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Darnay Hoffman Does it Again
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lannie
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Thanks ,I had no idea, I don't get out much any more,what a hoot, I hope he never gets out or sees daylight again .
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Maxi
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I see both Steinberg and Nussbaum as to very self absorbed people to whom the kids were just accessories in their little dominance games. It's my understanding that both were on drugs during that time, so that was probably one factor in the situation getting out of hand. Still, staying around to be battered yourself is one thing. Allowing your child to stay in the situation is another I have no sympathy for Nussbaum whatsoever, and I can't even say what I feel about Steinberg.
To be fair to Darnay, I believe he knew Steinberg before the murder. Perhaps Darnay sees drugs as the reason things went bad. There may have been other reasons for him defending Steinberg in the civil action brought by the birth mother. I don't think Darnay was Steinberg's atty for the criminal trial. Steinberg probably was convicted of manslaughter rather than murder because the child was (illegally) his daughter. Child abuse deaths rarely seem to get murder convictions unless the abuse was clearly intended to kill. How sad.
To be fair to Darnay, I believe he knew Steinberg before the murder. Perhaps Darnay sees drugs as the reason things went bad. There may have been other reasons for him defending Steinberg in the civil action brought by the birth mother. I don't think Darnay was Steinberg's atty for the criminal trial. Steinberg probably was convicted of manslaughter rather than murder because the child was (illegally) his daughter. Child abuse deaths rarely seem to get murder convictions unless the abuse was clearly intended to kill. How sad.
Seeker
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Yeah, Darnay knew and was good friends with Joel for 10 years before the murder...that means he was friends with him during the 6 years his best friend was abusing Hedda & Lisa.
Too bad Darnay wasn't his attorney in the criminal trial, maybe then Joel would have gotten the death penalty he so richly deserved.
Joel was only with Hedda 3 years before he stole Lisa...Hedda was already hooked on drugs compliments of Darnay's friend, and had been beaten into submission.
If any of my friends were druggies and were abusing their spouse/bf/gf I'd have called the cops on them, not aided and abetted by standing by and letting it happen.
I wish that random drug testing were mandatory on all attornies. They can start with Steven Feldman and Darnay Hoffman IMO.
Too bad Darnay wasn't his attorney in the criminal trial, maybe then Joel would have gotten the death penalty he so richly deserved.
Joel was only with Hedda 3 years before he stole Lisa...Hedda was already hooked on drugs compliments of Darnay's friend, and had been beaten into submission.
If any of my friends were druggies and were abusing their spouse/bf/gf I'd have called the cops on them, not aided and abetted by standing by and letting it happen.
I wish that random drug testing were mandatory on all attornies. They can start with Steven Feldman and Darnay Hoffman IMO.
Barbara
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Excellent post Seeker. I couldn't agree with you more. :clap:
Sabrina
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Amy Fisher is writing a regular column in Newsday! You can even send her questions...how funny! She does write quite well.
Ok, does anyone know what Nussbaum is up to these days?
Seeker, add Geragoes to your list.
Ok, does anyone know what Nussbaum is up to these days?
Seeker, add Geragoes to your list.
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(Help) Date of Information: 12/12/03
(Help) DIN (Dept. Identif. Number) 89A2941
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cantaloupe
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Parole hearing is coming up on Jan 28, 2004.
This might be the time to get busy writing letters to the NY State Parole Board, and let them know how you feel about the monster Joel Steinberg being back out on the streets.
This might be the time to get busy writing letters to the NY State Parole Board, and let them know how you feel about the monster Joel Steinberg being back out on the streets.
What an extremely sad situation this story was. I remember seeing a picture of little Lisa in her school classroom staring out with vacant eyes. The little girls face really touched me.
I also recall watching the murder trial where Hedda was speaking on the witness stand. She looked like a professional boxer after a prizefight. I pitied her for having a monster for a boyfriend yet she was only thinking about herself and not Lisa. Anyone who puts themselves before a child is a monster in their own right.
I also recall watching the murder trial where Hedda was speaking on the witness stand. She looked like a professional boxer after a prizefight. I pitied her for having a monster for a boyfriend yet she was only thinking about herself and not Lisa. Anyone who puts themselves before a child is a monster in their own right.
Blazeboy3
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Interesting URL/READ;I did enjoy!THANKS!
