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"Manuela Comodi, for the prosecution, repeated her assertion of earlier in the week: "They killed. Perhaps for nothing, but they killed." She argued that the lack of a discernible motive actually made the crime much worse. "They are young but so was Meredith," she said. "They deserve the severest sentence – which, fortunately [for them], this being Italy, is not death."
The defendants' supporters point to the evidence of court-appointed experts, who have declared themselves unconvinced by forensic evidence in the case.
They also say that witnesses have been discredited, that neither Knox nor Sollecito has any history of crime or violence, and that, as Ms Comodi accepted, there was no motive."
REPORTER PETER POPHAM; THE INDEPENDENT;
"Speaking for the defence team at the Meredith Kercher murder appeal yesterday, lawyer Donatella Donati described the case as "delicate and particular". As one of the journalists in court remarked, it was the understatement of the year," the story by reporter Peter Popham published earlier today under the heading, "Knox appeal reaches climax with final pleas on both sides," begins.
"What the whole world knows as "the Amanda Knox case" is in its last days in Perugia, where it has become the biggest legal circus in memory, and for its hotels, bars and restaurants a potent addition to the city's regular chocolate and jazz festivals. Nearly 400 journalists have been accredited for the case, and they pack out the press seats and anteroom reserved for them," the story continues.
"Their focus is Knox, 24, the student from Seattle who, as her lawyer told the court this week, has spent 1,000 nights in jail after being convicted with her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, and a third man, Rudy Guede, of sexually assaulting and stabbing to death Knox's British room-mate Meredith Kercher, a Leeds University student, in November 2007.
Knox and Sollecito are appealing against their convictions; Guede's conviction was upheld in 2009, and he is serving a reduced sentence of 16 years.
Yesterday, lawyers for both sides delivered closing speeches containing a baffling torrent of claims and counter-claims about witnesses' reliability, the nature and cause of the dead girl's wounds, the pain of her family and the elaborate and costly operation mounted by Knox's supporters.
Donatella Donati, a lawyer for Sollecito, came close to alleging that the evidence that helped to convict her client – a clasp from Miss Kercher's bra that had been retrieved from the crime scene 47 days after the murder – may have been planted by police.
Manuela Comodi, for the prosecution, repeated her assertion of earlier in the week: "They killed. Perhaps for nothing, but they killed." She argued that the lack of a discernible motive actually made the crime much worse. "They are young but so was Meredith," she said. "They deserve the severest sentence – which, fortunately [for them], this being Italy, is not death."
They also say that witnesses have been discredited, that neither Knox nor Sollecito has any history of crime or violence, and that, as Ms Comodi accepted, there was no motive.
Prosecution lawyers have made an emotional appeal: they cite the pain of Ms Kercher's family, from Coulsdon, Surrey, who are eager to see the pair's convictions confirmed, and the injustice, as Giuliano Mignini, the chief prosecutor of Perugia, put it, of Knox and Sollecito allegedly "making a pact of steel to throw everything on to the black man ... The two kids from good families have their backs covered; it's Guede who must pay for all."
Guede left many traces at the crime scene and is the only one of the three who admits he was present when Miss Kercher was killed.
Mr Mignini, the instigator of the case against the two students, also told the jury that if Knox and Sollecito were absolved, there was a "risk of a flight abroad that could not be remedied. This is only the second of the three grades of justice in Italy. It is up to you to render justice."
In Italy a conviction is not deemed definitive until confirmed at the third grade, the Supreme Court."
ttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/knox-appeal-reaches-climax-with-final-pleas-on-both-sides-2364073.html
ASHLEY SMITH INQUEST; INQUEST SHUT DOWN; NEW INQUEST ORDERED BEFORE NEW JURY; NO DATE SET; POSTMEDIA NEWS;
"The inquest was supposed to resume earlier this month under Carlisle but it abruptly halted to hear the motion — which argued the inquest should be officially restarted and recall all evidence heard during the first three days of the proceedings.
To just resume would force the process to continue on "jurisdictional shaky ground, " the family's lawyer, Julian Falconer, said this month.
Also at issue in the motion are three rulings which were not delivered by Porter prior to her departure.
She was supposed to decide whether:
• Quebec videos showing the 19-year-old being drugged and restrained during a prison transfer be shown to a jury;
• Whether the faces of prison guards should be blurred in videos entered into evidence; and
• Whether lawyers are susceptible to a contempt charge if they share evidence with the public."
POSTMEDIA NEWS;
BACKGROUND: Ashley Smith, 19, died in her prison cell at Grand Valley Institution near Kitchener, Ont., in October 2007 from self-strangulation. She had been transferred between federal institutions 17 times during her final 11 months, most of that time kept in segregation and often on suicide watch dressed in a highly restrictive gown. Jailed at age 13 for a crab apple-throwing incident in New Brunswick, Smith was eventually transferred to an adult facility after she kept getting into trouble behind bars by constantly kicking, grabbing and spitting at guards. Lawyer's for her family and the media had successfully attacked then presiding Coroner Dr. Bonita Porter's efforts to limit the scope and evidence to be called at the inquest. Dr. John Carlisle, who had been appointed by Chief Coroner Dr. Andrew McCallum to take over the inquest, has ordered a new inquest to proceed before a new jury. The inquest is of interest to this Blog because it relates to the openness of public death investigations - and the necessity to ensure that deaths warranting inquests get full scrutiny.
"Ontario coroner Dr. John Carlisle has shut down the inquest into the prison death of New Brunswick teenager Ashley Smith, and ordered a new one started," the Postmedia story published earlier today under the heading "Ashley Smith media to begin again," begins.
"The ruling was sparked by a motion filed by the Smith family last month," the story continues.
"It argued Carlisle — who in June replaced Dr. Bonita Porter — should hear arguments in three legal challenges that were heard by Porter when the inquest began.
"I find that, while some time may be lost in starting a new inquest, it is not likely to be more than would be lost by attempting to carry on the old and may indeed be less," Carlisle wrote in his ruling, which was released Friday.
Smith was found dead in a segregated prison cell at the Grand Valley Institute in Kitchener, Ont., in October 2007. Prison guards watching over her were instructed not to intervene until she stopped breathing.
The controversial proceedings began last May under Porter and have often been delayed due to jurisdictional and legal challenges.
The inquest was supposed to resume earlier this month under Carlisle but it abruptly halted to hear the motion — which argued the inquest should be officially restarted and recall all evidence heard during the first three days of the proceedings.
• Whether lawyers are susceptible to a contempt charge if they share evidence with the public.
The inquest was set to examine the last 11 months of Smith's life, when she was transferred to 17 different federal facilities across the country due to bad behaviour, overcrowding and staff fatigue.
Smith was first incarcerated at age 15 for throwing crab apples at a postal worker. She remained behind bars after racking up hundreds of in-custody charges and spent almost all her time incarcerated in isolation until her death."
http://www.canada.com/Ashley+Smith+inquest+begin+anew/5483175/story.html
ELIZABETH TORREY; BABYSITTER ACQUITTED IN NEW HAMPSHIRE "BABY-SHAKING" DEATH;
"The jury heard testimony from police officers, and doctors from Children's Hospital Boston, who concluded Littlefield's injuries were so severe they had to have been caused by abuse.
But Christie argued there was no evidence or eyewitness that showed Torrey did anything to Littlefield.
"She is a wonderful person and a good mother," Christie said after the verdict. "This has been a difficult road for her.""
UNION LEADER: FROM STORY ON THE BABYSITTER'S ACQUITTAL;
"Christie argued that Littlefield fell in his crib just before being brought to Torrey's home, and bumped his head weeks earlier during a swimming lesson with his mother.
Docko asked jurors to tap into their own experience of raising children to evaluate whether a bump on the head or common fall would cause such serious injuries on a baby.
"Children don't fall and bump their head and wind up like Grady Littlefield," Docko said.
Questions that jurors have about Littlefield's diagnosis may come down to which experts they believe.
Doctors who examined Littlefield were contradicted by one hired by Torrey's defense, who said the baby could have been suffering from seizures or other disorders.
Docko said the defense expert, Dr. Janice Ophoven, should not be trusted because she once mixed up blood samples of a baby she was hired to examine with a man dying of lung cancer. That led to the parents being suspected by police of killing their infant daughter, she said.
Christie defended the science and doctors who contradicted the findings made at Children's Hospital, saying their research was just as legitimate.
"They provide their expertise when people need it and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it," Christie said."
UNION LEADER: FROM EARLIER STORY ON THE CLOSING ARGUMENTS;
PUBLISHER'S VIEW: I always feel a stab of horror when I see a babysitter charged with serious crimes relating to the sudden injury or death of a child they are caring for purely on the basis of a team of medical experts who claim that the physical evidence shows unequivocally that the child was shaken to death- or that small falls don't kill. I am therefore always am gratified when, in these cases (as I am seeing more and more) a jury shows a willingness to consider non-criminal explanations for the child's death. In the Elizabeth Torrey case - the subject of this post - the jurors were not impressed either by the number of well-credentialled expert witnesses called by the prosecution or by the rhetoric used by prosecutors to secure a verdict - the suggestion that the babysitter had inflicted injuries on the child akin to those which would be inflicted in a horrific car crash. Instead, it would appear that the jurors did what jurors are supposed to do by reaching their own judgments - instead of abdicating the decision to the prosecution's experts - and by considering whether the prosecution had adduced any evidence tying her to a crime.
