Guandique, Chandra Levy's killer, gets 60 years in prison

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Washington Post

By Keith L. Alexander
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, February 11, 2011; 1:24 PM

The man convicted of killing former federal intern Chandra Levy was sentenced to 60 years in prison Friday in D.C. Superior Court, putting an end to one of Washington's most sensational murder cases.

Ingmar Guandique, 29, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, was convicted in November of two counts of first-degree felony murder, one related to Levy's kidnapping and the other related to trying to rob her.

On Friday, Judge Gerald I. Fisher sentenced him to 60 years in prison.

Before the punishment was handed down, Guandique stood up, paused, wiped his eyes and addressed the Levy family.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021103591.html

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If I'm not mistaken, the evidence against him was unusually thin. There will be an appeal, no doubt.

[CTyankee]

1. I read a book recently about this case.

It's so horribly sad. The book described the horrible pain that the Levy's endured, especially her mother. I was shaken when I read it...it was like a nightmare...

[atreides1]

2. Thin as rice paper

And I think the appeal is already in the process.

[Ken Burch]

3. It was VERY convenient that they just HAPPENED to find an undocumented alien to take the rap

(I wonder how much English the guy speaks and if he really understands what's going on here).

And much as I sympathize with the Levy's, it was really disgusting for Chandra's mother to invoke the Holocaust in her comments. There's no reason to assume that Chandra's death had anything at all to do with her being Jewish, or that her loss, sad as it was, was comparable to what Hitler did.

[stockholmer]

4. absolutely agreed, my sympathy for the family, but it's so wrong to bring up the Holocaust yet again

[ThomCat]

5. So Condit is innocent but lost his career. But Morning Joe

never even had to deal with a real investigation, so we'll never know what happened to the intern who died in his office while he was the only one there with her, and yet he gets a second career as a media personality. Oh, but Joe's a Republican.

Don't you love double standards?

:wtf:

[Peace Patriot]

6. They had no case against him. And he doesn't speak English.

All they had was a jailhouse snitch. That's it. No evidence.

And this sudden prosecution comes ten years after the fact?

This smells to high heaven.

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I followed this case closely back in 2001. What interested me was that Gary Condit, an alleged Democrat, was a darling of the Bush White House. He did things like proposing a bill to require that the Ten Commandments be posted in all government buildings (before the story of his multiple mistresses came out). And when I learned the following, I got even more interested. On the day that Chandra Levy disappeared, May 1, 2001, Condit met with Dick Cheney on Capitol Hill at 12:00 noon. (This was on Condit's schedule for that day, released by Condit in June.) Two days later, on May 3, 2001, Condit was one of only ten Democrats--who called themselves the "Blue Dogs"--who voted FOR Bush/Cheney's first tax cut for the rich, in a very close and controversial vote.

The initial window of time for Chandra's disappearance was around 10:00 am, based on what was said to be her last use of her computer. That time frame held up all summer (in news reports), until, suddenly the FBI/police announced that, after the FBI had had her computer for three months, they had decided that her last use was early afternoon, and that she had done a Mapquest search at the time, of Rock Creek Park. What followed was a high-profile, front page photo parade of police cadets back into Rock Creek Park (which they'd searched before) looking for Chandra and not finding her. Shortly afterward, Newsweek came out with an article in which Cheney's aides said that no one had ever questioned Cheney or his aides about that meeting on May 1, and they provided Cheney's version of the meeting (that it was short, about 20 minutes, with two aides present, and about routine political matters).

Let me repeat:

Condit met with Cheney during Chandra Levy's revised disappearance hours.

The FBI took three months to figure out that that "window" was wrong, pushing the time "window" into the Cheney/Condit meeting time.

They reinforced that revised "window" by a high-profile re-search of Rock Creek Park, and didn't find her (--though her body was not far from the paths they searched, found a full year later in May 2002--lost in the 9/11 and war news).

According to Cheney's aides, in a planted story in Newsweek, NOBODY--not the FBI, not the DC police, not any news reporter, ever asked Cheney or his aides about that meeting on May 1, not even to verify that it occurred!

And ten years later, they suddenly charge a poor, non-English speaking, illegal, El Salvadoran immigrant with this crime--with no evidence!

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Something's not right in this case. VERY, VERY not right.

I won't go into all the other details that add to my suspicions about the case, but I will just say this: I think the prosecution of Ingmar Guandique is bogus. I think it is a cover up. And I want this matter thoroughly investigated and justice done. The new legal policy in this country that, for one category criminals, the rich and the powerful, "we need to look forward not backward" must not hold.

[pitohui]

9. actually they already knew he was the guy in may 2001

if by "following this case in 2001" you mean that you swallowed the entire "summer of gary condit/shark attack week" then fine

but the police, and any REASONABLE person following the case, knew in may 2001 that this man who had commit similar assaults on young women joggers in the same exact spot was very likely the man who did this -- there was a screw-up (probably deliberate) in charging the guy for many many months because they wanted to fuck over gary condit for having had a girlfriend

the case was iron clad, he had a repeated style of grabbing their purses as they ran

i'll give him gonads for attacking female athletes instead of helpless old women but other than that, the guy is a scumbag, believe it or not, THERE ARE SCUMBAGS WHO DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH, you don't have to speak english to be a murdering scumbag

everyone who followed the central park jogger story firmly believed all that bull crap about "wilding," which DNA years later (after the young boys had already been convicted and served many years in prison for something they didn't do) was committed by one, older man who confessed and gave his DNA

just because you followed a story on fox news in the headlines doesn't mean you know fuck-all about the story...there are people today who still believe in the "wilding" bullshit, hell, maybe you're one of them?

[The abyss]

10. I am glad you commented here!

:applause:

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. Chandra Levy's mom not certain right man convicted

Chandra Levy's mom not certain right man convicted

Chandra Levy's mom not certain right man convicted
The Associated Press
Monday, February 14, 2011; 8:24 AM

WASHINGTON -- The mother of Washington intern Chandra Levy says she'd like to believe Ingmar Guandique is responsible for her daughter's death, but admits she has a sliver of doubt.

Asked if she felt 100 percent certain the right man had been convicted of the crime, Susan Levy said on CBS' "The Early Show" Monday that, "To be honest, I always have that 5 percent of not being sure."

[pitohui]

8. you ARE mistaken, the evidence was rock solid, disgusting it has taken 10 yrs to get him convicted

he did the exact shit in the exact same spot to two other joggers who survived to ID him and the only reason he wasn't put away years ago was that someone (fox news?) had a hard-on for gary condit

it is absolutely disgusting that the family of murder victims have to wait over a decade to see the murderer finally convicted for a crime that the d.c. police knew, from his attacks on other women (who lived to ID him) WITHIN DAYS that he was the one pulling this shit

he should have been in prison and americans looking for terrorists and the fbi doing their fucking job in summer 2001, instead of the summer of "let's shit on gary condit"

yes, if you keep mugging athletic young women joggers one of them will fight back and you might kill her, that's the risk you take when you commit multiple muggings, i have no pity for this man, as far as i'm concerned, the death penalty would be fine w. me

if you ever know someone with a murdered family member and watch what they go thru when the trial is delayed for over a decade (a routine event here in louisiana, and i have watched someone go thru this) you will see why the levy family feels fucked abt and emotionally screwed

this is the right guy but after a decade you are on very unsteady ground, it's hard to accept that your country is so uncaring of justice that they would rather use your daughter's death to chase a politician than to chase a murderer...it messes your mind...i don't blame levy's mom but if you think the evidence in this case is "thin" there is no one you would ever convict of murder, not cheney or pinochet themselves...