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NYT and Time:Harvard Should Employ Child Killer


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2017 Sep 17, 10:10am   1,944 views  4 comments

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Michelle Jones was released last month after serving more than two decades in an Indiana prison for the murder of her 4-year-old son. The very next day, she arrived at New York University, a promising Ph.D. student in American studies.

In a breathtaking feat of rehabilitation, Ms. Jones, now 45, became a published scholar of American history while behind bars, and presented her work by videoconference to historians’ conclaves and the Indiana General Assembly. With no internet access and a prison library that hewed toward romance novels, she led a team of inmates that pored through reams of photocopied documents from the Indiana State Archives to produce the Indiana Historical Society’s best research project last year. As prisoner No. 970554, Ms. Jones also wrote several dance compositions and historical plays, one of which is slated to open at an Indianapolis theater in December.

N.Y.U. was one of several top schools that recruited her for their doctoral programs. She was also among 18 selected from more than 300 applicants to Harvard University’s history program. But in a rare override of a department’s authority to choose its graduate students, Harvard’s top brass overturned Ms. Jones’s admission after some professors raised concerns that she played down her crime in the application process.

Elizabeth Hinton, one of the Harvard historians who backed Ms. Jones, called her “one of the strongest candidates in the country last year, period.” The case “throws into relief,” she added, the question of “how much do we really believe in the possibility of human redemption?”

The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization that focuses on criminal justice and produced this article for The New York Times, obtained internal emails and memos related to Ms. Jones’s application, and interviewed eight professors and administrators involved in reviewing it.

While top Harvard officials typically rubber-stamp departmental admissions decisions, in this case the university’s leadership — including the president, provost, and deans of the graduate school — reversed one, according to the emails and interviews, out of concern that her background would cause a backlash among rejected applicants, conservative news outlets or parents of students.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/us/harvard-nyu-prison-michelle-jones.html?mcubz=1 "Conservative Backlash", yeah, apparently it's all a right-wing conspiracy not to give a Child Murdering Black Nationalist Scumbag PhD Candidate a slot.

It was a 4 year old boy, who was beaten and then left in an apartment for days until he died an agonizing, painful death, screaming and crying but nobody came, by his own mother.

But Muh Minority Accomplishments! Her 'research' was on Prostitutes being assigned to work programs in the 19th Century. So Womyn!!! too.

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1   MisdemeanorRebel   2017 Sep 17, 10:22am  

More disgusting racist filth.

But we should forgive Jones. Not just because she served her time and should get to re-enter society. Not just because she turned her life around, against considerable odds, in America's confounding and dysfunctional incarceration system, which is especially cruel to those with psychiatric disorders. And not just because studies have demonstrated time and time again that a toxic childhood such as Jones' will have a deep impact on the mental health of those who endure it.


http://time.com/4941576/harvard-nyu-michelle-jones/

Blevins is the Mother.

Here, the jury had before it the testimony of Blevins, who stated that when she discussed Brandon's physical disorder with Jones, Jones commented that "she did not want to raise a freak." (R. 1947). Further, Dunlap testified that in a November, 1995 conversation with Jones, she learned that Jones had beaten four-year-old Brandon and left him alone for several days. Jones additionally confessed to Dunlap that she "guess[ed]" she had beaten Brandon to death. (R. 2156). When Jones returned to discover Brandon dead, she wrapped him up, drove to a wooded area, and disposed of the body. The jury could reasonably conclude that Jones was aware of a high probability that Brandon's death would result from her act of beating him. See Powers v. State, 696 N.E.2d 865, 870 (Ind. 1998)
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In July, 1992, Jones accompanied her friend, Deborah Asante ("Asante"), to a weekend theater network conference in Detroit. (R. 2027, 2028). During the trip, Jones informed Asante that a babysitter was caring for four-year-old Brandon. (R. 2029). After the conference, Asante and several other friends noticed that they no longer saw Brandon. In response to questioning regarding Brandon's whereabouts, Jones informed friends that he was living either with Sims or with Blevins. (R. 2033, 2049). Jones' upstairs neighbor, who also noticed Brandon's absence, observed Jones washing the inside and outside of her car frequently. (R. 2282, 2283).
At some point during the mid-summer of 1992, apartment manager Norris was walking by Jones' residence when she noticed hundreds of flies covering the inside front bedroom window of Jones' apartment. (R. 2249, 2250, 2252). Norris entered the apartment to investigate. (R. 2251). In the front bedroom, which appeared to be a child's room, Norris noticed a "very strong urine smell." (R. 2253, 2254). Norris questioned Jones, who responded that Brandon had been wetting the bed and that she would take care of the situation. (R. 2256).
On January 1, 1993, Jones vacated her apartment. (R. 2267). Norris, who conducted the move-out inspection, observed that although the apartment was generally clean, there wasa "brown stain all over the floor" of Brandon's bedroom. (R. 2272). Jones thereafter began living with her friend Mahalia Aamir ("Aamir"). (R. 2048).
In December, 1993, after repeated unsuccessful attempts to establish contact with Brandon, Sims and Blevins contacted Aamir for information. (R. 2051). Aamir confronted Jones, who confessed to Aamir that when she attended the theater conference during the summer of 1992, she left Brandon alone in her apartment. (R. 2052). According to Jones, when she returned from the trip, she discovered Brandon dead in his bedroom. (R. 2053). Jones then wrapped Brandon's body in a blanket, placed it in her car, and drove to a wooded area, where she placed the body. (R. 2053, 2054). Jones made a similar confession to Asante, but additionally stated that she had placed Brandon's body in a box and attempted to bury it. (R. 2037).

Didn't even bury the child... beat him and left him abandoned and beaten to attend a Theater Workshop/Conference. Got to empower the Black Women.
http://law.justia.com/cases/indiana/court-of-appeals/1998/111301-lmb.html

She didn't turn her life around - she always put herself first, going to a theater workshop for her self-improvement. That's how the kid died in the first place. She's still putting herself first.
2   MisdemeanorRebel   2017 Sep 17, 10:37am  

Goddamn, fucking AltLeft triggered me on this one. My kid is almost 4.

"She wrote a report about prostitution in 19th Century America, so let's admit this brutal child killer to a top tier institution or racist! sexist!"
3   Ceffer   2017 Sep 17, 10:37am  

Abortion: better late than never.

With the prison sentence, one would think she would be a libby dream candidate.
4   MisdemeanorRebel   2017 Sep 17, 10:40am  

Ceffer says
With the prison sentence, one would think she would be a libby dream candidate.


NYU gladly accepted her.

The "Scandal" is that Harvard rejected her, with some expressing concern about her downplaying of her crime. I think for child killers, criminal isn't the word, Fucking Monsterous.

Fuck Hanging or 500 AGL Helicopter rides, you deal with those people by having other death row inmates dig a trench, shoot her in the back of the head like a rabid dog.

"Rehab" is for people who steal beer or snatch and grab a purse or some shit.

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