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30/8/12 Crown Court Cardiff. Edward Howell Adams (known as Howell) was sentenced today to 18months of which he is recommended to serve 9 for drink driving, failing to stop and dangerous driving for the incident in which he left paralympian cyclist Simon Richardson MBE with life threatening injures last August. Adams is also banned for 5 years though with such poor eyesight it's not expected he will be allowed to drive again. Multi Paralympic medallist Simon Richardson's preparations for London 2012 were dashed when he was smashed 23m into the air off his bike during an early morning training session by drunk partially sighted farmer Edward Howell Adams driving a van on the A48 nr Bridgend.
Sentencing of Paul Manafort. Lead defense counsel Kevin Downing on right, with rest of defense team coming out of court after the sentencing
Pensioner Ilyas Ashar sentenced to 13 years in jail for raping deaf and mute girl trafficked to UK from Pakistan ow.ly/q9Ztw The pensioner who repeatedly raped a deaf and mute girl who he trafficked to Britain aged 10 has been sentenced to 13 years in jail.
Craigslist Sentence Generator Garland, 2014 for CSA PGH
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Sentenced to death after a string of brutal robberies and murders in the 1950s. Six people were killed during a series of armed robberies and murders that became known as the "Mad Dog Killings". A number of others were shot, beaten, or pistol-whipped but survived. Taborsky earned his nickname due to the savagery of the killings. He was executed by electric chair at the age of 36 in 1960. His execution was the last in Connecticut until Michael Ross in 2005.
Andres Figueroa Cordero was a political activist, member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and an advocate of Puerto Rican independence.
On March 1, 1954, Figueroa Cordero together with fellow Nationalists Lolita Lebrón, Irvin Flores, and Rafael Cancel Miranda entered the United States Capitol building armed with automatic pistols and fired 30 shots.
Five congressmen were wounded, however all the representatives survived and Figueroa Cordero, along with the other three members of his group were immediately arrested.
Figueroa Cordero was convicted in the shooting and sentenced to 25 years to 75 years in prison. He was convicted of conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States in a separate trial in 1954 and received six additional years of prison time.
President Jimmy Carter released him in 1977 after 23 years in prison due to his failing health. He died months later. His compatriots were released by Carter later in 1978 and went home to a heros welcome.
Sedition trial:
Following the wounding of five U.S. Representatives in the Capitol building March 1, 1954 by four Puerto Rican nationalists who opened fire on them from a visitor gallery, the U.S. government began a series of mass arrests that resulted in two conspiracy trials 1954-55. A third trial took place in Puerto Rico.
The four participants in the shooting—Delores Lolita Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irvin Flores Rodriguez and Andres Figueroa Cordero—were quickly arrested and convicted in the attack with sentences varying from 16 years to 75 years in jail.
But the federal government went further, convening three different grand juries, summoning 91 Puerto Ricans and bringing indictments against 17 members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party for “seditious conspiracy to overthrow the United States government by force.”
The four charged in the shootings were also among the 17 charged with conspiracy.
The indictment alleged that the defendants were “active members, leaders, officers or persons in control of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico, which is charged to be an organization dedicated to bringing about the political independence of Puerto Rico from the United States by force of violence or armed revolution.”
In effect, the government was using the same strategy it was using to break up the U.S. Communist Party during that period. If you were an active member of the Nationalist Party, you were guilty even if you committed no illegal acts yourself.
Four of those charged turned state’s evidence and gave testimony against the other defendants.
At the first month-long trial in October 1954, much of the evidence against the group consisted of testimony by police or informers of speeches given by Nationalist Party leaders who had used slogans like, “Throw the Yankees out at pistol point,” “give your life and property for independence,” and saying that President Harry Truman “could be hanged in a place in San Juan.”
Many of the speeches dated prior to the 1950 attempted armed revolution in Puerto Rico by the Nationalist Party that was defeated and for which many party members were jailed in Puerto Rico.
Defense attorney Conrad J. Lynn charged the government sought “proscription of a dissenting political group because of its ideas.”
Julio Pinto Gandia, a defendant who was acting as his own counsel and was the alleged leader of the group in the U.S., told the court that the party, founded in 1922, was not “a band of terrorists” and that any violent actions arose out of individual “despair.”
The most sensational specific testimony came from one of those indicted who turned state’s evidence--Gonzalo Lebron Sotomayor, brother of Delores Lolita Lebron who was the leader of the four shooters.
