Ramplate's Bottom Feeders

The Holmes trial is under way with a mix of emotional testimony from victims and technical testimony about evidence. Smart way to do things because if you get bogged down with either all at once, then it loses the impact that shorter spans have - juries tend to forget things in the middle of a long trial unless you mix it up and make it interesting. Another good tactic they are using is to punch up the beginning and end of the days testimony - when the jury hears something of great impact at the beginning or end - they will remember it.
Prosecution has ended days with such things as 911 calls and video of Holmes asking intelligent questions about the results of his actions.
Meanwhile, the defense is keeping quiet until they can present their own case for Holmes' mental state.

Man Who Killed Stepdad With 'Atomic Wedgie' Pleads Guity To Manslaughter

An Oklahoma man pleaded guilty Monday to murdering his dad with an "atomic wedgie."

Brad Lee Davis, 34, admitted to killing Denver St. Clair, 58, in December 2013. He told the court
that he did it “in the heat of passion while defending myself in a fight that got out of hand and went too far,” NewsOK.com reports.

When Davis was arrested, he told police the fight that ultimately killed St. Clair because the victim called him and his mother "worthless." St. Clair had filed for divorce from Davis' mother in September, according to NewsOK.com.

Davis said he knocked St. Clair unconscious and then pulled the elastic waistband of St. Clair's underwear over his head and around his neck.

The Oklahoma Medical Examiner later determined asphyxiation and blunt force trauma as the causes of death.

Davis' murder trial was set to begin May 18. Instead, he pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter. The judge ordered a pre-sentence investigation and scheduled formal sentencing for July 16, according to the Shawnee News-Star.

The trial is going through some of the pages of James Holmes' notebook which rambles between his plan and the strange and bizarre.
30 pages of it have been put on line
www.scribd.com/doc/266912330/James-Holmes-Notebook#scribd
See for yourself

How'd you like the 6 pages of "Why?" lol

The Legal Definition of Insanity is much different from the Clinical Definition of insanity.

To be legally insane he had to be unable to appreciate the seriousness and nature of his crime. He had to not understand what he was doing was wrong.

 I believe he did. Not only that, but he made a meticulously timed distraction so that the emergency vehicles could have been diverted away from the shooting when he set his stereo on a timer to blare loudly so that someone would come and trigger the bombs and chemicals he booby trapped his apartment with - those could have involved the entire building.

So, he knew what he was doing, and prepared for it with all of his mail order equipment and things.

Oh Cool. Yeah there are a lot of those places where people like that were tossed away. I have read some Horrible things about Asylums and reform schools.

The Holmes Trial:

The court watched a video of a psychiatrist interview with Holmes where he says he got "12 value points" - one for each death, but he showed regrets that one of them was a child (6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan). Holmes believes he gained a specific amount of self-worth for each of the 12 people he killed.

"I was worth 12 more people than I was before," Holmes says.

Did the wounded count? Reid asks.

"I only count fatalities," Holmes replies.

Holmes also tells the psychiatrist he tried to limit the number of children killed by carrying out the attack at a late showing of a PG-13 movie.

"Whatever regret he had, he makes it clear that getting the points and killing the people was worth it," Reid said Monday under questioning by District Attorney George Brauchler.

But he says he would have gone through with the attack even if he had known a child would die.

"I think I still would have carried it out," he says.

Holmes refers to the wounded as "collateral damage." He says he regrets they were hurt, but "I didn't figure the collateral damage had anything to do with me after the crime."

Holmes says a symbol he drew in a notebook, on a calendar in his apartment and in his jail cell signified his belief that any problem could be solved with death. The symbol is a circle containing the numeral 1 and a horizontal figure-8 infinity loop. He called it an "ultraception."

I was wondering what that was.

Bottom Feeder of the day:
(This evil bastard should be tossed into a nuclear reactor without hazmat protection)


Dr. Farid Fata Sentenced to 45 Years in Prison As Cancer Misdiagnosis Victims Tell All

A mouthful of missing teeth. Chronic pain all over the body. Unrelenting weakness in joints and muscles. Even death. Those were some of his claims that Dr. Farid Fata’s victims heaped upon him at his sentencing trial this week for administering at least 2000 unnecessary chemotherapy treatments.

Fata admitted to misdiagnosing and exposing his cancer patients to unneeded and excessive rounds of chemotherapy to collect payments from both them and their insurance companies. He was sentenced on Friday to 45 years in prison on Friday by U.S. District Judge Paul Borman — which will most likely cover the rest of the 50 year old’s natural life.

The sentence was greater than the 25 years that the defense advocated for, but well under the 175-year maximum requested by the prosecution. In total, his scam affected roughly 550 victims and tallied up 34.7 million in payments. Fata’s restitution hearing is still coming; he has already agreed to turn over $17.6 million.

