Scared Monkeys Radio Daily Commentary – Thursday, June 12, 2008 – The Justice System Takes Another Black-Eye

• Dana discusses some shameful doings of a judge presiding over an obscenity case.

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Aruban Police Officer Suspcted of False Reporting of Witness Declarations

Aruban police officer, Edgar Maduro, is suspected of false reporting. Maduro is now formally suspected of violating article 194 of the Criminal Code, in other words, false reporting. You mean after all this time there is an actual criminal code in Aruba for false reporting on a declaration? Maybe the OM would like to go back and re-evaluate all of the declarations by Joran Van der Sloot, Deepak Kalpoe, Satish Kalpoe, Paulus Van der Sloot et all and see if the same criminal codes were not violated in the case of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. Its the least the OM could do after 3 years have transpired since Natalee Holloway went missing.

The Public Prosecutor (OM) is now suspecting him of false reporting and decided to hear the police officer again.  After Maduro was confronted on Thursday with the existing suspicion, he told the OM before the interrogation that he appeals to his right to remain silent.  Maduro didn’t want to listen to the findings of the National-detective and left with his lawyer after having left behind a written statement saying that he does not see any reason for adding to the statements he had already given. 

Maduro is now formally suspected of violating article 194 of the Criminal Code, in other words, false reporting. 

Suspected police officer Maduro appeals to his right to remain silent (Amigoe: 6/1/2008)

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Aruba: Justice Minister Rudy Croes & Lawyer Hendrik Croes Given a Rap over the Knuckles

Aruban Justice Minister was given a rap across the knuckles for his handling of the situation with procurator general Theresa Croes-Fernandes Pedra. If this is how they treat their own, imagine how outsiders are dealt with?

Even though the PG has lost her case, the judge questioned the minister’s way of handling as well as that of his brother and lawyer Hendrik.  The minister has not complied with the instructions of the verdict of November 22, 2007 …

PG must continue being paid for as long as she does not resign; Theresa Croes-Fernandes Pedra (Amigoe: May 22, 2008)

ORANJESTAD – Justice-minister Rudy Croes and lawyer Hendrik Croes were given a rap over the knuckles in the lawsuit instituted by procurator general Theresa Croes-Fernandes Pedra against the minister.

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Jury Convicts Brian Rooney Guilty of Rape & Murder UVM Student Michelle Gardner-Quinn

JUSTICE FOR MICHELLE GARDNER-QUINN.

A Rutland, Vermont jury has convicted Brian Rooney in the 2006 rape and murder of 21 year old University of Vermont coed, Michelle Gardner-Quinn. The jury took a little over 6 hours in deliberations to find Brian Rooney guilty of aggravated murder. Personally, it should have taken them 6 minutes. However, justice was served.

Brian Rooney, good riddance to bad rubbish

After more than six hours of deliberations, jurors found Brian Rooney guilty of aggravated murder in the 2006 slaying of Michelle Gardner-Quinn, 21, of Arlington, Va.

He now faces a mandatory sentence of life without parole.

“Justice works once in a while,” the victim’s mother, Diane Gardner Quinn, said as she hugged former Burlington police chief Thomas Tremblay, who oversaw the investigation.

Gardner-Quinn, an environmental studies major, had just transferred to UVM when she vanished Oct. 7, 2006.

Justice for Michelle Gardner-Quinn

The trial had been moved from Burlington, VT to Rutland as defense attorneys thought that a change of venue was needed to get a fair trail away from the place where the crime was committed. They could have changed the venue to Mars and he would have been found guilty. Try as the defense attorneys might, Brian Rooney will be spending the rest of his life behind bars without parole.

The parents of Michelle Gardner-Quinn, Diane Gardner Quinn (left) and John-Charles Quinn, react as the jury delivers a guilty verdict in Brian Rooney’s murder trial in Vermont District Court in Rutland on Thursday May 22, 2008. Rooney is accused of abducting, raping and killing University of Vermont student Gardner-Quinn in October of 2006. (GLENN RUSSELL, Free Press)

Man Guilty of Murdering College Student From Arlington

Gardner-Quinn, who grew up in North Arlington, disappeared from downtown Burlington, where she had been celebrating a friend’s 21st birthday. She bumped into Rooney after she became separated from friends and her cellphone died, court documents said. Her body was found a week later, face-down and in a fetal position near a popular swimming hole. She had been sexually assaulted, beaten and strangled.

Prosecutor Rosemary Gretkowski told jurors in closing arguments yesterday that the DNA match and other evidence established Rooney’s guilt, the Associated Press reported. “The truth is that Michelle had the misfortune of bad timing: dead cellphone and uttering the innocent words ‘Excuse me, sir, may I borrow your phone?’ to the wrong stranger,” Gretkowski said.

• Brian Rooney found guilty in murder of Michelle Gardner Quinn
• Brian Rooney will spend the rest of his life in prison
• GUILTY: Jury convicts Rooney
• Quotes from trial in death of University of Vermont student

Pet Food Companies Agree to Pay $24 Million to Pet Owners in Tainted Pet Food Recall Suit (Menu Foods)

We all remember the Menu Foods pet food recall that affected so many types of cat and dog food in supermarkets. It was the biggest ever pet food recall in American history. The tragedy of the tainted food had cost many of our readers their pets. It was unknown just how may cats and dogs were killed nationwide, however, now there has been a settlement reached.

Pet food companies that were sued over contaminated and tainted food that caused the deaths of thousands of cats and dogs have agreed to pay $24 million to pet owners in the United States and Canada. Ontario based Menu Foods was one of the companies sued. Recall information HERE. Approximately 300 people sued 30 companies in state and federal courts including Menu Foods.

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Ontario-based Menu Foods Income Fund, which makes dog and cat food under about 90 brand names, and other firms that make or sell pet food announced April 1 that they were settling lawsuits with pet owners.

The pet food was discovered to contain wheat gluten imported from China that was contaminated with melamine, a chemical used to make plastics. Though Menu was the first company to issue recalls, four other companies eventually recalled pet foods, too.

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