August 4, 2009 12:20 PM
Did a Clerical Error Kill Lily Burk?
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(Family Photo via CBS 2)Family photo of Lily Burk.
LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) High school honor student Lily Burke may have lost her life due to a deadly mistake in record-keeping.
The Los Angeles Times reports the man charged with killing the 17-year-old girl in downtown Los Angeles may have been free because of a clerical error that misstated his criminal record.
The newspaper reported Monday on its Website that authorities did not know that Charles Samuel was eligible to be prosecuted under the state's three-strikes law when he was convicted of burglary in San Bernardino County in 1997.
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The paper says a San Bernardino County district attorney's official said he believed prosecutors would have filed the burglary charge as a third strike had Samuel's "rap sheet" properly shown that he already had previous convictions that counted as two strikes rather than one.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08...y5212034.shtml





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Nothing changes unless there is a body count involved!
would have saved her life. Let that be a lesson to the rest of the human population.




