Trial begins for man accused of EMU rape, murder

LAURA DICKINSON
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These EMU bastards covered up her murder/rape for 3 months.


http://www.detnews.com/
The Detroit News
October 15, 2007

ANN ARBOR -- The trial of a former Eastern Michigan University student Orange Taylor III, who is accused of killing student Laura Dickinson, got under way this afternoon in Washtenaw Circuit Court.
ORANGE TAYLOR III
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Prosecutor Blaine Longsworth told jurors he has the evidence to convict Taylor in the death, which set off a series of events that led to the firing of the Eastern Michigan University president and other campus officials this summer.

"This case is every woman's worst nightmare," Longsworth said. "The evidence will prove Orange Taylor committed first degree murder. The evidence will show (Taylor) sexually assaulted her, suffocated her and afterwards stole her bags as well."

Police say Taylor, now 21, of Southfield slipped into Dickinson's Hill Hall dorm room Dec. 13 while she slept, raped her and smothered her with a pillow. A surveillance tape captured Taylor leaving the dorm room with one of Dickinson's Christmas party gifts, police said.

Dickinson's body was found two days later by a custodian. Dickinson, 22, was naked from the waist down with a pillow over her and with Taylor's semen on her body.

Defense attorney Alvin Keel cautioned jurors to have an open mind and to listen to the evidence before reaching a decision.

Keel pointed to the medical examiner's office not having a cause of death until a day before Taylor's preliminary examination in March.

"Dr. (Bader) Cassin did not know the cause of death and he was not certain on March 5," Keel said. "There was no struggle whatsoever."

The Board of Regents fired EMU President John Fallon and administrators this summer amid claims campus officials covered up the slaying.

Fallon last week sued the university, claiming he was let go because he was about to expose wrongdoing. (Hunting for the "wrongdoers", just like OJ)

Source (http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071015/UPDATE/710150422/1409/METRO)

Keel admitted Taylor and Dickinson crossed paths when he entered her room, coming across her half-naked body lying on the ground. He became aroused, but did not assault her, Keel said.

That night, he smoked marijuana with friends in another dorm before leaving to look for more drugs, Keel said.

"If she slept in her clothes, it becomes virtually impossible to simultaneously smother, rape and (undress) her without anybody hearing one sound," Keel said. "There was no struggle whatsoever. Laura Dickinson was a fighter. Tests will show not a fingernail was broken. (Physical evidence) doesn't even mean you touched the person."

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071016/SCHOOLS/710160362&theme=SCHOOLS-EMU

This nigger had the keys to all the dorm rooms, even after the rape and murder, because the University was covering up the rape statistics.

"Despite EMU having knowledge of a potential suspect who may have been in possession of the victim's residence hall keys and who was also a student attending classes at EMU, no information was disclosed to the campus community to advise it of the possible safety threat," states the Department of Education report.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070704/SCHOOLS/707040363

:mad:

The EMU slaying case: Who knew what when

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The Ann Arbor News
June 10, 2007
LAURA DICKINSON
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Dec. 15, 2006: The night EMU student Laura Dickinson's body was found, police found that she was unclothed from the waist down, there was a pillow over her head and her keys were missing. The Michigan State Police crime lab was called to assist. EMU Public Safety Director Cindy Hall says she was aware of those facts and told Vice President of Student Affairs Jim Vick, but he denies knowing all those facts at that point. Later, however, he told investigators he knew it could have been a homicide from the beginning.

Dec. 16: EMU issues a press release that contains the statement, "At this point, there is no reason to suspect foul play.'' Vick said he was not involved in drafting the release, and Hall says she didn't know it existed until after Feb. 23. Fallon says he approved that release, but thought that information was correct based on his conversations with Hall.

Dec. 18: EMU spokeswoman Pam Young creates a proposed "Communications Plan'' that includes considering whether to draft a press release in case Dickinson's death is determined to be a homicide. The plan also calls for a meeting of key administrators to consider issues raised in the plan, but such a meeting apparently never took place.

Dec. 19: The State Police crime lab confirms that a substance found on Dickinson's leg is semen. Hall learns the information shortly and says she informed Vick, but he denies knowing that until the week of Feb. 19. Around the same week of Dec. 19, a task force of law enforcement investigators begins meeting about the death.

