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The Hinterland Gazette: Ex-Con Maurice Clemmons Sought for Questioning in the Murder of Four Police Officers at Washington Coffee Shop, Mike Huckabee Granted Him Clemency Nine Years Ago
Gawker: Nine Years After Mike Huckabee Freed Him, Man is Wanted in Cop Killings [Sad]
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RT @toddstarnes: More on the person of interest in cop killings. Unbelievable this guy was not in jail: http://bit.ly/8cLoX6 12/3/2009 |
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010385617_webmansought29.html 12/1/2009 |
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Ok, this is why I saw so many police cars on the street in Redmond http://bit.ly/72IRU4 12/1/2009 |
Ex-Con Maurice Clemmons Sought for Questioning in the Murder of Four Police Officers at Washington Coffee Shop, Mike Huckabee Granted Him Clemency Nine Years Ago
The Hinterland Gazette —
... eight felony charges in Washington. The record also stands out for the number of times he has been released from custody despite questions about the danger he posed. Clemmons had been in jail in Pierce County for the past several months on a pending charge of second-degree rape of a child. He was released from custody just six days ago, even though he was wanted on a fugitive warrant out of Arkansas and was staring at eight felony charges in all out of Washington state. Source: The Seattle Times ...
Huckabee
Talking Points Memo —
... The man local police are seeking for questioning is Maurice Clemmons, 34. Clemmons was serving what was essentially a life sentence in Arkansas before having his sentence commuted by then-Gov. Mike Huckabee. ...
Another Huckabee Pardon
Talking Points Memo —
... The man local police are seeking for questioning is Maurice Clemmons, 37, a man with a lifetime history of violence, burglary, aggravated robbery, theft and rape. Clemmons was serving what was essentially a life sentence in Arkansas before having his sentence commuted by then-Gov. Mike Huckabee. ...
Nine Years After Mike Huckabee Freed Him, Man is Wanted in Cop Killings [Sad]
Gawker —
... an "execution-style" shooting. Now police are looking to question 37 year-old Maurice Clemmons, who the Seattle Times reports has had a long criminal history. It started in 1990, when Clemmons was sentenced to 60 years in prison in Arkansas for burglary and theft of property: When Clemmons received the 60-year sentence, he was already serving 48 years on five felony convictions and facing up to 95 more years on charges of robbery, theft of property and possessing a handgun on school property. Records from Clemmons' sentencing described him as 5-foot-7 and 108 pounds. The ...
Four Police Officers Dead, Ex-Con Suspect Maurice Clemmons being Sought for Questioning in Ambush Murders
Scared Monkeys —
... Why are we not surprised … Maurice Clemmons, man wanted for questioning, has troubling criminal history. Clemmons has a long criminal record of violence, erratic behavior and concerns about his mental health. What, because we think that a person who guns down four police officers in cold blood is a boy scout? Updates from ...
Morning Edition Links – 11/30/2009
American Idol 9 - Rickey.org —
... Gov. Huckabee Granted Clemency to Man Wanted For Questioning (Seattle Times) – Maurice Clemmons is a suspect in the slaying of 4 cops in Tacoma last Sunday ...
Mike Huckabee's fatally bad judgment
Salon —
... by return fire from one of the cops who later died, he escaped and reportedly remains at large. Having accumulated five felony convictions in Arkansas and at least eight felony charges in Washington, according to the Seattle Times , Clemmons was undoubtedly a danger to the community who ought to have been returned to prison long ago by law enforcement authorities. Only days before the police shooting, he was released on $150,000 bail from a jail in Pierce County, Wash., where he was incarcerated on charges of raping a child. As Huckabee suggested in a statement released on ...
O'Reilly Pardons Fox Commentator Mike Huckabee For Commuting Suspected Cop Killer's Sentence [Corn Pone Opinions]
Gawker —
... . Yesterday morning, four cops were shot dead in a Washington State coffee shop. Police think it was Maurice Clemmons, a man whose 108 year prison sentence for burglary was commuted nine years ago in Arkansas by then-governor Huckabee. O'Reilly starts out tough: "A lot of people want an explanation: This was a bad Hombre, and you let him out. Why?" But as Huckabee rolls out his defense, wrapped around a rambling explanation of the American legal system, O'Reilly sort of tunes out : The post prison transfer board, the process, and I'll be very brief about this, but to ...
O'Reilly Pardons Fox Commentator Mike Huckabee For Commuting Suspected Cop Killer's Sentence [Corn Pone Opinions]
Gawker —
... Yesterday morning, four cops were shot dead in a Washington State coffee shop. Police think it was Maurice Clemmons, a man whose 108 year prison sentence for burglary was commuted nine years ago in Arkansas by then-governor Huckabee. ...
O'Reilly Pardons Fox Commentator Mike Huckabee For Commuting Suspected Cop-killer's Sentence [Corn Pone Opinions]
Gawker —
... . Yesterday morning, four cops were shot dead in a Washington State coffee shop. Police think it was Maurice Clemmons, a man whose 108 year sentence was commuted nine years ago in Arkansas by then-governor Huckabee. O'Reilly starts out tough: "A lot of people want an explanation: This was a bad Hombre, and you let him out. Why?" But as Huckabee rolls out his defense, wrapped around a rambling explanation of the American legal system, O'Reilly sort of tunes out : The post prison transfer board, the process, and I'll be very brief about this, but to understand: They recommended ...
O'Reilly Pardons Fox Commentator Mike Huckabee For Commuting Suspected Cop-killer's Sentence [Corn Pone Opinions]
Gawker —
... Yesterday morning, four cops were shot dead in a Washington State coffee shop. Police think it was Maurice Clemmons, a man whose 108 year sentence was commuted nine years ago in Arkansas by then-governor Huckabee. ...
DJ Jaffe: Maurice Clemmons: Mental Illness Does Cause Violence
Huffington Post Entertainment Blog —
Maurice Clemmons is the alleged shooter of four policemen.
He was likely mentally ill and untreated.
According to the Seattle
Times:
Clemmons
was (previously) accused of gathering his wife and young relatives around at 3
or 4 in the morning and having them all undress. He told them they need to
"be naked for at least 5 minutes on Sunday," a Pierce County
sheriff's report says. "The whole time Clemmons kept saying things like
trust him, the world is going to end soon, and that he was Jesus," the
report says.
Clemmons'
sister … ...
