[Vision2020] What the?!?!

[Andreas Schou]

She's accused of a crime, not convicted. It's the state's burden, not
hers, to demonstrate that her liberty should be restricted.

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> Courtesy of today's (October 7, 2011) Spokesman-Review.
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> Murder defendant to take trip before trial
>
> SEATTLE – A Washington state judge is letting a murder defendant take a
> two-week, five-state road trip so she can attend her half-sister’s memorial
> service, go to the dentist and pick up some winter clothes.
>
> Former hairdresser Peggy Sue Thomas was arrested this summer at her
> houseboat in New Mexico and charged with first-degree murder. Prosecutors
> say that in 2003 she lured a man named Russ Douglas to the spot on Whidbey
> Island where he was killed.
>
> Thomas, free on $500,000 bail, asked a judge this week for permission to
> attend a memorial for her recently deceased half-sister in Idaho, and to
> travel to New Mexico, Utah and Nevada to take care of a few chores –
> preparing to sell a house, going to her dentist, and picking up her winter
> clothes, among other things.
>
> In an oral ruling on Monday, Judge Michael Moynihan agreed, over the
> objections of Island County Prosecutor Greg Banks.
>
> “That’s the first time I’ve ever seen anything like that,” Banks said
> Thursday. “We’re sure hoping she comes back.”
>
> Thomas will be on GPS monitoring during her travels, but Banks said she may
> be out of signal range at various points.
>
> Her attorney, Craig Platt, laid out a tentative itinerary that includes
> Thomas driving to Bonners Ferry, Idaho, to attend the memorial before flying
> to Albuquerque, N.M.
>
> Thomas was accused of plotting with her boyfriend, James Huden, to kill
> Douglas, who was found shot to death in a car in Freeland, Wash., two days
> after Christmas in 2003. Huden was charged with murder in 2005 and arrested
> in Mexico in June; he has pleaded not guilty.
>
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> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
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