"BRENTWOOD — A Candia woman was found not guilty of inflicting serious brain and head injuries to an 8-month-old boy she babysat last June," the Union Leader story by reporter James A. Kimble, published on September 29, 2011, under the heading, "Babysitter found not guilty of assaulting infant," begins.
"The verdict for Elizabeth Torrey came within two hours of a juror being replaced on Wednesday for disobeying a judge's order not to search on the Internet for information related to the case," the story continues.
"Torrey was acquitted of first- and second-degree assault charges, which could have landed her in state prison for years if a jury had found her guilty. "It was a very emotional case," defense lawyer William Christie said in an interview. "We are very grateful for the jury's verdict." Torrey was accused of injuring Grady Littlefield. Now 23 months old, he is legally blind and has lost much of his hearing and ability to walk, according to court testimony. Torrey took the stand in her own defense at the close of the week-long trial in Rockingham County Superior Court. Jurors began deliberating Tuesday morning. The jury heard testimony from police officers, and doctors from Children's Hospital Boston, who concluded Littlefield's injuries were so severe they had to have been caused by abuse. But Christie argued there was no evidence or eyewitness that showed Torrey did anything to Littlefield. "She is a wonderful person and a good mother," Christie said after the verdict. "This has been a difficult road for her." The jury listened to hours of live and recorded testimony from medical professionals, including a defense-hired doctor who dismissed the assessment that Littlefield was abused. They also heard Torrey's recorded interview with Candia police. Police arrested Torrey days after a 911 call was made by her neighbor, saying that Littlefield had suddenly become unresponsive. Dr. Alice Newton, head of the Child Protection Team at Children's Hospital, testified for the state about how doctors concluded the injuries were the result of severe trauma. In their closing arguments on Tuesday, prosecutors said Littlefield's injuries were so severe that they were comparable to ones seen in a car accident or a second-story fall. "It was a real disappointment given the state of the evidence," Rockingham County Attorney James Reams said. "We literally had the finest doctors on these issues come and testify." The juror who was dismissed had searched on the Internet for a medical article that was mentioned during the trial, according to Reams. He shared what he was doing with fellow members of the jury, who in turn reported it to Judge Kenneth McHugh, Reams said. McHugh explicitly warned jurors each day not to search online for information or news accounts of the trial. The judge questioned other members of the jury about the infraction and then replaced the man with one of the two alternates selected before deliberations began."
http://www.unionleader.com/article/20110929/NEWS03/709299969
"BRENTWOOD — The bodily trauma suffered by 8-month-old Grady Littlefield was so great that doctors could only compare him to a baby who endured a horrific accident, prosecutors said on Tuesday," the Union Leader story published on September 28, 2011 under the heading, "Prosecutor: Child's injuries like those in car crash," begins.
""This is what we see in a crash of a motor vehicle, or falling from a second story balcony — not a 7½-month old falling in a crib," Assistant County Attorney Jacqueline Docko said during closing arguments in the trial of Littlefield's former babysitter," the story continues.
"A jury is now deciding whether Elizabeth Torrey, 27, of Candia assaulted Littlefield, causing him to suffer serious injuries to his brain, ears and eyes — or was simply a woman in the wrong place at the wrong time. Jurors began deliberating Tuesday morning after a seven-day trial in Rockingham County Superior Court, where Torrey is charged with first- and second-degree assault. Littlefield, of Deerfield, was left legally blind, unable to walk and suffering from major hearing loss from severe trauma, which could have been inflicted from shaking, prosecutors said. But despite those injuries, defense lawyer William Christie maintained that prosecutors and the doctors who examined Littlefield did not have the evidence or the science to back up their claims about Torrey's abuse. Littlefield was at Torrey's home in Candia on the afternoon of June 9, 2010 when he suddenly became unresponsive, prompting a neighbor to call 911. A team of doctors at Children's Hospital in Boston did not name Torrey specifically as the culprit of the injuries, but gave Candia police a window of time when Littlefield was injured, Christie argued. That conclusion, made on June 17, made police focus solely on Torrey, he said. Christie argued that Littlefield fell in his crib just before being brought to Torrey's home, and bumped his head weeks earlier during a swimming lesson with his mother. Docko asked jurors to tap into their own experience of raising children to evaluate whether a bump on the head or common fall would cause such serious injuries on a baby. "Children don't fall and bump their head and wind up like Grady Littlefield," Docko said. Questions that jurors have about Littlefield's diagnosis may come down to which experts they believe. Doctors who examined Littlefield were contradicted by one hired by Torrey's defense, who said the baby could have been suffering from seizures or other disorders. Docko said the defense expert, Dr. Janice Ophoven, should not be trusted because she once mixed up blood samples of a baby she was hired to examine with a man dying of lung cancer. That led to the parents being suspected by police of killing their infant daughter, she said. Christie defended the science and doctors who contradicted the findings made at Children's Hospital, saying their research was just as legitimate. "They provide their expertise when people need it and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it," Christie said. Littlefield's parents, Jeffrey and Nina, sat in the front row of the courtroom, where they have spent every day of trial listening to hours of testimony by police, doctors and Torrey, who finished testifying on Monday. Supporters for Torrey have also been coming to court, especially during the last two days of trial."
http://www.unionleader.com/article/20110928/NEWS03/709289957&template=mobileart
AMANDA KNOX: APPEAL; THURSDAY SEPEMBER 29; DEFENCE ARGUES SHE WAS 'CRUCIFIED' BY ITALY'S MEDIA; ASSOCIATED PRESS;
"The role of the media in the four-year-long case has been a recurring theme of closing arguments of all parties. Prosecutor Giuliano Mignini has lamented what he said was media interference and an increasingly strong campaign in support of Knox. Defense lawyers said Knox had been unfairly portrayed.
"This has swept away her life," said Dalla Vedova, adding that Knox had been hit by "a tsunami, a tornado" and that her privacy had been violated.
The lawyer sought to refute the prosecution's case, saying that there was no motive for the brutal murder and insisting Knox and Kercher were friends who had quickly bonded upon their arrival in Perugia thanks to their shared language.
He said investigators were hasty in their conclusions -- Knox and Sollecito were arrested four days after Kercher's body had been found in the apartment the 21-year-old Briton shared with Knox. The lawyer maintained that a court-ordered review of DNA had demolished much of the prosecution's case.
REPORTER ALESSANDRA RIZZO; THE ASSOCIATED PRESS;
"PERUGIA, Italy - (AP) -- An Italian defense lawyer argued Thursday that Amanda Knox is an innocent girl "crucified" in the media and wrongly convicted of killing her roommate, urging an appeals court not to be afraid to correct a mistake," the Associated Press story by reporter Alessandra Rizzo published earlier today under the heading, "Defence: Amanda Knox 'crucified' in Italy's media begins.
"Carlo Dalla Vedova told the court in his closing arguments that Knox has been the victim of a "tragic judicial case" and has spent more than 1,000 days behind bars as a result. The highly anticipated verdict in the appeals case is expected Monday," the story continues.
"Knox was convicted of murdering Meredith Kercher, a British student in Perugia, and sentenced to 26 years in prison, while co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years. They deny wrongdoing and have appealed.
"Knox has been crucified, impaled in a public square, subjected to the most sinister of speculations," Dalla Vedova said. "All, regardless of their nationalities, have offended Amanda Knox."
Soon after her arrest on Nov. 6, 2007, Knox became a media sensation, depicted either as a manipulative girl-gone-wild or as a naive young woman caught up in a judicial nightmare. The media remained hooked on the case, and hundreds of reporters, cameramen and photographers have descended on the central Italian town in anticipation of the verdict.
The role of the media in the four-year-long case has been a recurring theme of closing arguments of all parties. Prosecutor Giuliano Mignini has lamented what he said was media interference and an increasingly strong campaign in support of Knox. Defense lawyers said Knox had been unfairly portrayed.
"Today there's very little left," Dalla Vedova said. "A clue is not enough."
The review found that crucial DNA evidence used to convict Knox and Sollecito was unreliable and possibly contaminated -- an assessment vehemently denied by the prosecution and the forensic police that conducted the original investigation.
Dalla Vedova urged the court not to be afraid to recognize that the lower court that had convicted the two in 2009 had made a mistake. "That's exactly why we have appeals -- courts can make mistakes," he said. "Nobody is infallible."
Kercher was stabbed to death in what prosecutors say had begun as a sexual assault. Prosecutors say that a fourth person was present the night of the murder, Rudy Hermann Guede from Ivory Coast, who has also been convicted and is serving a 16-year-prison term. Guede denies wrongdoing, but he has exhausted all levels of appeals under Italy's judicial system.
Knox and Sollecito -- the American's boyfriend at the time of the crime -- insist they spent the night at his house. Their defense lawyers maintain that Guede is the sole killer, while the prosecutors say that bruises and a lack of defensive wounds on Kercher's body prove that there was more than one aggressor holding her into submission.
