John Mark Karr: Not the end of the story
John Mark Karr has been set free. As I predicted, way back in the beginning. We will hear of John Mark Karr again -- either as victimizer or victim. Which I'm not sure.
You can go review my posts on John Mark Karr. You will note that at the very beginning, it was clear to me that he was probably fabricating the confession to his involvement in the JonBenet Ramsey case as a way to get out of Thailand. When he reached the United States, it was only a matter of time before he walked a free man.
Today it happened:
A judge dismissed child pornography charges Thursday against former JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect John Mark Karr after prosecutors said they didn't have enough evidence to take the case to trial.
Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Rene Chouteau ordered Mr. Karr released immediately, bringing an end to his two-month odyssey in the U.S. criminal justice system after he was extradited from Thailand on suspicion of killing the 6-year-old beauty queen.
Mr. Karr, 41, was returned to California last month to face the five-year-old pornography case after DNA evidence cleared him of killing the girl in her Boulder, Colo., home in 1996.
The child pornography case was botched when the police lost the evidence. It wouldn't have mattered. Even if the evidence hadn't been compromised, Karr would have demanded a jury trial, as allowed under the California state constitution. Then his lawyer would have pointed out that there was no way Karr could have a fair trial given the media coverage, and he would have walked anyway.
So now he is a free man. No record. No registration as a sex offender. The only baggage he has is the notoriety, but that will fade, along with the memory of his face. He might even change his look -- dye his hair, start wearing glasses, whatever.
And he'll be back to his old games, a hero to others who share similar...interests.
Sooner or later, he'll be back in the news. Mark my words. I've been right on everything so far.
The only thing I'm not sure is whether we'll be reading about his victims, or about how he has become a victim himself of someone frustrated at the ineptitude of the American justice system.
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I heard somewhere in all this scandal nonsense that the republican congressional leadership wanted Congressman Foley to run for the Senate - what happened to kibosh that?
Was it because he couldn't leave his pages behind?
Posted by: at October 5, 2006 08:48 PM
...tell me where else does a known criminal get first class airfare with champagne, delivered from a court case in which he was guilty and then set free?
Only in Canada eh?
Whoops, this is happening in the States too?
Gosh.
Posted by: tomax7 at October 6, 2006 09:34 AM
...hey Steve, me thinks there was more on the computer's hard drives than pictures of kiddies.
As in, Boulder cops, justice and other high ranking people in, uh, compromising situations.
What I dont' get is why don't they ship him back to Thia? Doesn't the US have agreements with them, otherwise how'd he manage to get over here.
So ship him back and let him taste Thia laws. Then again, he was probably a honey pot for the government in their fabricated show of doing justice when child prostitution is one of their major industries...
Posted by: tomax7 at October 6, 2006 09:39 AM
They can't send him to Thailand. One the Thais deported him without a hearing, that means they forgo the right to have him return. Two he could argue that Thai jails are cruel and unusual punishment and it is hard to imagine that a court in the US would disagree. This was a screw up from start to finish. Hopefully Steve's second prediction is the one that comes true.
Posted by: phil at October 6, 2006 10:45 PM
...i wonder why Thai deported him in the first place.
Guess I should read the news more so in the first place as maybe this would be answered, but I don't do that - read/watch the views, err, news.
When I first heard about it here I thought "oh good, they caught JB's killer". Then after hearing his ex-wife say he was with her on Christmas, I'm thinking, "oh no, another Scott Peterson mess in the making".
I mean, don't authorities check these things out first?
First class, champagne, lost computers, me thinks there are a few names the higher ups don't want made public.
Maybe he serviced them? All 'good' hookers keep a black book list.
Posted by: tomax7 at October 7, 2006 12:25 PM
 
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