Archive for the 'Judicial System' Category

Acquitted of A Murder, A HIV Positive Deaf Man Bit Officer Years Later.

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

 Police: Man Who Bit Officer Tests Positive For HIV – News Story – WSB 4.    Excerpts: Police say the incident began when an officer tried to pull over Deadwyler for driving with a broken headlight, but the man sped off. Authorities eventually caught Deadwyler, but he bit an officer as he reached into the suspect’s [...]

Way to go, Doug Bahl!

Monday, August 4th, 2008

As many people know, Bahl was savagely beaten during a routine traffic stop. Apparently the cop mistook Bahl’s moving the cop’s hand away from his wrist a sign of resistance when actually the pressure on the hand was giving Bahl extreme pain due to his medical problems. Bahl wrote on a pad of paper explaining the [...]

Justice For Tallie: Deaf Ex-Boyfriend Sentenced For Murder

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

MORGANTON – A local man was sentenced up to 33 years in prison for the kidnapping and second-degree murder of a Morganton woman four years ago.
Christopher Robert Lambert, 39, pleaded guilty to the 2004 kidnapping and murder of Tallie Antolin on Tuesday. Charged with first-degree murder, Lambert pleaded guilty to murder for a lesser charge, [...]

Inside Story: NDSD Murder Suspect is Boyfriend’s Brother

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

The accused murderer, Billy Eagleman attended the memorial services of Paula Hartze held on NDSD campus. Approximately 200 people, including NDSD personnel and students, attended this services.
Check the link to see the close-up picture of the suspect sitting and listening to the memorial services. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2516521&id=561570366.  You must register in facebook.com first.   
 
Billy Eagleman’s brother Ron reportedly had an on and off relationship [...]

Deaf Alumni Sue Canada Deaf School for Physical/Sexual Abuses

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Lawsuit claims widespread abuse of deaf students across Canada
excerpts:
Students at schools for the deaf across Canada were sexually and physically abused over a 41-year span, claims the first of what is expected to be several lawsuits against no less than eight provincial governments. A Saskatchewan law firm on Tuesday filed in Edmonton the first of [...]

Should Deaf Parents Have a Deaf Child?

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

A controversial topic naturally spawns endless debates. This UK bill banning the selection of “defective” embryos for IVF is no exception.  While pursuing this subject yesterday, this headline caught my eye yesterday.  As you can see for yourself, this is a misleading and ambiguous headline. Yet, we already saw at least one commenter agreeing that Deaf people shouldn’t [...]

Accused Deaf Rapist’s Mom Responds:

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

I am the mother of the accused.
Here is the first hand account: This a pretrial hearing. They ask the accused if he wants to plead guilty or not guilty. Thats it. End of story. Nobody in the room but the prosecutor, judge, defense attorney and required court personnel. It was just like all the other [...]

Deaf Journey: Bahl, Wright, Gallaudet, DBC, MSSD, Canada, OSD, FSDB, SWCID

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Reviewing what I covered last year, I was staggered by the sheer volume of the blogs produced, especially in the first half of the year. I eventually gave up adding topics after a while, so this list will suffice for now.  Overall, this should give you a better idea what topics were explored.  Covering the trial [...]

Police Permits Hearing Grandmother Steal Baby from a Deaf Couple

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

This article leaves me flabbergasted.. that the police department would permit a manipulative hearing relative use their facilities to conduct a serious miscarriage of justice. Hello??? We are talking about the law and order.
This sounds like a perfect recipe how to get a baby, free of charge. You want to kidnap a baby from a deaf couple?
A [...]

Bahl Juror Who Swayed The Jury Speaks Out

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

I served on the jury for Mr. Bahl’s trial last week.  As you may guess from my entry to this blog, it was a moving experience for me. 
I have no doubt in our guilty verdict of Obstructing Legal Process.  We deliberated for 2 days, so certainly we did not treat this case lightly.  In the [...]