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Boston Watches As Shootings In Arizona Leave Six Dead, Representative Gabrielle Giffords clinging to life And Questions About Violent Speech-Attorney Sam?s Take

By Altman & Altman

Just last week, we discussed the case of kids threatening to commit mass murder online. I mentioned that this was not the climate for it. This was illustrated horribly this past weekend in Tucson, Arizona. The end result of the event is that Federal prosecutors have brought charges against the alleged gunman accused of attempting to assassinate Representative. Gabrielle Giffords and, in the process, killing six people, ages ranging from a 9-year-old-child to an elderly woman. Jared Lee Loughner, 22, (hereinafter, the ?Defendant?) is the man accused of the shootings. He is said to have also fired at Giffords' district director and others s standing in line to talk to the congresswoman, "He was not more than three or four feet from the congresswoman and the district director," said Mark Kimble, a communications staffer for Giffords...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on January 10, 2011 (boomark / email).