...partial post below:
http://www.longislandpress.com/v01/i39031009/amyfisher.asp?12142003
Perhaps Hoffman has the foresight to realize the first interview with Joel Steinberg is going to command a lot of money. I mean, everyone knows you get more bees with honey, right? Being sympathetic to Steinberg, offering him a job and then moving in for the kill, so to speak, has to have crossed the minds of the creators of New York Confidential. Steinberg may be a despicable human being. but you can bet your bottom dollar that every major network will be vying for his first words. We may not forgive him, many hate him, but we all want to hear what he has to say and the networks know it.
Joel Steinberg has never taken responsibility for killing Lisa. He has never said he was sorry or that he is a changed man. He maintains his conviction was based solely on his failure to obtain medical attention for Lisa. He refuses to acknowledge the horrific nature of his crimes.
It will be interesting to see how society receives Steinberg. Ultimately he will be judged by a society that he will be forced to live among, but as I have learned all too well, people will make him pay for his crimes for the rest of his life. Chances are, Joel Steinberg will be a pariah among us.
Blazeboy3
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http://www.religion-online.org/cgi-bin/relsearchd.dll/showarticle?item_id=831
Hearing and Healing Hedda Nussbaum - A Reflection on Mark 5:21-43by Liz Leibold McCloskey
Liz Leibold McCloskey is a trail preparation assistant for the Sex Crimes Unit of the Manhattan district attorneys office. This article appeared in the Christian Century, February 15, 1989. Copyright by the Christian Century Foundation and used by permission. Current articles and subscription information can be found at www.christiancentury.org. This material was prepared for Religion Online by Ted & Winnie Brock.
Lisa Steinberg lay near death on the cold tile floor in the bathroom of her adopted parents Greenwich Village apartment. Hedda Nussbaum waited helplessly for the man she believed could heal Lisa to come and lay his hands on her. Joel Steinberg, Nussbaums lover and batterer for 12 years, had already laid his hands on Lisa on the evening of November 1, 1987, when he dealt the blow that would kill the six-year-old girl. Nussbaums request to Steinberg, like Jairuss to Jesus in Mark 5:23, was that her daughter be healed. "My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and live." Finally, 13 hours after Steinberg allegedly beat Lisa, he gave Nussbaum permission to call for help. She dialed 911, but it was too late, and the little girl died.
The Gospel account of the death and resurrection of Jairuss daughter frames the story about a hemorrhaging woman who, like Nussbaum, sought healing from a man she believed had special powers. Although some commentators claim that the encounter with the hemorrhaging woman simply occupies an interlude in the story of Jairuss daughter, her healing points to the faith necessary for new life. Understanding Lisas death and the battering of Nussbaum through the lens of Mark 5 can provide a new hope for all battered women.
On his way to heal Jairuss daughter, Jesus was interrupted by a suffering woman in the crowd who touched his garment. She believed that she could break the cycle of physical torment and be made well simply by tapping the resource of Jesus power. Despite the urgency of Jairuss plea, Jesus stopped immediately and inquired, "Who touched my garments?" Receptive to the particular touch of a bleeding and hurting woman, Jesus used the feminine pronoun in his question. But Jesus disciples exclaimed impatiently, "You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say Who touched me?"
The disciples impatient and incredulous tone is echoed in the contemporary attitude toward women who stay in abusive relationships. Many of us assume that we are not responsible for healing battered women. How can we possibly be expected to discern who they are, to recognize that they need help, when so many battered women seemingly ignore or refuse assistance? The question "Why does she stay?" receives more attention than "How have we failed to respond adequately to her touch?"
Fascination with the Steinberg murder trial centered more on the question of how Nussbaum could have remained with her abuser than on why Steinberg believed he had a right to shatter the lives of his adopted child and his lover. Because many women have absorbed the ethos of male dominance and female dependence, they do not believe in themselves enough to recognize injustice and leave a violent situation. When a woman begins to tell a story of abuse, she is reaching out for help and healing.
When Jesus was touched by the hemorrhaging woman, he responded to her touch and gave her the opportunity to tell her story "in fear and trembling." After listening to "the whole truth," Jesus affirmed the woman, saying: "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease."
Even as Jesus spoke, Jairuss people came to report the death of his daughter. Because a woman needed healing, a little girl did not live. Jesus told the people, "Do not fear, only believe." He went to the little girl and, amid disbelieving laughter from those mourning her death, said to the child, "Talitha cumi," which means, "Little girl, I say to you, arise." She immediately arose and the people were amazed.
Jesus response to the hemorrhaging woman and his miraculous resurrection of the little girl provide a model for a religious response to domestic violence. As more and more abused women tell their stories, we must respond with the gospel mandate to care for the suffering and to proclaim a resurrection image, a new household of freedom and justice.