Knox's family has flown in for the last stretch of the trial, attending hearings and visiting her in prison. Members of the Kercher family, which has kept a lower profile, are also expected to come to Perugia for the verdict.
"We visited her yesterday and she was rather anxious. But it was also the first time all my four daughters have been together for two years," a teary-eyed Curt Knox, the defendant's father, said.
He said Thursday's summations had given the court a chance to hear "a whole different story and a whole different presentation of what this case is really about".
"I think that gave her some extra strength," he added.
Knox appeared relaxed and even giggled at one point as her other lawyer, Luciano Ghirga, ridiculed a prosecution witness, covering her mouth with her hand as she tried to quickly regain her composure.
With a fatherly gesture, Ghirga ended his arguments by caressing Knox's head. He told reporters she had thanked him.
The trial continues Friday with rebuttals, beginning with the prosecution."
http://www.newsday.com/news/defense-amanda-knox-crucified-in-italy-s-media-1.3209555
THOMAS HAYNESWORTH: VIRGINIAN-PILOT SAYS APPEAL COURT SHOULD CLEAR HIS NAME "IMMEDIATELY."
'"It's rare for the attorney general to argue against a case he's supposed to be defending. But Haynesworth's innocence is supported by DNA, based on thorough investigation and backed by commonwealth's attorneys whose offices previously prosecuted him.
Haynesworth had no criminal record when he was arrested at age 18. Now that he's out of prison, he's working in the state attorney general's office. But he has to register his whereabouts every month with the state, provide all email addresses he uses and abide by restrictions on where he can go."
It's freedom, his lawyer said, but he's not free.
EDITORIAL: THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT;
BACKGROUND: "The court of appeals has granted only one writ of actual innocence, in 2008, though it has yet to free anyone from prison.
Among other things, Haynesworth must show, "no rational trier of fact could have found proof beyond a reasonable doubt based upon the newly discovered evidence."
His lawyers say that if the DNA evidence was available in 1984, no reasonable juror would have found him guilty.
Haynesworth's petition argues, "If, as the Virginia legislature plainly contemplated, there is ever to be a case for which a writ of actual innocence is granted based on non-biological evidence, this is it.""
THE INNOCENCE PROJECT;
"Thomas Haynesworth, wrongly convicted of a series of sexual assaults in Richmond in the 1980s, is out of prison after serving 27 years, but he's still saddled with the label of sex offender. On Tuesday, he asked a Virginia Court of Appeals to clear his name," the Virginian-Pilot editorial published earlier today under the heading, "Righting old wrongs for a miss-labeled 'sex-offender'" begins.
"He has an unlikely ally in his quest: his boss, the state's chief prosecutor, Ken Cuccinelli," the story continues.
"No one would accuse the attorney general of being soft on criminals. He is, after all, the one who pushed to increase the penalty for convicted sex offenders who fail to register with the state.
But in this case, Cuccinelli noted that having Haynesworth's name on that list was a miscarriage of justice, and "it is our job to try to fix it."
Haynesworth, 46, was paroled by Gov. Bob McDonnell in March after DNA proved he wasn't the rapist in two 1984 cases. The DNA instead implicated a convicted serial rapist who resembles Haynesworth and is serving a 100-year prison sentence. But two other convictions against Haynesworth - for which no DNA evidence exists - were left standing.
To grant writs of actual innocence, the Court of Appeals, which heard arguments Tuesday for a half-hour, must conclude that the new evidence means no reasonable juror would find Haynesworth guilty of those other charges.
The judges questioned how much weight they should give the eyewitness testimony that prosecutors used to convict Haynesworth in 1984, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. Prosecutors in Richmond and Henrico County joined Cuccinelli in pressing for the court to overturn the remaining convictions.
The judges also wondered what weight should be attached to the state's chief prosecutor arguing to nullify convictions.
Attorneys answered appropriately: a lot. It's rare for the attorney general to argue against a case he's supposed to be defending. But Haynesworth's innocence is supported by DNA, based on thorough investigation and backed by commonwealth's attorneys whose offices previously prosecuted him.
Haynesworth had no criminal record when he was arrested at age 18. Now that he's out of prison, he's working in the state attorney general's office. But he has to register his whereabouts every month with the state, provide all email addresses he uses and abide by restrictions on where he can go.
The judges can rectify that. And they should. Immediately."
The editorial can be found at:
http://hamptonroads.com/2011/09/righting-old-wrongs-mislabeled-sex-offender
http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=120008354894645705&postID=8950904177091523155
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MICHAEL MORTON: DNA EVIDENCE WHICH COULD CLEAR HIM HAS "POTENTIALLY SERIOUS RAMIFICATIONS" FOR FORMER TEXAS SCIENCE BODY CHAIR D.A. JOHN BRADLEY;
"The developments could bolster efforts to exonerate Morton — who has steadfastly maintained his innocence — and help solve the mysterious killing of Debra Jan Baker, which has haunted her daughter, Caitlin Baker, nearly her entire life. She was 3 years old when her mother was bludgeoned to death in her bed.........
It could also have potentially serious ramifications for Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley, the former head of the Texas Forensic Science Commission. Appointed to the panel by Gov. Rick Perry, Bradley was critical of efforts to examine questions about the arson science used to convict Cameron Todd Willingham in the 1991 deaths of his three daughters. Willingham was executed in 2004. "
REPORTER BRANDI GRISSOM: THE TEXAS TRIBUNE;
"Travis County authorities are investigating an unsolved 1988 Austin murder that they suspect is related to the 1986 murder of Christine Morton, for which her husband, Michael Morton, has been in prison for 25 years," the Texas Tribune story by reporter Brandi Grissom published earlier today under the heading, "DNA may tie Morton case to 1988 killing," begins.
"The developments could bolster efforts to exonerate Morton — who has steadfastly maintained his innocence — and help solve the mysterious killing of Debra Jan Baker, which has haunted her daughter, Caitlin Baker, nearly her entire life. She was 3 years old when her mother was bludgeoned to death in her bed," the story continues.
""I'm happier for Michael Morton at this point," Caitlin Baker told The Texas Tribune. "If it helps him, that would be even better."
It could also have potentially serious ramifications for Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley, the former head of the Texas Forensic Science Commission. Appointed to the panel by Gov. Rick Perry, Bradley was critical of efforts to examine questions about the arson science used to convict Cameron Todd Willingham in the 1991 deaths of his three daughters. Willingham was executed in 2004.
Michael Morton was convicted in 1987 of killing his wife on Aug. 13, 1986, and was sentenced to life in prison. Like Debra Jan Baker, Christine Morton was found bludgeoned to death in her bed. Last year, a court forced the Williamson County District Attorney's office to turn over a blue bandana found near the Mortons' home for DNA testing.
This summer, Michael Morton's lawyers received the results of the genetic analysis that showed the bandana was stained with Christine's blood and DNA from a man who was not her husband. That DNA, in turn, was matched to the profile of a felon with a criminal history in California.
At a court hearing in the Morton case on Monday, Bexar County Judge Sid Harle revealed that the Travis County District Attorney's office had contacted him with information about a pending investigation that its investigators believed was connected to Morton's murder.
The judge would not discuss the case in open court, because the investigation is pending, but Morton's lawyer, John Raley, of the Raley and Bowick law firm in Houston, said, "This is very powerful evidence, your honor. Wow." Based on the discovery, Raley said, Morton should be immediately released from prison.
Neither Morton's attorneys nor the district attorneys in Travis and Williamson counties would confirm a connection between the two cases or discuss the Baker investigation. But Caitlin Baker said a detective in the Austin Police Department cold case unit told her Tuesday that authorities are investigating a potential connection between the two crimes.
Debra Jan Baker's body was discovered on Jan. 13, 1988, in her north Austin home, about 12 miles from where Morton's body was found about a year and a half earlier. Initially, police focused on Baker's estranged husband, Phillip Baker. But Phillip, who at the time worked at the local jail, said in an interview that the police eliminated him as a suspect.
Caitlin Baker, now 27, has pursued her mother's killer for years, begging Austin police and anyone else who might know what happened to share with her information about the murder. In 2005, she sent a letter to the Austin Chronicle, pleading for help from the public. "There must be someone with information regarding her death. We have not given up hope," she wrote.
Over the years, the police were in occasional contact — Baker said she met with cold case detectives about four years ago and police took DNA samples from other relatives — but her mother's murder has remained unsolved.
Then, about three weeks ago, she said, the police returned, asking again about her mother's death. Phillip Baker said police came to his home and showed him photos of two men, neither of whom he said he recognized. Caitlin Baker said police also spoke with her aunts and an uncle in Sugar Land. When Caitlin Baker asked Tuesday if the renewed interest in her mother's case was related to the Morton murder and recently discovered DNA, an officer told her it was.
"They are definitely looking into that, but they couldn't share any details," she said. "I'm happy that there could be something."
If DNA evidence from Debra Baker's murderer is linked to the sample taken from the Morton bandana — as was implied at Monday's court hearing — it could have momentous implications for Michael Morton and for Williamson County DA Bradley.
