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    As of Aug 7, 2012...the Amy Bishop trial was pushed out to Sept 24

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    Ex-prof pleads guilty to killing Ala. colleagues

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — An ex-professor pleaded guilty Tuesday to fatally shooting three colleagues and wounding three others at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, court officials said.

    Amy Bishop, 47, pleaded guilty to one count of capital murder involving two or more people and three counts of attempted murder. She had earlier pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity

    Prosecutors were seeking the death penalty against the Harvard-educated Bishop and it was not immediately clear if they would drop the penalty as part of the plea deal. Sentencing will be after arguments are heard at a hearing on Sept. 24.

    Prosecutors say the former biology professor on Feb. 12, 2010, pulled a gun out of her purse and opened fire at the meeting. Her attorneys say she had mental problems.

    Bishop of Huntsville also is charged with killing her brother in Massachusetts in 1986. The shooting of 18-year-old Seth Bishop had been ruled an accident after Amy Bishop told police she shot him in the family’s Braintree home as she was trying to unload her father’s gun.

    But the Alabama slayings led to a new investigation and charges.

    In the university shooting, police and people who knew Bishop have described her as being angry over the school’s refusal to grant her tenure, a decision that effectively would have ended her employment in the biology department at UAH.

    The gunfire killed Bishop’s boss, biology department chairman Gopi Padila, plus professors Maria Ragland Davis and Adriel Johnson. Professors Joseph Leahy, staff aide Stephanie Monticciolo and assistant professor Luis Cruz-Vera were shot and wounded. Leahy has returned to teaching at the school.

    After Bishop was indicted, prosecutors said Braintree police in 1986 failed to share important evidence, including the fact that Bishop, after she shot her brother in the chest, tried to commandeer a getaway car at gunpoint at a local car dealership, then refused to drop her gun until police officers ordered her to do so repeatedly. Those events were described in Braintree police reports but not in a report written by a state police detective assigned to the district attorney’s office.
    http://www.boston.com/news/education...fxH/story.html

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    I'm surprised with this news; I thought she would go to trial. I am from Huntsville. Since you are from Boston, would you happen to know if MA is planning to prosecute her for her brother's killing?

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    On our local news tonight they reported that the MA authorities were not sure what the next steps would be as they had just heard about the disposition of the AL charges.

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    Larry Tipton, Bishop’s lawyer in the Massachusetts case, said it will be up to Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey to decide whether to put Bishop on trial for murder in her brother’s killing, now that she has pleaded guilty in Alabama. David Traub, a spokesman for Morrissey, said prosecutors will wait until after sentencing to decide what to do in the Massachusetts case.

    U.S. Rep. William Keating is the former Norfolk County prosecutor who started the inquest and obtained the indictment against Amy Bishop.

    He said of the plea deal, that ‘‘you can’t ask for a better outcome than that’’ and that the families would be spared the appeals process.

    ‘‘Anytime there’s an appeal, they’re endless,’’ he said. ‘‘I've worked with victims’ families, and I know the trauma they go through every time there’s an appeal. Nothing is going to make those families the same.’’
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    Personally, if she is going to die in jail somewhere I'd rather it be in AL so you guys pay for her till that day. The cost of bring her here for a trial on such an old case would produce not much benefit.
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    Ex-Alabama prof won't be tried in brother's death

    BOSTON — A former Alabama professor convicted of fatally shooting three colleagues won't face a Massachusetts murder trial in the 1986 death of her brother after prosecutors withdrew their indictment.

    The announcement Friday by the Norfolk district attorney follows Amy Bishop's sentencing this week to life in prison without parole for the killings at the University of Alabama-Huntsville in February 2010.

    In a statement, Michael Morrissey said the life sentence his office would have pursued in the killing of 18-year-old Seth Bishop was identical to the punishment she received after her guilty plea in Alabama, so there was no need to move forward.

    "We will not move to have her returned to Massachusetts," Morrissey said. "The penalty we would seek for a first degree murder conviction is already in place."

    The office withdrew the indictment "without prejudice," meaning Morrissey could reinstate it if something went wrong in the Alabama sentence, though he said he considered that unlikely.