Nussbaum testified that she had once called her father and asked him to come and get her. When Steinberg arrived home, he found her packing her bags. Discovering that she had called her father, he knocked her down and then forced her to take an ice-cold bath. When Nussbaums father arrived, Steinberg asked him to take Lisa to the store. Upon his return, Nussbaum told her father that everything was fine and that she did not need any help. This pattern repeats itself over and over again in the tragic lives of battered women.
Nussbaum testified that she sought medical attention many times in her 12 years with Steinberg. In addition to being beaten, Nussbaum was burned, forced to take ice-cold baths and denied food, and her sexual organs were beaten with a broomstick. She suffered a ruptured spleen along with many other serious injuries. Nussbaum informed hospital personnel that her boyfriend had hit her, but she asked doctors not to put that on the record because, as she explained at the trial, she wanted to protect Steinberg. Many women do not report abuse out of loyalty to their men, or fear of the beating they will receive if their men find out.
The medical community needs to be more responsible for women like Nussbaum who are obviously in abusive situations. They must not only be able to detect signs of domestic abuse, but be ready to refer the abused to social services. This type of training is beginning to occur, yet the traditional myths that the woman is to blame or that domestic violence is a private issue still prevail. A number of years ago, a study at Yale-New Haven Hospital found that one out of four battered women left the hospital with such diagnoses as "neurotic," "hysterical," "hypochondriac," or "a well-known patient with multiple vague complaints."
Left unsupported, battered women often begin to believe that they have done something to deserve punishment. Nussbaum admitted that she had seen Steinberg as godlike and had believed that her emotional problems had caused all the stress in their apartment. Only after Nussbaum told her story to supportive listeners did she begin to understand the injustice and absurdity of that belief.
Police and legal responses, although improving, also reflect archaic stereotypes about domestic violence. Anglo-American law has traditionally granted men a legitimate right to beat their wives "when necessary." Because women were the property of the master of the house, men had a natural right and duty to maintain control and dominance. An 1824 Mississippi case voiced the lawful authority of men moderately to chastise their wives. The "Rule of Thumb" known from English common law, however, limited the weapon to a size no wider than ones thumb.
Some police officers, although now mandated in some states to make arrests when responding to domestic disputes, still refuse to take, these situations as seriously as other assault calls. I have been told by many women with whom Ive worked at the New Haven Project for Battered Women and at the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit in Manhattan that the police have refused to make an arrest and simply walked the abusive man around the block to calm him down.
Once an arrest is made, the prosecution of a domestic crime is difficult because the legal profession has traditionally viewed it as something to be settled between a husband and wife. A woman may also feel guilty for helping to prosecute a man who continues to profess his love for her. Both these problems are reflected in a question I once heard a judge ask a battered woman, as he denied her a restraining order on her husband: "You dont really want me to kick him out of his home, do you?" Until our cultural values about intimate relationships are consistent with the new laws regarding violence against women, we will continue to generate mixed signals about the need for justice in the home.
Women become more and more reluctant to report beatings, especially to a male pastor, when they believe the violence stems from their failure to be a perfect girlfriend, wife or mother. Nussbaum fully believed that Steinberg was a better parent and a better person than she was; thus her cry for help throughout her years with Steinberg was often barely audible.
Like Jesus, we must learn to recognize when a woman is in need of healing. When a woman continually blames herself for violence or abuse in her home, we should be able to recognize that she is touching the hem of our garment, desperate for help. Jesus stopped in the middle of a crowd on his way to an urgent mission to ask "Who touched me?" As soon as someone cared enough to ask that question, the woman felt free to come before Jesus and the crowd to tell her story. The truth flowed naturally and easily. She was instantly healed.
Hearing and Healing Hedda Nussbaum - A Reflection on Mark 5:21-43by Liz Leibold McCloskey
Liz Leibold McCloskey is a trail preparation assistant for the Sex Crimes Unit of the Manhattan district attorneys office. This article appeared in the Christian Century, February 15, 1989. Copyright by the Christian Century Foundation and used by permission. Current articles and subscription information can be found at www.christiancentury.org. This material was prepared for Religion Online by Ted & Winnie Brock.
