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<DIV>Wayne A. Fox<BR>1009 Karen Lane<BR>PO Box 9421<BR>Moscow, ID
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<DIV class=date><EM>March 31, 2010<BR>7:21 am</EM> </DIV><!-- date -->
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<DIV class=heading><EM>caddyshack says... </EM>
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<P style="DISPLAY: none" id=comment63333>Why does a man get 40 years in prison
for killing his wife and UNBORN child and abortion doctors get nothing? Seems
like a double standard. </P>
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<DIV class=message-owner><SPAN>FTPinLWS </SPAN><EM>March 31,
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<P id=comment63354>Why does an idiot seek to impose his or her
religious/political beliefs at a<BR>time when he or she should be offering
condolences and support? Tough questions<BR>indeed. </P></DIV><!-- reply-message --></DIV><!-- message --></DIV><!-- message-box -->
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<DIV class=date><EM>March 31, 2010<BR>8:58 am</EM> </DIV><!-- date -->
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<P id=comment63339>Excuse me.... why is he free on bond? he admitted to killing
two people and setting them on fire, and he is free on bond? I don't get it. so
what if he is on house arrest, he still can breath fresh air unlike his wife and
unborn child. Good grief what is wrong with this picture? </P>
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<DIV class=date><EM>March 31, 2010<BR>9:28 am</EM> </DIV><!-- date -->
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<P id=comment63341>More then just that is wrong with this picture! What is wrong
with those parents? I am sorry but I have children and would rather see there
killer rot in prison for the rest of his life then get a few minutes of grusome
details on how he killed my beloved child!!! Why would you chose detail over
justice.Who am I to say what I would do, my children are living. I would hope
that for me commen sense would over rule my passion to find some sort of
reasoning with what happened. My heart goes out to her parents along with an
apology from me and all of the others who have or will judge them on their
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<DIV class=date><EM>March 31, 2010<BR>9:43 am</EM> </DIV><!-- date -->
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<P id=comment63342>I think he needs a bullet to the head and just end this but
that isn't going to happen. On the flip side of the coin, because he is pleading
guilty, I do believe he does not get any appeals so the State of Idaho won't
have to retry him. Has anyone noticed that the State of Idaho is having to
re-try a large amount of murderers because of appeals. Why is that? </P>
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<DIV class=date><EM>March 31, 2010<BR>10:13 am</EM> </DIV><!-- date -->
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<P id=comment63343>This is outrageous.Taking a plea agreement so as not to get
the death penalty. Did the Mother and unborn child have the choice to live or
die? No. He not only killed 2 people he burnt them up to cover up his
crime.<BR><BR>The judges and lawyers may have a different slant on this whole
thing if one of their family members was murdered.<BR><BR>And to be out on bond
is unacceptable. He plead guilty and should never gotten out on bond in the
first place let alone now that he is guilty to continue to enjoy his freedom
which his wife and child did not get to do because he murdered them in cold
blood.<BR><BR>Even though he had not absconded while out on bond he has nothing
to lose by fleeing now. Remember the guy that ran to Ireland while out on
bond.<BR><BR>Haven't these ELECTED JUDGES LEARNED THEIR LESSON BY
NOW?<BR><BR>This piece of crap had better learn to manage his anger problem in
the joint as if not he will continually get beat down by inmates just like him
that have nothing to loose either. 30 days in the hole is nothing to these
guys.<BR><BR>I hope he has to sleep with one eye open for the rest of his sorry
life.<BR><BR></P>
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<DIV class=message-owner><SPAN>mg2000 </SPAN><EM>March 31, 2010
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<P id=comment63370>Unfortunately the prosecutors had already decided to not go
for the death <BR>penalty BEFORE he enterred into the plea agreement, which is
why he <BR>qualified for bond - not sure why that is - regarless if you are
looking at <BR>life or death, you should have to remain in jail until your tried
- I would <BR>think the temptation to flee would be the same? I also find it
<BR>unacceptable that he gets to stay out on bond while awaiting <BR>sentencing!
What's the point? He's gonna have to serve time (although <BR>he's getting off
mighty easy for killing 2 people) so why didn't he have to <BR>go back in
immediately? I don't understand why you get to remain free <BR>(oh sorry, on
house arrest) until your sentencing? Plus, he's probably <BR>gonna get credit
for the time he served under house arrest.
