Thursday, September 19, 2002

I just noticed a really cool feature in DragThing 4.5. It now identifies classic applications by a little "9" badge on the icon. I also really love the new drawer feature. It looks like my favorite application launcher just got even better. 3:16:21 PM    Comments []

It turns out I need a new air conditioner. The old one, which died completely, was still the original unit installed when these homes were built in 1973. It's going to cost about as much as the new G4 I had hoped to get in a few months, but it should cut my electric bills in half. 1:07:21 PM    Comments []

I received this email from Joyce Tracy. Any lawyers who are reading this, please contact her or let them know at derekandalexking.org. Yes I am please with the wait in the sentencing,  we are tryng to get some other legal issues in the case worked out. This is was very complex case even before the trial began. but it seems that no one is interested in knowing the real truth.  I may have already said that.  Anyway about them signing their rghts away...last week a man from CA called to tell me of his interest in the case.  He does documentries about children and help get families back together.  This is his first of this nature but it intriged him so much that he called.  After talking to me, he asked if I would give him an interview if he came to Pensacola.  He was here today and told me that until he talked to me he wasn''t sure if wanted to do this, but after hearing what I had to say about some of the legal issues, he just had to come.  He will be back in Oct. to finish it up.  I don't usually give interviews, but I felt that I should do this one.  ( I also did a People's magazine thing which should be released Oce 10).   The reason I'm telling you all of this is the fact about the boys signing thier rights away.  I told that in my statement and also about when Rick and Reggie the deputy sheriff who is also a friend of Rick, took the boys to the police station, they both knew what they were doing to the boys, not to have a family member present and especially legal council.  I only live 4 blocks from the Sheriff's Dept.  And Rick know where I live.  My son Greg called down there, he heard it from a policeman who works as a security guard at my sons work.  He was told that if they needed him they would call.  He left work right then and went down there but no one would let him in,  altho the banged on the door for a long time and stood outside even longer.  And that was before the boys statements were even started.  How could the legal document hold when one is so young.  That's the big question.  I'm asking every one that I e-mail about the boys if they know of a good attorney or private invertigator who wants to take a very complicated.case pro bona, please tell him to contact me.  This is national so he can live anywhere and be of service.  Any takers? 10:11:18 AM    Comments []

Sentencing delayed for King brothers (PENSACOLA, Fla.) September 18 - A judge is considering granting a new trial for Alex and Derek King, the two young brothers convicted of killing their father. The judge delayed sentencing Wednesday to consider the defense request and to give doctors more time to examine the boys. Prosecutors say 13-year-old Alex and 14-year-old Derek smashed their dad's head with a baseball bat as he slept in a recliner and then set the house on fire. The brothers were charged with first-degree murder. A jury convicted them of second-degree without a weapon and of arson. Jurors said later that they thought a family friend and convicted child molester, Ricky Chavis, committed the crime. Chavis was acquitted of first-degree murder before the boys' trial, but the jurors did not know the verdict until they convicted the boys. The jurors say they were shocked to find that Chavis was found innocent. 9:08:29 AM    Comments []