Prior to the announcement, Fata’s attorney argued that a sentence over 25 years would result in death due to his client’s diabetes and hypertension, and asked that he “see light of day before he goes.” According to court reporters, Fata stood next to his lawyer, and appeared to be crying.


In total, his scam affected roughly 550 victims and tallied up $34.7 million in payments.

“I do not know how I can heal the wound. I do not know how to express the sorrow and the shame,” Fata said to victims and families as he addressed the court prior to his sentencing. “The quest for power is self destructive. They came to me seeking compassion and care. I failed. Yes I failed.,” he said, according to Detroit Channel 4.

Back in September, Fata pleaded guilty to “13 counts of healthcare fraud, two counts of money laundering and one count of conspiracy to pay and receive kickbacks,” according to The Detroit Free Press. Some of the patients never even showed evidence of having had cancer, something whistleblower Dr. Soe Maunglay began noticing in records soon after he was hired at Fata’s practice in 2012.

Fata’s former patients, and the loved ones of those who had passed, had a chance to speak in court this week.

“Farid Fata, I hate you,”said Laura Stedtfeld, whose father passed away while under Fata’s medical care, according to US News & World Report. “You are repulsive. You disgust me. You are a monster… You poisoned, tortured and murdered my dad.”

According to former patient Christopher Sobieray, doctors he consulted after Fata’s scheme was exposed were “appalled” by his massive over-treatment for testicular cancer. “Look at what’s left of my mouth — I have one tooth left,” he said. “They had no idea how I was sitting in their office… I will never be the same.”

Teddy Howard was another former patient of Fata’s. He does not have cancer, and now must take additional medicine for the rest of his life as result of the phony treatments. “What really makes me angry is the fact that he lied,” Howard told CBS News. “He knew he was lying, he gave the drugs to me anyway and I had no knowledge of it and now my life is turned upside down. I can’t do anything about it. I don’t know how long I’m going to live.”

The damage Fata amassed with his fraudulent cancer treatments is simply tragic. “I think he’s guilty of the most cruel thing that a human being can do to another human being,” former colleague Maunglay said.

What’s the toll of excessive cancer treatments on the body?

To have some context, there are many variations involved in chemotherapy, according to William Oh, MD, Chief in the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

“Chemotherapy isn’t just one drug, but rather a group of drugs used in cancer patients,” Oh tells Yahoo Health. “They work by exploiting the difference between regular cells and cancer cells, which grow at a much more rapid pace.”

This is why a hallmark side effect of chemotherapy drugs is hair loss, says Oh, among other side effects like low blood cell counts, or loss of cells in the mouth and reproductive system. Normal cells that also reproduce quickly get caught in the crossfire of the powerful drugs.

While Oh says it’s tough to know how over-treating a patient with chemotherapy — or giving a cancer-free person these powerful drugs — will affect the person, since chemo responses are so individual. But that said, the drugs are extremely strong and need to be dosed with the utmost caution by a trained doctor.

“Chemo can be life-saving when used in the right setting by people with advanced cancers,”says Oh. “But it’s definitely a case of using the right drug on the right patient at the right time – and you should absolutely not use chemotherapy if misdiagnosed, or in this case, something a little different.”

Oh says if you or a loved one has cancer, it’s important to do your own research and get a second opinion about your diagnosis and treatment. “Talk to several people about the drugs you’re getting, and why you’re getting them,”he says. “There’s a lot of good information online now about chemotherapy treatment, too. And if you’re ever unsure if your diagnosis is correct, it can never hurt to get a second opinion.”

Holmes Found Guilty On All 165 Charges
(The reading of the verdicts took an HOUR)

The first murder conviction read by Arapahoe County Judge Carlos Samour Thursday induced a whimper and several tissue-muffled sobs.

Those sitting on the packed right side of courtroom 201 — either survivors of the July 20, 2012, Colorado movie theater shooting rampage or loved ones of those killed — tried to heed the judge’s request to keep their emotions in check, but this day was a long time in the making.

“As soon as you heard the first guilty, we knew all the dominoes were about to fall,” said Tom Sullivan, whose son Alex was slain.

“Yes, yes,” mouthed a tearful Sandy Phillips when it was confirmed that Holmes was guilty of murdering her 24-year-old daughter, Jessica Ghawi.

Joshua Nowlan, his walking cane hanging on his courtroom seat, brandished a smile and nodded in agreement that Holmes was guilty of attempted murder for shooting him in the leg.

The jury of nine women and three men rejected defense arguments that the defendant was insane and driven by delusions during the attack that killed 12 moviegoers and wounded 70 others. After 11 weeks of often disturbing testimony, the jury convicted Holmes on all 165 criminal charges.

