NO ANGELS: The Short Life And Brutal Death Of Brandaline Rose Duvall

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Fincham said that she had some used clothing to give to Ginny's two children, and told her they would come by to drop them off.

The case went all the way to the US Supreme Court, which, in a 7-2 decision, held that it was in violation of the Constitution for a judge, without a jury, to impose death sentences on convicts.

Virginia May

When Ginny was 16, her younger brother, Scott, was horribly burned in an accident - a tragedy that placed a great deal of strain on the family. Despite her young age, Ginny did her best to take on the role of caring for her three other siblings while her mother and father stood by Scott's bedside. Rod and Alice later credited their daughter for keeping the MacLennan family together throughout their most difficult hardships. Defense attorney Truman never disputed the fact that his client was guilty of murder. Gary Davis, he admitted, was guilty of the crime he was accused of. Knowing that Davis would be convicted of murder, Truman decided to focus his efforts on saving his client from the gas chamber, and tried to shift most of the blame to Fincham. The murder of Ginny May, Truman claimed, was Fincham's idea, and if Fincham's part in the crime wasn't worthy of a death sentence, then Davis' life should also be spared. Ad-Free episodes: Visit https://www.patreon.com/Murderish to join MURDERISH | Behind the Mic and get access to ad-free episodes. Earlier this month, the Colorado State Senate approved SB20-100, a bill which, if passed, would abolish the death penalty in the state of Colorado. A similar bill, proposed last, year, also passed committee but failed to gain traction in the senate.

At about 9:00 PM, Gary May called the police and told them that his wife was missing. It took two hours for a deputy to show up to the ranch, and, once he arrived, he wasn't of much help. Gary would later recall that the deputy seemed unconcerned with Ginny's safety. "This happens all the time", the deputy told Gary May. "These housewives get bored with their lives and take off with another guy." Daniel “Bang” Martinez was charged with the murder of fourteen-year-old Brandaline DuVall, an honor student who made the unfortunate decision to get into a car with strangers one day, the last day of her life. The result was one of the most heinous murders in Colorado history. In May 1997, Daniel (“Danny”) Martinez was the leader of the Crenshaw Mafia Gangsters Bloods (“CMG”), [1] a street gang, one of the few Hispanic gangs recognized by the California-based Crenshaw Mafia Gangsters. The Deuce-Seven CMG, Danny’s Gang, was recognized by law enforcement, primarily for the gang’s lawlessness and potentially lethal impulses.

Those words echo through countless law school classrooms across the country. Time and again, law students are taught that they must learn to “think like a lawyer.” The question however, is whether thinking like a lawyer can teach you to “think like a killer.”

On one occasion, Davis even urinated towards the ranch while crowing "Come on, Virginia, baby! I'm here! Come to me!"

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Her future was looking bright; she was an honor roll student, and had recently brought home her first rose from a boy. How did I come from that place to a place where, without sympathy or sadness, I could write a lengthy intellectual opinion and coldly justify the execution of another person? Is this only because I was taught to “think like a lawyer?” Was it merely my experience slicing and dicing arguments and counter-arguments that I learned to adopt the soul and logic of an amoral rationalist? A moral gap grew between what I could justify on intellectual and rational grounds and what I believed at my core moral center, if indeed I still had one. We respect and enforce the laws of the State of Colorado, including the change of law for juveniles who commit first-degree murder," she continues. "However, in this case, there were additional convictions — from a jury who heard all the evidence – for other heinous acts inflicted upon fourteen-year-old Brandy DuVall prior to her murder that we believed warranted recognition of consecutive sentencing."