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Re: Fire at Bridges club
Posted by:
john doe likes the snow
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Date: May 10, 2010 10:08PM
Any update on Bridges? Is it still closed?
Re: Fire at Bridges club
Posted by:
lordie fairfax
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Date: May 11, 2010 03:40AM
Sign is recently down and electricity seems off . Outside lights had been on for awhile. I'd say the place is history for good. Also new For Lease sign up but by looks that could pertain to half of the Mosby building these days. sure'd be curious to know what happened to the owner who set the fire, returned to the land of his ancestors to avoid prosecution
Re: Fire at Bridges club
Posted by:
Running w/ scissors
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Date: June 14, 2010 07:55PM
AJ case was handed off to the Feds. ATF is in the middle of prosecuting him.
Bang Rosemary +1
Bang Rosemary +1
Re: Fire at Bridges club
Posted by:
Platinum342
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Date: November 02, 2010 09:53AM
Go to http://truthinjustice.org/arson.htm if you want to know the truth. Hundreds of innocent people are in prison due to poor investigating of arson cases and junk science.
This guy has been victimized by untrained experts whose testimony puts innocent people behind bars.
There was a fire in the small office at the back of the restaurant. The office was loaded with electrical equipment. As soon as he discovered the fire, he ran across the street to the fire department to alert them. The fire was put out minutes later.
There were 3 fire marshals. One said his clothes smelled like lighter fluid, the other said gasoline, and the third said it didn't smell like any ignitable fluid at all. They instantly assumed arson and did not properly investigate the possibility of an accidental fire or consider any other suspects.
There was no reasonable motive for him to start the fire. Bridges was a successful business and had 6 different owners. He didnt stand to gain any significant amount of money with a fire.
"There are 500,000 structure fires a year; 75,000 of them are labeled suspicious. John Lentini, who has campaigned widely to improve investigators knowledge, says most experts he talks with believe the accuracy of fire investigators is at best 80%†meaning as many as 15,000 mistaken investigations each year, and who knows how many convictions."
http://truthinjustice.org/arson.htm
This guy has been victimized by untrained experts whose testimony puts innocent people behind bars.
There was a fire in the small office at the back of the restaurant. The office was loaded with electrical equipment. As soon as he discovered the fire, he ran across the street to the fire department to alert them. The fire was put out minutes later.
There were 3 fire marshals. One said his clothes smelled like lighter fluid, the other said gasoline, and the third said it didn't smell like any ignitable fluid at all. They instantly assumed arson and did not properly investigate the possibility of an accidental fire or consider any other suspects.
There was no reasonable motive for him to start the fire. Bridges was a successful business and had 6 different owners. He didnt stand to gain any significant amount of money with a fire.
"There are 500,000 structure fires a year; 75,000 of them are labeled suspicious. John Lentini, who has campaigned widely to improve investigators knowledge, says most experts he talks with believe the accuracy of fire investigators is at best 80%†meaning as many as 15,000 mistaken investigations each year, and who knows how many convictions."
http://truthinjustice.org/arson.htm
Re: Fire at Bridges club
Posted by:
WILLow777
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Date: November 02, 2010 10:00AM
Todd Willingham - Executed for an Accidental Fire
Strapped to a gurney in Texas' death chamber in February, 2004, just moments from his execution for setting a fire that killed his three daughters, Cameron Todd Willingham declared his innocence one last time. " I am an innocent man, convicted of a crime I did not commit," Willingham said angrily. "I have been persecuted for 12 years for something I did not do." Four fire cause and origin experts -- Gerald Hurst, John Lentini, John DeHaan and Kendall Ryland -- agree. "There's nothing to suggest to any reasonable arson investigator that this was an arson fire," said Hurst, a Cambridge University-educated chemist who has investigated scores of fires in his career. "It was just a fire."
Curtis Severns
Curtis Severns has been in federal prison since 2006. Convicted of intentionally starting the fire in his gun shop, he has 25 more years on his sentence. Severns has maintained his innocence all along. As in many arson cases, he was convicted almost exclusively by the testimony of fire investigators who relied on assumptions that some of the leading arson experts in the country now say are false. In fact, new evidence and a Texas Observer investigation reveal that Severns remains in federal prison in Beaumont for a crime he didn’t commit.