At Morton's original trial, then-Williamson County prosecutor Ken Anderson, now a Williamson County district judge, told jurors that Michael Morton beat his wife to death because he was upset that she had fallen asleep instead of having sex with him the previous night, after celebrating his birthday. Morton insisted that an intruder must have killed his wife after he left for work early in the morning.
Bradley fought against DNA analysis of the bandana and other evidence in Morton's case for more than six years until an appeals court granted the testing in 2010. In a 2008 interview with a Williamson County Sun reporter, Bradley derided the claims of Morton's attorneys that DNA on the bandana could be linked to "a mystery killer." In a motion filed in court on Monday, prosecutors said there was no evidence to suggest that the man whose DNA was found on the bandana had done anything more than touch it.
Morton's lawyers also argue that the district attorney's office deliberately withheld other evidence at the trial — and in the years since — in violation of discovery laws that could have not only exonerated Morton but allowed police to focus on the real killer.
Among the items withheld from both defense lawyers and the court at the initial trial, they said, was the transcript of a telephone conversation between Michael Morton's mother-in-law and a sheriff's deputy soon after her murder. In that conversation, Rita Kirkpatrick explained in great detail that Morton's 3-year-old son, Eric Morton, watched the murder and had told her that the "monster" he saw hurting his mother was not his father.
Morton's lawyers discovered in documents the court forced Bradley's office to release recently that state lawyers had the Kirkpatrick transcript at the time of the trial and did not provide it to defense lawyers or to the court despite specific requests for investigative material.
In its Monday motion in court, Bradley's office said "any claim that this evidence was somehow suppressed seems to be unfounded and has been irresponsibly costly to the trial prosecutors in this case."
In court Monday, Morton's lawyers said he should be released immediately based on the information connecting his wife's murder to the pending investigation in Travis County. Raley told the judge that he and his colleagues would cooperate with investigators to find the man identified by the DNA match, who is still at large.
"We are trying our best to seek justice in this matter, and we are very hopeful that law enforcement in some county will try and bring this felon to justice," Raley said.
Despite the new evidence, Williamson County prosecutors said in court that they wanted a hearing to further develop the information. "I think there are still issues that need to be resolved," said Lindsey Roberts, first assistant district attorney.
Judge Harle set a hearing for Monday to discuss further investigation of the case."
http://www.texastribune.org/m/story/31875/
THOMAS HAYNESWORTH; INNOCENCE PROJECT'S REPORT ON TODAY'S (TUESDAY'S) VIRGINIA APPEALS COURT SESSION; HE IS TRYING TO CLEAR HIS NAME;
Innocence Project Asks Virginia Appeals Court to Clear a Richmond Man Who Has Served Nearly 27 Years for Rapes He Didn't Commit
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Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli Personally Appeared Before the Court to Argue in Support of Thomas Haynesworth's Claim of Innocence
Paul Cates, 212-364-5346, pcates@innocenceproject.org
Shawn Armbrust, 773-562-9020, sarmbrust@exonerate.org
Alana Salzberg, 212-364-5983, asalzberg@innocenceproject.org
(Richmond, VA — September 27, 2011) The Innocence Project, the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project and Hogan Lovells US LLP appeared before the Virginia Court of Appeals today to urge the court to exonerate a Richmond man who was incarcerated nearly 27 years for three rapes that DNA and other evidence now show were committed by the notorious "Black Ninja" rapist. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli personally appeared before the court to join in seeking a declaration of actual innocence for Thomas Haynesworth. Richmond Commonwealth's Attorney Michael Herring and Henrico Commonwealth's Attorney Wade Kizer also concur that Haynesworth is innocent. Gov. Bob McDonnell intervened with the parole board to help secure Haynesworth's release to parole.
"The Attorney General and the Commonwealth Attorneys in Richmond and Henrico counties agree that Mr. Haynesworth is innocent of these crimes," said Shawn Armbrust, director of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project, who argued the case before the court today. "With such unwavering support from the state, we are hopeful that we were able to convince the court today to correct this tragic miscarriage of justice."
The case was argued before a three member panel of the Court of Appeals on March 30, 2011. In an unusual move, the panel ruled in July that it would not issue a decision but would instead send the case to be heard before the full Court of Appeals. In court today, lawyers argued that DNA and other evidence proves that Haynesworth is innocent of a series of rapes or attempted rapes that occurred in a small area overlapping both the City of Richmond and Henrico County between January 3 and February 1, 1984.
Haynesworth, an 18-year-old Richmond resident with no prior record, was arrested February 5, 1984, after one of the victims identified him. The other four victims later picked his photo out of a photo array. Haynesworth was eventually convicted for crimes that occurred on January 3, 30 and February 1, 1984 and sentenced to 36 years in prison. He was acquitted of a crime that occurred on January 21, and the charges were dropped in a January 27 incident.
Rapes in the same general area continued throughout 1984 after Haynesworth was arrested, with more than 10 young white women being attacked by a young black male who began to refer to himself to his victims as the "Black Ninja." On December 19, police arrested Leon Davis, who was charged with about a dozen rapes that took place during the last nine months of 1984. Davis was eventually convicted of at least three of those crimes and sentenced to multiple life terms.
After Gov. Mark Warner ordered a review of cases between 1973 and 1988, it was discovered that the semen recovered from the victim of Haynesworth's January 3 rape conviction matched Davis, not Haynesworth. With this knowledge, Haynesworth's legal team reached out to the Richmond and Henrico Commonwealth's Attorneys to review Haynesworth's other convictions. While there was no physical evidence for his two remaining convictions, DNA testing proved that Davis was also the perpetrator in the case for which he was acquitted.
The Richmond and Henrico Commonwealth's Attorneys conducted an extensive investigation and eventually concluded that Davis, not Haynesworth, was responsible for the other two crimes. These crimes matched the same modus operandi as the other rapes committed by Davis. Haynesworth also passed polygraph tests about both of the cases that were administered in the presence of the respective Commonwealth's Attorneys.
"Mr. Haynesworth spent 27 years in prison for crimes he clearly didn't commit. While he is out on parole now, he is not a free man. He has been forced to register as a sex offender and abide by many restrictions," said Olga Akselrod, a Staff Attorney with the Innocence Project, which is affiliated with Cardozo School of Law. "With so many people confident in his innocence, we are hopeful that Mr. Haynesworth will finally be cleared."
Haynesworth was released to parole thanks to intervention from Gov. Bob McDonnell. Since his release, he has been working in the mail room of the Attorney General's office.
A timeline of the case is available here.
Download the briefs before the Court of Appeals below:
• Supplemental Brief — Hogan Lovells, Innocence Project, Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project
• Reply Brief — Hogan Lovells, Innocence Project, Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project
• Commonwealth Brief — Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli)
The legal team includes Hogan Lovells US LLP partner Ellen Kennedy and associates Thomas Widor and Aaron George as well as Innocence Project Co-Director Peter Neufeld.
The report can be found at:
http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/Innocence_Project_Asks_Virginia_Appeals_Court_to_Clear_a_Richmond_Man_Who_Has_Served_Nearly_27_Years_for_Rapes_He_Didnt_Commit.php
AMANDA KNOX; APPEAL; TUESDAY; DEFENCE LAWYER DISMISSES "SHE-DEVIL" RHETORIC; REPORTER ALYSHAH HASHAM; THE TORONTO STAR;
"To the prosecution she is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: "both a [saint] and a demonic, satanic she-devil."
But in closing arguments at Knox's appeal case in Perugia on Tuesday, her defence lawyer compared her to Jessica Rabbit, the sultry cartoon character suspected of murder in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Knox isn't a manipulating, sex-obsessed "femme fatale" as her accusers charge, lawyer Giulia Bongiorno said in her closing arguments. Knox is rather like raven-haired cartoon temptress — just drawn that way.
Bongiorno said Knox has been unfairly portrayed over the course of the media-hyped, four-year case."
REPORTER ALYSHAH; THE TORONTO STAR
"Amanda Knox, the 24-year-old U.S. student convicted of murdering her roommate, has been painted as both a manipulative temptress and naïve innocent at her appeal trial in Italy this week," the Toronto Star story by reporter Alyshah Hasham published earlier today under the heading, "Amanda Knox: She-devil or Jessica rabbit? A defense lawyer has told a court to see Amanda Knox, the American student convicted of killing her roommate, not as the "femme fatale" her accusers describe but rather as a loving young woman," begins.
"To the prosecution she is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: "both a [saint] and a demonic, satanic she-devil," the story continues.
"But in closing arguments at Knox's appeal case in Perugia on Tuesday, her defence lawyer compared her to Jessica Rabbit, the sultry cartoon character suspected of murder in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Bongiorno said Knox has been unfairly portrayed over the course of the media-hyped, four-year case.
Two years ago, the Seattle native was sentenced to 26 years in prison for the Nov. 1, 2007 sexual assault and brutal murder of her roommate, British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, where they were studying Italian.
Knox's former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, a former student at the University of Perugia, was also convicted in the joint trial, and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Both convictions are currently being appealed.
