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Arubalover
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Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:52 am |
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I hope she wasn't tortured. These freaks could have done anything to her, but I really hope she wasn't held for days or even hours and tortured. 
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| BornCynic
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Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:52 pm |
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Jacques was supposed to appear at a probable cause hearing today but it didn't happen becaused he waived his right to one.
Articles follow:
Jacques Court Appearance Canceled
No court Wednesday for the man accused of abducting Brooke Bennett, 12, of Braintree.
Michael Jacques, 42, waived his right to a probable cause hearing. The convicted sex offender is accused of kidnapping his niece, a week before her body was found buried near his home in Randolph.
Authorities say Jacques used the girl's MySpace page and a series of e-mails he sent using aliases to plan her abduction.
Also charged in the case is Raymond Gagnon, Brooke's former stepfather, who faces obstruction of justice charges in her disappearance.
No one has been charged in Bennett's death.
http://www.fox44.net/Global/story.asp?S=8832808&nav=menu660_1
Jacques back in federal court today
Lawyers for Michael Jacques, the Randolph man facing kidnapping charges in connection with the slaying of his 12-year-old niece, Brooke Bennett, will get a chance today to question an FBI agent who worked on the high-profile case.
The event, a probable cause hearing before federal Magistrate Judge Jerome Niedermeier in Burlington, marks the first time Jacques has appeared in court since July 7, five days after Brooke's body was found covered with dirt in the woods a mile from Jacques' home.
U.S. Attorney Tom Anderson on Tuesday said the government would have an FBI agent testify at today's hearing, mostly to verify information contained in affidavits describing the case against Jacques.
"He'll either testify or adopt what's in the affidavit," Anderson said. He declined to identify who will testify and would not say whether any additional information about Brooke's kidnapping and death will be disclosed.
Jacques' lawyers -- including two just-hired New Jersey public defender attorneys who specialize in cases where the accused is facing a potential death penalty -- will then get to ask questions of the FBI agent.
"We were asked to take the case on, so we did," said Jean D. Barrett, a Montclair, N.J., attorney who has represented defendants in nine death penalty cases. Barrett said she was planning to attend today's hearing.
Barrett's husband, David Ruhnke, also was added to the defense team but may not be at the hearing. Ruhnke has tried 15 cases involving potential death penalty verdicts. In early 2001, he helped persuade a New York jury to spare the lives of al-Qaeda operatives connected to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in east Africa.
Anderson has indicated he is considering seeking the death penalty in Jacques' case, but said a final determination on the matter will be made by the U.S. attorney general.
According to police and FBI affidavits, Jacques began plotting Brooke's kidnapping a month prior to her June 25 disappearance and invented at least two Internet identities to create the illusion of an Internet sex ring into which he hoped to induct his niece.
Police say that Jacques, a registered sex offender with past convictions for aggravated sexual assault and lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor, was engaging in ongoing sexual acts with an underage female relative at the time of his arrest.
Brooke's death has been ruled a homicide but no one has been charged with her murder. Prosecutors and police have not said how, when or where she was killed.
A federal grand jury is reviewing evidence in the case involving Jacques and Brooke's former stepfather, Raymond Gagnon of San Antonio, and prosecutors recently obtained a two-month extension from the court to complete the investigation into Brooke's death.
Gagnon is facing an obstruction of justice count in federal court for allegedly ordering a friend to get rid of a safe he owned in San Antonio that contained a computer with child pornography images on it. Gagnon is facing child pornography charges in federal court in Texas and Alabama, where he owns a home.
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080813/NEWS01/808130314/1007/NEWS02
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| SavannahStar
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Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:08 pm |
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| Quote: | | Brooke's death has been ruled a homicide but no one has been charged with her murder. Prosecutors and police have not said how, when or where she was killed. |
Good grief! What is the hold-up on this?????????????????? 
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