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To: KLP who wrote (172285)	7/4/2006 2:10:35 AM
From: kumar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793721

maybe so, but in a civilian situation of this nature in our country, it would be termed "gang rape followed by murders". emotions do not overcome facts. on the other hand I concede that people have been charged, but not convicted, and we work on the principle of "innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt". Either way you look at it - does not do good for our image outside the country - unless we are willing to portray the image "screw what u think of us, we'll do what darn well feel like".

To: KLP who wrote (172285)	7/4/2006 10:05:27 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793721

Interesting how little condemnation we've heard about this lawyer who was found guilty of assisting terrorists. Lawyer Convicted Of Helping Terrorists Questions Wiretapping In Her Case ny1.com A civil rights lawyer convicted of assisting terrorists is questioning whether she was the victim of warrantless wiretapping. Lynne Stewart filed a petition in Manhattan federal court Monday asking whether the government illegally spied on her or anyone involved in her case. She charges that may have affected the outcome of her trial. Her sentencing has been postponed indefinitely following her diagnosis of breast cancer in November. Stewart was convicted last year of helping pass prison messages from her client, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, to his followers. The blind Egyptian cleric is in prison for his role in a 1995 plot to blow up New York City landmarks.

To: KLP who wrote (172285)	7/4/2006 10:07:57 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793721

I wonder how many lawyers or people in the legal profession tried to cover up this incident? Is this endemic of the culture of the legal profession? Former lawyer convicted in sexual assault on girl rockymountainnews.com William J. Hunsaker Jr. testified in his defense at the original trial and retrial.STORY TOOLS Email this story \| Print By Charlie Brennan, Rocky Mountain News June 14, 2006 A former Wheat Ridge lawyer was convicted Tuesday in Larimer County District Court for the sexual assault of a girl whose mother he met over the Internet. William J. Hunsaker Jr. had been tried initially in December in the alleged assault of both the girl and her brother, but a jury acquitted him on charges relating to the boy and deadlocked on the counts relating to his sister. His retrial, stemming from allegations concerning the girl, started with jury selection June 5 and went to the jury Tuesday afternoon. Jurors were out for about 90 minutes before returning with guilty verdicts on a count of sexual assault on a child, a class-four felony, and pattern of abuse, which is a class-three felony. Hunsaker could receive a term of up to 18 years in prison when sentenced Aug. 3. Hunsaker, 35, testified in his own defense at both the first and second trial. He insisted that although his admittedly X-rated Internet correspondence with the children's mother led to sexual relations between the adults in early 2003, he never touched the boy and girl - at the time age 9 and 11, respectively. The boy did not testify at the first or second trial. The girl, now 14, testified at both. Hunsaker joined his father's Wheat Ridge law firm in 2002, where he specialized in personal injury cases. Police allege that Hunsaker used his relationship with the victim's mother, a divorced Fort Collins resident, to gain access to her daughter and son. That woman, a 33-year-old whose name is being withheld to protect her children's identity, pleaded guilty in January 2004 to incest and offering her children for sex. In exchange for that plea and an agreement to testify against Hunsaker, she was sentenced to 22 years in prison.