Dec. 20: A secretary to the EMU Board of Regents updates the board on the case by e-mail. Citing Vick as a source, she writes that police are "fairly convinced ... that there was no crime committed ...''
Unspecified dates in December: Police review video tapes from Hill Hall on the night Dickinson was last seen. They identify Orange Taylor III leaving the residence hall that morning. Copies of police incident reports are delivered to the Student Affairs office, including an initial report of the Dickinson investigation. After staffers see the memo and suggest it shouldn't be disseminated, Vick directs that it be shredded. Vick claims he took that action after speaking with Hall, which she adamantly denies.
Mid- to late-January: Taylor is placed under police surveillance. Before that, his professors were called, others were asked to take polygraph tests and provide DNA samples, and a Hill Hall resident was questioned about a person who tried to sell her marijuana Dec. 12.

Jan. 23: Fallon writes Vick an e-mail questioning why it's taking so long for a ruling on the cause of death and says it might be time to raise "holy hell'' with the medical examiner's office. He says Vick repeatedly told him to be patient.

Jan. 25: Police question Taylor and confront him with security tape images. He tells investigators that he stole items from Dickinson's room that night, but denies raping or killing her. He provides a DNA sample and fingerprints. The officer in charge says Hall was aware of the interview. She says she filled in Vick on the developments, but he says he only knew police were reviewing security tapes and talking to students.

Feb. 23: A warrant charging Taylor with Dickinson's death is issued after the crime lab confirms a DNA match with semen found on her leg. He is arrested, and her parents are informed her death was a homicide.

Feb. 26: A meeting is held to discuss what information can be released to the media. At least two administrators say they expressed shock that the investigation was suddenly a homicide; conflicting accounts are given over who attended and what was said.

Feb. 28: The university posts "questions and answers'' and a "timeline'' about the case on its Web site. Portions of those documents are later deleted after their accuracy is questioned.

March 2: Vick calls a meeting with police and communications staff, and several in attendance say the meeting was tense because staffers questioned why they hadn't been told about the homicide investigation.

March 3: Vick calls Deputy Chief Assistant Prosecutor Steven Hiller at home and suggests that everyone agree that information should not be released to protect the integrity of the investigation. Also that day, Vick attends EMU's Alumni Association Board of Directors meeting, which is tape recorded. Vick says, "(Hall) tells me only as much as she has to and I go back and tell the president only as much as I have to, which is pretty much what I know. And then, keep quiet.''

March 4: A campus meeting is held, where students and staff members criticize the university for not releasing information on the investigation.

March 5: Fallon places Vick on administrative leave. He pledges an investigation of what transpired. Later, the EMU Board of Regents takes over the task and commissions Butzel Long, which prepared a report released last Friday.

Video

Source (http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/2007/06/the_emu_slaying_case_who_knew.html)

3 E. Mich. Univ. Officials Forced Out After Cover-Up to Get Combined Severance Nearly $550,000

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The Associated Press
Jul 18, 2007

Three university administrators who were forced out this week after their school was accused of covering up the dorm room rape and killing of a student will receive nearly $550,000 in severance packages, documents show.

Eastern Michigan University President John Fallon, who was fired, will get the equivalent of one year's salary, $225,000, under his contract, university spokesman Ward Mullens said.

Vice President of Student Affairs Jim Vick and Public Safety Director Cindy Hall will be allowed to retire and collect pensions and benefits, according their severance agreements, obtained by The Ann Arbor News under the Freedom of Information Act.

They also will get a year's salary under the agreements, together totaling $245,253, plus vacation and sick time....

The Board of Regents voted late Sunday to fire Fallon and on Monday ousted Vick and Hall.

Many in the administration had been accused of covering up the truth of Dickinson's death and endangering students to protect the school's image.

"This board will not tolerate anyone who sabotages the educational mission of this university by participating in these destructive behavior patterns," said the board's chairman, Thomas Sidlik.



Source (http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3389119)

May I suggest a different kind of severence is in order when abuse of public trust facilitates rape and murder.

What is this Cleary Act EMU Administrators Violated?

The Clery Act requires all colleges and universities that participate in federal financial aid programs to keep and disclose information about crime on and near their respective campuses.

Compliance is monitored by the United States Department of Education, which can impose civil penalties, up to $27,500 per violation, against institutions for each infraction and can suspend institutions from participating in federal student financial aid programs.

