How to Get Away with Murder
I knew that you can get away with mass murder and get re-elected in America, but I never realized that under North Carolina state law a person can murder with impunity and eventually walk free.
No need to hide the crime.
No need to serve time - at least not in prison.
And no criminal conviction on your record when you're free.
Here's how:
- Kill whomever you like
- Plead insanity
- Get acquitted
- "Regain your sanity"
- Walk free.
It's that simple if you can get it to work.
This guy couldn't, but it didn't stop him from trying and his lawyer insists that it should have worked like a charm.
Michael Hayes, who killed four people and wounded five others in a 1988 shooting spree in southern Forsyth County, must remain in the care of a state psychiatric hospital, a judge ruled today.The ruling, which was not immediately available, comes after a four-day hearing in Forsyth Superior Court last week in which a team of psychologists testified that Hayes no longer suffers from the personality disorder that accounted for his murderous rampage. A jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity in the killings.
Special Judge Steve A. Balog could have either released Hayes, 43, without any conditions, or ordered him back to Dorothea Dix Hospital.
Hayes' attorney, Karl Knudsen, had to persuade Balog that Hayes met one of two conditions for release: That he is not mentally ill, or that he is no longer dangerous to others. Knudsen said in his closing argument that it's hard to see how Hayes could do more to satisfy both parts of the law.
"We have a situation where the law compels the court to make a decision which may be unpopular, which may be difficult, but it's the right thing to do," Knudsen said.
It's unpopular because it's immoral, not to mention outrageous.
David Sipprell, an assistant district attorney, told Balog that he should not believe that Hayes has recovered from the personality disorders and drug dependencies that led Hayes to kill.Robert Brown Jr., the only psychiatrist called by the state, testified that Hayes still has an unspecified personality disorder. He said he recommended that Hayes be released with conditions, an arrangement that is not possible under state law.
During the hearing, Hayes apologized for the shootings.
"It was totally me, my life choices, my bad decisions led me to do something like that to you and your family," he said. "I wish I could change it, I wish I could take the whole thing back. But there is not a day that goes by that I do not think about you. You're all in my prayers, everyone. I mean, I'm very, very sorry."
Sorry won't bring back the victims.
What a sad state the criminal justice system is in America.
I gues it's not surprising in a country where insanity runs rampant, and mass murderers get re-elected.
Here's another way: Tell the first responders you're a "Reverend".
http://www.thetimesherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070916/NEWS01...
This case is just disgusting. There were two people in the house. One man was in his 60s and another in his 20s. The younger man had only been in the home of this older man (who was an acquaintance of the younger man's grandfather) one time before. During the first visit, the older man told the younger man that his family didn't like him and that they didn't want him around because of an incident where the younger man had stolen some money from his grandparents several years prior. The incident was a non-issue that had been long forgotten and forgiven. This first visit was just before Thanksgiving of 2006. The second time the younger man ended up at the older man's home was on December 27th, 2006. The younger man had bought a truck from the older man and was returning the license plate to him earlier in the day. A few hours later he wound up with a bullet in his head and when officers arrived it was immediately ruled a suicide. No printing of the gun. No powder residue check. No securing of the crime scene. No questioning of the other person in the house. Nothing. And this is only the beginning.
There are two different descriptions of how the body was found in the police report. One of the responders states the body was flat on the floor and the other responder states the body was sitting upright in a chair, leaning against a wall. This was explained away by officers as a "typo".
The older man has a "mail away" reverend's license, addresses himself as “Reverend” and performs weddings in the little chapel on his property, admittedly, "for the tax write off". He's a raging alcoholic with a history of violence, but when the sheriffs department showed up, the older man introduced himself as "Reverend" and said while he was "counseling" the younger man for "depression" the young man stood up, "pulled a gun from his pocket and shot himself in the head."