The sensational trial in Italy painted the murder as part of a drug-fuelled sex game that included Knox, Sollecito and another man, Rudy Guede.
An animated reconstruction of the murder scene played by the prosecution at the original trial shows Knox getting into a fight with Kercher as Sollecito held a knife. Guede held Kercher from behind and reached a hand into her underwear.
Sollecito ripped Kercher's bra off, said the original prosecutor Giuliano Mignini who believed the two men were competing for Knox's attention. Then, he said, Knox stabbed Kercher in the throat, one of 43 stab wounds found on Kercher's body.
"Who is Amanda Knox?" said attorney Carlo Pacelli in court on Monday. "Is she the mild-looking, fresh-faced person you see here, or the one devoted to lust, drugs and alcohol that emerges from the court documents?"
However, the defence called the DNA evidence used in the trial useless.
"In the room of the crime, there are no traces of either Amanda or Raffaele. This is the absolute truth," said Bongiorno, according to the Guardian.
The alleged trace of Sollecito's DNA on Kercher's bra clasp, collected 46 days after the murder was evidence "torn apart by the experts' report," she said.
The review significantly weakened the prosecution case, giving the defendants hope that they might be freed after four years behind bars.
The lawyers also pointed out that Knox accused a bar owner in Perugia, Diya "Patrick" Lumumba, of murdering Kercher. He was later cleared.
Knox's mother, Edda Mellas, blames the false accusation on the Italian police, according to CBS News.
"The police are the ones that told her 'We know he was involved, we know he was there, we know you were with him," she told CBS News. "After, I don't know, 12 hours no food, no rest, the hitting, the screaming, the shouting, the terrorizing of her, she finally said, 'Well ok, maybe this, maybe that.'"
If Knox and Sollecito are acquitted, a lawyer from the prosecution told an Italian news agency that it would appeal to Italy's highest court, the last level of appeals.
In a Monday night interview with CNN, Amanda Knox's father Curt Knox said that his daughter found the words of the prosecution "extraordinarily hard to listen to."
"What I find very hard to believe is how this person can start calling her that when he's never even talked to her, never met her," he said. He added that his daughter has been losing weight and is having trouble sleeping.
He said that Knox will be able to address court before the jury begins deliberations, something she has been thinking about for three months
"This is really her final opportunity to express her heartfelt thoughts as it relates to how she's being judged and the fact that she had nothing to do with this horrific crime and that Meredith was her friend."
The defence is expected to complete its final arguments on Thursday, according to CNN.
A verdict is expected next week after jury deliberations.
The third man involved in the case, Rudy Guede, a drifter from Cote D'Ivoire, has exhausted his appeals process, according to the Telegraph. He is serving 16 years in prison."
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1060209--amanda-knox-she-devil-or-jessica-rabbit
CORY ARMISHAW: GUELPH, ONTARIO; MAN FREED IN SHAKEN-BABY CASE BECAUSE OF HEAVY HANDED POLICE CONFESSION TACTICS; DEFENCE: POLICE HAD NOTHING ELSE;
"Armishaw was living on Hadati Road with then-girlfriend Kayla Lindeman, Jaydin's mother, but was at work when the boy became unresponsive and was rushed to Guelph General Hospital in November 2006.
Jaydin died approximately two days later in a London hospital of what doctors concluded was brain damage from being shaken. It was unclear, however, how many hours before he became comatose that the injury would have occurred. The range was four to 48 hours, court heard.
Langdon said the case comprised largely of hearsay statements, some conflicting, by people familiar with the common-law family and its circumstances. Disturbing aspects, he noted, included changing statements key players made, whether Armishaw and Lindeman and her grandmother had motive and opportunity.
Police, Langdon said, were so focused on Armishaw they didn't pay enough attention on significant inconsistencies in Lindeman's pronouncements, even though at one early point she was a suspect.
Repeatedly, Langdon criticized Smyth's June, 2007 interrogation in which Armishaw ultimately confessed as so "relentless" the man would have concluded "resistance is futile."" (September 26, 2011 story);
In a June 26, 2007 interrogation by OPP Det. Sgt. Jim Smyth, Armishaw confessed to what medical experts termed shaken baby syndrome.
That came after Armishaw repeatedly demanded his constitutional right to silence on the advice of his attorney while under pressure by Smyth to ignore that guidance.
In a video recording of his interrogation, Smyth is heard telling Armishaw his silence "will have negative consequences" for the man. Smyth said several times Armishaw must speak up to make clear he didn't plan the death or he'd be viewed as a cold-blooded killer, like someone who robs a store and shoots a clerk in the face.
"To my mind, that's a threat," Parry told Langdon. "It's a systematic and repeated attack (on Armishaw's legal rights)."
"How else can that be interpreted but 'My lawyer can't save me?' "
But without reasonable and probable grounds for conviction in a case without evidence linking Armishaw to the boy's death, the overarching drive was to get a confession, Parry told the court. "It seems to me this was an all-or-nothing ploy." (September 22, 2011 story);
THE GUELPH MERCURY;
SEPTEMBER 26, 2011 STORY: GUELPH — Cory Armishaw has been acquitted of second-degree murder in the 2006 shaken-baby death of toddler Jaydin Lindeman," the Guelph Mercury story published on September 26, 2011 begins under the heading, "Guelph man acquitted in baby's death".
"Armishaw, 26, walked out of Superior Court a free man Monday after Justice Kenneth Langdon launched a scathing attack on police interrogation techniques used in June 2007," the story continues.
"They were used in a grilling of Armishaw in which police repeatedly brushed aside Armishaw's desire to remain silent on the advice of a defence attorney.
It amounted to a coerced confession, Langdon said.
"I have without any difficulty concluded that (a confession offered by Armishaw in that session) is inadmissible," Langdon said.
"His statement was not voluntary," Langdon said, noting police interrogator OPP Det. Sgt. Jim Smyth "lied over and over" to Armishaw about the strength of the evidence against him. Langdon said that likely convinced Armishaw — alluded to in the trial as a man of limited intellect — "of his own guilt."
Prosecutor Pamela Borghesan said after a recess the Crown was not going ahead with the case.
"Mr. Armishaw's confession was a crucial piece of evidence in the Crown's case," she told Langdon. "Without it there is no reasonable prospect of conviction."
"I enter a verdict of not guilty," Langdon said in the third week of a voir dire, or trial within a trial, on the admissibility of the confession and other statements from people interviewed by police.
Armishaw cried as family members gathered around him, also weeping quietly as the group left the court.
"(I'm) pretty happy with the outcome and that's pretty much all I can say," Armishaw said, on the sidewalk outside court.
"I'm thrilled for him," defence attorney Craig Parry of Kitchener said.
Parry said he was pleased the judge concurred with the defence that the aggressive interrogation techniques, including implied threats and inducements, by Smyth went too far.
Smyth suggested in a video-recorded interrogation that Armishaw might be seen, without confessing, as a cold-blooded killer rather than someone who shook a fussing baby in fleeting frustration.
"The tactics employed are very dangerous. They run the risk of coercing false confessions." That's because offering a false choice might lead an accused person to wrongly conclude "there's no way out but to confess," Parry said.
Asked if the case would influence how authorities approach future criminal investigations, Borghesan said: "I can't comment on police techniques . . . and every case is different."
Armishaw was living on Hadati Road with then-girlfriend Kayla Lindeman, Jaydin's mother, but was at work when the boy became unresponsive and was rushed to Guelph General Hospital in November 2006.
Repeatedly, Langdon criticized Smyth's June, 2007 interrogation in which Armishaw ultimately confessed as so "relentless" the man would have concluded "resistance is futile."
Smyth repeatedly told Armishaw the evidence pointed clearly to Armishaw.
"That was a lie," Langdon said. "It was meant to be a lie." This squeezed the man into a tight corner, fairly or unfairly.
"He has no alternative but to own up.""
http://www.guelphmercury.com/news/local/article/600417--guelph-man-acquitted-in-baby-s-death
Cory Armishaw Cory Armishaw is accused of murdering his former girlfriend's baby.
Scott Tracey/Guelph Mercury
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 STORY); DEFENCE LAMBASTES POLICE INTERROGATION TACTIC; (Guelph Mercury September 22, 2011);
GUELPH — Kitchener defence attorney Craig Parry lashed out Wednesday at a police interrogation tactic against accused baby killer Cory Armishaw that suggested the man didn't need legal counsel.
"It's one of the protections that ensures our democracy functions," Parry told Mr. Justice Kenneth Langdon in Superior Court, where Armishaw is on trial for second-degree murder in the November 2006 death of his girlfriend's 2 ½-month old son, Jaydin Lindeman.
But without reasonable and probable grounds for conviction in a case without evidence linking Armishaw to the boy's death, the overarching drive was to get a confession, Parry told the court. "It seems to me this was an all-or-nothing ploy."
Armishaw has pleaded not guilty in a trial by judge alone. The focus to date has been on resolving legal issues, using in part case law. Those matters include admissibility of statements made to police and circumstances surrounding the confession, which the defence maintains was coerced and the prosecution maintains was freely given.
