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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-11 11:26 AM
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Shawna Forde Guilty - Possible Death Sentence
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Minuteman Murderer, Shawna Forde, Speaks

Terry Greene Sterling – Tue Feb 15, 12:08 am ET
NEW YORK – Shawna Forde of Arizona was convicted Monday of killing a 9-year-old girl and her father. Terry Greene Sterling’s exclusive jailhouse interview with the beautician-turned-border vigilante. Forde maintains her innocence, describes the jury’s guilty verdict as “surreal,” and prepares for a possible death sentence.
On Valentine’s Day, after deliberating for about a day and a half, a Tucson jury convicted Shawna Forde of murdering 9-year-old Brisenia Flores and her dad, Raul, in a brutal 2009 home invasion on the Arizona border.
Forde, dressed in a navy-and-cream blazer and navy pants, remained calm as she listened to the verdict, even though the murder charges could lead to a death sentence in a state that does not shy from executions. The 43-year-old former child burglar, mom, beautician, and self-professed Minuteman from Everett, Washington, kept her composure, because, she told The Daily Beast in an exclusive post-verdict jailhouse interview, “you can’t freak out with the whole world watching you.”
Speaking by videophone in the Pima County Adult Detention Center, the woman prosecutors dubbed a braggart and a killer—who reportedly boasted she would “kick down doors and change America” with her border vigilante activities—maintained her innocence.
Wearing glasses, no makeup, and black-and-white striped jailhouse pajamas, Forde told me she was “extremely saddened” by the verdict. The jury of 11 women and one man also found Forde guilty of attempted murder, two counts of assault, two counts of robbery and one count of burglary. The jury gave a clear victory to prosecutors, who accused Forde of cooking up a plan to steal drugs and money from Raul Flores by gaining entry to his Arivaca, Arizona, mobile home with accomplices on the pretense of being law-enforcement officers in search of fugitives...
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-11 11:33 AM
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1. And she can't vote in 2012!!
Yay! One more Republican vote canceled!!
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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-11 12:22 PM
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2. she's a wretched individual
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SidDithers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-11 12:23 PM
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3. I'm glad she's guilty...
and I hope she rots in prison for the rest of her very long life.

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