From Border Militia Leader to Convicted Murderer: Shawna Forde’s Misguided Aspirations

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/02/23  2 Responses »
Feb 232011
 
From Border Militia Leader to Convicted Murderer: Shawna Forde’s Misguided Aspirations

Cross Posted from LONG ISLAND WINS by PATRICK YOUNG ESQ. I have never supported the death penalty, and I still don’t. The fact that Shawna Forde is, by my reading of the evidence, guilty of planning and ordering the executions of Brisenia and Raul Flores and the attempted killing of Brisenia’s mother, Gina Gonzalez, does not change that opinion. But I will try to be objective in looking at why the jury sentenced her to death. Putting myself in the place of a juror and seeing the evidence presented to the jury, it would be difficult to resist giving Forde the maximum penalty allowed by law. Killing Brisenia and Raul was not incidental to the home invasion in Arivaca, Arizona. It MORE

Laine Lawless files frivolous complaint with Arizona bar against Forde attorney!

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2010/12/15  7 Responses »
Dec 152010
 
Laine Lawless files frivolous complaint with Arizona bar against Forde attorney!

If the is true, then this bitch needs to be in a cell next to her heroine Minuteman child killer Shawna Forde. From Kim Smith at Arizona Daily Star: Next month’s trial of Shawna Forde may be in jeopardy because of a State Bar complaint filed against one of her attorneys, but it’s unclear who was behind its filing. On Monday, defense attorney Eric Larsen informed Judge John Leonardo that one of Forde’s strong-est supporters, Laine Lawless, had filed a complaint against him with the State Bar of Arizona and says she filed it for Forde. Although Larsen has given the Bar an affidavit signed by Forde stating she did not authorize Lawless to file the complaint, the ethics advisory MORE

Lawyers for Minuteman Shawna Forde file motions to exclude “prejudicial evidence”

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2010/09/22  1 Response »
Sep 222010
 
Lawyers for Minuteman Shawna Forde file motions to exclude "prejudicial evidence"

Eric Larsen, attorney for Minuteman and accused child killer Shawna Forde was back in court last week with another handful of motions, this time, trying to preclude the statements of two Colorado Minutemen and FBI informants from being used in her January 2011 trial. The still unidentified Minutemen told the FBI that Forde met with them in Colorado a couple of months prior to the murders in Arivaca to discuss her plans and need for the proceeds to fund her border vigilante Minuteman group. Forde tried to recruit the two to help her, but fortunately for them, they refused and contacted authorities. Larsen, in filing his motion, said the men’s statements should be precluded for the following reasons:

Who remembers Brisenia Flores? The hypocrisy of the nativists

 Posted by on 2010/05/26  Comments Off
May 262010
 

Arizona pro reform activist and videographer Dennis Gilmans new YouTube video hammers everyone on the hypocrisy of our political leaders over SB 1070 and the plight of the 12 million undocumented in this country. Gilman also contrasts the hysteria over the killing of Arizona rancher Rob Krentz to the relative silence of politicians and the media over the 2009 slayings of 9 yo Brisenia Flores and her father Raul in a home invasion robbery gone bad in Arivaca by Minutewoman Shawna Forde and cohorts Jason Bush and Alberto Gaxiola. Krentz’s death was exploited by nativists to pass SB 1070, whereas the Flores murders were never commented upon by that same tribe. For good reason. Many of them knew Forde, and MORE

Shawna Forde Files Complaint with ACLU – Cites “Massive Civil Rights Violations” by Sheriff Dupnik

 Posted by on 2010/05/25  3 Responses »
May 252010
 
Shawna Forde Files Complaint with ACLU - Cites "Massive Civil Rights Violations" by Sheriff Dupnik

This breaking piece in the case of Minuteman child killer Shawna Forde, currently residing in the Pima County Jail waiting to answer charges in the brutal murders of 9 year old Brisenia Flores and her father Raul. According to the JFSF website,, which supports and defends the actions of Forde and her co-defendants, Forde has filed a 7 page complaint with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), an organization much maligned by the right wingers, until they need their services.

Pima Country Grand Jury indicts Shawna Forde with multiple counts – Death Penalty possible

 Posted by on 2009/06/23  1 Response »
Jun 232009
 
Pima Country Grand Jury indicts Shawna Forde with multiple counts - Death Penalty possible

Shawna Forde, 41, Albert Robert Gaxiola, 42, and Jason Eugene Bush, 34, have been indicted by a Pima County Arizona on two counts each of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder, as well as burglary, aggravated assault and robbery charges in the home invasion and murder of Raul and Bresenia Flores, and the attempted murder of the mother, Gina Marie Gonzalez. The arraignment is scheduled for June 29 in Pima County Superior Court, Tucson Arizona. Rick Unklesbay, chief trial counsel for the Pima County Attorney’s Office, said prosecutors have until 60 days after the arraignment to announce if they intend to seek the death penalty. Other than that, the DA declined further comment on the case.