Manson Caught With Cell Phone in Prison,
 

Notorious cult leader Charles Manson — who has been behind bars for more than three decades — has been caught with having a cell phone inside his jail cell.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/12/04...-phone-prison/



Note:Published December 04, 2010

Should have executed him long ago.

A bit of research will convince you of his culpability and his co-defendants death warrents.

Oh, no question he was sentenced to death. But then Cantafordya rescinded the death penalty, so he was commuted to life. When they reinstated it the courts decided that the sentence couldn't be retroactively uncommuted.

So Charles Mansion has been running a Psychic hotline from Jail :hmmm: :O:

Well they gave him another 30 days on his sentence.
That ought to teach him a lesson.
:smug:

True true. :haha:

So what kind of reprimand is he going to get?
"Bad Charlie! Bad, Bad Charlie!"
:har:

:rotfl2:

Could you imagine being at home and him accidetly dialing you number?
:haha:

"Hello?"

"This is Charles Manson."

"Yeah, right!"

"No, this really is Charles Manson."

"Doug, is that you? I hate Marilyn Manson!"

"No, this is Charles Manson!"

"Who?"

"Charles Manson."

"Never heard of you."

"I want to kill you."

"No, Doug, I'm gonna kill you if you don't quit screwing around!"

:haha:
Queue helter skelter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMfkVGCU_BA

(you may want to put on your tinfoil helmet now to block the fibes...:woot:)

I'm not familiar with that aspect of the case against Manson (or much else about him other than his followers killed a bunch of people) but wouldn't that be a case of Expost Facto? Don't criminals sentenced under one law remain sentenced even if the laws are rewritten and vice versa (ie one who commits what is later deemed a criminal act cannot be prosecuted as there was no law at the time)? :06:

When the death penalty was rescinded in 1972 several inmates on death row had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment, including Manson and Sirhan Sirhan, who had assassinated Robert Kennedy. When the death penalty was reinstated it was recognized that someone serving a life sentence could not be upgraded to death, even if that had been their former status.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_v._Anderson
http://www.deathpenalty.org/article.php?id=48

oh interesting, I thought that the decision from '72 put off all prisoners from death row who sat there at this time, a quasi-amnesty. This seems to be the case only in some states.

I'm pretty sure any similar law would have the same result but the 1972 law was created in California for California, and had no effect on the rest of the United States.

oh, i made myself not clear: I was talking about the Supreme Court decision from 72, not the California state law which followed this decision: http://www.answers.com/topic/furman-v-georgia

Afaik no people were executed till after the '76 SC decision - so I thought that the people who sat on death row in '72 became lifers.

Lot's of prisoners have phones they shouldn't, just ask the guards who smuggle them in. :damn:

Oh! I was unfamiliar with that one. :oops:

The article you cite is unclear as to what befell the prisoners already on death row, but the Wike article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furman_v._Georgia doesn't give any more information.

Here is an article on a succeeding case http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furman_v._Georgia which tells of later decisions, but still nothing on the death row inmates at that time.

I don't know.