Jurors reached their verdict after deliberating for about 12 hours over a day and a half. They will return Wednesday to begin hearing evidence and testimony in a penalty phase to decide if Holmes should be sentenced to death or life in prison without parole. The jury's foreman attended Columbine High School during the 1999 school shooting there and went to prom with one of the 13 victims.

Holmes, 27, was charged with two separate counts for each murder and attempted murder. Dressed in a blue button-down and khaki slacks, Holmes stood still at the defense table as the judge read through each guilty count. He stared straight ahead and never removed his hands from his pockets the entire time.

His parents, Bob and Arlene Holmes, sat on the left side of the courtroom about 15 feet behind the defense table. Arlene Holmes removed her glasses several times to wipe away tears.

The former neuroscience graduate student had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Police said he was wearing a gas mask, black combat gear and threw tear gas canisters before opening fire on the 420 unprotected moviegoers.

Defense attorneys argued that Holmes was in clutches of a psychotic episode when he ambushed the sold-out theater during a midnight showing of Batman “The Dark Knight Rises.”

Four psychiatrists who interviewed Holmes had agreed that he suffers from mental illness, but were split during the trial on whether he met the criteria to be declared insane at the time of the shooting.

Prosecutors painted a pictured of a conniving egomaniac who killed for enjoyment.

The case has drawn international attention and stoked fiery debate about the death penalty, gun control and the execution of people who are mentally ill. A rampage killer going to trial has also boosted interest as it offers a rare look inside the mind of a mass murderer. Most mass killers commit suicide or are killed by police at the scene.

Prosecutors rejected a plea offer to a life sentence without parole in 2013. “Justice is death,” District Attorney George Brauchler said at the time.

Convinced that Robbie’s conversion to Catholicism was the answer, a baptism was scheduled for Friday April 1ST At St Francis Xavier Church.

Robbie's uncle drove the car with Robbie and his mother and father, who had rejoined them after hearing the news that Robbie had gotten worse, in the back seat. Robbie had complained about feeling sick but they thought it must be just nerves because of the pending baptism.

A few blocks from the church, the boy screamed and lurched forward at his uncle to try to wrest the car away it was sent into the ditch as the boy's father was trying to contain him. Robbie's mother switched places with the uncle and the two men held the screaming howling boy as his mother got the vehicle back on the road and on to the church.

They dragged him to the sidewalk as Father Bowdern came out to direct them to the rectory next door for fear of despoiling the church. Inside, Bowdern asked the boy if he renounced Satan and all his works. Robbie snarled and lurched at him almost breaking the grasp of the men who held him back, and then spit several feet into the face of Father Bowdern.

Five more times he asked, “Do you renounce Satan and all his works?” and the answer was more mucus and blood to the face. Except the last time – tired, the boy opened his eyes and whispered, “I do renounce Satan and all his works” and then tried to break free and spit again. Ignoring this the Father began the sacrament of baptism with holy water – the boy howled at the splash of the water upon him and swore at Bowdern. Bowdern splashed him again and again until he thought he saw the boy as himself again and he said, “I baptize thee in the name of the father...”

This sent the boy into a rage but Bowdern continued splashing him with holy water at the end of each phrase. Nearly 4 hours later Bowdern was convinced the boy had been truly baptized, and Robbie hd gone into normal sleep, and the exorcism rituals started.

Everyone except Robbie's father went home, he stayed in the rectory with the boy that night.

Hopes that the baptism would help Robbie were dashed the next day when the boy got even worse for the next 15 hours on April 2nd Robbie would spend the day between normal sleep and howling, tossing and turning, speaking to someone who was not there, he hurled pillows, smashed lights, and even broke a wash basin that was across the room.

It was decided to follow up the baptism with his first Holy Communion. They asked the boy to think of the worst he had done to confess to, and he made no mention of anything he had done under possession, and that gave them further evidence that he had had no knowledge of what he had been doing.

A Father O'Flaherty was called in to help with the proceedings. Robbie was relatively calm until the wafer was presented to him – he fought and howled time and time again spitting it out. At a loss as to what to do Father Bowdern turned to O'Flaherty who suggested a rosary to Our Lady of Fatima. After that, Robbie seemed to accept communion.


And that is where we shall leave it – Next. The ride back to Roanoke Drive

Quick Court News: Holmes saved by one juror from the death penalty.

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The Exorcist continues

The rectory car was brought around by Father O'Flaherty and Robbie was helped into the back seat between his father and Father Bowdern for the ride back to his uncle's house on Roanoke Drive.

The boy seemed happy and was chatting with the priests and all of a sudden he let out another loud growl and lunged at O'Flaherty in the front seat – he had to be restrained all the way home and then seemed normal, asking his mother for a huge breakfast.
The rest of the day was confusing as they watched him wander about bored and anxious, and then crouched and growling lowly at different times in the day. Later that evening, Bowdern, Bishop and O'Flaherty returned bringing with them a relic that had been revered as being a sliver of the true cross.