Cleary Act - Brief (http://www.e2campus.com/jeanne_clery_act_story.htm)

Cleary Act - History (http://www.securityoncampus.org/aboutsoc/didntknow.html)

Cleary Act - Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clery_Act)

What is this Cleary Act EMU Administrators Violated?

The Clery Act requires all colleges and universities that participate in federal financial aid programs to keep and disclose information about crime on and near their respective campuses.

Compliance is monitored by the United States Department of Education, which can impose civil penalties, up to $27,500 per violation, against institutions for each infraction and can suspend institutions from participating in federal student financial aid programs.

Cleary Act - Brief (http://www.e2campus.com/jeanne_clery_act_story.htm)

Cleary Act - History (http://www.securityoncampus.org/aboutsoc/didntknow.html)

Cleary Act - Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clery_Act)

Clery Act named after this girl, awakened in her dorm room, raped, murdered by a nigger named Josoph Henry.

On April 5, 1986 Josoph Henry walked into Stoughton House in Lower Centennials with a broken glass bottle in hand and saw a student lying asleep.

He imagined slashing the sleeping student’s throat but decided against it.

He made his way through three doors that were supposed to be locked. Instead, each one was propped open. The doors were meant to keep out dangerous people – like Henry.

He entered the first unlocked room on the third floor, Jeanne Clery’s. She had left her door unlocked because her roommate had lost her keys and was spending the night out.

At 6 a.m. Jeanne awoke to find classmate Henry robbing her to support his drug addiction. A struggle ensued with Henry beating, raping and sodomizing Jeanne with a broken bottle held to her head before he strangled her to death.

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http://www.bw.lehigh.edu/story.asp?ID=19668

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE3D6153EF933A05757C0A961948260


I tried and tried to find a picture of Josoph Henry, but couldn't, and I could only find ONE reference to his race among all the links to this story. Why are niggers even allowed to be on the same campus as Whites?

Why are niggers even allowed to be on the same campus as Whites?

They shoots the hoops. They runs wid the ball.

We all know niggers are useless but university administrators see them as Gods that walk among men.

White girls they see as inflatable fuck-toys for visiting niggerball teams.

Look what these assholes; University President John Fallon, Jim Vick and Cindy Hall, were willing to do.

Brave liberals, they threw themselves on the racist publicity grenade to shield the nigger athlete scholar from harm.

Ya gotta wonder what kind of contempt, what kind of disposable thing they see young white women as. For two and a half months they would not describe the rapist or even warn that there was one.

Jury in EMU case resumes deliberations Monday

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The Grand Rapids Press
October 19, 2007

A Washtenaw County jury failed to reach a verdict today in the trial against a former Eastern Michigan University student accused in the slaying death of another student last winter.

The jury was sent home about 5:30 p.m., following nearly two hours of deliberation. They're expected to return Monday morning.
ORANGE TAYLOR III
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Orange Taylor, now 21, is charged with open murder, including two versions of first-degree murder; assault with intent to commit first- or third-degree criminal sexual conduct, home invasion and larceny from a building.

...Taylor had decided Thursday night in the Washtenaw County Jail not to testify in his own defense. Keel (defense attorney) had promised all week that Taylor would provide an explanation for why his semen was found on Dickinson's inner thigh. Another drop of semen was found on Dickinson's bed.

In closing arguments Friday, Keel conceded that Taylor was in the room the night Dickinson died - after she was already dead of what he asserted was a heart ailment. He said that when Taylor found her that way, he masturbated over her body.

"It may be a despicable act, one you're embarrassed about, it may be somewhat freaky.

But does that make it murder? "No," Keel said.

It isn't even sexual assault, Keel said, because you can't assault a dead person....

Keel was trying to guide the jury to a misedemeanor for necrophilia because "that's all they have," he said.

It gets worse (http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2007/10/jury_in_emu_case_resumes_delib.html#more)

Complete Trial Coverage From Oct. 13-- (http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/laura_dickinson_trial/)

Jury in EMU case resumes deliberations Monday

http://blog.mlive.com/
The Grand Rapids Press
October 19, 2007

A Washtenaw County jury failed to reach a verdict today in the trial against a former Eastern Michigan University student accused in the slaying death of another student last winter.

