[LAmag] A California woman will serve zero jail time after stabbing her boyfriend 108 times and then slicing her neck as police tried to stop her, FOX 11 reports.
Bryn Spejcher, a 32-year-old from Thousand Oaks in Ventura County, went into a state of psychosis after smoking weed with her then-boyfriend, Chad O'Melia. The stabbing took place while she was in this state, overnight between May 27 and 28 in 2018 at O'Melia's apartment.
Almost six years ago, and it took this long to try and sentence her.
She was found guilty in December of involuntary manslaughter.
"Both took several hits from a bong loaded with marijuana," the Ventura County District Attorney's Office said in a statement. "Spejcher had an adverse reaction to the marijuana and suffered from what experts call ‘cannabis-induced psychotic disorder.’"
A mental health expert from the state then reportedly found that during the state of psychosis, she was effectively "unconscious" during the stabbing. She also stabbed her dog and sliced herself upon the police's arrival.
"Before law enforcement could disarm her, Spejcher plunged the knife into her own neck," prosecutors said in a statement following her conviction. "Officers used a taser and several baton blows before they were able to finally disarm Spejcher." Shoulda let her finish the job.
O'Melia was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics who responded to the call.
In the end, a sentence was handed down for two years probation and 100 hours of community service.
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"Both took several hits from a bong loaded with marijuana,"
They did so voluntarily. Remember no one is responsible for the actions. Just like the looters rampaging the stores [now without an excuse like a police shooting]. The camel is in the tent.
[NYT] A career criminal suspected of robbing flashy Brooklyn bishop Lamor Whitehead during a live-streamed service in 2022 was shot dead by US Marshals in New Jersey Wednesday, law enforcement sources told The Post.
Shamar Leggette — who is third on the list of New York’s most wanted fugitives — was killed during a confrontation with Marshals who were attempting to arrest him for the armed robbery, the sources said.
Leggette, 41, fired at officers as he exited the MHO Inn and Suites in Monmouth Junction, where they were waiting to take him into custody, NBC New York reported.
A woman he was with inside the hotel surrendered to authorities before Leggette came out shooting, according to the station.
Leggette, who has served two stints in state prison, was identified as a suspect in the brazen church robbery last year after his two accomplices were arrested.
"Come on, man.
You're holding up the line!”
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Alabama will be allowed to put Kenneth Eugene Smith to death with nitrogen
Earlier, the Supreme Court rejected his pleas to be put spared execution
Thursday, they will likely rule on an appeal regarding the proposed methods
Smith, 58, is one of two men convicted in the murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher´s wife in 1988 that rocked a small north Alabama community.
Prosecutors said he and the other man were each paid $1,000 to kill Elizabeth Sennett on behalf of her husband, who was deeply in debt and wanted to collect on insurance.
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Suffocation is painless as long as carbondioxide can escape. Elevated CO2 intake causes the suffering. This doesn't happen with this method. The body doesn't recognize nitrogen replacing oxygen.
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The reason they are so desperate to stop it is it'll give states an easy, painless way to conduct executions that is hard to object to. They are afraid that once everyone see's how effective this is, the death penalty will come back with a vengeance.
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ZOMG! He was denied a final dinner, prolly so his atty's couldn't file that bitchy complaint. Die MF
"Smith, officials said, would receive his last meal at 10am and would not be allowed to consume liquids after 4pm, approximately two hours before the execution. Alabama inmates are provided three meals a day.
The prisoner’s final meal consisted of steak, hash browns and eggs, officials said late Thursday.
The decision was made to reduce the likelihood that Smith could start vomiting during the attempt and suffer a “substantial risk of harm”, according to a federal court ruling issued Wednesday.
After Smith survived an initial execution attempt in 2022 via lethal injection, he elected to be put to death by nitrogen hypoxia, a process that slowly deprives prisoners of oxygen. However, he’s previously noted several concerns with the untested method, including the likelihood that he could choke on his own vomit.
Due to the failed attempt, Smith suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. The prisoner said he has spent the weeks leading up to the execution suffering from retching and nausea.
As a result, officials decided that Smith’s last meal would be breakfast, served eight hours before he is scheduled to be put to death.
The process of serving a prisoner their final meal in Alabama is normally organised by William C Holman Correctional Facility Warden Terry Raybon. That’s where most death row inmates spend their final days before officials administer the death penalty."
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From a comment posted this morning by Skid.
[MAIL] Rough sleepers in California were found living inside furnished caves dug into the banks of a river 20 feet below street level.