"There are no inducements, threats, oppressive atmosphere or trickery such that Mr. Armishaw's right to remain silent has been breached," prosecutor Pam Borghesan said, adding the confession was therefore voluntary.
The two sides initially tangled Wednesday over the admissibility of expert testimony by South Miami forensic psychologist Bruce Frumkin, who said Friday that Armishaw's limited intelligence and high susceptibility to suggestion made him vulnerable to the will of police interrogators.
In defence submissions, Parry's associate lawyer, Kirsten Van Drunen, told Langdon those psychological weaknesses made Armishaw susceptible to making false or unreliable statements. Though he initially proclaimed his innocence, she added he was also vulnerable to police suggestions that the case against him was solid when it wasn't.
Van Drunen said "Mr. Armishaw is more suggestible than average." He was also "more prone to give in to misleading information and change his responses under pressure."
She said Frumkin's testing methods on Armishaw last June 11 are generally accepted by his peers in the profession, and she urged the court not to dismiss his testimony that Armishaw was "vulnerable to providing a false confession."
But Borghesan said that while Frumkin acknowledged high suggestibility may make a person vulnerable to pressure, he wouldn't offer an opinion on whether a particular confession was voluntary or false. She compared it to someone saying an animal isn't a duck per se, but "swims and quacks."
Borghesan added courts haven't universally accepted all of Frumkin's methods of assessing accused persons in the 600 American cases he's been involved with. "In Canada, this would be a first."
Armishaw, she continued, would have had a stronger desire to co-operate with the psychologist than police interrogating him in the months after the boy's death in the basement unit he and Kayla Lindeman shared.
Further, she emphasized Frumkin's testimony isn't required.
"Juries are capable of assessing the reliability of confessions," she said, referring in this case to Langdon alone.
As to Smyth's methods, Borghesan said "inflating" the evidence against an accused during interrogations isn't unusual or objectionable.
But Parry took exception to this characterization.
"To say it's exaggeration," Parry said, "is disingenuous."
Parry said the point of the "lie" was to make clear to Armishaw that "resistance is futile." Smyth, he said, told Armishaw the medical evidence pointed to him as the boy's killer when this wasn't the case.
"You know Mr. Armishaw bought it hook, line and sinker," he told the court. The bottom line is Armishaw doubted his innocence, the attorney added.
"As a young kid, he lacks the tools to intellectually scrutinize the falsehoods being presented to him," Parry said of Armishaw, who was 21 when the toddler died. "He's buying it."
And yet, Parry said, there were others who had opportunity to harm the boy, though police didn't pursue those possibilities.
Borghesan said investigators eliminated those others.
"Police did have the requisite grounds for arresting Mr. Armishaw for murder," Borghesan said.
The trial continues today.
This story can be found at:
http://www.guelphmercury.com/news/local/article/598198--defence-lambastes-police-interrogation-tactic
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Three Sisters Mountain CCD
Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia Population Charts
According to the most recent Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia demographics data available from the United States Census Bureau released in the American Community Survey in December of 2019, Figure 1 Three Sisters Mountain CCD shows it has a Population 2018 of 13,977 which is ranked #1 of all places in the greater Three Sisters Mountain CCD region. Figure 3 uses the Three Sisters Mountain CCD population data for a comparison of the population growth/population change estimates from the years 2010 to 2018 and Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia depicts an increase of 506 (4%).
The total Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia greater area population percent change for all areas for the years from 2010 to 2018 is shown in Figure 4 and for Three Sisters Mountain CCD depicts it has a Population Change of 3.8% which is less than most other places in the greater region.
Looking at the Three Sisters Mountain CCD population density (measured as people per square mile) and providing comparisons to both the national and state average population density in Figure 5, Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia depicts it has 97 people per square mile which is the smallest as measured by population density of all the other places in the local area. The next higher when ranked by population density is Helen about twice as large with population density of 180. The place with the highest population density in the area is Cleveland which depicts a people per square mile of 1,001 ( considerably bigger). Figure 6 provides Three Sisters Mountain CCD demographics for the overall median age for all people in the region and Three Sisters Mountain CCD depicts it has a Median Age of 44.2 which is the third most median age of all other places in the greater Three Sisters Mountain CCD region. The place with the highest overall median age of all people in the area is Helen which depicts an age of 57.9 (31.0% larger). The Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia population data for median age broken out by gender for both men versus the median age of women is shown in Figure 7. Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia depicts a median age of men about 15.9% smaller as the median age of women.
The next demographic analysis (Figure 8) looks at large generational Three Sisters Mountain CCD population groups (and can be useful internet research for employment related research or identifying areas with retirees). Key findings in this chart includes that Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia has one of the largest proportions of people between 60 and 69 years old at 12.3% of the total and is ranked #2. The only larger place being Helen with 18.7%.
Figure 9 illustrates the overall diversity breakdown for Three Sisters Mountain CCD population and ethnicity groups in the area. (note: Hispanic/Latino is broken out separately in the next diagram and also the group denoted as Native ethnicity includes Native American, and Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander.) Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia has one of the largest proportions of Native population at 4.1% of the total and is ranked #2. The only larger place being Helen with 4.9%. Figure 10 shows the Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia Hispanic (including non Hispanic whites) population household ethnicity in the region and Three Sisters Mountain CCD depicts it has a Hispanic or Latino of 4.6% which is in the center range of other places in the local area. Figure 11 compares the ratio of the amount of men to the amount of women and depicts total male population 7.7% larger as the total female population.
Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia Marital Status and Families Charts
Figure 12 shows the detailed marriage characteristics broken down by %residents who are married, never married, single, divorced, and widowed. Three Sisters Mountain CCD has the percentage of never married percent in the mid range of other places in the metro area at 11% of the total. Second, it has one of the largest proportions of percent divorced at 8% of the total and is ranked #3. Only #2 Cleveland (9%), and #1 Helen (9%) are larger. Figure 14 compares the average household size using the average number of people in a family for Three Sisters Mountain CCD households. Three Sisters Mountain CCD depicts it has a Family Size of 3.0 which is in the mid range of other places in the local area. The place with the highest average family size in the area is Dawsonville which depicts an average family size of 3.5 (17.9% larger).
Figure 15 shows the overall ratio of Three Sisters Mountain CCD households for families to the total number of Three Sisters Mountain CCD households and that Three Sisters Mountain CCD shows it has a Families of 72% which is the third most families percent of all other places in the greater Three Sisters Mountain CCD region. The place with the highest percent of people who are in a family in the area is Clermont which shows a families percent of 81% (11.9% larger).
Looking at Three Sisters Mountain CCD households that are headed by a husband and wife as a percent of all families in Figure 16, Three Sisters Mountain CCD shows it has a Married-couple family of 79% which is in the center range of other places in the surrounding region. The place with the highest percent of people in a husband and wife family in the area is Helen which depicts a husband and wife family percent of 88% (11.5% larger). Figure 17 shows Three Sisters Mountain CCD demographics for the head of household for each place using a breakdown of married-couple, male-headed alone, and female-headed alone. Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia has the largest proportion of households at 8.4% of the total and is ranked #1. Second, it has the second smallest in order of percent of families in husband and wife household of all the other places in the local area in terms of households at 12.7% of the total.
Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia Mothers and Children Charts
The next section of charts provide a detailed look at mothers and baby births that occurred over the past 12 months. Figure 18 shows the rate of women aged 15 to 50 years old who have given birth. Three Sisters Mountain CCD depicts it has a Birth Rate of 7.6% which is the third most percent of women who have given birth of all other places in the greater Three Sisters Mountain CCD region. The place with the highest percent of women who gave birth in the area is Helen which depicts a birth rate of 15.7% (about twice as large). Figure 19 shows the breakdown of the mother's age for all baby births that occurred in the last 12 months and it has one of the largest proportions of percent of births to mothers aged 15 to 19 at 41% of the total and is ranked #2. The only larger place being Cleveland with 82%. Second, it has one of the largest proportions of percent of births to mothers aged 20 to 24 at 31% of the total and is ranked #3. Only #2 Dawsonville (33%), and #1 Helen (62%) are larger. Third, it has one of the largest proportions of percent of births to mothers aged 25 to 29 at 22% of the total and is ranked #3. Only #2 Clermont (69%), and #1 Dahlonega (100%) are larger.
In Figure 20, the demographic data for Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia teenager birth rate is shown (women between the ages of 15 and 19.) Three Sisters Mountain CCD shows it has a Teenager Birth Rate of 6% which is the highest of all places in the local area.
In Figure 21, the percentage of all births in the last 12 months to mothers that were unmarried is shown (unwed mothers.) Three Sisters Mountain CCD depicts it has a Unwed Births of 53% which is the second most percent of unwed women who have given birth of all the places in the greater Three Sisters Mountain CCD region. The place with the highest percent of unwed women who have given birth in the area is Helen which shows an unwed mother birth rate of 100% (about twice as large).
Unwed mothers who have given birth in the last 12 months are also shown broken down by age group in Figure 24. Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia has one of the largest proportions of unwed mothers aged 15 to 19 at 88.3% of the total and is ranked #3. Only #2 Dawsonville (100.0%), and #1 Cleveland (100.0%) are larger.