Lisa Steinberg lay near death on the cold tile floor in the bathroom of her adopted parents Greenwich Village apartment. Hedda Nussbaum waited helplessly for the man she believed could heal Lisa to come and lay his hands on her. Joel Steinberg, Nussbaums lover and batterer for 12 years, had already laid his hands on Lisa on the evening of November 1, 1987, when he dealt the blow that would kill the six-year-old girl. Nussbaums request to Steinberg, like Jairuss to Jesus in Mark 5:23, was that her daughter be healed. "My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and live." Finally, 13 hours after Steinberg allegedly beat Lisa, he gave Nussbaum permission to call for help. She dialed 911, but it was too late, and the little girl died.
The Gospel account of the death and resurrection of Jairuss daughter frames the story about a hemorrhaging woman who, like Nussbaum, sought healing from a man she believed had special powers. Although some commentators claim that the encounter with the hemorrhaging woman simply occupies an interlude in the story of Jairuss daughter, her healing points to the faith necessary for new life. Understanding Lisas death and the battering of Nussbaum through the lens of Mark 5 can provide a new hope for all battered women.
On his way to heal Jairuss daughter, Jesus was interrupted by a suffering woman in the crowd who touched his garment. She believed that she could break the cycle of physical torment and be made well simply by tapping the resource of Jesus power. Despite the urgency of Jairuss plea, Jesus stopped immediately and inquired, "Who touched my garments?" Receptive to the particular touch of a bleeding and hurting woman, Jesus used the feminine pronoun in his question. But Jesus disciples exclaimed impatiently, "You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say Who touched me?"
The disciples impatient and incredulous tone is echoed in the contemporary attitude toward women who stay in abusive relationships. Many of us assume that we are not responsible for healing battered women. How can we possibly be expected to discern who they are, to recognize that they need help, when so many battered women seemingly ignore or refuse assistance? The question "Why does she stay?" receives more attention than "How have we failed to respond adequately to her touch?"
Fascination with the Steinberg murder trial centered more on the question of how Nussbaum could have remained with her abuser than on why Steinberg believed he had a right to shatter the lives of his adopted child and his lover. Because many women have absorbed the ethos of male dominance and female dependence, they do not believe in themselves enough to recognize injustice and leave a violent situation. When a woman begins to tell a story of abuse, she is reaching out for help and healing.
When Jesus was touched by the hemorrhaging woman, he responded to her touch and gave her the opportunity to tell her story "in fear and trembling." After listening to "the whole truth," Jesus affirmed the woman, saying: "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease."
Even as Jesus spoke, Jairuss people came to report the death of his daughter. Because a woman needed healing, a little girl did not live. Jesus told the people, "Do not fear, only believe." He went to the little girl and, amid disbelieving laughter from those mourning her death, said to the child, "Talitha cumi," which means, "Little girl, I say to you, arise." She immediately arose and the people were amazed.
Jesus response to the hemorrhaging woman and his miraculous resurrection of the little girl provide a model for a religious response to domestic violence. As more and more abused women tell their stories, we must respond with the gospel mandate to care for the suffering and to proclaim a resurrection image, a new household of freedom and justice.
Nussbaum testified that she had once called her father and asked him to come and get her. When Steinberg arrived home, he found her packing her bags. Discovering that she had called her father, he knocked her down and then forced her to take an ice-cold bath. When Nussbaums father arrived, Steinberg asked him to take Lisa to the store. Upon his return, Nussbaum told her father that everything was fine and that she did not need any help. This pattern repeats itself over and over again in the tragic lives of battered women.
Nussbaum testified that she sought medical attention many times in her 12 years with Steinberg. In addition to being beaten, Nussbaum was burned, forced to take ice-cold baths and denied food, and her sexual organs were beaten with a broomstick. She suffered a ruptured spleen along with many other serious injuries. Nussbaum informed hospital personnel that her boyfriend had hit her, but she asked doctors not to put that on the record because, as she explained at the trial, she wanted to protect Steinberg. Many women do not report abuse out of loyalty to their men, or fear of the beating they will receive if their men find out.
The medical community needs to be more responsible for women like Nussbaum who are obviously in abusive situations. They must not only be able to detect signs of domestic abuse, but be ready to refer the abused to social services. This type of training is beginning to occur, yet the traditional myths that the woman is to blame or that domestic violence is a private issue still prevail. A number of years ago, a study at Yale-New Haven Hospital found that one out of four battered women left the hospital with such diagnoses as "neurotic," "hysterical," "hypochondriac," or "a well-known patient with multiple vague complaints."
