So the two fools who plead straight guilty, with no deal even struck have reached a conclusion in this yearlong saga (well it was a year for their asses at least).
Yes, they sentenced the poor suckers, both aged 20, who plead guilty to murder-3 on this whole ongoing fiasco. They finally got sentenced. You can (and should) read the following article to learn about the sentences, as well as get a bit of insight as to how the families of all the kids in question are approaching this whole thing.... The Local Town Paper of The Family of the Girl Who Died's Take on The Sentencing Hearings of Cole Matanaer and Alexander Claussen
Yes, they sentenced the poor suckers, both aged 20, who plead guilty to murder-3 on this whole ongoing fiasco. They finally got sentenced. You can (and should) read the following article to learn about the sentences, as well as get a bit of insight as to how the families of all the kids in question are approaching this whole thing.... The Local Town Paper of The Family of the Girl Who Died's Take on The Sentencing Hearings of Cole Matanaer and Alexander Claussen
I still think these kids had the 2 worst attorneys in history. Who walks up and enters a straight plea of guilty to the most damning charge against them, when the charge itsef is clearly an overreach of constitutional authority. The more I read about this whole thing, the more I am very glad that the only part I had in it, was as a mistake to be relegated to the footnotes of the criminal investigation, rather then somebody who actually needed to fear for his freedom because of legitimate guilt in the crimes being alleged.
Its such a tragic situation, with so many lives destroyed, I can't help but for my heart to go out to the families of both of these kids who plead guilty and for the family of Tara Fitzgerald, the girl who died to kick off this whole thing in the first place. The pure tragedy of the overall circumstances is such, that I only have compassion for all 3 families whose lives have already been ravaged over this...I can even muster up a bit of compassion, and understanding and dare I say, an iota of forgiveness for Alex Claussen, the shithead who tried very hard to ruin my life, and who must truly be the worst confidential informant in history. (He wasn't confident nor confidential, he had never met me nor I him, despite being the target of his "inside information," and he steered an entire, substantially sized and obviously costly investigation in the wrong direction because of his misinformation. Bravo, Mr. Claussen. There's a little something we can all be angry with you at, there--Sympathy for your predicament or not.
Its such a tragic situation, with so many lives destroyed, I can't help but for my heart to go out to the families of both of these kids who plead guilty and for the family of Tara Fitzgerald, the girl who died to kick off this whole thing in the first place. The pure tragedy of the overall circumstances is such, that I only have compassion for all 3 families whose lives have already been ravaged over this...I can even muster up a bit of compassion, and understanding and dare I say, an iota of forgiveness for Alex Claussen, the shithead who tried very hard to ruin my life, and who must truly be the worst confidential informant in history. (He wasn't confident nor confidential, he had never met me nor I him, despite being the target of his "inside information," and he steered an entire, substantially sized and obviously costly investigation in the wrong direction because of his misinformation. Bravo, Mr. Claussen. There's a little something we can all be angry with you at, there--Sympathy for your predicament or not.
He clearly was a drug addict who had numerous problems, and its very likely that because of hearing about my art collection, he really BELIEVED what he was selling to law enforcement about me. The kid was just 1 year out of high school and seemed not to have very much going for him....Of course this kid was expected to act as a Narc. How can anybody even blame him for being coerced into grasping at straws to try to save himself?
I mean, I do blame him, because of the lack of anybody else to blame that acted maliciously towards me in all this, but I can understand the situation he felt he was in. Its no excuse.....But the trumped up murder charges have to look pretty scary when you're 19 and haven't ever been the focus of the immense amount of negative attention that comes from something like this before...
I mean, I do blame him, because of the lack of anybody else to blame that acted maliciously towards me in all this, but I can understand the situation he felt he was in. Its no excuse.....But the trumped up murder charges have to look pretty scary when you're 19 and haven't ever been the focus of the immense amount of negative attention that comes from something like this before...
I just can't believe he plead guilty to them without putting up a fight. Thats the most absurd thing about all of this and why he clearly has the worst attorney in the world.