Toledo, Ohio Area Restaurateur Acquitted of Arson
Former restaurant owner Charles Bryan, Jr. was charged with arson and insurance fraud for a fire that destroyed his and 7 other businesses in Wauseon, Ohio in 2007. The charges were based not on science, not on physical evidence, but on nothing more than speculation that he might financially gain from the fire. Judge Charles Wittenberg ruled that the state failed to prove that Mr. Bryan had financial problems. (Of course, the cost of defending himself has probably bankrupted him.)
Rose Kate Roseborough
On April 23, 2003, Rose was sleeping on the sofa in her living room in Ashland, Ohio when she awoke to find a fire on the home's second floor. She tried to rescue her 11-month-old twin daughters, Lucie and Julia, but was driven back by the heavy smoke. The children died of smoke inhalation. Rose was charged with arson and 2 counts of murder, and the death penalty was sought. The key evidence offered at trial was the "expert" testimony of EMT Kevin Rosser, who claimed that he noticed "large particle soot" on Rose's face at the fire scene. Holding himself out as a fire expert, Rosser opined that such soot is only produced in the early stages of a fire, meaning Rose set the fire herself. The presiding judge refused to conduct a Daubert hearing on the scientific validity of EMT Rosser's testimony. Rose was convicted and sentenced to life without parole. Fortunately, Judge James D. Sweeney recognized junk science proffered by an unqualified witness. On April 23, 2010, the Ohio Court of Appeals affirmed Judge Sweeney's reversal of Kate's conviction.
Bret Shallenberger
It took a Fayette County, PA jury just 25 minutes to figure out Bret Shallenberger was innocent of hiring a former employee to burn down Shallenberger's profitable business. It's the local prosecutor, who promised the actual arsonist immunity in exchange for framing Shallenberger, who should be on trial.
Michael Espalin
On a warm August night in 2004, Michael Espalin and his dog watched Riverside, CA firefighters douse seven burning palm trees on a residential street. It was 1 a.m., an unusual time to be walking a dog, or so thought an arson investigator. After answering a number of questions, Espalin, then 31, was asked to rub his face and hands on a gauze pad and sent on his way. Half a year later, Espalin was charged as a serial arsonist, accused of lighting 21 fires, mostly trees and bushes, in Riverside. No eyewitnesses or traditional evidence linked Espalin to the crimes. But the Riverside County district attorney's office built a case against him based on a bloodhound allegedly picking up his scent on a charred incendiary device and cold crime scenes and matching it to the pad. After Espalin spent two years in jail awaiting trial, a jury deadlocked 9 to 3 in January for acquittal. Most jurors did not believe that the bloodhound, Dakota, found Espalin's scent at the scene of the fires days and weeks after they were set. Prosecutors say they intend to try Espalin a second time. Michael Espalin was retried in 2007 and he was found not guilty. Unable to post $500,000 bail, Michael spent 2 years in jail pre-trial. He has sued Riverside Fire Department officials and the dog handler. California municipalities have already paid out over $2.3 million to settle other wrongful arrest/conviction lawsuits.
Amanda Hypes
In April 2002, a Rapides Parish, Louisiana grand jury indicted Amanda Hypes on charges of arson and murder in relation to a house fire that took the lives of her three children. The charges were based on a California fire expert's findings—an analysis conducted more than a year after the blaze was extinguished and the house was razed. Prosecutors said they would demand the death penalty. Hypes remained in jail for more than four years awaiting trial until June, 2006, when a judge dismissed the indictment and ordered her released. He ruled that the initial arson finding by Louisiana authorities was based "merely on an old wives' tale" and that "every shred of evidence to prove or disprove a possible crime was destroyed and placed in a pile."
Lisa Greene
An arson expert hired by Lisa Greene's defense team says the Midland, NC mother did not set the Jan. 10, 2006 house fire that killed her two children. In interviews with the Charlotte Observer, John Lentini, a private fire investigator in Marietta, Ga., said a lit candle in the children's bedroom started the fire. Lentini -- a national advocate of using research-based scientific methods to investigate fires -- said local and state investigators are relying on outdated techniques to determine where the fire started and how it spread. Lisa Greene was found guilty of murder and arson. She was sentenced to life in prison.
