one was a convincing liar.

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[rd]

In addition, two other witnesses testified that they saw scratches on Guandique's face and body at about the time that Ms. Levy disappeared.

Even though the pciture taken of Guandique in Rock Creek park by his girlfriend showed no scratches.

Even though his girlfriend testified she saw no scratches on his face while his landlady remembered the freakin day as May 1 when he was cut up and swollen lip.

Even though the DC police refused to make available the mug shot six days later they took that showed Guandique with no facial scratches.

I would call this a kangaroo court and be done with it, although the judge was fair. Still, you might as well be standing in Tianamen Square for all the good it would do you.

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[rd]

You got to love these DC prosecutors. Turns out they win the prison creative writing contest.

They refer to Chandra as bound and gagged, and that she suffered for days before dying, but wouldn't you know the gag was leaves and mud. Why? Because no gag was found. Creative, that's our prosecutors. God I love them.

Anyone care to consider the perfect balance needed to fill a person's mouth with leaves and mud so that they can't yell for help even after hours of trying to spit it out, yet not so much as to choke them.

That Guandique was such a clever murderer, standing in the middle of nowhere when just by chance a woman who never jogged was on some kind of cross country journey on a dirt path to nowhere, no one even has a clue how she got there.

Then he subdues her, Chandra, who had self defense training and was superbly conditioned working out with weights daily, and while he subdues her he takes her clothes off and ties her up with them with intricate bondage techniques that say, oh, someone experienced in bondage might know, say someone who actually drove there instead of this insane stuff of Guandique and Chandra mosying for miles into nowhere.

Then after this stellar bondage performance he stuffs Chandra's mouth with"leaves and mud" according to creative writer extraodinaire Haines, I guess he is stellar enough to figure out how to bind her arms and legs with her tights but can't figure out how to bind a gag around her mouth.

Just amazing stuff, and then he runs off with an empty waist pouch, Chandra having nothing with her, therefore for some reason wearing an empty waist pouch, to ensure he is convicted of felony robbery murder someday.

Then doesn't pawn her ring he took off her finger, but breaks into a neighbor's apartment six days later to steal another ring.

Only of course he flees this woman in her apartment instead of going into his houdini bondage routine.

And the ditzy jurors thought this was easy to understand.

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[sigsky]

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[laskipper]

Happy Thanksgiving to you as well Sigsky and to all the posters here on JFC!

And you are right in saying that we still have a lot to be thankful for!

"God's in His Heaven, All's Right With the World"

Robert Browning
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