Remembering Tristan
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Tristan Allegra, age 8
Two years ago today, Tristan Allegra died at the hands of his mother. Tristan was loved by his family and friends, and was a joy to be around from the guestbook condolences left at his legacy.com account. No little boy should have one of those. Tristan’s teacher pondered that as she looked at him in her class she wondered what he would become: a doctor, a lawyer, perhaps an engineer, but his life was cut short by his mother who took his life on Christmas Day, 2008.
According to a Port St. Lucie Police Department arrest affidavit, Eryn Allegra, gave her son, Tristan, eight adult dosage Advil pills to put him to sleep on Christmas Eve in a room at the Holiday Inn in Port St. Lucie. Eryn stated that she showed the pills to Tristan and that “he was interested in them” and said he had a headache and she gave them to him with some Coke and he was “happy”. He then got very sleepy and fell asleep. Between 3 and 4 a.m. Christmas morning she said that she was worried that the pills might not “do the job on him” and that he would turn into “a vegetable”. She didn’t want him to “suffer unnecessarily”. It was then that she placed the hotel pillow on Tristan’s face and smothered him with a pillow. (more…)
The Death Penalty
Florida is obviously a death penalty state, and this post is neither pro nor anti death penalty, but about the statistical data for what is considered a capital crime in the state of Florida and some of the death penalty cases currently active. Again, I ask that commentary be made with neutrality and thought and by withholding the emotion and gutteral cries of KILL CASEY.
There are four crimes in Florida that can land you on death row if found guilty. They are First-degree murder; felony murder; capital drug trafficking, and capital sexual battery. Casey has been charged with first degree murder, and manslaughter. (Indictment)
A 19-member Florida grand jury issued the seven-count indictment, charging Anthony with aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter and four counts of lying to investigators in addition to murder.Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,438206,00.html#ixzz17W2JZx6b
Trial by Blogger
I decided to start this blog to open the gates of dialogue, and that is CIVIL DIALOGUE, regarding Casey Anthony and why people hate her so much. I will start this blog with the written warning that I will not tolerate disrespectful commentary, but warmly welcome civil discussion from all party lines with regard to this case.
Casey Anthony, in my opinion, is being treated unfairly by the judicial system and thus far from my research, I am having a hard time believing that this case is not fueled by anything more than hate and venom from the online bloggers because Joe Public does not give this case but a glance if reading it in the paper, or a haphazard listen if it is on the news. It is the online community that cares about this case, and it is the online community that has already tried, convicted and is marching Casey Anthony to the death chamber for the death of her daughter, Caylee.
It is a pesky, little thing called our constitutional right to a fair trial that GUARANTEES that Casey Anthony receive a fair trial whether the online community likes it or not. It is the part of the part of the United States Bill of Rights which sets forth rights related to criminal prosecutions. The Supreme Court has applied the protections of this amendment to the states through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence
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