The jury was sent home about 5:30 p.m., following nearly two hours of deliberation. They're expected to return Monday morning.
ORANGE TAYLOR III
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Orange Taylor, now 21, is charged with open murder, including two versions of first-degree murder; assault with intent to commit first- or third-degree criminal sexual conduct, home invasion and larceny from a building.

...Taylor had decided Thursday night in the Washtenaw County Jail not to testify in his own defense. Keel (defense attorney) had promised all week that Taylor would provide an explanation for why his semen was found on Dickinson's inner thigh. Another drop of semen was found on Dickinson's bed.

In closing arguments Friday, Keel conceded that Taylor was in the room the night Dickinson died - after she was already dead of what he asserted was a heart ailment. He said that when Taylor found her that way, he masturbated over her body.

"It may be a despicable act, one you're embarrassed about, it may be somewhat freaky.

But does that make it murder? "No," Keel said.

It isn't even sexual assault, Keel said, because you can't assault a dead person....

Keel was trying to guide the jury to a misedemeanor for necrophilia because "that's all they have," he said.



That "explaination" is so ludicrous, it's like the defence lawyer is throwing the case, for no other reason than it's impossible for him to escape the truth.

So, really, the nigger was roaming the dorms and happened to go into one in which a 20 something woman had died from a heart ailment, just that night? He then masturbated over the dead body, and the lawyer calls this "embarassing?".

We joke around a lot about things on VNN, but this whole case is extremely disturbing.

This is the real nigger in action, not the MTV version of the dancing singing nigger, but the raw, ghetto, primitive nigger that needs to be exterminated.

EMU Murder Rape Trial Jury Deadlocked

Trial Rescheduled For January 28 '08

freep.com
Detroit Free Press
October 23, 2007

The jury in the Orange Taylor III murder is “hopelessly deadlocked” the forewoman announced shortly announced before 4 pm. Today. Washtenaw Chief Circuit Judge Archie Brown has rescheduled the trial for Jan. 28....

Dickinson’s slaying in December and a delay in informing the public about it led to the firing of university President John Fallon....

As he was being led from the courtroom, Taylor pumped his fist in celebration toward his family.
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“You have a hung jury so there must be some indecision,” his father, Orange Taylor Jr., said later. “He’s not that type of person. True enough, he’s young, but he’s not a murderer.”...

Authorities say Dickinson was sleeping when Taylor entered her room the night of Dec. 13. They say he raped her and smothered her with a pillow. A surveillance video shows him leaving with some of her property. A custodian found her body Dec. 15.

Initially, university officials told her parents and the media that there was no sign of foul play....

The school’s Board of Regents later fired university President John Fallon and Vice President for Student Affairs Jim Vick and Public Safety Director Cindy Hall were forced to retire.

Source (http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071023/NEWS06/71023069/0/NEWS06)

More on mistrial (http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/laura_dickinson_trial/)

Suspect's parents rely on faith and belief in their son

"He was a decent kid, a typical boy," said Orange Jr., a master plumber.

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ANN ARBOR NEWS
October 19, 2007 00:03AM

Orange Taylor Jr. and Tina Taylor haven't been able to speak to their son without the conversation being tape-recorded since the day he was arrested in February.

But they say they don't believe he is responsible for the death of Eastern Michigan University student Laura Dickinson, whose body was found in her dorm room last December.
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As they've sat across from Dickinson's family this week during Taylor's trial on murder charges, they say they have wanted to reach out - but fear the Dickinsons wouldn't be receptive.
THE DICKINSONS
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"I pray for them," Tina Taylor said. "I prayed for them today, to have to sit there and hear such horrible things about (what happened to) their baby," when Medical Examiner Bader Cassin testified.
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The couple met with The Ann Arbor News for an exclusive interview Thursday, the evening before their 21-year-old son was expected to take the stand Friday.

"I just do not believe he murdered the girl," Tina Taylor said.

When they heard the first taped interview played in court this week, Orange Jr. and Tina Taylor had to listen to their son's admissions that he was using marijuana, breaking into dormitory rooms to steal things, and had been barred from student housing.

When he takes the stand, it will be the first time they hear an explanation for why his semen was found on Dickinson's leg and bed.
ORANGE TAYLOR III
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For now, they're focusing on the fact that Cassin could only offer a probable cause of death - that she was asphyxiated because he ruled out everything else.