After about a week, through phone calls and leg work by the family, a witness who could identify the gun as belonging to the older man was found and at the insistence of the young man's grandfather and family the sheriff's department conducted another interview with the older man and they were able to identify the gun as belonging to the older man. This gun was unregistered and the serial numbers had been altered. The story was changed in subsequent addendums to the report, but the family was told this new information “wouldn’t change anything”.
It was later discovered that the "detective" sent to the crime scene that evening was just a drug task force officer who was filling in for the detective who was off that night and another officer who the family spoke to admitted that the case was handled terribly. Of course, he’s denying he ever said this, even though there were four other people in the room who heard him say it. They just keeping giving the typical, “The family is in denial” excuse.
The family hired a private investigator who happened to be a former police officer in this same city. He was floored that the case was ruled a suicide.
The sheriff’s department spokesman says,
“…any sudden death is considered suspicious until proven otherwise, and investigated in that way at the scene.”
The Medical Examiner says,
“…the autopsy was done completely and correctly” yet they were never told that there was a second person in the home at the time of the shooting. They were told it was a suicide before the body arrived.
The department spokesman then flat out lies and says,
“…detectives investigated the case for about three weeks before Simpson's death was ruled a suicide and the investigation was closed.”
Yet in the forums a family member quotes the police report that reads:
Narrative Title: Narrative From CAD 06-012111/99001
Date Entered: 12/28/2006 05:17:29
Complaint Type: Suicide-Suicide or Attempt Suicide
Caller Name: ________________
Officer ID: 003176, Officer Name: RYAN
(12/27/2006 22:17:32: sprzytakoski)
SECURE
(12/27/2006 22:08:42: sprzytakoski)
SCENE SECURE
(12/27/2006 22:05:59 sprzytakoski)
SIGNAL 10
(12/27/2006 22:00:47: meking)
SUBJECTS FIRST NAME IS ROBERT
(12/27/2006 21:58:33: MEKING)
CROSS STREETS: _____________________
SHOT HIMSELF IN THE HEAD
Case closed - 12/28/2006 07:06:58
07:06:58 the following morning. CASE CLOSED! How can this be when the case was investigated for three weeks?
After spending nearly a year trying to "follow the chain of command" and trust the system the family started making calls and sending the documents to everyone they could think of and this was the first response:
“The family has contacted Oakland County Medical Examiner Dr. Kanu Virani for a second opinion. He supplied them with a letter that stated:
"I have reviewed death certificate, autopsy (partial) report, photographs and police report you and your family have brought to me regarding Robert Simpson. It is my opinion that the manner of death in this case should not have been classified as suicide. Based on circumstances it is homicide until it is proved otherwise."
Now the medical examiner is saying,
“…it's unfortunate the family is being "strung along" by hired experts who are telling them that the investigation was done wrong.
The investigator was only paid to compile the report and hasn’t taken a penny from the family since the report was finalized in the spring of this year and has continued to work on this case. Mr. Virani is not being paid by the family in any way.
Then our friend the medical examiner says,
"It's not uncommon with suicides, especially in young people that don't exhibit depression or leave a note, that the family can't accept it," he said. "Someone else has to be responsible."
Again, the poor disillusioned family is in denial.
The family is hoping the story will reach out to others in their area or in other states who may be experiencing the same treatment from law enforcement. The family has also been discussing the case and providing more details in the forums at the newspaper’s website.
http://forum.thetimesherald.com/viewtopic.php?t=10546
The local community isn’t pleased with the police or sheriff’s department already and the topic has drawn over 7,000 views in the 11 days since the story ran in the local paper.
..many of the swine are much better at breaking the law than upholding it, not to mention the sheer ineptitude, ego and laziness we've seen time and time again! useless.
..i know of someone who got away with murder; he, and a bunch of assholes beat a homeless man to death in an underground garage. When this son-of-a-mafia-thug was asked his alibi, he said he was home at 7:29pm, so he couldn't have done it.. the mother and sister corroborated his lie.. needless to say, the juudge let him walk free..