Left unsupported, battered women often begin to believe that they have done something to deserve punishment. Nussbaum admitted that she had seen Steinberg as godlike and had believed that her emotional problems had caused all the stress in their apartment. Only after Nussbaum told her story to supportive listeners did she begin to understand the injustice and absurdity of that belief.
Police and legal responses, although improving, also reflect archaic stereotypes about domestic violence. Anglo-American law has traditionally granted men a legitimate right to beat their wives "when necessary." Because women were the property of the master of the house, men had a natural right and duty to maintain control and dominance. An 1824 Mississippi case voiced the lawful authority of men moderately to chastise their wives. The "Rule of Thumb" known from English common law, however, limited the weapon to a size no wider than ones thumb.
Some police officers, although now mandated in some states to make arrests when responding to domestic disputes, still refuse to take, these situations as seriously as other assault calls. I have been told by many women with whom Ive worked at the New Haven Project for Battered Women and at the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit in Manhattan that the police have refused to make an arrest and simply walked the abusive man around the block to calm him down.
Once an arrest is made, the prosecution of a domestic crime is difficult because the legal profession has traditionally viewed it as something to be settled between a husband and wife. A woman may also feel guilty for helping to prosecute a man who continues to profess his love for her. Both these problems are reflected in a question I once heard a judge ask a battered woman, as he denied her a restraining order on her husband: "You dont really want me to kick him out of his home, do you?" Until our cultural values about intimate relationships are consistent with the new laws regarding violence against women, we will continue to generate mixed signals about the need for justice in the home.
Women become more and more reluctant to report beatings, especially to a male pastor, when they believe the violence stems from their failure to be a perfect girlfriend, wife or mother. Nussbaum fully believed that Steinberg was a better parent and a better person than she was; thus her cry for help throughout her years with Steinberg was often barely audible.
Like Jesus, we must learn to recognize when a woman is in need of healing. When a woman continually blames herself for violence or abuse in her home, we should be able to recognize that she is touching the hem of our garment, desperate for help. Jesus stopped in the middle of a crowd on his way to an urgent mission to ask "Who touched me?" As soon as someone cared enough to ask that question, the woman felt free to come before Jesus and the crowd to tell her story. The truth flowed naturally and easily. She was instantly healed.
Blazeboy3
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Like Patsy: Job:Raise her from the dead...(JonBenet)?
http://starbulletin.com/2000/03/20/editorial/chang.html
In front of the Christmas tree? Did John put this gruesome discovery next to the cheery holiday symbol in an attempt to counteract the evil with goodness?
Or was it some kind of eerie symbolism? Patsy recalled how she bent over the corpse, became hysterical and asked God to raise JonBenet, as the Christmas tree sparkled behind them.
NOW, whenever we go to our favorite bookstore, they'll be there on the cover of their tell-all: the parents of pretty, precocious, golden-haired JonBenet Ramsey, may she rest in peace.
Should we get it to learn their side of the story, or shun it for fear of enriching two murderers and liars?
And if we do purchase a copy, is it just as bad as buying those supermarket tabloids and glossy magazines that keep a little girl alive while a criminal remains free and unindicted?
If he gets caught, think he's going to write a book, too?
*as posted above*
Lisa Steinberg lay near death on the cold tile floor in the bathroom of her adopted parents Greenwich Village apartment. Hedda Nussbaum waited helplessly for the man she believed could heal Lisa to come and lay his hands on her. Joel Steinberg, Nussbaums lover and batterer for 12 years, had already laid his hands on Lisa on the evening of November 1, 1987, when he dealt the blow that would kill the six-year-old girl. Nussbaums request to Steinberg, like Jairuss to Jesus in Mark 5:23, was that her daughter be healed. "My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and live." Finally, 13 hours after Steinberg allegedly beat Lisa, he gave Nussbaum permission to call for help. She dialed 911, but it was too late, and the little girl died
http://starbulletin.com/2000/03/20/editorial/chang.html
In front of the Christmas tree? Did John put this gruesome discovery next to the cheery holiday symbol in an attempt to counteract the evil with goodness?
Or was it some kind of eerie symbolism? Patsy recalled how she bent over the corpse, became hysterical and asked God to raise JonBenet, as the Christmas tree sparkled behind them.
NOW, whenever we go to our favorite bookstore, they'll be there on the cover of their tell-all: the parents of pretty, precocious, golden-haired JonBenet Ramsey, may she rest in peace.
Should we get it to learn their side of the story, or shun it for fear of enriching two murderers and liars?
And if we do purchase a copy, is it just as bad as buying those supermarket tabloids and glossy magazines that keep a little girl alive while a criminal remains free and unindicted?