Sandra Kemper
Sandra Kemper, a suspect in an alleged arson that took the life of her son, denied nine times that she had anything to do with the fire. Then the St. Louis County police detective resorted to one of the oldest tricks in the book -- he told Kemper that she had failed a lie detector test. Later that day, Kemper admitted that she set the fire to get out from under the burden of being the sole provider to her family and to collect insurance proceeds. But the confession did not fit the facts of the crime, the motive evidence was weak, and Sandra had passed the lie detector test with flying colors. The trial judge declared a mistrial on issues related to the polygraph, and Missouri's high court has now ruled that Sandra cannot be retried.
truthinjustice.org/arson.htm
Strapped to a gurney in Texas' death chamber in February, 2004, just moments from his execution for setting a fire that killed his three daughters, Cameron Todd Willingham declared his innocence one last time. " I am an innocent man, convicted of a crime I did not commit," Willingham said angrily. "I have been persecuted for 12 years for something I did not do." Four fire cause and origin experts -- Gerald Hurst, John Lentini, John DeHaan and Kendall Ryland -- agree. "There's nothing to suggest to any reasonable arson investigator that this was an arson fire," said Hurst, a Cambridge University-educated chemist who has investigated scores of fires in his career. "It was just a fire."
Curtis Severns
Curtis Severns has been in federal prison since 2006. Convicted of intentionally starting the fire in his gun shop, he has 25 more years on his sentence. Severns has maintained his innocence all along. As in many arson cases, he was convicted almost exclusively by the testimony of fire investigators who relied on assumptions that some of the leading arson experts in the country now say are false. In fact, new evidence and a Texas Observer investigation reveal that Severns remains in federal prison in Beaumont for a crime he didn’t commit.
Toledo, Ohio Area Restaurateur Acquitted of Arson
Former restaurant owner Charles Bryan, Jr. was charged with arson and insurance fraud for a fire that destroyed his and 7 other businesses in Wauseon, Ohio in 2007. The charges were based not on science, not on physical evidence, but on nothing more than speculation that he might financially gain from the fire. Judge Charles Wittenberg ruled that the state failed to prove that Mr. Bryan had financial problems. (Of course, the cost of defending himself has probably bankrupted him.)
Rose Kate Roseborough
On April 23, 2003, Rose was sleeping on the sofa in her living room in Ashland, Ohio when she awoke to find a fire on the home's second floor. She tried to rescue her 11-month-old twin daughters, Lucie and Julia, but was driven back by the heavy smoke. The children died of smoke inhalation. Rose was charged with arson and 2 counts of murder, and the death penalty was sought. The key evidence offered at trial was the "expert" testimony of EMT Kevin Rosser, who claimed that he noticed "large particle soot" on Rose's face at the fire scene. Holding himself out as a fire expert, Rosser opined that such soot is only produced in the early stages of a fire, meaning Rose set the fire herself. The presiding judge refused to conduct a Daubert hearing on the scientific validity of EMT Rosser's testimony. Rose was convicted and sentenced to life without parole. Fortunately, Judge James D. Sweeney recognized junk science proffered by an unqualified witness. On April 23, 2010, the Ohio Court of Appeals affirmed Judge Sweeney's reversal of Kate's conviction.
Bret Shallenberger
It took a Fayette County, PA jury just 25 minutes to figure out Bret Shallenberger was innocent of hiring a former employee to burn down Shallenberger's profitable business. It's the local prosecutor, who promised the actual arsonist immunity in exchange for framing Shallenberger, who should be on trial.
Michael Espalin
On a warm August night in 2004, Michael Espalin and his dog watched Riverside, CA firefighters douse seven burning palm trees on a residential street. It was 1 a.m., an unusual time to be walking a dog, or so thought an arson investigator. After answering a number of questions, Espalin, then 31, was asked to rub his face and hands on a gauze pad and sent on his way. Half a year later, Espalin was charged as a serial arsonist, accused of lighting 21 fires, mostly trees and bushes, in Riverside. No eyewitnesses or traditional evidence linked Espalin to the crimes. But the Riverside County district attorney's office built a case against him based on a bloodhound allegedly picking up his scent on a charred incendiary device and cold crime scenes and matching it to the pad. After Espalin spent two years in jail awaiting trial, a jury deadlocked 9 to 3 in January for acquittal. Most jurors did not believe that the bloodhound, Dakota, found Espalin's scent at the scene of the fires days and weeks after they were set. Prosecutors say they intend to try Espalin a second time. Michael Espalin was retried in 2007 and he was found not guilty. Unable to post $500,000 bail, Michael spent 2 years in jail pre-trial. He has sued Riverside Fire Department officials and the dog handler. California municipalities have already paid out over $2.3 million to settle other wrongful arrest/conviction lawsuits.