Figure 26 shows unwed mothers in poverty (based on median household income definition) who have given birth in the last 12 months. Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia has one of the largest proportions of unwed births and living between 100% and 199% of poverty level at 30.6% of the total and is ranked #2. The only larger place being Helen with 37.5%.
For all births to unwed mothers, Figure 27 breaks down the education level of the mother by less than high school through college and post graduate attainment it has the largest proportion of percent of unwed mothers with less than high school education at 48% of the total and is ranked #1. Second, it has in the mid range of other places in the surrounding region when ranked by percent of unwed mothers who are a high school graduate or equivalent at 31% of the total.
Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia Marital Status Charts
The next set of demographic data looks at the marital status for Three Sisters Mountain CCD households which is useful for internet research. Figure 28 compares the total number of single people in each area. Three Sisters Mountain CCD shows it has a Total Single People of 44% which is less than most other places in the local area. The place with the highest percent of people who are single for any reason in the area is Dahlonega which depicts a percent single of 71% (60.9% larger). Comparing percent of people who are single for any reason to the United States average of 50%, Three Sisters Mountain CCD is about 13.9% smaller. Also, compared to the state of Georgia, percent of people who are single for any reason of 51%, Three Sisters Mountain CCD is about 16.0% smaller.
Figure 30 compares the single people in each area broken down by never married, divorced, and widowed. Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia has the percentage of percent never married in the middle range of other places in the local area at 11% of the total. Second, it has one of the largest proportions of percent divorced at 8% of the total and is ranked #3. Only #2 Cleveland (9%), and #1 Helen (9%) are larger. Figure 31 shows the demographics for the number of single men adults in each area broken out by never married, divorced and widowed. Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia has the largest proportion of men who are divorced at 5% of the total and is ranked #1. Figure 32 shows the number of single women adults in each area broken out by never married, divorced and widowed. Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia has one of the largest proportions of women who have never been married at 13% of the total and is ranked #3. Only #2 Dawsonville (18%), and #1 Yonah CDP (55%) are larger. Second, it has one of the largest proportions of women who are divorced at 11% of the total and is ranked #3. Only #2 Cleveland (13%), and #1 Helen (16%) are larger.
Figure 33 shows the Three Sisters Mountain CCD demographics for the ratio of the number of single men between the age of 18 and 65, in each area, broken down by age group for the Three Sisters Mountain CCD metro area. Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia has one of the largest proportions of single men 18 to 24 at 10% of the total and is ranked #3. Only #2 Dawsonville (12%), and #1 Helen (50%) are larger. Second, it has the second smallest when ranked by percent of single men 18 to 24 of all the other places in the metropolitan area when ranked by single men 25 to 29 at 2% of the total. Third, it has less than most other places in the greater region as measured by single men 30 to 34 at 2% of the total.
Figure 34 shows the Three Sisters Mountain CCD population data for the ratio of the number of single women between the age of 18 and 65, in each area, broken down by age group for the Three Sisters Mountain CCD metro area. Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia has the percentage of single women 18 to 24 in the mid range of other places in the metro area at 9% of the total. Second, it has one of the largest proportions of single women 25 to 29 at 10% of the total and is ranked #2. The only larger place being Dawsonville with 15%. Third, it has one of the largest proportions of single women 30 to 34 at 3% of the total and is ranked #3. Only #2 Clermont (5%), and #1 Dawsonville (19%) are larger. Also, it has in the mid point range of other places in the greater region in terms of single women 35 to 39 at 1% of the total. In addition, it has one of the largest proportions of single women 40 to 44 at 11% of the total and is ranked #2. The only larger place being Yonah CDP with 25%. Furthermore, it has one of the largest proportions of single women 45 to 49 at 22% of the total and is ranked #3. Only #2 Yonah CDP (60%), and #1 Helen (63%) are larger.
Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia Citizenship Demographics Charts
The next section of demographic information provides detailed data Three Sisters Mountain CCD residents including: immigrants, citizenship, immigration, country of origin, non citizens and more. To start, Figure 35 shows a high level view of citizenship. Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia has the percentage of citizens born In US in the center range of other places in the greater region at 2% of the total.
In Figure 37, the demographic percentage of Three Sisters Mountain CCD residents who were not born in the United States is shown (i.e. percent foreign born.) Three Sisters Mountain CCD shows it has a Percent Foreign Born of 3.3% which is less than most other places in the local area. The place with the highest percent of population who was born in another country in the area is Yonah CDP which shows a percent born outside United States of 9.2% (approximately 2.8 times bigger). Comparing percent of population who was born in another country to the United States average of 13.5%, Three Sisters Mountain CCD is approximately a quarter the size. Also, in comparison with the state of Georgia, percent of population who was born in another country of 10.1%, Three Sisters Mountain CCD is approximately a third the size.
Figure 39 provides a detailed analysis of non citizens by breaking them into two age groups: Under 18 and over the age of 18. Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia depicts a percent of non citizens under 18 years old approximately a third the size as the percent of non citizens over 18 years old. Figure 40 provides further information for non citizen age by showing a comparison of the median age for all non citizens immigrants. it has a Non Citizen Median Age of 46.4 which is ranked #1 of all places in the greater Three Sisters Mountain CCD region. The next diagram (Figure 41) shows the year of entry that non citizens entered the United States. The year of entry can show the rate of flow at various points of time in the past for when they entered the U.S. has the percentage of non citizens who entered the US between 2000 to 2009 in the mid range of other places in the metropolitan area at 24% of the total. Second, it has one of the largest proportions of non citizens who entered the US between 1990 to 1999 at 42% of the total and is ranked #2. The only larger place being Dahlonega with 47%. Third, it has the largest proportion of non citizens who entered the US before 1990 at 15% of the total and is ranked #1.
For all foreign born people who have gone through naturalization (the process of becoming a legal U.S. resident citizen), Figure 42 shows the year when they became fully naturalized U.S. citizens. it has one of the largest proportions of people naturalized 2010 to 2014 at 14% of the total and is ranked #3. Only #2 Helen (29%), and #1 Clermont (67%) are larger. Second, it has the largest proportion of people naturalized 2000 to 2004 at 40% of the total and is ranked #1. Third, it has one of the largest proportions of people naturalized before 1990 at 46% of the total and is ranked #2. The only larger place being Yonah CDP with 100%.
Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia Birthplace Demographic Charts
Figure 43 displays a map of the globe and shows Three Sisters Mountain CCD demographic information for large regions of the world that people from this place originally came from. Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia has the percentage of from Asia less than most other places in the greater region at 4% of the total. Second, it has the largest proportion of from Oceania at 8% of the total and is ranked #1. Third, it has one of the largest proportions of from the Americas at 73% of the total and is ranked #3. Only #2 Clermont (100%), and #1 Yonah CDP (100%) are larger.
Figure 44 categorizes the location for where foreign born people originally come from based on very large continental geographic areas. Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia has the percentage of from Europe less than most other places in the greater region at 4% of the total. Second, it has the largest proportion of from Africa at 8% of the total and is ranked #1. Third, it has one of the largest proportions of from Oceania at 73% of the total and is ranked #3. Only #2 Clermont (100%), and #1 Yonah CDP (100%) are larger.
Figure 45 is a table that breaks out all the people who were foreign born by which large geographic region where they were born. Three Sisters Mountain CCD Georgia has the largest proportion of people who were born in Northern Europe at 15.3% of the total and is ranked #1. Second, it has the largest proportion of people who were born in the Oceania region at 7.5% of the total and is ranked #1. Third, it has one of the largest proportions of people who were born in Central America at 61.7% of the total and is ranked #2. The only larger place being Clermont with 100.0%.
Three Sisters Mountain CCD, Georgia Demographics Data
Marital Status and Families
Mothers and Children
Citizenship Demographics
Birthplace Demographic
Figure 1: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA and Area 2018 Population Data
Figure 2: Map of Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA and Area
Figure 3: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA Population Change 2010 to 2018
Figure 4: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA 2010 to 2018 Population Percent Change
Figure 5: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA Population Density
Figure 6: Median Age in Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA
Figure 7: Median Age by Gender in Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA
Figure 8: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA and Area Age by Generation
Figure 9: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA and Area Ethnicity Makeup
Figure 10: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA Hispanic Population
Figure 11: Male vs. Female Population
Figure 12: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA Marriage Status
Figure 14: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA Average Family Size in Household
Figure 15: Families as % of All Households
Figure 16: Husband and Wife Families as Percent of All Families
Figure 17: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA Head of Household
Figure 18: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA Birth Rate (Last 12 months)
Figure 19: All Births Age of Mother
Figure 20: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA Teenager Birth Rate
Figure 21: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA Unwed Mothers as % of All Births
Figure 22: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA Unwed and On Public Assitance
Figure 24: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA Unwed Mother Births By Age Group
Figure 25: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA Unwed Mother Birth Rate By Race
Figure 26: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA Unwed Mother Births By Poverty Level
Figure 27: Unwed Births and Education Level
Figure 28: Total Single People
Figure 30: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA Single People Broken Down By Reason
Figure 31: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA Single Men in Area
Figure 32: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA Single Women in Area
Figure 33: Single Men by Age Group
Figure 34: Single Women by Age Group
Figure 35: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA Citizenship Status
Figure 36: Citizen Place of Birth for Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA
Figure 37: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA Percent of Population Foreign Born
Figure 39: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA Non Citizen Age Breakout
Figure 40: Non Citizen Median Age
Figure 41: % Non Citizen Year of Entry into USA
Figure 42: Year of Naturalization
Figure 43: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA Foreign Born People are From What Region
Figure 44: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA Foreign-Born World Region of Birth
Figure 45: Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA Foreign-Born Sub-Region of Birth
Figure 46: Foreign-Born Country of People Living in Three Sisters Mountain CCD, GA
Figure 47: Foreign-Born Country for all people in the United States
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Turner has officials planned to Louisville, UCLA, Arizona, Oregon and Kansas.
