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That's a long row to hoe, but there's always someone trying to work it.
In this first article from Gizmodo, anyone applying for a government job that requires fingerpring would also have to submit a genetic sample - and here's the kicker - PAY $250 FOR PROCESSING! Now, aside from background checks, law enforcement has to have fingerprints on file so that they can be easily eliminated from crime scenes in case they accidentally contaminate it. Same thing if you're a crime lab tech. But I worked in computer services. I had to be fingerprinted for my background check. I never came anywhere near a crime scene - and you want a genetic sample and want me to pay $250 for it?
No way.
I don't expect this bill to progress, but you never know.
This second one is a doozy. While it happened in Prescott Valley, Arizona (an hour or so north of Phoenix), the insanity began in Missouri and in Scientology. This guy's sister-in-law goes to prison. This guy, hereafter referred to as The Defendant, is bigly into Scientology. The Defendant and his wife take in her kid for a period of time unspecified in the article. Sister-in-law gets out of prison in Arizona, she and her husband get the kid back, and the kid is being treated with psychotherapy and anti-depressants. Article doesn't specify why.
Those of you who know much about Scientology may know that psychotherapy is one of the really big no-nos in their rule book. Scientology fixes all! Psychotherapy and psycho-active drugs are EEEEEVIL! The Defendant (or his attorneys) claims in court to believe that the treatment is destroying the kids soul.
The Defendant buys a burner phone, leaves his normal cell at home, drives from Missouri to Arizona, 1400 miles, IN 24 HOURS, buys a hatchet and change of clothes at Walmart, goes to S-I-L's house, gets into a heated argument with S-I-L and her husband, murders the two of them with the hatchet, douses the bodies with acidic drain cleaning agent, then torches the house.
The defense argues that (A) it wasn't premeditated, and (B) it's OK because Scientology says so.
It took the jury two hours to convict him of first degree murder because (A) the evidence was overwhelming, it obviously was premeditated or he wouldn't have bought a burner phone, left his original phone at home, driven 1400 miles in 24 hours, and bought a hatchet and change of clothes at Walmart before the confrontation, much less doused the bodies in acid and torched the house, and (B) BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
A spokesclone for the Scientologists sent a statement to the newspaper saying 'please don't say bad things about us because we don't advocate anything like this.'
The article doesn't say what happened to the kid, whether he was at the home or what when the murder happened. I'm guessing he was at school or elsewhere.
Prosecutors are going to seek the death penalty.
In this first article from Gizmodo, anyone applying for a government job that requires fingerpring would also have to submit a genetic sample - and here's the kicker - PAY $250 FOR PROCESSING! Now, aside from background checks, law enforcement has to have fingerprints on file so that they can be easily eliminated from crime scenes in case they accidentally contaminate it. Same thing if you're a crime lab tech. But I worked in computer services. I had to be fingerprinted for my background check. I never came anywhere near a crime scene - and you want a genetic sample and want me to pay $250 for it?
No way.
I don't expect this bill to progress, but you never know.
This second one is a doozy. While it happened in Prescott Valley, Arizona (an hour or so north of Phoenix), the insanity began in Missouri and in Scientology. This guy's sister-in-law goes to prison. This guy, hereafter referred to as The Defendant, is bigly into Scientology. The Defendant and his wife take in her kid for a period of time unspecified in the article. Sister-in-law gets out of prison in Arizona, she and her husband get the kid back, and the kid is being treated with psychotherapy and anti-depressants. Article doesn't specify why.
Those of you who know much about Scientology may know that psychotherapy is one of the really big no-nos in their rule book. Scientology fixes all! Psychotherapy and psycho-active drugs are EEEEEVIL! The Defendant (or his attorneys) claims in court to believe that the treatment is destroying the kids soul.
The Defendant buys a burner phone, leaves his normal cell at home, drives from Missouri to Arizona, 1400 miles, IN 24 HOURS, buys a hatchet and change of clothes at Walmart, goes to S-I-L's house, gets into a heated argument with S-I-L and her husband, murders the two of them with the hatchet, douses the bodies with acidic drain cleaning agent, then torches the house.
The defense argues that (A) it wasn't premeditated, and (B) it's OK because Scientology says so.
It took the jury two hours to convict him of first degree murder because (A) the evidence was overwhelming, it obviously was premeditated or he wouldn't have bought a burner phone, left his original phone at home, driven 1400 miles in 24 hours, and bought a hatchet and change of clothes at Walmart before the confrontation, much less doused the bodies in acid and torched the house, and (B) BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
A spokesclone for the Scientologists sent a statement to the newspaper saying 'please don't say bad things about us because we don't advocate anything like this.'
The article doesn't say what happened to the kid, whether he was at the home or what when the murder happened. I'm guessing he was at school or elsewhere.
Prosecutors are going to seek the death penalty.