The groups were removed from the eight caves - along the Tuolumne River in Modesto - over the weekend, and they were emptied of belongings, furniture and 7,600 lbs of rubbish, filling two trucks and a trailer.
Some of the caves were decorated with murals, had broken floor tiles and one even had a makeshift fireplace with a chimney.
Modesto Police Department said: 'This particular area has been plagued by vagrancy and illegal camps, which have raised concerns due to the fact that these camps were actually caves dug into the riverbanks.'
It comes as Los Angeles carries out its annual homeless count to try to take an accurate snapshot of the rough sleeper population in the city, after 75,500 were found to be sleeping rough in the county on any given night last year.
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There’s a long tradition of the very poorest living in makeshift dwellings in the floodplain, where part of the burden of poverty is regularly needing to replace their possessions when the water rises.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Oregon couple driving home from Taco Bell in storm share terror after water-logged road crumbled beneath their Jeep and sent them into 12-foot SINKHOLE
Katlynn Bicknell and Kevin Noel managed to escape from their vehicle, which had plunged into a 12-foot sinkhole on Saturday in Vancouver, Washington
The sinkhole was caused by a leak of a 1940s water pipe, city officials said
Vancouver Public Works said sinkholes are possible but not common
An important lesson from my father.
Extended to "Assess any situation to the best of your ability before you act."
I see mentioning Taco Bell was an integral part of the story. I mean, I don't think I could have finished reading had I not known that they were driving home from Taco Bell.
[WashingtonExaminer] In January of that year, the Energy Department finalized a rule to restore "efficiency standards" for consumer appliances — residential dishwashers, dryers, and washing machines — that had been rolled back during the Trump administration.
"The Trump rule," Bloomberg Law reported at the time, "had created new short-cycle product classes that weren’t subject to any water or energy conservation standards."
Earlier this month, a federal appeals court filed a ruling that was welcome news to Americans who find it head-scratching that the federal government is aggressively dictating the standards of our cleaning appliances.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit rejected the Energy Department’s effort to tighten those standards, determining the regulations were "arbitrary and capricious" and dismissing the government’s claim that the 2020 rules were "invalid."
The federal government’s effort to save the planet by more aggressively regulating our appliances likely sounds utterly absurd to some and entirely sensible to others. What’s undebatable is that it’s a battle that stretches back decades.
[FoxBusiness] Cities across the country are finding unique ways to add more housing with limited land.
A Charlotte motel will soon become an apartment complex.
A Rodeway Inn in Charlotte's northern part of town is currently in the closing process with a Washington-based developer, Sage Investments LLC. The developer plans to retrofit the motel into affordable housing for the area.
The group has completed similar projects, retrofitting former motels into housing. Sage Investments tells FOX, they hope to close on the property and begin construction as early as April or May.
Renovating commercial buildings that are not being used to their highest value has become common for city planners and developers across the country.
"Boston has very little unbuilt land left. Extremely little undeveloped parcels left," says Prataap Patrose, the Senior Advisor at the Boston Planning and Developing Agency.
Patrose says Boston is growing at a vast pace, like several metros in the U.S. The fast-growing city is trying to keep up with the housing demand.
Mortgage company, Fannie Mae says the U.S. is short 3.8 million housing units as of their Q4 2023 report.
With the high demand for housing and little supply in growing cities, developers and local governments are banding together to renovate old schools, offices and even motels to create more housing.
Patrose says cities like Boston have to look at their resources to see what can be done, "you’re leveraging existing assets a lot of the time, especially in the case of city assets."
Boston approved funding to build affordable housing on top of a city library in the cities West End neighborhood.
Through a city incentive program, a developer will renovate a handful of downtown offices into housing.
Patrose says this will provide the downtown area with more housing, allowing vacant office space to be used.
Sage Investment co-founder Emily Hubbard says this trend has really started to take off in several states.
"Obviously, it’s significantly cheaper. Not only is it cheaper, but it takes a third of the time. We can convert these hotels in 12 months. If we were to build them from scratch, it would take us 3 years. "
Hubbard says there is a housing crisis, but there are also creative developers with city support to redevelop unused buildings.
Patrose says, "conversions are unique to each city, so each city has to figure out what buildings will lend as a conversion and what tools are available to each city."
Taking a movement downmarket. Two decades ago they were retrofitting luxury apartments into grand old buildings in downtown Cincinnati: The McAlpin
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[WashingtonExaminer] In January of that year, the 
