voc words critique, contrast, persuade
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silent reading until 8:30
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Today In the Union in The Union Tribune I read about a dramatic closing argument yesterday morning, a prosecutor pointed at a teenager accused of killing her stepfather and called her murderer as she wept in court. In the afternoon, a jury began deliberating the case against 19 year old Brae Hansen, whose tears and her expression in court were too late.
In today’s paper, I read about how deliberations CRITIQUEING a stepdad’s slaying have begun. In a dramatic closing argument yesterday, a prosecutor pointed at a teenager and called her a murderer while she wept. 19-year-old Brae Hansen and her brother Nathanial Gann, 20, are being tried in the same courtroom. In CONTRAST to their pleas, the siblings are being charged with special circumstantial murder, and if convicted they will face life in prison without parole. In another story, a group of suspected gang members are tied to a cartel in custody. All 21 suspects are being linked to a series of abductions, killings and decapitations in 2008 and early this year in the Tecate region. Authorities have begun PERSUADING the court system that these gang members have worked for a drug-trafficking cell headed by Eduardo Teodoro Garcia Simental. Six of the suspects are members of the Arellano Felix cartel. The two groups are said to have been fighting over control of the area’s drug routes and markets. It is also suspected that some of the suspects had been planning to kidnap the son of a Tecate laundry owner as to establish their stronghold on the drug business. The detentions of the suspects came just after a shooting that had left two Highway Patrol Officers injured. It is said that the officers refused bribes and so the gang members were told to shoot.
Today I read about a deliberations start in stepdad’s slaying. A prosecutor pointed at a teenager accused of killing her stepfather and called her a murderer as she wept in court. A jury began deliberating the case against 19-year-old Brae Hansen whose tears and her expression in court were too late. Hansen and her brother, Nathaniel Gann,20, are being tried in the same courtroom with separate juries in the shooting death of their stepfather, Timothy MacNeil, in 2007. the siblings have been charged with murder and a special circumstance allegation of lying in wait. If convicted, they could be sentenced to life in prison without parole. District Attorney, George Bennett said the pair tried to make it look as though MacNeil, 63-year-old attorney, was killed July 19 during a robbery at his home in Rolando. Gann, who had been living in Arizona at the time of the killing, is accused of firing a fatal shot to the back of MacNeil’s head. Hansen’s attorney, Troy Britt, repeatedly told jurors that Hansen tried to withdraw herself from the murder plot and blamed her brother for MacNeil’s death. Hansen told police detectives that she tried to stop her brother from killing MacNeil. Britt said Gann threatened Hansen with a gun when she tried to stop the plan. Britt conceded that Hansen participated early in the killing plot by making a gun accessible and making a copy of a key to access the house for her brother to use in the slaying. They said she didn’t confess earlier because she feared her brother and was afraid of losing him at the same time.
According to the San Diego Union Tribune a suspected gang member ties to the Mexican cartels is now in Mexican military custody. The detention of 21 suspected gang members linked to a series of abductions, killings, and decapitations in 2008 and early this year in the area of Tecate. 15 of the 21 captured criminals work for the cartel leader Eduardo Teodoro Garcia Semental known as “El Tio.” Six suspected suspects are of the Arellano Felix cartel lead by Fernando Sanchez Arellano. Authorities are connecting the detainees to at least nine homicides. Some of the suspected have been planning to kidnap the son a laundry owner in the next two weeks. The arrest were made after a shooting let out leaving two officers of the federal highway police injured along with three civilians.
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