Orange Jr. and Tina Taylor are holding onto the possibility Laura Dickinson died a natural death, from an irregular heartbeat like one she suffered in 2005.
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And they're also relying on "prayer and much faith," Orange Jr. said.

During the emotional interview, the parents recalled a boy with a love of football who grew into a detached young man.
By the time he was 5, Orange Amir Taylor III could recite the Bible - all 66 books, his mother recalled.

"He was a very, very, very good boy. You tell him something one time, he had it," said Tina Taylor, a licensed practical nurse at a private hospital.

Orange Taylor III is the baby of the family. With three much older half-brothers and a half-sister from his parents' previous marriages, he's the only child of Orange Jr. and Tina Taylor.

Raised in Southfield, Taylor grew to love football and was named most valuable player his freshman year at Southfield High School. Tina Taylor said her son moved to Royal Oak Kimball High School for a better academic program, but returned to Southfield to graduate with his friends.
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"He was a decent kid, a typical boy," said Orange Jr., a master plumber.
"He never got in trouble. God knew I had him at a later age, and made him such a good baby," Tina Taylor said, breaking into silent sobs.
Orange III spent his freshman year at Central State University in Ohio. It changed him, his father said.

"He got lost, being on his own," Orange Jr. said.
Tina Taylor said she didn't notice the change in her son until after his first semester at EMU. His parents paid for his cell phone, but he didn't call and didn't return their calls.

"It's just growing up," Orange Jr. reasoned. "You figure you're on your own, but you're not. You lose track of what's real in life."
When Orange Taylor III announced he was moving home in January, his father suspected he'd been thrown out of the dorm because moving in the middle of the school year didn't make sense.

His return came with a list of Tina's rules: No girls upstairs and church on Sundays. Orange didn't enjoy church, but he went, she said.
The couple, married 22 years, got their first real inkling of how troubled their son's life had become early Jan. 26.

Tina Taylor had been ill, and the entire family - including Orange III - planned to clean her house. He was due there at 8 p.m. Jan. 25 - but arrived close to 2 a.m. the next morning.

Tina had gone to bed angry, but Orange Jr. was up. He learned his son had spent five hours with police, being questioned in Dickinson's death.

In the tape played in Washtenaw County Circuit Court this week, Taylor was clearly frustrated and repeatedly told police his mother was expecting him. But Orange Jr. said his son never got rude with police or demanded a lawyer, which Orange Jr. wishes he would have requested.

"But if he had something to do with it, I don't think he would have went," Orange Taylor Jr. said. "He knew he hadn't done anything."
THE LAWYERS
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Everything changed on Feb. 23, around 6:45 p.m. Orange III and Tina were watching a rented movie with popcorn and sodas when the phone started to ring - over and over. Finally, Orange got his coat and went to the door. When he didn't return, Tina went to check.

She found her son on the ground, surrounded by about 15 police officers.
"I thought they'd shot him. I started screaming and hollering, 'What have you done?'"

Orange Jr. soon arrived, and they watched police tear their house apart and take bags of their sons belongings.
Among those items, prosecutors said this week, was a sweatshirt that experts testified had fibers similar to those found in Dickinson's room that night.

The trial will resume Friday morning.

Source (http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/2007/10/suspects_parents_rely_on_faith.html)

Source 2 (http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/2007/10/photos_from_the_orange_taylor.html)

Source 3 (http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071016/NEWS06/71016041/1001/NEWS)

Laura Dickinson's desire to help lives on

Family finds way to raise money for cause she believed in

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THE ANN ARBOR NEWS
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

By the time she was a teenager, Laura Dickinson felt a sharp need to reach out to African children who are orphaned or vulnerable because of the AIDS epidemic there....
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Her passion and legacy will be remembered through a collaboration between her family and the Jones Soda Co. aimed at raising money for those Laura wanted to help....

Laura's father, Robert Dickinson, spoke of his daughter and the new effort Monday morning while awaiting a verdict in the trial of Orange Taylor III.

"Share Laura's Hope'' was created in her honor to benefit World Vision (http://www.worldvision.org/about_us.nsf/child/history?Open&lid=294&lpos=top_drp_History), a humanitarian organization that tackles poverty and injustice worldwide....
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The fundraising efforts grew out of Laura's deep and long-held interest in the children of Africa, Robert Dickinson said. Her interest in the struggles in Africa began when she was in high school....

