November 12, 2007
Linda Stein Murder Suspect: Police Coerced Confession
The personal assistant accused of killing her boss, realtor Linda Stein, claims that the police forced her to confess. Natavia Lowery's father said, "She said [to detectives] she wanted to call her parents and her attorney, and [they] told her they called them already. They lied and coerced her."
Lowery has been charged with second-degree murder. The police say that the 26-year-old Brooklyn resident confessed to killing the 62-year-old former punk rock manager on October 30. Stein had allegedly been berating her about her work, blew pot smoke in her face, and then made racist comments, leading Lowery to take Stein's yoga stick and beat her to death. Stein's daughter said that her mother had been recently diagnosed with brain cancer and the medication caused her to be mean.
Lowery's aunt Julia Carrow continued with criticism of the police, telling the Daily News, "They took her in the room and told her her mother would be filling out a missing persons report if she didn't confess. They wouldn't let her call her mother or her lawyer. They wouldn't let her call no one and kept her in there all night. Then they came out and said she'd confessed." Lowery's attorney, Gilbert Parris, adds that he told the police to tell him if his client was going to be called in again, "Law enforcement was aware of my representation but did not contact me."
But the police deny that Lowery was coerced and point to the fact that she contacted them of her own volition (she was complaining about reporters staked outside her building) and agreed to meet the detectives. Lowery is also accused of stealing Stein's cellphone and ATM card, which she used to withdraw $800.
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Like anyone would admit to MURDERING someone just to get out of an interrogation room. NOT BLOODY LIKELY.
I call bullshit on Natavia Lowery family's part.
Will Natavia Lowery take her statement back on the alleged racist remark, Stein said to her to set her off on the killing?
This is a desperate plea for help and for the family to get her off... I hear the footsteps of good ole Al Sharpton coming to the soapbox...
You know, if the cops really wanted to make sure this case went smoothly, they'd have just let her talk to her mother and an attorney.
Now all this is going to do is engender more distrust of the cops by people of color in this town and give another soapbox for bad community representatives (aka blowhards) like Al Sharpton to come in and scream about crap.
Bad move NYPD, bad move.
Don't mention that man! He's like Bloody Mary: if enough people type his name on the same web site in a short enough period of time, he appears to make his nonsensical statements and eat your souls! Don't let this happen.
But seriously, I think this chick's family should just shut up. They aren't helping, and they're just making her seem really stupid.
I think she should get off....if she bashed that womans head in then she probably pushed Natavia to her breaking point.
I think anger management would suffice....
I mean how long do you think one can continuously verbally abuse someone
what did her friend say?
I think very very and really really
as in very very bad to her underlings and really really can believe that there's at least some truth in what ms. lowery stated.
Seriously, what the f*ck is a yoga stick?
Even if (and this is a big "if") the court ruled that the confession is inadmissable due to the violation of her 5th amendment rights, she could still be indicted for murder based on the evidence after the fact (possession of the cell phone and use of ATM card).
Likely that she will ultimately plead to manslaughter, with mitigating cirumstances being precisely those described in her "coerced" statement.
That's good enough for me. and just one sympathetic juror, of course.
It is horrible that the police would coerce a confession out of her.
Not "getting beaten to death with a stick" bad, but still no good.
With any luck, they fully taped her interview...
The last paragraph and the headline don't seem to match up. The last paragraph being the facts, and the headline being the overt sensationalism. Juuuust sayin.
I really don't see any "mitigating cirumstances" here. If your employer says unkind or offensive things to you and doesn't treat you with respect, you quit. You don't beat them to death with a stick, then steal their phone and ATM card. That makes absolutely no sense.
According to the news reports, this girl has a history of theft and fraud. I'd say it's more likely that the deceased confronted her about stealing and threatened to press charges, and that's what actually set her off.
Yeah... what is a yoga stick?
I think a Yoga Stick is like a carrot stick, except you can't eat it. And you use it for Yoga.
Or maybe it was a typo, and supposed to be Yoda stick. That makes a little bit more sense...
Moonbeam - here is how it will go down.
A pre-trial hearing will determine admissability of the confession. If they followed the book, Miranda rights will be on videotape and statement admitted.
The DA and defense counsel(DC)then meet. DA will argue prior record and use of ATM card establish motive of theft (not merely heat of the moment reaction to verbal abuse). Add in confession and they will seek murder 2.
DC will argue mitigating circumstances (repeated verbal abuse, including racist taunting, drug use by victim). DC will threaten to call witnesses who will say nasty things about Stein. Mitigation does not equal defense, DC concedes that she is guilty of a crime, but not murder 2...
They will agree on manslaughter...maybe 5-7 yrs.
At sentencing, DA and DC will stipulate to a negotiated set of "facts" and the specific charge(s) to plead to. To support reasonableness of plea, DA will outline aggravating cirucmstances - DC will present mitigating circumstances. Likely no witnesses will be called. No opportunity to test veracity of assertions. No "truth".
