New trial ordered in Chandra Levy murder case

[deminks]

This should feed the MEdia beast for a while.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/article23091816.html

WASHINGTON —


A judge on Thursday ordered a new trial for the man convicted of killing former intern Chandra Levy.

Punctuating an extraordinary sequence of events that has slowly unfolded over the past several years, District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Gerald Fisher granted the new-trial request made by attorneys for Ingmar Guandique.

The new trial will feature different attorneys arguing before a new judge who must now come quickly up to speed on a murder mystery that has, at times, attracted both national notoriety and fevered speculation.

“I am not familiar with the facts,” D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert E. Morin said Thursday morning, “other than it’s a homicide.”

Morin will now learn that, based largely on the testimony of former Fresno gang leader Armando Morales, a jury in November 2010 convicted Guandique of first-degree murder for the 2001 killing of Levy. A 24-year-old former Bureau of Prisons intern, Levy was preparing to return to her family’s Modesto, Calif., home at the time of her death.

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[peace13]

1. This has got to make Morning Joe's heart race!

The demise of his intern was is 2001. Joe, it's never too late to answer the hard questions.

Both of these young women deserve to have new investigations into their deaths!

[RR2]

5. I was thinking the same thing, some may not remember Joe's history....

"In reality, there is indeed a news story percolating out there. The story bears remarkable and ironic similarities to the Condit/Levy story. Both involve Congressmen, rumors of infidelity, and the fate of a younger female subordinate. The details are so similar as to remind one of two alternate universes. The difference between the two stories? First, in the Klausutis case as not in the Levy case, there is a real body, very dead. Second, the Klausutis case involves a Republican."



http://www.americanpolitics.com/20010808Klausutis.html

[peace13]

6. I hear you.

With such little response on this OP it looks like most folks here don't even remember these two cases. There is such back arching about a word play on the *unt word and so little concern for two young women who were killed as young adults. As you say, both had close ties to Congressmen at the time of their demise. So sad!

[TheNutcracker]

2. you got that right and Gary Condit and orgy party ties too!

[Nye Bevan]

3. So is Condit back under suspicion now? (nt)

[Wilms]

4. Good. This case stinks.

She was the press liaison for the Bureau of Prisons for the execution of Timothy McVeigh.

And there was nothing remarkable about that.

Poke around if you will. See if you smell anything funny.