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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. Bonnie Clark Haldemann ... 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), she was born Sept. 8, 1944 and only 14 both when she became pregnant and when
Koresh was born. She met his father at age 13 while working at her junior high school. ...
17 Sep 1:40 am
... jumped out at me. At the top of the magazine cover is the teaser for the article, " 'There's a special place in hell for David
Koresh.' An oral history of the Branch Davidian standoff". Where's that come from? Well, the article is primarily a series of quotes from ...
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 them. And it's ...
29 Mar, 2008 7:38 am
... Another outstanding defense lawyer, and friend of both mine and Mickey's is David Chesnoff of Las Vegas (former partner to Las Vegas Mayor
Oscar Goodman until Oscar became ... trial lawyer who has taken on impossible cases and clients. As of this writing, he is representing Las Vegas headliner David Copperfield. His response: No rats, no snitches. ... in his money laundering conspiracy case, Dick represented Texas cult leader David Koresh during his standoff with the FBI and the ATF. Most recently he ...
6 Feb, 2008 11:51 am
... Bahn, Steven Hyden, Josh Modell, Noel Murray, Keith Phipps, Tasha Robinson, Scott Tobias, David Wolinsky The knights who say "nerd" 1. Star
Trek It's the elephant in the nerdy-obsessions room, and ... pointing any fingers here) approach Simpsons fandom with a zeal and passion that would creep out David Koresh. It isn't just that super-fans speak in the densely coded language of Simpsons references-shoehorning
Ralph Wiggum quotes into conversations about anything-or that they start frothing at the ...
27 Mar 7:14 am
... defense, it looks like some of it will make its way into the pocket of Dick DeGuerin, a celebrated Houston criminal defense lawyer whose clients have included Branch Davidian leader
David Koresh, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and, more recently, U.S. ... the company's
former chief financial officer, is now cooperating with authorities, according to his lawyer, David Finn. It could bode ill for Stanford
himself. DeGuerin, however, seemed unconcerned. Said DeGuerin to ...
22 Jan, 2007 6:07 am
More folks are noticing convicted tax evader Ed Brown's vow to go down like a New Hampshire David Koresh. Fox...
27 Mar, 2007 3:18 am
... will to resist. We saw it used in Panama, for instance, to drive Noriega from his palace and then, years later, in Waco, Texas, against David Koresh and his Branch Davidians (with unanticipated results). But with the arrival of the War on Terror and
our liberation from previously crabbed interpretations of international human rights commitments, high-decibel music may now be becoming a fairly routine interrogation tool used in ...
27 Mar, 2007 3:18 am
... will to resist. We saw it used in Panama, for instance, to drive Noriega from his palace and then, years later, in Waco, Texas, against David Koresh and his Branch Davidians (with unanticipated results). But with the arrival of the War on Terror and
our liberation from previously crabbed interpretations of international human rights commitments, high-decibel music may now be becoming a fairly routine interrogation tool used in ...
15 Dec, 2007 8:15 am
"DeGuerin's slick opening argument": Yesterday in The Houston Chronicle, columnist Rick Casey had an op-ed that begins, "Dick DeGuerin's legend as a criminal defense attorney grows. He
represents Tom DeLay. He represented Kay Bailey Hutchison. He represented David Koresh. He got a jury
to acquit Robert Durst after the multi-millionaire admitted to killing his elderly neighbor, chopping up his body and dumping it in Galveston Bay. Now he represents U.S. District Judge
Sam Kent."
1 Feb, 2008 2:12 am
... child's bedroom." MORE IN THE COMMENTS: Omaha1 has more bad product names: Jon-Benet kiddie cosmetics Andrea Yates bathtub toys Christopher Reeve rocking horse OJ Simpson gloves
Lewinsky humidor Bill O'Reilly loofah David Koresh lighter fluid Jim Jones fruit-flavored beverage
Michael Jackson underoos John Denver model airplane kit Lynn Spears' guide to successful parenting (oops that one's real!)
20 Apr, 2008 10:09 pm
... the current proceedings adequately protect the fundamental rights of the mothers and children." After police first swooped down on the Eldorado ranch, the raid was compared to the
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 a bogus call from Swinton, however, other comparisons -- to the McMartin Preschool case or the Duke University rape hoax ...
20 May, 2008 8:52 pm
What comes to your mind when you hear the word cult? Jim Jones Kool Aid? David Koresh? Charles
Manson? The Texas Polygamist Compound? Maybe even Scientology. Do the words Alcoholic's Anonymous come to mind? I certainly have never thought of Alcoholics Anonymous as a cult and I am
a member. As many people know from my recent blog post, I have been in AA for over a year. I received many emails and comments in response ...
29 May, 2008 9:00 pm
... risk keeping them on the jury, in an attempt for a mistrial). It is remarkable how otherwise intelligent and clear-headed people will follow monstrous people and monstrous paths,
from the followers of Hitler to the followers of Jim Jones to the followers of David Koresh, and the
list goes on. Consequently, good questions for jury questionnaires, if questionnaires are permitted, or else voir dire -- and hopefully ...
18 Aug, 2008 5:32 am
... religious leaders, which means they'll be less likely to speak out when bad things happen. Part of the problem with the state of Texas' approach to the raid was that officials took
the wrong example as their model. They thought they were dealing with another David Koresh like in
Waco, but really the better comparison was the Short Creek Raid in 1953 on the Utah-Arizona border. The Arizona Republic on Saturday offered an ...
23 Feb 8:38 am
... take from our own Nathan Koppel. The judge has 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 of a gag order issued in the
case. However, he told the WSJ last year that the judge had done some foolish things, though none were criminal. (Click here, here, here, ...
23 Feb 10:55 am
... his conduct with both of the [women] was mutual and consensual," said DeGuerin, who has represented such high-profile clients as former 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 ...
21 Mar 7:08 am
... , "This annual celebration recognizes the achievements of Mr. Hubbard, Founder of the Scientology religion, and honors Churches of Scientology internationally." As someone at the
public hearing approving the waiver said, "Will you be celebrating Jim Jones and David Koresh's
birthday?" Of course we know that Jim Jones gave money to politicians which served him as his church well and I would bet good money that at least one of those LA ...
20 Apr 9:59 pm
... may be widely admired both at home and abroad. But there are millions of Americans who do not like the cut of his jib-and a few whose dislike boils over into white-hot hatred....
The internet crackles with comparisons between Mr Obama and various dictators (Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini) or assorted psychotics (Charles Manson and David Koresh).
16 Jul 8:36 pm
Since the Supreme Court handed down Philip Morris USA v. Williams, 549 U.S. 346 (2007), we've posted twice - here and here - that we think Williams' reaffirmation, in the specific
context of punitive damages, of defendants' rights to maintain all available legal defenses sounds the death knell for punitive damages class actions. And not just in the blogosphere.
One of us took this constitutional argument for a test drive in Dukes v. Wal-Mart (not a drug/device case), with encouraging results, ...
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