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...powerplay never got set up like the Crimson had hoped, and Brown scored two empty net goals, taking a full-on lead and dashing any aspirations of a comeback...
...Seattle. Officers were dispatched to bus and train stations. As the search grew more frantic, frustration and fury over the murders grew too. In a demonstration of restrained anguish at a midmorning press conference during the search, Lakewood police guild president Brian Wurts said emphatically, "This guy should have never been on the street." Visibly agitated, he continued, "I think this country needs to get together and figure out why these people...
...guard's handgun. Yet in 2000, citing the young age at which he had been sentenced and his newfound devotion to God, Clemmons, then 27, wrote a letter pleading for clemency from then governor Mike Huckabee. In the letter, obtained by the Seattle Times, Clemmons wrote, "I have never done anything good for God, but I've prayed for him to grant me in his compassion the grace to make a start. Now I'm humbly appealing to you for a brand new start." In August of that year, Huckabee commuted Clemmons' sentence, making him eligible for parole...
...promptly violated parole, was in and out of prison, then moved West to avoid the Arkansas penal system. He tried to start a lawn-care business but never got out of trouble with the law. In May this year he began talking about his ability to fly and his feeling that the Secret Service was looking for him. Clemmons also said he believed he was the Messiah and that the President would soon acknowledge him as such. But on Nov. 28, Clemmons apparently wasn't reflecting on his relationship with God. Ed Troyer, spokesman for the Pierce County sheriff...
Huckabee expressed regret over his decision to commute Clemmons' sentence, explaining on a Fox News program, "If I could have known nine years ago this guy was capable of something of this magnitude, obviously I would never have granted a commutation. It's sickening." Clemmons' rampage is now over, but it has raised many questions about the management of the country's criminal underclass, and the reverberations of those issues will continue for a long time...