Thirteen-year-old girl unwraps birthday present to find DVD player, complete with free copy of the Paris Hilton sex video ...
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Thursday, January 06, 2005
Microsoft's Anti-Spyware Beta Released
Microsoft has released a beta of their much anticipated Anti-Spyware offering. You can download it here.
As with PhotoStory, you must validate that your installation of
Windows is genuine before you can download the software.
UPDATE: After running this...this is the MOST full featured Spyware Detector I have EVER seen...it is incredible how many features it has. A very good effort on Microsoft's part.
Thanks to Bryan Batchelder for the story.
Glenn Beck's Tsunami Relief Fund...once you make a donation you can download this song...
Thank you for your donation.
Download 'We Are the World' by the Glenn Beck Program
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CONFUCIUS SAY:
Those of you who need a song to donate to a disaster
fund, deserve a disaster of a song.
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Earlier this week Glenn called Stu "Captain Blackheart" for saying that you should just give money to tsunami victims if you want to--not wait for a charity song or celebrity event tells you to. These inspiring words motivated Stu to record the Glenn Beck Program's first charity single. A donation of any amount will get you access to this certified gem. All donations will go to help victims of the tsunami. The song features: Stu, Chris Balfe, Dan, John, and Sarah. Glenn Beck apparently boycotted the project.
Your gift is not tax deductible.
Andrea Yates' Conviction Overturned
HOUSTON A state appeals court has overturned the capital murder convictions against Andrea Yates (search) and ordered a new trial in the drownings of her children.
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The Texas First Court of Appeals issued its ruling in Houston today in a 12-page opinion signed by court Justice Sam Nuchia.
Click here to read the decision.
Yates was sentenced to life in prison in the 2001 deaths of three of her children after jurors rejected her insanity defense. She was not tried in the deaths of the other two. Psychiatrists testified that Yates suffered from schizophrenia (search) and postpartum depression (search).
In December, her attorneys told a three-judge panel of the appeals court that she deserves a new trial because of 19 errors that were committed in her 2002 trial.
Yates' attorney Troy McKinney focused on expert witness Park Dietz (search), who McKinney said "told a whopper of a falsehood" when he said he consulted on an episode of the TV show "Law and Order" involving a woman found innocent by reason of insanity for drowning her children.
Dietz testified the episode aired shortly before the drownings, and testimony during the trial indicated Yates was a viewer of the series.
After jurors found Yates guilty, attorneys in the case and jurors learned that no such "Law and Order" episode existed.
McKinney called the testimony the "dynamite" that had turned the tide of the trial against his client.
"We conclude that there is a reasonable likelihood that Dr. Dietz's false testimony could have affected the judgment of the jury," the court ruled in its decision Thursday. "We further conclude that Dr. Dietz's false testimony affected the substantial rights of appellant."
Prosecutors had said there was no evidence that Dietz intentionally lied, and that he did not suggest that Yates used the episode to plan the killing.
"There was a great deal of other evidence which revealed that (Yates) planned and/or premeditated her killing of her children," prosecutor Alan Curry wrote in his response to the appeal.
Yates' attorneys also claim the Texas insanity standard, which required the defendant prove she did not know her actions were wrong, is unconstitutional because it does not define the words "know" and "wrong."
Yates' husband, Russell, filed for divorce earlier this year.
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