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To: KLP who wrote (336905)	12/2/2009 1:14:45 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

RE: Seattle letting this nut out of prison. "Success has a thousand fathers. Failure is an orphan."

To: KLP who wrote (336905)	12/2/2009 2:10:39 AM
From: KLP	3 Recommendations Respond to of 793958

mynorthwest.com 3 men accused of helping Clemmons ordered held mynw.com Three men accused of helping Maurice Clemmons flee after the shooting deaths of four police officers at a suburban Tacoma coffee shop appeared in court Tuesday, hours after Clemmons was shot to death by police in Seattle. Eddie Davis and Douglas Davis each pleaded not guilty to rendering criminal assistance, a felony. 3 men accused of helping Clemmons ordered held Three men accused of helping Maurice Clemmons flee after the shooting deaths of four police officers at a suburban Tacoma coffee shop appeared in court Tuesday, hours after Clemmons was shot to death by police in Seattle. Brothers Eddie Davis and Douglas Davis each pleaded not guilty to rendering criminal assistance, a felony. Pierce County Superior Court Judge Bryan Chushcoff set bail at $700,000 for Eddie Davis and $500,000 for Douglas Davis. [Read charging document] Clemmons' half brother, Rickey Hinton, has not been charged yet, but has been booked into jail for investigation of rendering criminal assistance. Chushcoff set his bail at $2 million. An ex-con suspected of acting as Clemmons' getaway driver also was jailed Tuesday. Darcus D. Allen, served time in an Arkansas prison with Clemmons and has been identified as the getaway driver in the fatal shooting of four Lakewood police officers. Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer says Allen is being held in Pierce County for investigation of rendering criminal assistance. Troyer says Allen will be charged on Wednesday in connection with Sunday's police shooting. Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist said the department will not rest until every individual involved in the case has been prosecuted. "We are not going to rest until everyone involved in this murder in any way is brought to justice. When you help a criminal, you become a criminal." Authorities said more arrests were likely for people suspected of helping Clemmons. In court documents released Tuesday, prosecutor Mark Lindquist painted Hinton as the ringleader of Clemmons' initial escape. According to the documents, the Davises were at a home in the Auburn area Saturday night when Clemmons showed them and Hinton two handguns and said he was going to shoot police. Hinton, who identified himself as Clemmons' half brother, lent Clemmons a white pickup truck that night. The next day, court records said, Hinton was outside his house when Clemmons showed up on foot, saying he'd shot some police and suffered a gunshot wound. Prosecutors allege that Hinton then woke the Davises and told them to use another car to get Clemmons out of the area. Hinton then allegedly gave his cell phone to a 12-year-old relative, telling the boy to start deleting Clemmons' phone numbers from it. The court documents also said Clemmons was later aided by at least two unidentified women, including a relative from the Algona area and a friend in Seattle who helped Clemmons clean and dress the gunshot wound to his abdomen and change clothes. Shooting suspect Clemmons was shot and killed by a lone patrolman investigating a stolen car early Tuesday. Four people were arrested for allegedly helping the suspect elude authorities during a massive two-day manhunt. Listen: Seattle Police news conference Assistant Police Chief Jim Pugel says 37-year-old Maurice Clemmons was killed about 2:45 a.m. Tuesday in a south Seattle neighborhood [Map: 4430 S. Kenyon St.] The Seattle patrol officer who killed Clemmons, Benjamin L. Kelly, 39, a seven-year law enforcement veteran, will be placed on leave, which is standard procedure after a shooting. Clemmons eluded capture thanks to family and friends who provided him with shelter, cell phones, cash and first aid for the severe belly wound he suffered when one of the dying officers in Sunday's coffee-shop rampage got off a shot, police said. Six to seven of those associates were being arrested Tuesday. Among them, police said, was Allen, the convicted murderer who served in prison with Clemmons in Arkansas and allegedly drove the getaway truck after the coffee shop rampage; the Davis brothers who later traveled with Clemmons as he eluded police; and Clemmons' sister, who bandaged him up and gave him a lift part way to Seattle. It wasn't immediately known if she or Allen had attorneys. "Some are friends, some are acquaintances, some are partners in crime, some are relatives. Now they're all partners in crime," Troyer said. It was not clear exactly where Clemmons was while on the run. Police rushed from place to place, following tips that often came up empty or yielded only accomplices. They searched homes and apartments around the city and cordoned off a park after a report of blood in a restroom. On Sunday, Clemmons briefly took refuge at a house in the city's well-to-do Leschi neighborhood, slipping away before police surrounded the home in an all-night siege that ended when SWAT officers stormed the place and realized he wasn't there. Clemmons has a violent, erratic past, and authorities in Washington state and Arkansas - where then-Gov. Mike Huckabee in 2000 commuted his 108-year prison sentence for armed robbery and other offenses - are facing tough questions about why an apparently violent and deranged man was out on the street. On Sunday, six days after posting bail in Washington on charges of raping a child, Clemmons walked into the coffee shop in suburban Tacoma and killed four uniformed Lakewood police officers as they caught up on paperwork on their laptops, police said. "The only motive that we have is he decided he was going to go kill police officers," Troyer said. Investigators also reported that Clemmons told others the night before the shooting that he was going to kill police and they should watch the news, but they wrote it off as "crazy-talk."

To: KLP who wrote (336905)	12/2/2009 7:59:27 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793958

Gov. Gregoire: WA will no longer accept Arkansas parolees mynw.com By JAMIE GRISWOLD MyNorthwest.com On Wednesday Governor Christine Gregoire announced that Washington state will not accept paroled criminals from the state of Arkansas until it can be determined "whether Arkansas is living up to its responsibilities." Officials in Washington and Arkansas have been sparring over who had responsibility for Maurice Clemmons who killed four Lakewood police officers Sunday at a Parkland coffee shop. Former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee, who commuted a sentence of 108 years that Clemmons was serving in Arkansas on crimes of burglary and robbery, told talk show host Michael Medved that he stands by the decision he made based on the facts available at the time. "If the same set of facts were in front of me as I had nine years ago, I would make the same decision." Huckabee said that Clemmons was evaluated by a parole board that granted his release, and that he wasn't exhibiting any of the behaviors that people now describe as obvious warning signs. "Nine years ago we didn't have any indication that this guy had anywhere like this within him. Nothing gave us indication of this. He didn't exhibit signs of the psychosis and sociopathic behavior that he did the last few years once he got to Washington." In response to Governor Gregoire's announcement Wednesday, that Washington would no longer accept Arkansas parolees, Huckabee called up some of the decisions Washington state authorities made more recently regarding Clemmons' confinement. "I wonder what [Gregoire's] going to do about judges who let someone go who has been charged with the rape of a child and the beating of a police officer. I don't understand why this guy got bail. I don't understand why he wasn't extradited back to Arkansas on the parole violations. These are issues that happened recently that should have been the signal." Clemmons was released after posting bail in Washington state on charges of raping a child just six days before he is suspected of shooting four Lakewood police officers. Clemmons was shot to death early Tuesday by a Seattle police officer. The main point at issue is a warrant that Arkansas officials issued for Clemmons. Arkansas corrections officials say the warrant should have been enough to keep Clemmons in jail on an earlier Pierce County charge. But Washington officials say it wasn't handled properly in Arkansas.