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...some reason, I've sat here and prayed to the Lord for answers on why this is happening. Since Miss Babin took the stand, I knew I was gonna get found guilty. Down in my heart, I truly believe that the Gerardi family knew I didn't do it, and I know I didn't do it, the Lord knows, y'all know, my defense team knows, the State knows, and everyone else. But that's not the answer. We will never get an answer as to why this is happening to us. But as I write this letter...
...those blurry prison deals, done quick, dirty and cheap. He's not certain if it's Beavis or Butt-head. In any case, it's one of his last emblems of fleeting youth. In 1996 Cousin was sentenced to death for the murder of 25-year-old Michael Gerardi in a 1995 street robbery in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Cousin was only 16 years old when he was convicted and sentenced, making him one of the youngest condemned convicts...
...Michael Gerardi was 25 years old. He graduated from Brother Martin High School. He lived with his mother and father in Slidell. He worked at T.J.'s Seafood. He was a plant manager at Pointe-a-la-Hache, and on May 2, 1995, at about 10:26 in the evening, Shareef Cousin ended that. He ended his ambitions; he ended his dreams..." --New Orleans assistant district attorney Roger Jordan, in his opening statement at Cousin's murder trial...
...first place prize of a keg of Budwerser beer (which helped to sponsor the event) went to a band called the "Dead Chimes" for their rendition of The Pretenders' song "Middle of the Road." Band members Bob Gerardi, John Pojman, Phil DeCosse, Pate Porterfield, Jamie Coakley and Matthew Salvey also won the contest two years ago, in the first annual competition...
...nonclerical member of the jury, 60-year-old Alberto Gerardi, director of the Rome Art Institute, finally won approval for Manzu. His work, Gerardi argued, "corresponds to the esthetic . . . requirements of our times. Neither the church . . . nor art in general can stop at positions reached centuries...