The key to this,

Thompson, who went to prison as a man in 1981 for strangling a young nurse in Albany, was charged with murder for the second time in her life.

It sounds like the only evidence they have is from her crack-using boyfriend, who saw the fake poster and thought he would get a financial reward for turning her in; so he told the deputies that she admitted to him that she committed the crime.

So the sheriff makes an arrest, dumps it in the DA's lap, and tells the newspaper he has a "strong circumstantial case."

Right.

How can a crackhead afford to post $100,000 bail?

Pretty sure this wouldn't be legal in America. I sure hope it wouldn't be anyway.

I know that realistically the smarter criminals get away with things more often than those who are not, but when the cops start playing 'tricks'... Just seems like the good guys were the good guys because they didn't sink to that level, even if they knew it was an option.

Transexual murderess...cops put up a poster that sounds as though it were from one of our photoshop contests...all revolves around crack...

Holy shiat, the world's become an Ed Wood movie!

VoterApathy - IANAL, but I believe this explains it.

"Last week, Thompson was released on $100,000 bail after having spent the last seven months in Albany County jail."

Typically, for every night in jail, a credit is put towards your bail/fine/etc. I don't know the amount, if it varies or what, but I know it works like that for somethings (such as warrants). i.e. Spend 3 nights in jail for an outstanding warrant, or pay $600.

Law & Order and CSI:Bumfark will have a steelcage deathmatch to see who gets to do this one.

deserves a spiffy tag at least

Reason #47921 why I love living in Albany...

...or why I can't wait to leave.

I can't seem to make up my mind.

stiffy tag.

One time, as the story goes, Philadelphia Police put at spaghetti strainer with a wire attached to a copy machine on a suspects head. Inside the copier, was a piece of paper with "That's a lie" written on it, so every time the suspect answered a question, the cop hit the copy button. After about four questions, they got him to confess.
Pure genius!

It's a man, baby

Thompson, who went to prison as a man in 1981 for strangling a young nurse in Albany, was charged with murder for the second time in her life

As a man? Wtf?

/picture of dog looking quizzical

Ahhh...Cohoes....

Nobody reads the fine print these days!

"Last week, Thompson was released on $100,000 bail after having spent the last seven months in Albany County jail."

Ah, thanks, I must have skipped over that last part.

Setiri

"Last week, Thompson was released on $100,000 bail after having spent the last seven months in Albany County jail."

Typically, for every night in jail, a credit is put towards your bail/fine/etc.

7 months times 30 days = 210 days.
100,000$ / 210 would = 476$ a day.

That seems pretty steep. Hell at that rate fark paying a traffic ticket or anything I'd just sit in jail for half a day. I think in our county you get around 40$ a day towards fines etc.

So the question still stands: how did a crazy transexual crackhead come up with 100,000$ bail?

I thought the headline was a joke at first...

In the one year I lived in Albany, we had this case, a double homocide about six blocks from my apartment, a high profile ex-boyfriend killed his baby-momma case and dumped her body in a ravine/creek. A friend of his later turned him in, telling cops he'd been asked to help him move a very heavy trunk out to the creek or something like that. And then some genius robbed the bank (I used to go to all the time) ACROSS FROM THE POLICE STATION over this summer, which brought out every police officer in the tri-county area, including State Police helicopters, which just circle like buzzards and don't really do anything. And before that, there was a serial rapist/kidnapper for a couple months just down the street from me. You gotta love South Allen St. And you can't help but reminded about the Porco case.

Everyone used to say Troy, NY the armpit of New York State, but I disagree. Albany really takes the cake.

And I'm from Schenectady!

*blesses you*

The boyfriend is zero percent credible but the previous murder does make her the obvious suspect.

The whole story is so strange, it would take weeks for it to play out on a soap opera.

Kreep - I know it's higher than $40 a day, somewhere around $200 or so. At least, and I only confess this due to the anonymity of the internet... when I was busted for having a warrant (unpaid violation of getting my car registered) I was tossed so lightly into a local jail for the night (bail was promptly paid the next morning), I was informed that I could either pay the bail of $600 or sit in jail for 3 days (or a combination as every day took off an amount). Well, they didn't give me a menu of prices vs offenses or anything nifty like that to take home, but doing the math netted me that figure of $200 a night.

I dunno, maybe the girl got it down to like 10,000 and just paid bail on that (which is really only paying like 2,000 or so when you're getting a bail bond if I recall?).

