Child Killer wants to leg it

I found this a few days ago and it makes me think that I would so dearly love to be the Judge sitting on this case. Not only would I mark the case to ONLY come back before me on every appeal, I'd take great delight in pointing out to the child murderer that he should be thankful that he is still alive. Then I would add that he would get his prosthetic legs and he will get plenty of exercise with them - once he is placed back in general population with the knowledge being put out there that he killed an innocent child.

It would be his choice: prosthetic legs and general population or cop it sweet and stay where he is. He's not going to get life easy now that he is one of the "protected" criminal minority.

Idaho Child Killer Who Lost Legs in Suicide Attempt Sues After Being Denied Artificial Ones

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — A child killer who lost his legs in a suicide attempt is suing the state prison system for $1 million after being denied artificial legs in prison, saying he was promised prosthetics in plea negotiations.

According to the case filed recently in U.S. District Court, Barry L. McAdoo, 32, of Coeur d'Alene, is experiencing muscle degeneration and may never walk again if he remains confined to a wheelchair.

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McAdoo, convicted of beating his 15-month-old son Brandon to death, is serving 15 years to life at the Idaho State Correctional Institution in Boise.

He told authorities that when the little boy stopped breathing on Jan. 14, 2005, he downed 50 sleeping pills and rat poison, left the trailer where he lived with his pregnant wife, Angela Cowles, and wandered outdoors in freezing weather for three days before he sought help.

McAdoo was taken to Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Wash., where both legs had to be amputated because of frostbite.

McAdoo was given no promise the state would provide him prosthetics, Kootenai County Deputy Public Defender Lynn Nelson said, nor does the plea agreement signed by McAdoo, Nelson and Deputy Prosecutor Marty M. Raap mention the issue.

When McAdoo pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, 1st District Judge Charles W. Hosack asked whether he had been promised anything other than what was included in the plea agreement and McAdoo said he had not.

Nonetheless, Nelson asserted that McAdoo is entitled to prosthetics and has legal precedent on his side.

As for Kootenai County Deputy Public Defender, Lynn Nelson: I reckon this is the best solution for someone of their ilk who willingly defends such a creature as McAdoo.

Pakistani police baton-charge lawyers

By Augustine Anthony in Islamabad

November 05, 2007 04:08pm

PAKISTAN police baton-charged lawyers protesting against President Pervez Musharraf's emergency rule today, as police continued to detain his opponents in the face of US pressure to hold elections in January.

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"Police beat lawyers with batons as they came to High Court in the morning. Many of them have been arrested," Akhtar Hussain, a former president of Sindh High Court Bar Association, said.

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Yeah, I know that the stories aren't linked and that the second one is about protesting about freedoms and unconstitutional acts but you have to admit that lawyers getting beaten with batons always has to bring a smile to your face.