The Jones Soda Co. (http://www.jonessoda.com/gallery/) has designed special edition bottles with Laura's image on them.

On the back is a saying from Laura's father: "When we share something, we become a part of it. Share Laura's hope.''

A number of customers have already expressed interest in the special bottles, with pledges exceeding $20....
http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2007/10/medium_bottles23.jpg
"This part of the process will be over soon,'' he wrote of the trial. "We will continue through the next unknown number of years always wondering what an impact Laura would have had in this world. (Oh right! She could have been another Amy Biehl (http://www.rjgeib.com/heroes/amy/amy.html))

"We will do everything we can do to make a positive statement for Laura's life.

Where to donate
Web site: www.sharelaurashope.com.
The charity: World Vision - dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to help them reach their potential by dealing with issues of poverty and injustice.
Other details: You can also give directly to World Vision online at firstgiving.com/sharelaurashope.

Full Story (http://www.mlive.com/news/annarbornews/index.ssf?/base/news-24/119314865012700.xml&coll=2)

Federal report slams
EMU crime response

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The Ann Arbor News (MI)
July 03, 2007

Eastern Michigan University not only failed to alert the public about a suspected homicide on campus last winter, but worsened the potential danger by issuing misleading statements and providing false reassurances, a federal investigation concluded.

The U.S. Department of Education report, issued Tuesday, found EMU in violation of the federal Clery Act in numerous cases dating back to 2003.

The most egregious violation was EMU's handling of information in the wake of the death of student Laura Dickinson, whose body was found in her dorm room Dec. 15.
But the report also shows a pattern of violations of the campus crime reporting act - from failing to update daily crime logs to underreporting sexual assaults on campus by misclassifying them….

EMU Regents chairman Tom Sidlik said the board will discuss the report over the next week and will consider it along with the independent report by the law firm of Butzel Long. The law firm's report, released June 8, contained many of the same findings as the federal report.

But unlike the Butzel Long report, the Department of Education investigation did not use names or discuss who knew what when, with the exception of campus public safety personnel....

Full Story (http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/2007/07/federal_report_slams_emu_crime.html)

Full length is 575 pages, short is 10.
Butzel Long Report (http://www.emich.edu/regents/Butzel_Long_investigation/)

19 pages
USDEA Repot (http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/2007/07/EMU_Final_Draft.pdf)

EMU receives final report from
U.S. Department of Education
regarding handling of
death of Laura Dickinson

www.emich.edu
Eastern Michigan University, YPSILANTI
Nov. 20, 2007

...The DOE final report does not include punitive action for EMU. The DOE report states that it refers its findings to the Department’s Administrative Actions and Appeals Division (AAAD) for consideration of possible administrative action, such as fines.

The 26-page document restates each of the seven preliminary findings, evaluates EMU’s response to each and provides a final determination for each response.

The seven findings included:
failure to provide a “timely warning” in response to a homicide investigation of an on-campus student death;
lack of administrative capability;
lack of a timely warning policy;
failure to properly disclose crime statistics;
lack of adequate policy statements;
failure to report all required statistics occurring on public property and in non-campus buildings and property;
and failure to properly maintain the crime log.

...The final report also notes several concerns that include EMU’s process of obtaining crime data from local police agencies; the specific listing of all Clery Act crimes in EMU’s policies/procedures; EMU’s updating of the DOE’s Crime Statistics Web Site; and EMU’s response to the August 2005 loss/theft of master keys.

Source (http://www.emich.edu/univcomm/releases/112007doe.html)

EMU to pay
slain student's family
$2.5M


www.detnews.com
The Detroit News
Thursday, December 13, 2007

Eastern Michigan University will pay $2.5 million to the family of Laura Dickinson, the 22-year-old student from Hastings who was found dead in her Hill Hall dorm room last year.

Under the settlement agreement announced today, university did not admit any liability in connection with her death.

"Eastern Michigan University has reached an agreement with the Dickinson Family and estate regarding the resolution of their claims," Don Loppnow, EMU's executive vice president and provost, said in a statement. "The Dickinson family remains in the thoughts and prayers of the entire campus community."

Bob Dickinson, Laura's father, said he couldn't comment on the agreement.
"We are not allowed to talk about Eastern or the settlement or anything," Dickinson said Thursday.

