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Some of you might watch the O'Reilly factor and some don't; to those that don't, congratulations, you are the sane ones. This week O'Reilly reported on a case where a baby was murdered by a mother and the mother got a plea bargain where she got 5 years probation and got her tubes tied; in return she didn't have to go to jail. On the show O'Reilly published the prosicutor's email and name that offered this plea bargain. Now, if you listen to O'Reilly and don't look at the facts yourself it seems this prosecutor is an evil bastard not fit for office. So the loyal idiots...I mean O'Reilly viewers...started calling his office with threats, racial slurs (he is black), and much worse. Here is the problem, O'Reilly somehow failed to report on the actual facts of the case. Here is a statement from the prosecutor:
So to summerize; Bill called this a murder and called for the resignation of the DA. The problem is he left out the key fact that there is no way to prove this was a murder and most evidance disagrees with this conclusion.
So there ya go, another conservative liar proven wrong while he pretty much destoryed a DA's career and possibly life for personal gain.
So lets use Bill's own method of character assasination. When you get a chance please send him an email at [email protected] about how you feel about his lying or call his radio show at 1-877-9-NO-SPIN between noon and 2pm EST.
By BETH WARREN
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/18/05
Fulton prosecutors are being bombarded by heated e-mails and calls after a recent plea deal that allowed a mother charged with murdering her newborn to walk away with probation.
First, Carisa Ashe, 34, who has seven other children, agreed to have a tubal ligation, which involves cutting and tying the fallopian tubes to prevent pregnancy. Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes ordered Ashe to serve five years of probation for voluntary manslaughter in the 1998 death.
What the public didn't know is that the lead detective and a Fulton County medical examiner had their doubts 5-week-old Destiny was murdered. Conflicting opinions on whether Ashe killed her child surfaced as early as the autopsy and still linger.
Local and national news outlets quickly broadcast details about the unusual plea bargain — the first known criminal case in Georgia in which a woman agreed to undergo sterilization to avoid prison. Dozens of people have questioned whether the plea bargain was ethical, constitutional or too lenient.
A national morning TV show requested an interview with prosecutors, and national radio and television personality Bill O'Reilly has repeatedly criticized Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard's handling of the case.
O'Reilly's Web site encourages people to protest the plea bargain by e-mailing Howard's spokesman, Erik Friedly.
"We've received a lot of e-mails — a lot," Friedly said. "Many contained racial epithets and foul language. I quit looking at them. And I've gotten racial, foul, angry phone calls."
Howard said many don't know the facts of the case. "When people heard the tubal ligation part, they thought we forced her to do it," he said.
Others erroneously believed the woman had a history of violence and had beaten the child to death.
"I think it raises the question about being truthful and reporting a story honestly," Howard said. "People are thinking we did not fight for this child. It's difficult to imagine how hurtful that is when it's far from the truth."
The case has been plagued with problems from the moment the child was rushed to an area hospital after Ashe made a frantic 911 call.
She said Destiny stopped breathing and she shook the tiny infant but couldn't revive her. The baby was born prematurely and had been hospitalized for weeks.
Emergency room doctors at Hughes Spalding hospital did not see signs of trauma and blamed the death on sudden infant death syndrome, police and prosecutors said.
Atlanta police were notified of the child's death the next day, when a routine autopsy was performed.
Police charged the mother with murder based on the autopsy findings of Dr. Joyce Dejong, who was in training. Although her supervisor, Dr. Michael Heninger, disagreed with her, prosecutors built their case on Dejong's conclusions.
"She performed the autopsy and she strongly felt it was a shaken baby case," Howard said. But he said Heninger "was not comfortable stating the cause of death" as shaken baby syndrome.
Heninger wasn't alone.
Atlanta police Det. Steve Walden, who has worked homicide cases for 22 years, had so many doubts he served Ashe with a citation charging her with murder at her home instead of taking her to jail.
"I have worked about any kind of murder, including shaken baby syndrome, and this does not fit that profile," Walden said.
Howard said his office decided to offer Ashe, who had postpartum depression, the plea based on the conflicting opinions in the case.
So to summerize; Bill called this a murder and called for the resignation of the DA. The problem is he left out the key fact that there is no way to prove this was a murder and most evidance disagrees with this conclusion.
So there ya go, another conservative liar proven wrong while he pretty much destoryed a DA's career and possibly life for personal gain.
So lets use Bill's own method of character assasination. When you get a chance please send him an email at [email protected] about how you feel about his lying or call his radio show at 1-877-9-NO-SPIN between noon and 2pm EST.