[Vision2020] What the?!?!

Moscow Cares moscowcares at moscow.com
Fri Oct 7 12:23:10 PDT 2011


I would consider her to be a flight threat.

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 


 

On Oct 7, 2011, at 11:25, Andreas Schou <ophite at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>> ------------------------------
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> ------------------------------
>> 
>> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>> Tom Hansen
>> Moscow, Idaho
>> 
>> 
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