    Bishop said she accidentally shot her brother while she trying to unload her father's shotgun in the family's Braintree home. Her mother backed up the story, and authorities ruled the death accidental.

    After Bishop was arrested in the Alabama murders, Norfolk prosecutors took another look at the case and concluded that local police didn't share important evidence, including an alleged carjacking attempt by Bishop after the shooting.

    Several key witnesses in the 1986 case are dead, including former Braintree police chief John Polio. Asked if that would have complicated things at trial, spokesman David Traub said the district attorney's office acknowledges it would have been a difficult case.

    Bryan Stevens, attorney for Bishop's parents, Judith and Sam Bishop, said he wasn't surprised by Morrissey's decision.

    "They didn't have a case to start with," he said.

    In a transcript of the Norfolk inquest, which led to the indictment, Bishop's parents said their daughter was traumatized by a previous burglary at their home and may have had her father's 12-gauge shotgun because she'd been home alone and was afraid.

    Her mother said that shortly after she and her son arrived home with groceries, Amy Bishop came into the room to ask for help unloading the gun and it accidentally went off, killing Seth Bishop.

    But Norfolk prosecutors said Braintree police didn't share key details about the incident with prosecutors, including that Bishop tried to commandeer a getaway car at gunpoint at a local car dealership, then refused to drop her gun until officers repeatedly ordered her to do so.

    Also, investigators studying an old crime scene photo noticed she had an article about the 1986 killings of "Dallas" actor Patrick Duffy's parents, which described how a teenager allegedly shot Duffy's parents with a 12-gauge shotgun and stole a getaway car from an auto dealership.

    Then-district attorney William Keating, now a congressman, said at the time of Bishop's indictment that he didn't understand why charges weren't initially filed.

    "Jobs weren't done, responsibilities weren't met and justice wasn't served," he said.

    Bishop's parents said Keating's review was biased and rooted in finger pointing between past and present police officers and prosecutors. They called it "an enormous waste of public resources."

    Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2012/09/28/...#storylink=cpy

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    Appeals court denies Bishop-Anderson's appeal

    HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) - The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals shot down UAH killer Amy Bishop Anderson's chance for a rehearing.

    Bishop-Anderson is serving a life sentence for the murder of three of her colleagues at the university in February of 2010.

    Bishop-Anderson has 14 days to file an appeal with the Alabama Supreme Court.

    Earlier this year, she agreed to plead guilty to capital murder and attempted murder. The plea agreement including a mini-trial and helped her avoid the death penalty.

    She immediately appealed the guilty verdict.

    Weeks after that appeal filed, it was denied.

    She applied for a rehearing of that appeal. That was denied this week by the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.

    http://www.wsfa.com/story/22473070/a...dersons-appeal

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    Judge denies Amy Bishop’s petition for new trial

    A Madison County Circuit Judge has denied Amy Bishop’s petition challenging her capital murder conviction.

    Bishop had filed a Rule 32 challenge claiming she deserved a new trial.

    Judge Alan Mann denied that petition this week, ruling Bishop’s claims are without merit. Mann presided over all aspects of the case, and trial, and said in his order Bishop acknowledged, verbally and non-verbally during trial that she understood what was happening.

    “At no time did the Petitioner appear to have any difficulty understanding the terms being discussed, nor did she appear by her physical cues to be anything less than alert and fully engaged in the proceedings. Nothing in this Court’s interaction with the Petitioner during the plea proceedings was suggestive of her not being fully aware of her constitutional rights and the punishment she was facing.”

    Bishop also made claims against her trial counsel. All three lawyers, longtime defense attorneys in Madison County, were paid by the court.

    “At no time did this Court observe anything less than the highest standards of advocacy and competency being met or exceeded by her 3 attorneys. This Court finds no merit to the Petitioner’s claims that her attorneys were ineffective at any stage in this matter.”

    Bishop is serving life without parole at Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka. She killed three people at UAH in 2010, and injured three others. She pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty, but still stood trial because capital murder pleas must include a trial under Alabama law. A jury found her guilty.

    http://whnt.com/2014/10/30/judge-den...for-new-trial/
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