How many 2nd chances did the Alabama shooting professor get? Killed brother, suspect in bombing

[Liberal_in_LA]

Holy shit!

Alleged Ala. killer was suspect in attempted bombing of Harvard professor

The professor who is accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama on Friday was a suspect in the attempted mail bombing of a Harvard Medical School professor in 1993, a law enforcement official said today.

Amy Bishop and her husband, James Anderson, were questioned after a package containing two bombs was sent to the Newton home of Dr. Paul Rosenberg, a professor and doctor at Boston's Children's Hospital.

It was the second startling revelation in two days about the past of Bishop, who is accused of fatally shooting three colleagues and wounding three others Friday afternoon at a faculty meeting on the University of Alabama's Huntsville, Ala. campus.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/02/ala_slay_suspec.html

[Merchant Marine]

1. Good job, federal prosecutors...

A felony conviction would have stripped her of her ability to pass a NICS background check, maybe preventing this whole sad episode.

[Garbo 2004]

6. Bishop's husband claims the ATF cleared them of suspicion in the bomb case.

Claims to have a letter from ATF to that effect. If the investigation indeed cleared them as he asserts, then there would be no basis for a prosecution.

Remains to be seen if Feds will confirm that Bishop was in fact cleared in that case or remained a suspect.

As for the gun, for all we know she may have obtained it without ever having gone through a background check.

[Maru Kitteh]

7. I didn't read it that way. I think the husband was cleared and has a letter.

I saw no mention of a letter that cleared her.

[Garbo 2004]

8. “'We were not suspects,' he said." And cites the letter. NYT article cited by Globe:

"But Mr. Anderson said the couple had been cleared in the pipe bomb investigation."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/15/us/15alabama.html

[Maru Kitteh]

10. ‘You are hereby cleared in this incident. You are no longer a subject of the investigation.’

“That was a disaster,” he said of the investigation. “That was a mess. In my files I have a letter from the ATF saying, ‘You are hereby cleared in this incident. You are no longer a subject of the investigation.’”


I would think if his wife had received the same letter, he would have mentioned it. I'll bet that she did not.


Time will tell.

[virgogal]

2. A lot more than I would have gotten. I don't get it.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. me either! WTF!!!!!!!!!!!! more from the article: "She said it with a smirk on her face"

Shortly after the attempted bombing, Fluckiger said, Bishop told her she had been questioned by police. According to Fluckiger, Bishop said police asked her if she had ever taken stamps off an envelope that had been mailed to her and put them on something else.

"She said it with a smirk on her face,'' said Fluckiger. "We knew she had a beef with Paul Rosenberg. And we really thought it was a really unbelievable coincidence that he would get those bombs."

[stray cat]

4. Not proven guilty of either - but one does wonder

[etherealtruth]

5. WTF

Why would this psycho get so many chances?????

Beats me????

[Edweird]

9. She obviously has brains. Style, maybe not so much. But definitely brains.