You know it’s a really bad guy…
Bookworm on Mar 05 2009 at 10:05 am | Filed under: Crime and punishment
…When his defense attorney approves of the fact that that a policeman shot him to death:
A man accused of killing his girlfriend was shot to death in a Stockton courtroom Wednesday after he attacked the judge presiding over his murder trial, officials said.
David Paradiso, 28, was shot by a police detective after he left the witness stand and began attacking San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Cinda Fox during a break in proceedings, said Dave Konecny, a spokesman for the sheriff’s department.
Paradiso took the stand to testify around 2 p.m. and was quickly asked by prosecutors why he killed his girlfriend Eileen Pelt.
He responded: “Cause she deserved to die.”
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Karen McConnell, a county spokeswoman, said witnesses reported seeing Paradiso lift the judge and begin punching and possibly stabbing her when bailiffs ran to her aid and shots rang out. Lodi Police Det. Eric Bradley has been placed on administrative leave while the shooting is being investigated, city spokesman Jeff Hood said.
“He was going after her jugular, just as he did to the victim in this case,” his [that is, Paradiso's] attorney, Chuck Pacheco, told the Lodi News-Sentinel. “He was not stopping stabbing her, going for her neck. Bradley did the right thing.” (Emphasis mine.)
Do you get the feeling that this attorney was afraid of his client?
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At last: REAL courtroom justice.
Do you get the feeling that this attorney was afraid of his client?
What are we afraid of here, though? I don’t get it.
Animal attacks. Gives us legal and moral justification to kill. Animal gets put down.
What is the exact uncertainty here? Help me out here.
This is like psychologists and psychiatrists getting attacked by their patients. I don’t get it. What stops the doctor from putting the animal down? You don’t need knives, the police, or guns.
The brother of this animal was on the news this morning and had warned everyone 2 weeks ago that he was dangerous.
So, how did they allow him in a court without handcuffs or restraints?
Det. Eric Bradley gets the “Quick Thinking Award” of the week and California get to save a few dollars by not having to feed him.
Speaking of animals…and ‘courtroom justice’.
This guy didn’t make it to court thanks to quick thinking citizens.
Unlike the Paradisio family who recognized their son was insane, the mother in this story thought her son was just fine.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090305/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians
Greetings:
One of the local San Francisco TV stations reported he was shot three times. If there’s one thing better than a “double-tap”, it’s that old “triple-tap.”
11B, you got to make sure you get all those juicy organs and central nervous systems ; )
Book: a follow up and enough to make one throw up.
SAN FRANCISCO – Investigators on Thursday were trying to figure out how a murder suspect sneaked a 6-inch metal spike into the Stockton courtroom where he attacked a judge with the handcrafted weapon before a detective shot him to death.
Investigators said a family member had warned them last month that David Paradiso had a weapon, but searches of his jail cell had turned up nothing.
The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s office released photos of the weapon investigators said the 29-year-old Paradiso used Wednesday to attack San Joaquin Superior Court Judge Cinda Fox during a recess in his trial. Fox suffered minor injuries before a Lodi police detective shot Paradiso in the head and shoulder.
The sheriff’s office said bailiffs were in the back of the courtroom at the time of the attack, ejecting Paradiso’s mother and brother after the two caused a disruption.
That’s when the defendant lunged at Fox, grabbing the judge from behind and striking her, witnesses said.
The spike was found in the slain suspect’s hand, authorities said.