Either way, I was with you when I first read it and though, "100,000 bail for a crackhead?!" till I noticed the rest of it.

I wonder if the cops didn't put their case at risk in some way by doing that.

If they were depending on the testamony of Kevin (the guy who turned her in), they very well could have hurt their case. If either he feels slighted enough to let his GF off even if he knows she did it or he made it up in the first place, the cops/DA could very well see him retract his statements.

The DA probably can't put the cops on the stand to say that Kevin told them that she told him that she killed him -- that's double hearsay. Even if the DA got it in through an exemption, if Kevin doesn't say that she said it the defense is going to rip that argument to pieces.

kreep

I'm pretty sure fines and bail would be handled differently, being that the state doesn't usually keep the bail.

Adding more fun to the fire...

E Stewart Jones is one of the big shot "Back of the Yellow Pages" lawyers in town. This should be going on for a while.

Also, I find it oh-so-ironic that he/she is now living "back at home".

How convenient.

Hmm, I probably shopped at the same grocery store as "Corianna"

/Second Albany TU Fark link in a week or so
//We're moving up in the world.

AuntNotAnt:

Holy shiat, the world's become an Ed Wood movie!

Har! Been chuckling for quite a few minutes about that one.

I'm warning you fellow farkers, don't GIS this one. Sure crazy transsexual crackheads seem like something you should GIS but... the goggles they do nothing...

read the full article, seems like everyone eventually kills their parents in Albany.

/note to self: don't move to Albany.

Hay guys, guess where you are on the facism-o-meter?

fascism? what? what does that have to do with anything? storm-troopers, now, at least they're applicable to the case at hand...

Actually the cops trolled that one pretty good. They just left the phony poster lying around and did not point it out or discuss it. On the other hand, someone-said-she-said and circumstantial evidence may not be a very strong case.

pfft, minus the crackheads Troy isnt that bad. You can even walk around at night kinda safe.

Now Cohoes, that place is just scum.

I don't mind Troy, but yeah, I don't go wandering around *with* the crackheads. I felt more endangered learning how to drive in Arbor Hill, or walking around downtown Rensselaer at night.

For what it's worth, the police's trickery (which is legal if it doesn't induce false confessions) was used against the dope who turned in the murdering crackhead, not the murdering crackhead his/herself. So the civil right allegedly being violated...the expectation of a big payoff for ratting out your friend. They must be marching goosestep in the streets of Albany.

Also, if you're paying your bail in cash, you only need 10 percent. So it took the crackhead 7 months to raise $10,000.

This isn't really surprising. The thought of a large reward often makes people talk - and crackheads often squawk first. Dangle $100k in front of them, and they'll sing like a canary.

2005-11-26 11:47:47 PM evilstein

This isn't really surprising. The thought of a large reward often makes people talk - and crackheads often squawk first. Dangle $100k in front of them, and they'll sing like a canary.

Yes, and that will be the defense.

Can't argue with the results. The fact that the method of murder was the same in both the first and current cases lends some weight, I'm sure.

Don't you love Albany? I actually read this in the paper today, haha, its so cool that we got on Fark!

And I'm from Schenectady!

Wow, fellow Schenectadian here. Well was born in Union hospital, left, and then grudgingly came back for a year. Then got the fark out as the place dies with each GE job that leaves.

/ could never spell Niskayuna
// some really good mom and pop restaurants in the county though
/// lived on Washout Road for a while as it, well, washed out one year
//// ALBANY RIVER RAT SLASHIES

Truly, these must be the end-times.

Lots of folks will to speak to defend the transexual crackhead murderer, but noone speaks for the dead mother.

Say what you will about police "trolling techniques," who had motive? Who had experience as a murderer? Who's life had been wasted by crack? Who went and had his thingy-bob cut off? And who got duped into thinking he was shacked up with a hot, crack-head chick?

This whole story is just sad, sad, sad...

/wish there were pictures of the accused and her boyfriend...

In some states when posting bail you are only rerquired to produce 10%. The rest being called in if you FTA fr any reason.
Or she may have used a bondsman. The bondsman only requires collateral. Ironically, her collateral could have been her mother's house.

It would have been considered cooersement (sp?) right?

I mean, it's essentially saying, "We'll pay you all kinds of silly money if you have dirt on this girl."

The offer is also being made to crack users.

Hell, For that kinda' money, damn straight he/she did it! Hell yeah, I even SAW it!

Which begs the question... SHE has a boyfriend. Does he know he's been hitting a former guy, or is this gonna' end up on Jerry Springer?