King Baby Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 http://beta.news.yahoo.com/killer-yale-student-sentenced-44-years-prison-205052269.html NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (Reuters) - A lab technician convicted of killing a Yale University student, whose body was found stuffed behind a wall on the day she was to be married, was sentenced to 44 years in prison on Friday at an emotionally wrenching court hearing. The sentence, which carries no possibility of parole or early release for Raymond Clark, 26, was the result of a plea deal with prosecutors in the death of Annie Le, 24, who disappeared on September 8, 2009. The body of Le, a 24-year-old Yale graduate pharmacology student, was discovered behind a wall in the Yale Animal Research Center, where she and Clark worked, five days later on what was to be her wedding day. She had been strangled, and her jaw and collar bones had been broken, authorities said. Clark was arrested four days later and in March pleaded guilty to murder and attempted sexual assault. Members of Le's family, many of them from Placerville, California, as well as friends and classmates attended the hearing in New Haven Superior Court. Members of Clark's family also were there, as was his fiance. Le's relatives gave statements, describing her laugh, her once-promising future and their anguish. "I will never see her walk down the aisle," said her mother, Vivian Le. "Her future is gone. I will never understand how this can happen. I miss her so much." Le's fiance Jonathan Widawsky was in court as well, an attorney for the family said. He did not speak. Clark also spoke, saying he was responsible for "causing tremendous pain to all who loved and cared about Annie." "I'm sorry I lied, I'm sorry I ruined lives and I'm sorry for taking Annie Le's life," he said. Marshals and victims' advocates handed out tissues to many people weeping in the courtroom. Clark also wiped his eyes. A blood-stained sock bearing traces of Le's and Clark's DNA was among the evidence that made him the only suspect. Judge Roland Fasano said he accepted the plea deal to keep the families from having to hear the crime details at trial. "Two families are deeply destroyed because of one day's events," he said. "No amount of time is going to make that up." Family attorney Joseph Tacopina said later that most of Le's large, close-knit family supported the 44-year sentence. "Most of them realize that (Clark) will spend the rest of his life in jail," Tacopina said. "This family is not about vengeance." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cnd Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 He received a plea deal and 44 years? What a joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laveaux Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 He received a plea deal and 44 years? What a joke. it really is. thats just too sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixabef Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 I was thinking maybe Connecticut didn't have the death penalty, but no, they do. I can't believe he didn't even get life. Absolutely ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Wonder Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 He received a plea deal and 44 years? What a joke. That's actually fair. 44 years is nearly two life sentences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xu1993 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 He received a plea deal and 44 years? What a joke. That's what I don't get. If that had all that DNA evidence, he should have gotten death penalty. If they get a governor in 15-20 years, he could be out when he's 50. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackboy Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 First of all, who are you to judge, judy?! How barbaric is the death penalty? Secondly, Love Joe Tacopina. And third, xu, I'm not sure what your statement means; but the only way he is getting out of jail is if someone pardons or commutes him; and they could do that even with a death penalty case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSimba Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 That's horrible. I feel sorry for the family of the young lady. It looks like the family supports the sentence though. He'll probably get tortured in prison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaquero Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 I was thinking maybe Connecticut didn't have the death penalty, but no, they do. I can't believe he didn't even get life. Absolutely ridiculous. bring him to Texas we'll take care of him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock & Roll Hall of Game Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Why should he receive the death penalty? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetDAYZ Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Oh...so they finally found out who did it?!!! I remember back when this story broke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock & Roll Hall of Game Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Oh...so they finally found out who did it?!!! I remember back when this story broke Yeah brah.. They found out shortly after Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downeaznboi Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 he deserves to rot in hell http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/item_m4kbEBcSjtrH2luFH8HrtI Accused murderer Ray Clark was so desperate to hide his heinous handiwork that he allegedly broke the bones and mangled the body of a strangled Yale grad student to fit it through a wall opening the size of a computer screen, The Post has learned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock & Roll Hall of Game Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 he deserves to rot in hell http://www.nypost.co...SjtrH2luFH8HrtI Accused murderer Ray Clark was so desperate to hide his heinous handiwork that he allegedly broke the bones and mangled the body of a strangled Yale grad student to fit it through a wall opening the size of a computer screen, The Post has learned. oh.. that's why he should get the death penality Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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