Category: Criminal Activity

Washingtonpost.com:

District prosecutors have dropped charges against the man who had been accused in the murder of Chandra Levy, saying in light of new information it has concluded it can “no longer prove the murder case.”

Prosecutors did not detail what that information is, saying only that it was received in the past week. The suspect, Ingmar Guandique, was set to go to trial in October.

Levy was a 24-year-old intern with the Federal Bureau of Prisons when she disappeared May 1, 2001. The case gained national attention because police investigators at first looked closely at former California congressman Gary A. Condit, with whom Levy had an affair. Authorities later ruled him out as a suspect.

Levy’s remains were found in 2002 in Rock Creek Park. Guandique, who had pleaded guilty to attacking other women in the park, was charged. He was found guilty of Levy’s murder following a 2010 trial, but his conviction was overturned last year and he is set to be tried again in October.

The D.C. Public Defender’s Officer said in a statement that Guandique has “maintained since the beginning, when he passed an FBI administered lie detector test, that he did not kill Ms. Levy.”

“This dismissal vindicates Mr. Guandique. Finally, the government has to concede the flaws in its ill-gotten conviction,” the statement read.

So where does this leave the Levy family, who moved heaven and earth to locate their daughter’s killer?  Will Gary Condit be considered again?   Will he be considered a person of interest?  Will Guandique be deported?  What about the charges from the other women?  There is much that has not been explained.

I have always been a little suspicious of Gary Condit.

We need to watch this story.  So much is going on now with both political conventions and the Olympics beginning.  I hope it does not become buried.  This story is too important.

NYMag.com:

Brock Allen Turner, the former Stanford swimmer who was discovered raping an unconscious woman behind a dumpster on campus in January of last year, will be sentenced to six months in county jail and probation. Prosecutors had recommended that Turner receive a sentence of six years, but judge Aaron Persky determined that Turner’s age — 20 — and lack of criminal history warranted him a much shorter sentence.

“A prison sentence would have a severe impact on him,” Persky said at Turner’s sentencing on Thursday. “I think he will not be a danger to others.” Meanwhile, the 23-year-old victim in the rape case, who had had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit at the time of the rape and who had no memory of the attack, gave important testimony at the trial.

“You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my safety, my intimacy, my confidence, my own voice, until today,” she said, reportedly directly to Turner. “I am a human being who has been irreversibly hurt.” And yet it’s Turner who would be severely impacted in his sentencing? Right.

Well boo hoo.  Poor Brock.  Brock was pulled off a sexual assault on a passed out woman behind a dumpster.  He is a rapist and sexual offender.  He will spend 3 months in jail and his father is whining over his son.   Brock should be put away for at least a decade.   I am revolted that the prosecutor only went for 6 years.

What is wrong with these people?  Is it because Brock was a white guy from Stanford that he is held to a lower standard on this heinous act?

Washingtonpost.com:

A Prince William County woman was raped by five men, police said, in an attack that a police spokesman described as “despicable.”

All five men, ranging in age from 17 to 24, have been charged with raping the 39-year-old victim.

Officer Nathan Probus said that the woman, who lives in Gainesville, went to the 5300 block of Chaffins Farm Court in Haymarket to visit several people she knows.

Police are still not sure whether the woman was drugged, Probus said. But she somehow became incapacitated, and when she woke up, she knew she had been assaulted. She went to a hospital.

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