In keeping with the promise/theme that this would be an update, I will have you all know Ive made zero progress in gaining my blotter or my computers back, yet, but in an attempt to keep my eyes on the big picture, very positive manner, I can also say that its very nice to be eating, sleeping, fighting, fucking, showering & shitting, and just generally going about one's business.... as a free man in his own home, without any trumped up charges filed or yet attempted in this case for any of us as of yet.... And when I say nothing for any of us, I mean myself and my colleagues who all went to jail at the same time back in August when this all went down. Nobody has been charged with a thing, and this is certainly a good thing we all have to be thankful for. And none of us is doing 75 months on a straight murder-3 plea like Alex Claussen, and so we all have that to be thankful for too.
One last note to add: While my heart breaks for Tom Fitzgerald, the father of Tara, the deceased girl, and I hope I never can fathom what he has gone through..... I think he is approaching this all wrong. He is hellbent on getting revenge sentences for all these kids who I believe he is using as a scapegoat to avoid the obvious issue here: That when you charge somebody ELSE with murder over ingesting a drug willfully, and without knowledge of the existence of the person who sold it to the person who sold it to you, and without really being in any of the so-called culpable parties' physical presence at the time.... You are basically saying that the party who went out of their way to purchase and ingest the chemical, willfully and knowingly---and PAID good money for the capability to do so---nevertheless has absolutely no responsibility and played no part whatsoever, and took no risks with their actions. Because MURDER, whatever degree it happens to be considered, 1st, 3rd, or 100th, is irrelevant. It still places 100% of the blame on the party who is charged with murder, by the very definition of murder itself. They do not charge an arms dealer with selling a firearm--even illegally--to a person who kills themself with that gun. They do not charge the movie theater who lets a 15 year old into a rated R movie, and then mimics that behavior in real life with anything for providing access to the inspiration to the behavior with any crimes for their "part in all this"--- Yet, they hand out murder charges like candy to everyone involved with ANY aspect of the timeline that leads up to an accidental overdose death? Why not charge the parents with birthing the "guilty party" in the first place? Or the doctor who delivered him that fateful 19 years prior? I mean, if they weren't around, he wouldn't have been there to sell the drug, 5 persons away from Tara and it may have never occurred either, right?
So I ask Mr. Fitzgerald, and the prosecutors and indeed the lawmakers and judges and potential future jurors in cases like this: What about Tara's own responsibility in all this? She wasn't actually murdered, because nobody had any intent for this to happen, and nobody knew it would or could..... So how can culpability be assigned to others in the case of a clearly accidental death? She died for unknown reasons, after ingesting an nBOMe dose it seems, and now Dad wants every kid who ever owned those drugs to rot in prison, as if his daughter, not to mention her FRIEND who DID NOT CALL FOR HELP, have absolutely no culpability for the tragic outcome that we are now witnessing the aftermath of.....I think this approach is simply wrong, at a moral, and legal level, and justice will not be served until this kind of conviction is vacated for all those sentenced on charges like this, and the laws are changed to assign the risk of ingesting a drug to the person it belongs too---the willing and rational participant who decided to ingest that drug as a means of recreation.
This is all.
So I ask Mr. Fitzgerald, and the prosecutors and indeed the lawmakers and judges and potential future jurors in cases like this: What about Tara's own responsibility in all this? She wasn't actually murdered, because nobody had any intent for this to happen, and nobody knew it would or could..... So how can culpability be assigned to others in the case of a clearly accidental death? She died for unknown reasons, after ingesting an nBOMe dose it seems, and now Dad wants every kid who ever owned those drugs to rot in prison, as if his daughter, not to mention her FRIEND who DID NOT CALL FOR HELP, have absolutely no culpability for the tragic outcome that we are now witnessing the aftermath of.....I think this approach is simply wrong, at a moral, and legal level, and justice will not be served until this kind of conviction is vacated for all those sentenced on charges like this, and the laws are changed to assign the risk of ingesting a drug to the person it belongs too---the willing and rational participant who decided to ingest that drug as a means of recreation.
This is all.
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