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Post by ♫anna♫ on Aug 9, 2012 3:04:48 GMT
Sailor sentenced for helping Navy chief commit suicide Rebecca Ruiz, NBC News Paul Stephen Bricker, a 27-year-old sailor, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday for fatally stabbing Navy Chief Gerard Curran on July 30, 2009, in Virginia Beach, Va. The stabbing was part of a plan developed by Curran to die by suicide, but make it appear as though he had been murdered to ensure his family would receive government benefits, according to a statement released by Harvey L. Bryant, the Commonwealth Attorney for the City of Virginia Beach. Bricker worked under Curran and "looked up to the chief," according to court documents. Bricker told police that Curran wanted his help to make the death look like a robbery. In April 2009, Curran had stabbed himself in the chest and claimed that an intruder had attacked him, but an investigation found the wound was self-inflicted. In July 2009, the two agreed to meet in a local park, where Curran choked himself with a rubber physical therapy band until passing out. After a few minutes, Bricker stabbed Curran once in the chest and then left with the knife and rubber band. "The defendant said that he had stabbed Mr. Curran because Mr. Curran had asked him to help him," the court document said. "The investigation revealed no benefit, pecuniary or otherwise, to the defendant for his role in the victim’s death." Curran was eventually found in the park after his estranged wife, Dawn Curran, reported him missing. Bricker became a suspect in the case after he told a friend, and the confession was eventually shared by another party with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Macie Pridgen, a spokeswoman for the Office of the Commonwealth's Attorney, told NBC News. The case, which did not go to trial, was investigated by both the NCIS as well as local police. Bricker pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter in April; Circuit Court judge Thomas Padrick suspended five years of the term upon sentencing Bricker on Monday. “You allowed the chief to do what he did, and then you stabbed him. No one has the right to take another’s life," Padrick told Bricker prior to the sentencing. Bricker did not seek help for Curran or report his suicidal thoughts, according to Bryant's statement. In a statement read in court on Monday, Dawn Curran said Bricker should have told someone that her husband had planned to die. "That's what a real friend would do," the Virginian-Pilot reported her as saying. "I find assisted suicide the equivalent to murder." Bricker apologized prior to the sentencing. "I am deeply sorry," he said. "And I wish I could take it all back." Rebecca Ruiz is a reporter at NBC News. Follow her on Twitter here. usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/08/13183233-sailor-sentenced-for-helping-navy-chief-commit-suicide?lite
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Post by Hunny on Aug 9, 2012 15:07:40 GMT
“ No one has the right to take another’s life," Padrick told Bricker prior to the sentencing. Well, that's not true at all. The cops have the right, the courts have the right, and the army gives medals for it. Perhaps the judge shouldn't be allowed to make judgements about what will happen to people if his reasoning is going to be based on a lie. The truth about 'life-taking' is the government has taken THE INDIVIDUAL'S right to it away...and then we all gasp and act horrified when someone does it anyway, as if we've completely forgotten that on other occasions we well up with pride that we payed some boys to go kill for us, or we yell "get him" when we see cops having to do it on TV, or even characters. It's just intellectually dishonest to say "killing is wrong" when we apparently approve of it, and it's only individuals who have been disempowered from deciding when it.. "should" be done. Life-taking, in fact, is what the judge does! -by taking people's lives away, sticking them in cages to be in torment. So I find it offensive to hear that judge say "NO ONE has the right." It's entirely misleading and incorrect. And surely justice is supposed to be about the truth.. and fairness within it. I wish the government would be less in people's lives, making rules to micromanage their every little behavior just to have total control of everybody's slightest decision or ability to make one. It makes the word "freedom" which Americans throw around meaningless (for how many realize that 'freedom' was what we had when we got OUT from under rule, and made our own law..back in the "wild west" days, when we'd say things like "every man's home is his castle" and a mere fistfight was met with "boys will be boys" instead of by what are essentially soldiers (cops) tazing and caging them for "taking matters into their own hands". People, freedom is now illegal! Anyway...assisted suicide doesn't rile me up with "they shouldn't be allowed. In fact very few things do. Why should it be up to some humans what other humans do? Think about it. People are born with every right to self-determination, but then we let a body of men who think ill of us and rob us (politicians) take our rights away and order us about. I hate government, almost as much as i hate authority itself. But..that's just me!
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♫anna♫
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Aug 10, 2012 4:02:42 GMT
Hi Hunny! I agree that it's unfair to penalize the family of the navy chief because he chose suicide. I have to suspect though that this "unfairness" does deter suicides. Deter-not prevent! Some will think twice about suicide.
I suspect Mr. Bricker could have been convicted for attempting to help this man defraud the government with the attempt to portray Mr. Curran's death as a murder. I suspect in Europe the suicide rate is higher in part because as far as I know a government employee's family isn't penalized if the employee commits suicide.
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Post by toby on Aug 10, 2012 10:30:35 GMT
Hunny posted.:-Well, that's not true at all.
Toby comments":- I read your comments Hunny and I must say I do agree with you !
I just returned from a visit to the USA and it does seem that the government is becoming invasive, but that's what you get when Democrats try to impose their idea of Socialism on the population !
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