I wish my boss blew pot smoke in my face. That would make my daily berating much easier to stomach. The fact here is, she beat someone to death with a stick. She is a murderer, plain and simple. Plus, there's a big difference between a homicide cop with a shield, and a beat cop right out of the academy. These guys know as much about the law as any attorney, so I find it hard to believe they wouldn't call her lawyer and parents, or neglect to read her her Miranda. This is just a bad ploy to try and get their daughter off.
"The last paragraph and the headline don't seem to match up."
Sheesh. The headline refers to exactly what makes this a news story: that the suspect says that her confession was coerced. Notice that colon? That implies that what follows is what she is saying. As it usually should, the headline relates to the lead paragraph in the story, not the last one.
The last paragraph contains the NYPD's response to that statement. Sure, an alternate headline could have been [b]NYPD: Confession was not coerced.[/b]. But it isn't really news when the police say that a confession wasn't coerced. At least it shouldn't be.,
Wasn't everybody saying how the she deserved it the other day and now laying it on this one?
"Like anyone would admit to MURDERING someone just to get out of an interrogation room. NOT BLOODY LIKELY."
Well... first off I'd say that based on what I've read of this case, my guess is that she's guilty. But of course it's only a guess and I'm going only on what's been reported in the media, for whatever that's worth.
But, everyone's read about cases where people convicted of crimes, usually murder, have later been released when DNA evidence shows that they were actually innocent. The Innocence Project, which has worked on many of those cases, reports that of the 116 cases in which the convicted person was later exonerated 27 of them had confessed.
There's a whole body of work in the psychological field as to why it might happen, and I'm not educated enough in it to describe it in detail. But to say that an innocent person could never be compelled to a serious crime is simply naive. As naive as it is to say that an experienced homicide investigator would never cross some lines in attempting to extract a confession.
Something else to think about: sometimes, "illegally" extracting a confession is an investigative tool. Sometimes it's done with full knowledge that the confession will not hold up in court, and if the case comes to trial it's never presented as evidence. Doing whatever it takes to get a confession on paper can lead to later being able to turn up other evidence that would not have been discovered. There's no penalty to an investigator who violates a suspect's rights in this way -- other than being unable to use that specific evidence -- so it's sometimes seen and used as a legitimate technique.
What a waste of good black tail - good for the butch dykes in the slammer, however....
Let Jack McCoy have a crack at her.
I have to hand it to black families - they're behind you no matter what, whether you're a serial killer or a drug dealer...
A yoga stick, also known as a danda, is used to support the armpit during various breathing exercises. It looks like a short crutch:
http://www.india-shopping.net/Yoga/yoga-stick.html
Thanks dbc!
Here's a clue for this dumb bitch and her family: A 26-year-old woman has no right to her mommy and daddy during police questioning. She's all grown up now folks and has to handle things on her own.
ROLTFLMAO LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL .....WTF!!!!
Violence is as american as apple pie...white people created violence.....this country was built on violence.....LOL LOL LOL .....
Do you not know history? Do you not read? Do I have to bring up The KKK? The fact Lynching which was a past time for whites in the south, The fact that when people were lynched the photos taken of the bodies swinging from the were used as post cards photos? Slave Rape, the fact that most serial killers are WHITE MALES? Police brutality against African Americans committed by angry white men who couldn't compete with their peers...lol lol
I mean every one is entitled to their opinions but if you are going to be a flame thrower don't be DUMB ONE......
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Most "confessions" are FAKE.
EX: aren't you glad they caught Jon Benet's killer, John Karr? Hooray! The police and DA said he knew facts that only the killer could. I said there was no way that was true, and yet again, I proved the police and DA are morons and/or liars.
EX: how about Bently Grant, the homeless black guy who CONFESSED to the second infamous Brick Attack in midtown? He was also pulled out of lineups by "witnesses".
OOPS! Lucky for him, the video at Virgin Records PROVED the police had lied about everything, and all charges were dropped.
The NYPD not only faked his confession (after 16 HOURS of solid questioning, b/c sleep deprivation is a form of TORTURE says the State Dept)but they faked line-ups to "solve" a high profile crime.
The NYPD could break every law every day and the media would still cover up for these hypercriminals.
EX: how about the Central Park Jogger case? They all did jail time for their "confessions" and only AFTER did the DA (a supercriminal named Robert Morgenthau) admit their confessions were CLEARLY fake! (None of them matched each other!)
THIS IS WHAT LAW ENFORCEMENT DOES.
THEY FAKE CONFESSIONS thru dozens of means.
And no one cares.
Hell, even the NYPost did a cover story on how crime IN the NYPD has exploded (thanks to Rudy and Mike's "leadership").
When the NYPost is reporting how corrupt the NYPD is, MAYBE it's time to clean this organized crime team up?
Y'think?
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