Prosecutors: Ex-official was menace, made napalm

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Prosecutors: Ex-official was menace, made napalm
| December 10, 2014 | Updated: December 10, 2014 3:58pm

ROCKWALL, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors trying to persuade jurors to issue the death penalty against a former North Texas public official presented testimony Wednesday that he was a menace to others who hid homemade napalm.

The prosecution rested its case in the punishment phase of the capital murder trial for Eric Williams, 47, but not before showing jurors two canisters of napalm that investigators say were found in Williams' storage unit kept.

Investigators also found dozens of weapons, ammunition and other items in the unit in the weeks after Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia were slain in their home east of Dallas in March 2013. Williams was convicted last week of killing Cynthia McLelland, and is charged in the deaths of her husband and assistant prosecutor Mark Hasse two months earlier.

Prosecutors on Wednesday portrayed Williams, a former justice of the peace, as a danger to others. A former girlfriend, Janice Gray, testified the two dated in the 1990s after meeting at a legal conference, according to The Dallas Morning News. After she broke off the relationship, he threatened her with a gun at another conference and told her "I have a gun, and if you walk away, I'll use it. I have nothing to lose."


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[Prisoner_Number_Six]

1. "...he was a menace to others who hid homemade napalm."

Sorry, but that just jumped up and bit me on the nose. The "journalist" who wrote that really needs to be smacked upside his head and made to take a course in remedial English.

Other than that-- well, it's Texas, after all. (I can say that because I lived in Dallas for 13 years. Been to Rockwall more than a few times. Nice town.)

[Archae]

2. That guy's lawyers are slime!

From the article:

"But the defense team for Williams told jurors Wednesday he's no longer a threat and that they should heed the teachings of Jesus, show compassion and spare him from execution."

"They called to the stand a lawyer who was friends with Williams and testified that his prosecution was not justified. Attorney Jenny Parks said it was a "ridiculous prosecution."

"Defense attorney Maxwell Peck asked of the jury, "Is it right to destroy a man's life over three computers?"