They began the evening's exorcism with the rituals in Latin with no reaction from Robbie, except to ask his mother for a bowl of ice cream, which he was allowed to be given. As he sat in his underwear on the bed listening to the Jesuits recitations he suddenly jumped up and ran downstairs. Bowdern followed him and told him to return to the bed room, and the boy bowed his head turned around as if to walk back up stairs, then burst into running again. He ran into the bedroom looking for the relic but O'Flaherty slapped his hand away at the last moment. Still, the boy managed to grab a copy of the Rituale Romanium and start to rip several pages out of it before they could stop him.

When Father Bowdern returned to the room Robbie was crouched on the bed with the torn pages in his hands laughing maniacally non stop. The Father than got another copy of the book and continued. When he got to the part that demanded the name of the demon, Robbie responded, “Dicas mihi nomen tuum, diem....Stick it up your ass!”

This shocked everyone. They believed that he had known what the words in Latin had meant and had repeated them in disgust. They didn't consider that he might just be parroting the words back to them. This made them even more certain that the possession was real – and to give up now would be unthinkable because it could be the devil trying to trick them.

Father Bowdern dug in again and continued the ritual until Robbie was shouting so loud no one could hear over his constant, “Shut up! Shut up!” The next four hours was filled with more ritual and prayer with Robbie Swearing or growling, repeating the Latin, or just laughing maniacally.

Then the markings returned. First there were three parallel lines on his leg, and then slowly a crooked X materialized. More markings appeared and then oozed with blood and formed “18” - the number “18” would be repeated over and over on his skin

At about 1:15am the boy broke out of his trance and asked his father if he could sit in his chair, and he was helped to do so, acting very shaky and scared. He begged his father, “Please take me home. I can't stand it here. I'm going crazy.”
He wanted to leave this all behind and just go back to Maryland - this had been a change. Robbie had known he'd been in trouble, but had never been aware of what had been happening in his trances, this time though – he knew he might be going insane.

I haven't been posting on this thread sine I lost my computer, because it has been hard to type on this tablet and check my reference materials at the same time. I will try to get better so I can get back to this one.

Meanwhile, this item is so heinous it belongs here rather than on the Asshat thread.

35 deaths linked to scope infections after Olympus told execs not to warn hospitals

Don't tell — unless they ask.

Thirty-five people died in the United States after contracting infections from contaminated medical scopes made by Olympus Corp. in the years after a company official told American executives not to issue widespread warnings to U.S. hospitals "about potentially deadly infections from tainted medical scopes," a new report says.

That decision not to to proactively issue warnings to U.S hospitals was made despite the fact that Tokyo-based Olympus — which controls 85 percent of the American gastrointestinal scope market — was already warning European customers that a scope made by the company had a risk of contamination after two dozen infections were reported in hospitals in France and Holland, according to the joint Los Angeles Times and Kaiser Health News story that cited internal company emails.

An Olympus vice president in Pennsylvania in January 2013, knowing about the cases in Europe, and also knowing that Olympus was investigating a similar case in a Pittsburgh hospital, asked in an email, "Should [we] also be communicating to our users the information that [Olympus Europe] is communicating to their European users?"

Olympus's chief manager for market quality administration in Tokyo in a Feb. 6, 2013, email, replied to that query.

"Although it is not need[ed] to communicate to all the users actively, you should communicate with the user who has asked a question" wrote the manager, Susumu Nishina, according to the email linked in the L.A. Times/Kaiser story.

Nishina's email continued, telling the American vice president that Olympus' "risk assessment" had indicated that that risk was "acceptable."
The story noted that in the three years after that email, at least 35 people have died in American hospitals after contracting infections from contaminated Olympus scopes.

And the article said, "At the time of the safety alert in Europe, Olympus was already aware that design flaws could make it difficult to clean its duodenoscope for the next patient. Used in about 700,000 procedures annually in the U.S., the snake-like device is put down a patient's throat to diagnose and treat problems in the digestive tract such as cancers and blockages in the bile duct."

Olympus only announced a U.S. recall of its duodenoscopes, which is expected to be completed by next month, this past January.

The emails, and others cited in the article, are contained in a court case file in Pennsylvania, where a patient is suing Olympus, which also is under investigation by federal prosecutors in New Jersey.

Olympus declined to comment on the emails for the story, citing pending litigation.

The article said that Olympus, in a statement said, "patient safety is our top priority. The duodenoscope issue continues to receive the highest level of attention at Olympus, and we remain committed to working with the proper authorities and our stakeholders to understand and address the potential root causes."