Tyrone N. Butts
APE Reporter
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Killer Harlan gets life without parole
Brighton - A man who kidnapped, raped and murdered a woman in 1994 was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole.
Robert Harlan was originally sentenced to death by an Adams County jury in 1995 for the murder of Rhonda Maloney, 25. But Harlan escaped execution after the Colorado Supreme Court upheld a ruling that jurors in the case improperly consulted the Bible during deliberation.
"It could be said you may have avoided the death penalty by a technicality," Adams County District Judge Scott Crabtree told Harlan.
But
he said his hands were tied and the sentence he imposed was "mandated" by the judicial system.
"I have no discretion here," Crabtree said.
Maloney's sister, Kerri Gemeinhardt, said she's disappointed Harlan won't be put to death.
"I'm unhappy that he didn't get the death sentence," Gemeinhardt said after the hearing. "But as long as he never gets out, I'm satisfied. He'll never be able to do it to anyone else."
Bob Grant, the former Adams County district attorney who prosecuted the original case, told the court Monday that a life sent
ence &qu
ot;is no
t what the citizens of Adams County" wanted for Harlan. </span>
"It's a ... shame the (death penalty) verdict will not be carried out," Grant said after the hearing.
Kathleen Lord, Harlan's defense attorney, said the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling is correct and justice is served.
"An eye for an eye is not the law of Colorado," Lord said, referring
to the jury's use of the Old Testament. "It was a serious error of the law. It was not right."
Gemeinhardt said she felt the jury did nothing wrong and the death sentence should have been carried out.
Meanwhile, she still grieves for her sister.
<span style=\'color:red\'>"I miss her every day," Gemeinhardt said. "It is never going to go away."
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Spucking fee
chless!
Wake up America and smell the nigger.
T.N.B.
Killer Harlan gets life without parole
Brighton - A man who kidnapped, raped and murdered a woman in 1994 was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole.
Robert Harlan was originally sentenced to death by an Adams County jury in 1995 for the murder of Rhonda Maloney, 25. But Harlan escaped execution after the Colorado Supreme Court upheld a ruling that jurors in the case improperly consulted the Bible during deliberation.
"It could be said you may have avoided the death penalty by a technicality," Adams County District Judge Scott Crabtree told Harlan.
But
he said his hands were tied and the sentence he imposed was "mandated" by the judicial system.
"I have no discretion here," Crabtree said.
Maloney's sister, Kerri Gemeinhardt, said she's disappointed Harlan won't be put to death.
"I'm unhappy that he didn't get the death sentence," Gemeinhardt said after the hearing. "But as long as he never gets out, I'm satisfied. He'll never be able to do it to anyone else."
Bob Grant, the former Adams County district attorney who prosecuted the original case, told the court Monday that a life sent
ence &qu
ot;is no
t what the citizens of Adams County" wanted for Harlan. </span>
"It's a ... shame the (death penalty) verdict will not be carried out," Grant said after the hearing.
Kathleen Lord, Harlan's defense attorney, said the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling is correct and justice is served.
"An eye for an eye is not the law of Colorado," Lord said, referring
to the jury's use of the Old Testament. "It was a serious error of the law. It was not right."
Gemeinhardt said she felt the jury did nothing wrong and the death sentence should have been carried out.
Meanwhile, she still grieves for her sister.
<span style=\'color:red\'>"I miss her every day," Gemeinhardt said. "It is never going to go away."
*****************
Spucking fee
chless!
Wake up America and smell the nigger.
T.N.B.