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"He probably won't go to UConn," Ward said Tuesday night by phone.
She then added that there are "mostly five" schools he's looking at.
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Forward Kadeem Jack announce his tape-delayed commitment to Rutgers Tuesday night.
"I just felt like I should go to Rutgers," Jack said during an interview with MSG Varsity. "Start from the ground up and maybe 50 years from now people will start saying Kadeem Jack was that guy that helped Rutgers back to glory."
The 6-foot-9 Jack visited Rutgers unofficially last week with his mother, Louisa Hall.
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West Virginia, Miami and Arkansas were also in the mix for Jack, the No. 7 power forward in the Class of 2011. He averaged 16.9 points a game last season at Rice High School.
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Athens is connected to even the remotest destinations through the Athens International Airport, ports of Piraeus, Rafina and Lavrio, national railway network operated by TRAINOSE and, long-distance bus network KTEL. The KTEL is used by our undergraduate students who wish to travel from/to Athens to/from our Sounion premises. The KTEL from Athens to Sounion will take an hour approximately (for details refer to the transfers section below).
When using Athens Public Transport you are obliged to hold a valid ticket or travel card. Tickets and cards are valid for the transport mode and time period printed on them. All tickets have to be validated in the validating machines upon boarding (buses, trolleybuses) or walking to the platforms before boarding (tram, metro). You should demonstrate your validated ticket or card upon request to the authorized fare inspectors together with the relevant supporting documents certifying your right to free or reduced transportation cost.
Failure to display a valid ticket results to a fine which is 60 times the price of the ticket (regular ticket € 1,40 or reduced € 0,60), i.e.€ 84,00 for those who are obliged to use regular ticket and € 36,00 for those eligible for reduced ticket.
From 2017 a new electronic ticketing system has been introduced in the Athens public transport network, replacing the older paper tickets and cards.
The Ath.ena Ticket can be charged and recharged varying from a "90-minute ticket for all modes" to 5-day tickets. Airport transfer tickets and 3-day tourist tickets are available as well. The Ath.ena Ticket can be bought from and recharged at all Athens transport ticket offices as well as any automatic ticket issuing machine. Half-priced Ath.ena Tickets are only available from Athens transport ticket offices.
The anonymous Ath.ena Card which is a plastic rechargeable card that can be used again and again.
The personalized Ath.ena Card which is a plastic rechargeable card that can be used again and again. It bears the photo and name of the passenger it belongs to. To issue a personalized Ath.ena Card, a Greek ID card and an AMKA certificate is required. For non-Greek citizens, personalized Ath.ena Cards can be issued with a passport.
By Bus: all buses depart from the Arrivals Level between exit 4 and 5. Bus tickets are sold at the info/ticket-kiosk (located outside the Arrivals between Exits 4 and 5), or onboard (ask operator) at no extra cost. The ticket is €6.00.
By Metro: the trip from the Airport to Syntagma station (Athens city center) lasts about 40 minutes with the blue line directed to Aghia Marina. The ticket is €10.00, payable only by cash.
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ARA Hercules (D1) / (B52)
Destroyer Warship / Amphibious Assault Vessel
Built in Britain prior to the 1982 Falklands War, ARA Hercules still maintains an active presence in the Argentine fleet today - now in a support role.
Status: Commissioned, in Active Service
Named Ships: ARA Hercules (D1); ARA Santisima Trinidad (D2)
Roles: Amphibious Operations Support; Blue Water Operations; Fleet Support; Hunter; Direct-Attack;
Propulsion: 2 x TM-3B gas turbines developing 54,400 horsepower with 2 x RM-1A gas turbines developing 8,200 horsepower driving 2 x shafts in COGAG arrangement.
Operators: Argentina
Prior to the Falklands War (1982) against Britain, Argentina maintained a relationship with the European power to the point that it was able to procure a pair of its "Type 42" destroyer warships. These were christened as ARA hercules (D1) and ARA Santisima Trinidad (D2). Both were ordered on May 18th, 1970 and acquired on June 16th, 1971 and October 11th, 1971, respectively. ARA Hercules (constructed by Vickers Shipbuilding Ltd of Barrow-in-Furness) was launched on October 24th, 1972 and taken into service on May 10th, 1976. Her formal commissioning took place on July 12th, 1976. Santisima followed on July 1st, 1981. Hercules was assigned to Puerto Belgrano Naval Base.
ARA Hercules was completed to the original Type 42 standard which made up most of the British Royal Navy's Type 42 fleet (a few were completed with lengthened hulls). After some time in service, her offensive capabilities were augmented by installation of the French-made MM-38 "Exocet" anti-ship missiles which forced a revision of some of her structure near the smoke funnel. She retained her 4.5" turreted deck gun, a twin-launcher Sea Dart unit, 2 x 20mm Anti-Aircraft (AA) guns as well as 6 x 12.75" (324mm) torpedo tubes. She also held onboard facilities for a single Westland Lynx (or similar) navy helicopter. Power was from a COmbined Gas And Gas (COGAG) arrangement involving 2 x TM-3B and 2 x RM-1A gas turbines driving 2 x shafts. She could hope to make headway at 28 knots in ideal conditions. Her crew complement numbered 280.
For the 1982 conflict with Britain, ARA Hercules joined ARA Santisima Trinidad as escorts to the ARA Veinticinco de Mayo aircraft carrier (detailed elsewhere on this site) but she faced mechanical issues which limited her participation. Very little action beyond tracking and fending off a British Sea Harrier was seen and Argentina went on to lose the war and control of the Falkland Islands for good.
In the post-war period, in 2000 specifically, ARA Hercules was taken to neighboring Chile where a expansive program was done on her to convert the warship to more of a multi-purpose-minded transport vessel. This included an enlarging of her hangar space and stern flight deck and removal of some of her original armament. The warship carried provision and space for 238 combat-ready troops as well as a crew of 166 and could now operate 2 x Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King (or similar) navy helicopters (these further equipped with anti-ship missiles for over-the-horizon work).
As of 2016, ARA Hercules - now given the Pennant Number "B-52" - maintains an active status in the Argentine fleet. She was assigned to the amphibious force section in 1999. Her sister was given up in 1989.
As Built:
1 x 4.5" (114mm) Dual-Purpose (DP) Deck Gun
1 x Sea Dart Anti-Aircraft Missile (AAM) twin launcher
2 x 20mm AA cannons
6 x 12.75" (324mm) torpedo tubes
Pre-1982 Modification:
4 x MM38 Exocet Anti-Ship Missiles (ASMs) added
Post-2000 Conversion to assault transport:
1 x 4.5" DP gun
2 x 20mm AA guns
6 x 12.75" torpedo tubes
1 x Westland Lynx navy helicopter (ASW)
After 2000 Conversion:
2 x Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King navy helicopters (ASW)


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Membership in the Opry is one of the most prestigious accomplishments for country musicians. In order to be inducted, regular performers must be asked by current members on stage during a live performance. Membership must be maintained for the entire career of the musician with frequent performances and ends when the artists pass away.
The Grand Ole Opry attracts thousands of its listeners from all over and is a crowning achievement to the "country music capital" of the nation. Visit to see a backstage tour or buy tickets to a one of a kind live music show.


James Gallagher makes his bantamweight division debut at Bellator 204, facing Ricky Bandejas in the co-main event of the show.
Bellator MMA Bantamweight Champion Darrion Caldwell headlines that card in a featherweight division clash against Noad Lahat. Gallagher questions the move Caldwell has made to compete up a weight class, while also questioning the manhood of the bantamweight champion.
Gallagher recently stated during an interview with Ariel Helwani that the winner of the bout between him and Bandejas would be next for Caldwell.
The bantamweight contender also reveals that a win for him would set up a title bout in Ireland, which would give Gallagher the obvious home field advantage.
"Honestly, I cannot wait to get back in there and fight. When I was sitting out injured and I couldn't get up off the couch, that's when I get anxious. For me to be fighting in a title eliminator fight that can set up a championship date in Ireland, all I'll feel is happiness once I get in there," says Gallagher.
Bellator 204 takes place on Friday, August 17 from the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, South Dakota with Darrion Caldwell and Noad Lahat headlining. Fightful is providing live coverage of the event, which airs live on the Paramount Network.