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20 Jun 3:32 pm
... Khamenei on the Iranian election results contained less-reported passages defending Iran's theocratic form of government and criticizing the religious freedom record of the
United States ... Khamene'i refers to Bill Clinton) was in charge, more than 80 people, members of the [Branch] Davidian sect were
burned alive. They cannot deny it. Democrats did ... were staging a sit-in protest in a house. The authorities asked them to come out. The Davidians refused. More than 80 men,
women and children were burned ...
25 Jan 6:23 am
The mother of Branch Davidian leader David Koresh, killed during the 1993 Waco Siege, was found stabbed to death yesterday. Her sister,
Beverly Clark, is being held in the death. ... her son in 2007, was 64. Some news articles say she was 60, but that's not possible since Koresh was born in 1959. According to her
autobiography (p. xi ... care facilities. Her autobiography says Bonnie "lived, worked and worshipped" with the Branch Davidians from
1985 to 1991 (p. xii). She lost 14 children in the deadly ...
25 Nov, 2007 11:24 pm
... recently treated the Paul phenomenon like an alien life form: "The Texas libertarian's rise in the polls and in fundraising proves that a small but passionate number of
Americans ... advocate of unorthodox proposals." Republican pollster Frank Luntz has denounced Paul's supporters as "the equivalent of crabgrass . . . not the grass you want, and
it spreads faster ... said out loud what many campaign reporters have no doubt been thinking all along: "He might make a dandy new leader for the Branch Davidians ...
25 May, 2007 9:30 am
... Laboratory, has conducted investigations for defense attorneys and prosecutors. His resume is a who's who of celebrity cases, including Simpson, William Kennedy Smith, Kobe
Bryant, JonBenet ... Ramsey, Scott Peterson, Chandra Levy, Michael Skakel, Vincent Foster and the Branch Davidian compound fire. He
conducted a crime-scene investigation in Taipei after ... Southern California Law professor Jean Rosenbluth, who has been attending Spector's trial, noted the judge did not
sanction Lee and issued what she ...
23 Feb 10:55 am
... U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and Branch Davidian leader David Koresh. Kent's former case manager, Cathy
McBroom, filed a complaint against Kent in May 2007 and the Judicial Council of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals began an investigation. The Associated Press does not
normally name alleged ... F. Collins, in February 1991, for scheming with a New Orleans businessman to split a drug smuggler's $100,000 payoff. He was convicted and sentenced
later that year to nearly seven years ...
17 Sep 1:40 am
... special agent in the FBI's Austin office when he was called in to be the lead negotiator with the Branch Davidian's
during the infamous 1993 standoff. He was interviewed last year, along with other government agents, local Waco law enforcement, and ... ….I don't give a damn about the parents; it was
their decision to stay inside. They're responsible for it… There's a special place in hell for David Koresh. In the ellipses he talks about the children who died, and expresses
appropriate sympathy for ...
27 Mar, 2007 3:18 am
... a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered." Certainly the Branch
Davidian compound near Waco would seem to meet that definition. My panel of experts felt that ... ] have a deleterious effect on the commercial market for the music." (This might
be a stronger argument for the publishers of Barney the Dinosaur's songs than for the publishers of the Metallica catalog.) Clearly, no songwriter should imagine that collecting
royalties for ...
27 Mar, 2007 3:18 am
... a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered." Certainly the Branch
Davidian compound near Waco would seem to meet that definition. My panel of experts felt that ... ] have a deleterious effect on the commercial market for the music." (This might
be a stronger argument for the publishers of Barney the Dinosaur's songs than for the publishers of the Metallica catalog.) Clearly, no songwriter should imagine that collecting
royalties for ...
19 Apr, 2007 7:38 pm
Today is a bad day for history. It is the anniversary of the tragic deaths of the Branch Davidians at Waco in 1993. It is also the 12th
anniversary of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. (Disclosure: I was one of Timothy McVeigh's trial lawyers, so don't bother ranting about him in the comments, it will be deleted.)
Tomorrow, April 20, is the anniversary of the Columbine killings. One of the lasting legal ...
26 Oct, 2006 1:41 pm
... I would probably have said I was a proud member, but I am greatly distressed at this year's Champion of Justice Award winner: Janet Reno. Before I go any further, I ... this
aware because she issued the order to storm the Branch Davidian complex in Waco. She ordered the military raid on Elian
Gonzalez's house. She persecuted Wen Ho Lee for political reasons. Under her administration, the FBI tried to monitor this country's emails using the Carnivore program.
Roy Black certainly did not like her when ...
27 May, 2007 2:45 pm
... of O.J. Simpson, William Kennedy Smith, Kobe Bryant, JonBenet Ramsey, Scott Peterson, Chandra Levy, Michael Skakel, Vincent Foster and the Branch Davidian compound fire. Dr. Lee has a lot to lose here," said Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler, casting doubt on the expert's
credibility. Judge Fidler heard testimony from several witnesses on the mystery of a piece of fingernail missing from the crime scene. Lee's expert witness ...
24 May, 2008 1:34 am
... all cases involving large numbers of people and broad-stroke allegations. When there's one child involved, the claims are specific. The state proffers individualized evidence
of claimed abuse ... in San Angelo, Texas, was the federal government's 1993 raid on a compound in Waco, Texas, where members of a religious sect known as the Branch Davidians lived. Some 82 members of ... away from their parents by such blunt force. If there's any merit to the state's concerns
at all, then let them put up or shut ...
23 Feb 8:38 am
The long-awaited criminal trial of U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent opens today down in Houston. Kent has been indicted on five felony counts of ... pleaded not guilty to all of
the charges. His attorney, Richard DeGuerin, who represented Branch Davidians leader David Koresh back in the 1990s, declined to be
interviewed for this article in light ... such a case, Congress might also get involved, possibly to revoke Kent's life tenure as a federal judge. Jury selection in the case is
due to begin Monday. ...
20 Apr, 2008 10:09 pm
... . ROZITA SWINTON HAS never been a member of the FLDS, and the Colorado woman's known criminal record involves a history of hoax phone calls. When she was arrested ...
-appointed guardians were taking custody of the FLDS children, however, reports of Swinton's history of hoaxes caused Internet newshounds to begin researching the Colorado woman.
Blogger " ... deadly 1993 raid on another Texas cult compound, David Koresh's Branch Davidian sect near Waco. If it turns out
that the FLDS raid was the result of ...
27 Mar 7:14 am
... whose clients have included Branch Davidian leader David Koresh, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and, more recently,
U.S. District Judge Samuel ... not Madoff." DeGuerin added: "There are hard assets for every dollar invested" with Stanford's offshore bank in Antigua, says DeGuerin. "The
losses in the Stanford case are right in line with ... small part on whether he can get a federal judge to unfreeze some of Stanford's reported $2.2 billion in assets. Click here
for an earlier Law Blog post ...
13 Apr 10:23 pm
... the volume and that was a mistake by the state, not something kids or their moms should be punished for. Hildebran's bill is a laundry list of solutions looking for a
problem. But the real problems with the Great Eldorado Polygamist Roundup all involved state ... mistake by thinking this was a parallel to the Branch Davidian catastrophe, when really the better parallel was the 1953 raid on the FLDS at Short Creek, Utah, a subject discussed here on Grits last
year. "It's their Alamo," she said, and ...
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