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<DIV class=date><EM>March 31, 2010<BR>10:25 am</EM> </DIV><!-- date -->
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<P id=comment63345>I am VERY disappointed in the prosecutor's office and the
entire judicial system in Latah County. What a shame!! This man killed two
people and is getting treated with kid gloves. He deserves nothing less than
life in prison. Judge Brudie - please - sentence him to the maximum of 40 years
with NO parole. Do it for not only Sarah, but for her unborn baby. </P>
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<DIV class=date><EM>March 31, 2010<BR>10:49 am</EM> </DIV><!-- date -->
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<P id=comment63351>Gee, I don't remember Shakleford running around in 4 county's
after he murdered and burnt 2 people. What's the deal with that crap. </P>
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<DIV class=date><EM>March 31, 2010<BR>11:00 am</EM> </DIV><!-- date -->
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<P id=comment63353>IMHO, the ONLY people who can define what justice is, are
those who know and love Sarah. We can sit here and judge all we want, and God
forbid any of you will ever have to really know what you would do in this
situation. There is no real justice when an act of violence takes from you that
which cannot be replaced. I, unfortunately, understand this. And I truly hope
none of you ever reach that understanding. Please consider just letting the
friends and family of Sarah cope and grieve in a manner that works for them.
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<H2>Silas Parks takes plea deal</H2></FONT></DIV>
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<LI><EM>March 31st, 2010</EM></LI>
<LI><A href="http://www.lmtribune.com/story/northwest/506787/#">(10)
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<DIV class=author><STRONG>He pleads guilty to arson and manslaughter instead of
murder in death of his pregnant wife in Moscow</STRONG></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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<P>MOSCOW - Sarah Parks' family badly wants to know how she died. </P>
<P>With that in mind, they are supporting a plea agreement that will send her
husband Silas Parks to prison for a maximum of 40 years, Latah County Prosecutor
William Thompson Jr. said. </P>
<P>"I think at this point, in addition to wanting to be assured that an
appropriate punishment is handed down, they also want to know exactly what
happened," Thompson said. </P>
<P>Silas Parks pleaded guilty Tuesday afternoon to two counts of voluntary
manslaughter and one count of first-degree arson in connection with the death
last year of his pregnant wife, Sarah Parks, a third-grade teacher at Moscow
Charter School. </P>
<P>Silas Parks, 26, was initially charged with two counts of first-degree murder
and the arson count. But a plea deal negotiated with the Latah County
Prosecutor's Office reduced the murder charges. It also stipulated that as part
of a presentence investigation, Silas Parks will describe in detail how he
killed Sarah Parks and then set fire to their Moscow duplex. </P>
<P>The results of that investigation won't be made public, but will be discussed
at sentencing, Thompson said. </P>
<P>Second District Judge Jeff Brudie set sentencing for June 8. Parks faces up
to 15 years for each of the voluntary manslaughter convictions. As per terms of
the plea agreement, those sentences will be served concurrently. </P>
<P>Silas Parks faces up to 25 years for the arson conviction. Brudie will decide
whether Parks serves that sentence concurrently, or after he finishes the
manslaughter sentence. The judge will also have full discretion on how many
years of each sentence will be fixed, with no possibility of parole. </P>
<P>The prosecution will recommend a total sentence near the overall maximum of
40 years on all the charges, Thompson said. </P>
<P>The manslaughter pleas state that Silas Parks killed Sarah Parks and her
unborn daughter Lilly Ann Parks on June 24, 2009, without malice and "upon a
sudden quarrel or in the heat of passion," according to court documents. The
method of death was suffocation or strangulation. </P>
<P>The arson plea states that Silas Parks deliberately set fire to the couple's
home at 904 Vandal Drive. The fire was presumably set to cover up the crimes,
according to police reports. </P>
<P>Silas Parks will remain free on bond while he awaits sentencing, but will be
under house arrest at his parents' Kendrick property. </P>
<P>Thompson said facts uncovered in the investigation support a charge of
voluntary manslaughter because Silas Parks apparently acted after a sudden
quarrel or in the heat of passion. That is also consistent with past instances
of domestic violence between the couple that form a pattern, including one in
2006 where Silas Parks shoved Sarah Parks to the ground, he said. </P>
<P>He was initially charged with domestic battery in that incident, but later
pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace. </P>
<P>The couple underwent ongoing counseling, Thompson said. But very few people
were really aware of their troubled relationship. </P>
<P>"A lot of people who were friends and family acquaintances did not know
everything that was going on," Thompson said. "The investigation indicates that
Sarah wanted to keep her life private, and look at the best parts of life." </P>
<P>Sarah Parks' mother Laura Allen listened to Tuesday's plea hearing by
telephone from her home in Mexia, Ala. </P>
<P>She and other family members will have a right to address Silas Parks at his
sentencing hearing. </P></DIV>
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