Lebron Sotomayor testified that Pinto Gandia told him there would be attacks on Congress, President Dwight Eisenhower and the Puerto Rican Resident Commissioner in Washington, but could not say how the plans would be carried out.
Other specific testimony involved another of those indicted who turned state’s evidence. Angle Luis Medina testified he had purchased a number of pistols and three carbines in Chicago at the direction of a party leader who told him “to be ready in case of a revolution” to free Puerto Rico.
The evidence against most of the defendants committing any specific illegal act was thin.
U.S. Attorney J. Edward Lumbard summed up the case saying that the Nationalist Party had supplied the pistols used in the U.S. Capitol shooting and a 1950 attempt to assassinate President Harry Truman and that each of the 13 defendants had their “moral fingerprints on the guns” used.
Lumbard further told the jury that the government did not have to prove that the defendants were part of a conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government—only that they had conspired to overthrow the authority of the United States in Puerto Rico.
The defense called five witnesses to testify that the Nationalist Party did not advocate overthrow of the U.S. government and only sought total independence for Puerto Rico.
Lynn told the jury that the government was trying “proscription of a dissenting political group because of its ideas.”
Pinto Gandia had earlier sought dismissal of the indictments against the four shooters as double jeopardy and because the government, “intended to bring the guilt of the four defendants upon the other defendants by association or inference.”
He added, “it is not a crime to preach and work for the freedom of a nation and that membership in the Nationalist Party itself did not indicate anyone was part of a conspiracy.
The jury deliberated only a few hours before finding all the defendants guilty.
Two weeks after the verdicts, more arrests took place and a second trial scheduled.
The trial of 11 other Nationalists took place February-March 1955 and followed the same lines as the first trial, except that Lebron Sotomayer gave additional details to his earlier testimony.
Ten of the 11 were found guilty. Serafin Colon Olivera, 28 of New York, was acquitted. Testimony had indicated he was a Nationalist Party member in 1949 and attended a Nationalist dance in 1953.
Those found guilty in the two trials received sentences ranging from 18 months to six years in prison. Appeals failed.
In Puerto Rico, Nationalist Party leader Pedro Albizu Campos hailed the attack as “sublime heroism.” The governor revoked a previous pardon of the party leader and he was arrested after a shootout and imprisoned.
Charges were placed against 15 party members on the island, however 12 were acquitted at trial in late 1954. The three found guilty were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 3-10 years.
Albizu Campos’ health suffered badly in prison where he suffered a stroke in 1956 that left him unable to talk or walk. He was pardoned in 1964, but died a few months afterward.
The Nationalist Party was all but dead as a result of the U.S. trials and by suppression by authorities in Puerto Rico, although it continues to exist today.
First trial sedition trial in 1954:
Jorge Luis Jimenez, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Manuel Rabago Torres, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Rosa Collazo, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Juan Bernardo Lebron, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Juan Francisco Medina, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Armando Diaz Matos, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Julio Pinto Gandia, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Carmelo Alvarez Roman, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Jose Antonio Otero Otero, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Andress Figueroa Cordero, one of 4 convicted shooters, sentenced to additional six years imprisonment
Rafael Cancel Miranda, one of 4 convicted shooters, sentenced to additional six years imprisonment
Dolores Lolita Lebron, one of 4 convicted shooters, sentenced to additional six years imprisonment
Irvin Flores Rodriguez, one of 4 convicted shooters, sentenced to additional six years imprisonment
Second trial in 1955:
Juan Hernandez Valle, Puerto Rico, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Maximino Pedraza Martinez, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Santiago Gonzalez Castro, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Esteban Quinones Escute, sentenced to four years imprisonment
Angel Luis Arzola Velez, sentenced to four years imprisonment
Antonio Herrera Moreno, sentenced to four years imprisonment
Carmen Dolores Otero Torresola, sentenced to four years imprisonment
Pedro Aviles, sentenced to four years imprisonment
Julio Flores Medina, sentenced to 18 months imprisonment
Miguel Vargas Nieves, sentenced to 18 months imprisonment
Those who turned state’s evidence:
Gonzalo Lebron Sotomayor, suspended sentence
Francisco Cortez Ruiz, suspended sentence
Carlos Aulet, suspended sentence
Angel Luis Medina, suspended sentence
Acquitted at May 1955 trial:
Serafin Colon Olivera
For more information and related images to the 1954-55 conspiracy trials of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, see flic.kr/s/aHskRMRawC
For more information and related images to the 1950 attempted assassination of President Truman and the 1954 wounding of five U.S. Representatives, see flic.kr/s/aHskghBC71
The photographer is unknown. The photo is believed to be a mugshot. The image is courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.
