MURDER SUSPECT DISCUSSES CONFESSION : WOMAN SAYS SHE SOUGHT LIGHT TREATMENT.Byline: Jeannette DeSantis Daily News Staff Writer A woman who first claimed her murder confession was coerced by detectives acknowledged Thursday she may have been looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. lighter treatment when she admitted her role in the arson death of her invalid husband. In her testimony on Wednesday, Joy Hooker told jurors that the three male investigators coerced her into admitting to starting the fire with her stepson step·son n. A spouse's son by a previous union. stepson Noun a son of one's husband or wife by an earlier relationship Noun 1. by telling her that if the fire was accidental, she wouldn't be charged with murder. But on her second day on the stand, Hooker, 52, said that when she confessed, she had already been told that her stepson, David Hooker, was under arrest on suspicion of murder and arson for his part in the fire. ``They told me I wouldn't be charged with murder if I admitted to starting the fire,'' she said. Joy Hooker is charged with murder in the death of Thomas Hooker Thomas Hooker (July 5 1586 – July 7 1647) was a prominent Puritan religious and colonial leader remembered as one of the founders of the Colony of Connecticut. Born at rural Marefield, Leicestershire, England, the son of a farm manager, Thomas Hooker won a good scholarship , a former LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Medal of Valor For other medals of the same name, see . The Medal of Valor (O't Ha'gvora, Hebrew: עיטור הגבורה) is the highest Israeli Military decoration. winner. Joy Hooker's stepson, with whom she was having an affair, is serving a life-prison term in the slaying. Authorities contend Joy Hooker and her stepson watched their Littlerock home burn for more than 45 minutes and never made an attempt to save Thomas Hooker, who at 58, was blind and on dialysis from diabetes. Both Joy Hooker and David Hooker admitted to authorities that they planned to collect some insurance money to save the Littlerock house from being taken over by the bank. Both admit they started the fire, but deny they intentionally killed Thomas Hooker. Although Joy Hooker admitted Thursday to wanting to take advantage of the deal she thought investigators were offering, she continued to claim that the confession was involuntary. ``Did they tell you how they wanted you to confess?'' asked Deputy District Attorney Ron Smalstig. ``They would go through an outline of a story for me, and they would lead me into all the answers,'' Hooker responded. ``I tried to fit (the story) in with what facts I knew about the fire.'' Hooker's public defender public defender, governmental official who represents indigent persons accused of crime. U.S. Supreme Court decisions expanding the right to counsel to pretrial proceedings and holding that a person cannot be sentenced to even one day in jail unless a lawyer was , Earl Siddall, claims his client was coerced into giving the confession to the three male investigators because throughout her life, her actions have always been dominated by the men in her life. To help support the claim, Siddall plans to call Monday a registered psychiatrist who has diagnosed Hooker as being a victim of a ``dependent personality disorder dependent personality disorder Psychiatry A condition of early adulthood onset, which is characterized by a '…pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of (by others) that leads to submissive and clinging behavior and fears of separation' .'' During her cross-examination, Hooker answered Smalstig's questions with a deliberate voice and at times, even traded sarcastic barbs barbs the primary, delicate filaments that are given off the shaft of a bird's contour feather. They project from the rachis and bear the barbules. with him. ``She didn't seem to be easily dominated by men when I questioned her,'' Smalstig said outside of court. ``But that is just one man's opinion.'' Smalstig also pointed out that Hooker, who was married to two police officers, never filed any complaints against the detectives. |
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