[Vision2020] What the?!?!

[Andreas Schou]

Island County is in the Puget Sound. It's maybe the only place in the
country where you can enter Canada merely by taking a boat eastward,
and is a major entry port for marijuana entering the country from BC.
In other words, I cannot imagine that any place in the country would
be worse for an unexpected trip to Canada than precisely the place
she's confined to right now.

It's just baffling to me that people who are liberal on virtually
every subject suddenly transform into Nancy Grace on the issue of
criminal justice.

-- ACS

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Art Deco <deco at moscow.com> wrote:
> Bonners Ferry is less than 30 miles from the Canadian Border.  That stretch
> of border is notoriously porous, even after 9/11.
>
> With contacts in that area, I wonder how much this increases the flight
> risk?
>
> w.
> From: Andreas Schou
> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 12:24 PM
> To: Moscow Cares
> Cc: Moscow Vision 2020
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] What the?!?!
> Maybe. But she's out on bond anyway. Is going to a different state
> going to make her any more of a flight risk?
>
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Moscow Cares <moscowcares at moscow.com> wrote:
>> 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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