Amanda Hypes
In April 2002, a Rapides Parish, Louisiana grand jury indicted Amanda Hypes on charges of arson and murder in relation to a house fire that took the lives of her three children. The charges were based on a California fire expert's findings—an analysis conducted more than a year after the blaze was extinguished and the house was razed. Prosecutors said they would demand the death penalty. Hypes remained in jail for more than four years awaiting trial until June, 2006, when a judge dismissed the indictment and ordered her released. He ruled that the initial arson finding by Louisiana authorities was based "merely on an old wives' tale" and that "every shred of evidence to prove or disprove a possible crime was destroyed and placed in a pile."
Lisa Greene
An arson expert hired by Lisa Greene's defense team says the Midland, NC mother did not set the Jan. 10, 2006 house fire that killed her two children. In interviews with the Charlotte Observer, John Lentini, a private fire investigator in Marietta, Ga., said a lit candle in the children's bedroom started the fire. Lentini -- a national advocate of using research-based scientific methods to investigate fires -- said local and state investigators are relying on outdated techniques to determine where the fire started and how it spread. Lisa Greene was found guilty of murder and arson. She was sentenced to life in prison.
Sandra Kemper
Sandra Kemper, a suspect in an alleged arson that took the life of her son, denied nine times that she had anything to do with the fire. Then the St. Louis County police detective resorted to one of the oldest tricks in the book -- he told Kemper that she had failed a lie detector test. Later that day, Kemper admitted that she set the fire to get out from under the burden of being the sole provider to her family and to collect insurance proceeds. But the confession did not fit the facts of the crime, the motive evidence was weak, and Sandra had passed the lie detector test with flying colors. The trial judge declared a mistrial on issues related to the polygraph, and Missouri's high court has now ruled that Sandra cannot be retried.
truthinjustice.org/arson.htm
Re: Fire at Bridges club
Posted by:
So it ends....
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Date: January 23, 2011 03:57PM
convicted...
Re: Fire at Bridges club
Posted by:
ifuckedaj
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Date: January 24, 2011 02:08PM
Re: Fire at Bridges club
Posted by:
EGOD
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Date: January 25, 2011 11:10PM
Hahaha 5 years in Federal Prison - Fed time, no early paroll..bye bye chump boy have fun for the next 5 years.....EPIC FAIL!!
Re: Fire at Bridges club
Posted by:
FthePricks
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Date: February 11, 2011 05:30PM
Wow. You seriously screwed yourself over writing that comment you little prick. Get a f'n life and watch, karma is a bitch you loser.
Move on with your pathetic life instead of feeling good about someone being thrown in jail.
I guess there's still trailer trash around the FC area. Too bad...
Move on with your pathetic life instead of feeling good about someone being thrown in jail.
I guess there's still trailer trash around the FC area. Too bad...
Re: Fire at Bridges club
Posted by:
EGOD's_BoyFriend
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Date: February 13, 2011 03:14PM
If anyone had paid any attention, Ajmal's overzealous, motivated by personal gain prosecutor was more focused on their own career than fulfilling the duties that go with the role they were appointed to.
"EGOD", is a great example of a disgruntle Fairfax native that most likely is or all of the following:
* Fat
* Unattractive
* Broke
* Parliment Smoking
* No sense of style
* Beer special drinking
* Cheap tipping
* Jaeger Bomb shot taking
* $30 a night budget
poor excuse for someone that feels the need to bash someones misfortune, while they act as a self-proclaimed elitest of Fairfax. Get a job, contribute to society and the economy.... I am willing to bet the house you were the type to get tossed out or run away from a $50 tab Douche Bag....
So keep talking, because Karma will not be the only thing you should be concerned of.... Stop being a waste of space and do your homework next time before you voice ignorant opinions, instead of sounding like someone that lives behind the Fairfax County Federal Credit Union. Unless, that is where you live and feel stupid for wasting my time.