L'ancien sémaphore de Kerhoazoc
When we talk about semaphore, we obviously think of the invention of Claude Chappe, during the Revolution. This young engineer developed with his brothers a system which he called “telegraph” making it possible to transmit by signs from one point to another 92 numbers referring to a glossary of 92 pages each comprising 92 numbered words. Using signals exerted on a mast provided with articulated arms and read using a telescope, it was enough to transmit two numbers, the first for the page, the second for the number of the word. Sentences were thus composed. Decided in 1793, a first line of these semaphores was installed between Lille and Paris. Each post copying the signals of the previous post located about 7 km away, this system allowed the Convention, in 1794, to learn in less than an hour of the victory of Condé-sur-Escaut over the Austrian army. In the other direction, orders could be transmitted to armies much faster than on horseback. Different systems made it possible to encrypt them.
Claude Chappe's invention was quickly perfected by Charles Pillon (or Dupillon 1 ) then applied to the Navy by Louis Jacob in order to install a whole series of semaphores equipped with 4 articulated arms along the French coast. The numbers displayed corresponded to whole sentences appearing on lexicons. The lookouts could thus, from the coast, quickly send their observations to the Maritime Prefecture or the latter send orders to the warships that remained in sight, after a warning cannon fired by the semaphore.
In the Pays d'Iroise, that of Kerhoazoc in Landunvez was the most northerly. To the south followed the semaphores of Porspoder, Corsen at Plouarzel, Les Renards at Le Conquet, Saint-Mathieu and Bertheaume at Plougonvelin, without forgetting that of the island of Molène 2 . Via Le Minou and Portzic, they communicated with the Maritime Prefecture of Brest. The semaphore of Kerhoazoc could also be related to that of Ouessant or Aber Wrac'h.
It was in 1845 that the American Samuel Morse invented both his alphabet formed of dots and dashes and his hand manipulator capable of sending short and long electrical signals. In a short time the "electric telegraph", thanks to a cable, replaced the aerial one. It also equipped the semaphores, but until Morse communications were carried out by means of radio, since called TSF (Télégraphie Sans Fil), the Dupillon mast with 4 arms was retained in addition to the usual set of pennants and flags to communicate with ships.
It was Napoleon who, in 1806, decided to build strings of semaphores. Most of those established on the coast replaced former guardhouses dating from Louis XIV. In 1860, the Admiralty of Brest decided that each semaphore would be designed on a T-shaped plan to house both staff and operational equipment: international code flags and pennants, weather equipment, telegraph, spare halyards and pulleys, ammunition for the cannon, and various equipment for 20 men in the event of mobilization. The watch room, the largest, had five windows looking out to sea. Two accommodations were provided for a lookout, his assistant and their entire family because the vigil had to be ensured 24 hours a day and it even happened that the wives took part in the service. The staff also had a cellar and a small vegetable garden. The buildings were covered with a white coating so that the signs of the terrace, seen from the sea, were easily detached.
The war of 1914-1918 showed the danger posed by submarines. In order to detect them, an acoustic chamber connected to an immersed hydrophone was built.
During the general mobilization of 1939, it was necessary to accommodate under the roofs the 20 reservists who had come to reinforce the lookouts. These sailors slept in hammocks.
In 1940, when the Germans arrived, equipment was hidden among the population of Landunvez so that it did not fall into the hands of the occupier. He seized the semaphore and built a blockhouse nearby.
In August 1944, the Germans left the semaphore in order to flee the Osttruppen (Russian soldiers enlisted by force among them) who had revolted. But they took care to blow up all the installations.
Since then, the semaphore of Kerhoazoc has not been rebuilt, but its ruins have been consolidated. They spread out in a deserted moor at the foot of a great landmark which remains alone to look out to sea. A great tag catches the eye. It is the last testimony of the interest that the man took to him.
In Chile,the congress has aproved the Monsanto law,supporting the Monsanto mafia. At doing this,the medium and small farmers wont be able to save and keep their own seeds, rising the price of them even 2000% ,rising the food prices and destroying our feeding independence. Even the flowers are being poisoned in Chile.
a crazy little doodle that turned into this drawing. The contrast between life and death, between ugly and beautiful and between the fun and the serious it what I think about lately. I think it shows here.