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Entries from LAist tagged with 'georgeweller'

October 28, 2007

How does something like this happen? It happens when a sober person accidentally crashes into a drunk person."[Actor Gary Collins] was not at fault in the accident," [Officer] Harding said. "The other motorist failed to yield to oncoming traffic and collided with Collins' vehicle." The actor's sports utility vehicle subsequently crashed into two parked cars, Harding said. "Officers smelled alcohol on his breath and initiated a field sobriety test, which he failed," she said. Collins......

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November 20, 2006

The old man hit a Mercedes, steered around it, headed through the Santa Monica Farmer's Market killing ten innocent people, injuring 63, and plowed his way to probation and no jail time. George Weller didn't go to court to defend himself, he didn't go to court to hear his judgment, and today he didn't go to his sentencing to hear that the judge let him off the hook. Superior Court Judge Michael Johnson today somehow......

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November 14, 2006

- Toys for Tots was offered 4,000 Talking Jesus dolls by the Valencia company who manufacturers them but the charity declined the gift in fear of accidentally giving a doll to a little Jewish or Muslim child (even though Jesus was a Jew and the Muslims consider him a prophet) - KSAT - The defense attorneys of SM Farmers Market killer George Weller berated by judge for being "very inappropriate, very offensive, and very......

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October 21, 2006

"There were 10 bodies deceased. It wasn't so much that we had to find out if he was guilty or not. It was just if it was simple negligence or gross negligence." - Juror Jorge Granados "(The evidence) convinced us that this was more than simple negligence. (Weller) had adequate time to take evasive action" - Juror Thomas Walls "It has been our position from the beginning that no matter if you're 16 or......

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October 20, 2006

Farmers Market Murderer Manslaughterer Guilty on All Counts, trial, george russell weller, elina shatkin, court, pedal error...

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October 20, 2006

It took two weeks for the Santa Monica jury to reach its decision on the old man who ended the lives of 10 in 2003, but this morning they agreed that yes, he was guilty of vehicular manslaughter. The 89-year-old Weller was accused of 10 counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence after he plowed through the crowded Santa Monica's Farmer Market killing 10 and injuring 63 three summers ago. On Wednesday the jurors,......

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September 20, 2006

Lede of the week: Imagine if Peter Pan had been a fucked-up teenage vagrant with a permanent hard-on, Wendy had been a cum-drenched junkie living in Brooklyn and Captain Hook had looked something like Mickey Rourke - you’d think to yourself, “I bet Larry Clark had something to do with this”. - LA Weekly's Style Council Stoke of the week: "While no one would ever confuse Paris Hilton with Mother Teresa, a homeless man......

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September 6, 2006

I'm glad to see that the trial of 89-year-old George Russell Weller is finally getting underway. Like a lot of people you might be asking, who's George Weller? Though he hasn't gained the notoriety he so richly deserves, he's the genius who plowed his Buick LeSabre through the Santa Monica Farmers' Market killing 10 people and injuring 60 others in July 2003. I'm not normally a hang-'em high kind of gal, but there's something......

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