See you at PrimeTime, Icons, Breakers, PJs, Fast Eddies, V5, Auld Shebeen, Buffalo Wing University, etc....
"EGOD", is a great example of a disgruntle Fairfax native that most likely is or all of the following:
* Fat
* Unattractive
* Broke
* Parliment Smoking
* No sense of style
* Beer special drinking
* Cheap tipping
* Jaeger Bomb shot taking
* $30 a night budget
poor excuse for someone that feels the need to bash someones misfortune, while they act as a self-proclaimed elitest of Fairfax. Get a job, contribute to society and the economy.... I am willing to bet the house you were the type to get tossed out or run away from a $50 tab Douche Bag....
So keep talking, because Karma will not be the only thing you should be concerned of.... Stop being a waste of space and do your homework next time before you voice ignorant opinions, instead of sounding like someone that lives behind the Fairfax County Federal Credit Union. Unless, that is where you live and feel stupid for wasting my time.
See you at PrimeTime, Icons, Breakers, PJs, Fast Eddies, V5, Auld Shebeen, Buffalo Wing University, etc....
Re: Fire at Bridges club
Posted by:
EGOD
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Date: February 13, 2011 04:51PM
Hey girlfield ur dumped, go back on craigslist and sell that hairy beaver, it stunk anyway.. But at least I am not headed to prison for 5 years HAHAHAHA, the chump is prob in a cell now in a fetal position holding his pillow and wating for Tyrone to come in and give'em some man lovin!! HAHAHAHA
OH YEA AND ITS NOT A MISFORTUNE - HE COMMITED A FELONY AND PUT FIREFIGHTERS AT RISK NOW DEAL WITH IT CHUMP..HAVE FUN! SEE YA IN 2016 BYEBYE...NEXT
OH YEA AND ITS NOT A MISFORTUNE - HE COMMITED A FELONY AND PUT FIREFIGHTERS AT RISK NOW DEAL WITH IT CHUMP..HAVE FUN! SEE YA IN 2016 BYEBYE...NEXT
Re: Fire at Bridges club
Posted by:
stanley
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Date: February 13, 2011 05:16PM
It's no wonder he set the fire, AJ owed money to everyone. He was like 75K dollars in debt and was desperate. He's just another fake Armani Exchange faggot.
Re: Fire at Bridges club
Posted by:
stanley
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Date: February 13, 2011 08:54PM
An Armani Exchange faggot that lives far beyond his means in some dream world fantasy. AJ is getting what he deserves... 5 years of ass rape
Re: Fire at Bridges club
Posted by:
Stanley is a loser
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Date: March 05, 2011 07:41PM
Hey Stanley, obviously you don't even know the kid. He never wore Armani Exchange you loser. It's plain to see all you're good in life is bashing other people and sticking your nose where it doesn't belong. If he did it, fine, but it's none of your business to judge. You're not God.
Pathetic.
Pathetic.
Re: Fire at Bridges club
Posted by:
Stanley
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Date: March 06, 2011 01:44AM
Stanley is a loser Wrote:
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> Hey Stanley, obviously you don't even know the
> kid. He never wore Armani Exchange you loser. It's
> plain to see all you're good in life is bashing
> other people and sticking your nose where it
> doesn't belong. If he did it, fine, but it's none
> of your business to judge. You're not God.
>
> Pathetic.
There's a little phrase I like....
"Don't do the crime if you can't do the time."
I'll be in my nice warm bed, in my nice warm home tonight laughing it up.
Wondering how AJ is faring on his concrete slab, in his 10x10 cell, cuddling
with his new best bud Bubba.
Good night !
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> Hey Stanley, obviously you don't even know the
> kid. He never wore Armani Exchange you loser. It's
> plain to see all you're good in life is bashing
> other people and sticking your nose where it
> doesn't belong. If he did it, fine, but it's none
> of your business to judge. You're not God.
>
> Pathetic.
There's a little phrase I like....
"Don't do the crime if you can't do the time."
I'll be in my nice warm bed, in my nice warm home tonight laughing it up.
Wondering how AJ is faring on his concrete slab, in his 10x10 cell, cuddling
with his new best bud Bubba.
Good night !