If he gets caught, think he's going to write a book, too?
*as posted above*
Lisa Steinberg lay near death on the cold tile floor in the bathroom of her adopted parents Greenwich Village apartment. Hedda Nussbaum waited helplessly for the man she believed could heal Lisa to come and lay his hands on her. Joel Steinberg, Nussbaums lover and batterer for 12 years, had already laid his hands on Lisa on the evening of November 1, 1987, when he dealt the blow that would kill the six-year-old girl. Nussbaums request to Steinberg, like Jairuss to Jesus in Mark 5:23, was that her daughter be healed. "My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and live." Finally, 13 hours after Steinberg allegedly beat Lisa, he gave Nussbaum permission to call for help. She dialed 911, but it was too late, and the little girl died
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ajt400
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I spent pretty much my whole afternoon Monday reading the story in the crime library. I was seriously disturbed and saddened. This girl would have been a year younger than me! I cannot believe that they let Hedda Nessbaum go without ANY time at all!!! I understand that she was battered, and I am sorry about that, but she could have called the doctors or something. She checked herself into a hospital at one point when she was severely injured by this man, yet she could not get the strength to take her child to a doctor---or even call--when he had left the house for hours? That's ridiculous.....and seemingly selfish of her.
I just could not fathom having my child dirty and beaten, and another tied to a playpen?
I just cannot say in any words how horrible this case is......how many people did call the police and try to report these people, how many case workers actually came to their house and they said nothing was wrong. So many things went wrong in this situation.......
I just could not fathom having my child dirty and beaten, and another tied to a playpen?
I just cannot say in any words how horrible this case is......how many people did call the police and try to report these people, how many case workers actually came to their house and they said nothing was wrong. So many things went wrong in this situation.......
candy
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Ajt wrote: I cannot believe that they let Hedda Nessbaum go without ANY time at all!!!
Bingo. Joel's jury believed she was culpable at least as much as he was and refused to convict him of anything more than manslaughter for that reason. That's the bottom line. They threw out hir testimony against him as well as not credible.
Barry Scheck was the one who got hir the deal. I see no animosity towards that lawyer, or for Dan Petrocelli for representing Burmanese rapists, or Chuck Diamond for representing the Exxon Valdes, the biggest polluter in US history, just to mention who the OTHER lawyers in this case have represented.
Bingo. Joel's jury believed she was culpable at least as much as he was and refused to convict him of anything more than manslaughter for that reason. That's the bottom line. They threw out hir testimony against him as well as not credible.
Barry Scheck was the one who got hir the deal. I see no animosity towards that lawyer, or for Dan Petrocelli for representing Burmanese rapists, or Chuck Diamond for representing the Exxon Valdes, the biggest polluter in US history, just to mention who the OTHER lawyers in this case have represented.
Ivy
Inactive
Candy, even though Barry Scheck got Nussbaum the deal, did he become her friend? Does he socialize with her? Did Dan Petrocelli become a friend of the rapists he defended in court? Even if Diamond was friends with Exxon Mobil execs, and I don't know that he was, there's a BIG DIFFERENCE between being friends with people in Exxon Mobil (the successor company to Exxon) and being friends with scum-of-the-earth Joel Steinberg, child abuser and killer. For being friends with Joel Steinberg, Darnay has lost every bit of respect I once had for him, and in my book has no credibility whatsoever.
Britt
New Member
Right on, Ivy. :bigthumb:
M
Maxi
Guest
Let's carry the discussion of the Steinberg murder case over to the Jury Room or Crimes in the News. It's a fascinating case, with the battered woman angle and all, but we're getting far afield from the JonBenet case.
Shylock
Former Member
I don't think it's a matter of "respect", the guy is just an out and out pizzz-poor lawyer. I wouldn't want him representing me for parking violations. Could the goof possibly have damaged this case more than he did?
Imon128
Former Member
If he's befriending Steinberg, that's surely not good for his reputation. Unthinkable that ANYBODY would befriend that creep. I can remember, still, the sick feeling in my stomach when I first heard about this case. I'm the type, I'd have been over there doing some door knocking, when I heard the child in distress. As I recall, the neighbors had heard some problems. Oh, I dare not go back there. What a *advertiser censored*!
candy
Inactive
Darnay knew Steinberg many years before he met Hedda. He did some legal work for Darnay. Darnay is NOT his friend now, he is his attorney. He offered Steinberg work so Steinberg would not reoffend when he is released from prison.