Laura Dickinson's body was found in her dorm room Dec. 15, 2006. She was naked from the waist down and had a pillow over her head. But the university told Dickinson's family and the campus community that no foul play was suspected.

Ten weeks later police arrested fellow student Orange Taylor III, 21, and charged him with rape and murder. Until then, the Dickinson family thought their daughter had died of natural causes brought on by a heart arrhythmia....

Full Story (http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071213/UPDATE/712130496)

EMU Gets Fined For
Clery Act Violation

www.clickondetroit.com
Detroit News
December 18, 2007

Eastern Michigan University faces $357,500 in fines from the U.S. Department of Education, in large part related to violations stemming from the cover-up of the rape-killing of a student in her dorm room.

Eastern Michigan officials said they will request a hearing as part of the Department of Education process. If EMU were to make an appeal, it must be made before Jan. 4.
Laura Dickinsonhttp://www.clickondetroit.com/2007/0716/13689251_240X180.jpg
"The ruling by the DOE is consistent with the Regents’ internal report, as well as the DOE’s Program Review Report,” said Donald M. Loppnow, provost and executive vice president of EMU. “We expected this and we will accept the final outcome once we have completed the process."

"It is very important to note that EMU has moved forward with its measures to improve campus safety and security," Loppnow said.
Those measures include:

• increasing police patrols on campus
• hiring a security firm to augment the EMU Department of Public Safety
• extending staff hours in the resident halls
• enhancing the video surveillance system on campus
• hiring TranSystems, of East Lansing, to conduct a comprehensive security audit
• conducting a national search for a new director of public safety....

DOE report Clery Act violations (http://www.clickondetroit.com/download/2007/1218/14884653.pdf)

Full Story (http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/14883352/detail.html?rss=det&psp=news)

EMU slaying suspect asks
for court-appointed attorney

http://blog.mlive.com
The Ann Arbor News
December 19, 2007


An Eastern Michigan University student accused of killing a fellow student asked a judge today to appoint him a new attorney, after his previous counsel withdrew from the case.

A representative from the Washtenaw County Public Defender's Office told Chief Circuit Judge Archie Brown the office would need time to make arrangements to represent Orange Taylor III, 21, of Southfield. The pre-trial was rescheduled for Jan. 9.

Taylor's previous lawyer, Alvin Keel of Detroit, filed a motion to withdraw Dec. 5. He made no statement on the record about that decision.
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Taylor is expected to stand trial a second time in the slaying and sexual assault of fellow EMU student Laura Dickinson, 22, in her dorm room in December 2006.

Dickinson's body was found partially nude on the floor with Taylor's semen on her thigh.

Keel maintained during the first trial that Dickinson was dead when Taylor entered her dorm room to steal items, and that Taylor masturbated over her body. T.N.B.

The trial ended in a hung jury.

The second trial was set to begin Jan. 28, but the change in attorneys will likely delay it.

Source (http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/2007/12/emu_slaying_suspect_asks_for_c.html)

A beautiful girl, and the only child of that good family. Based on this alone every nigger and jew on the earth should not even wonder why they are being removed when the time comes. They have obliterated that family for all time.

Laura Dickinson's desire to help lives on

Family finds way to raise money for cause she believed in

www.mlive.com
THE ANN ARBOR NEWS
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

By the time she was a teenager, Laura Dickinson felt a sharp need to reach out to African children who are orphaned or vulnerable because of the AIDS epidemic there....

Her passion and legacy will be remembered through a collaboration between her family and the Jones Soda Co. aimed at raising money for those Laura wanted to help....

Laura's father, Robert Dickinson, spoke of his daughter and the new effort Monday morning while awaiting a verdict in the trial of Orange Taylor III.

"Share Laura's Hope'' was created in her honor to benefit World Vision (http://www.worldvision.org/about_us.nsf/child/history?Open&lid=294&lpos=top_drp_History), a humanitarian organization that tackles poverty and injustice worldwide....
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The fundraising efforts grew out of Laura's deep and long-held interest in the children of Africa, Robert Dickinson said. Her interest in the struggles in Africa began when she was in high school....


Unbelievable, your daughter is killed by a nigger, so what does this guy do? Funds a charity to breed more niggers, so that some other White men's daughters may be murdered, What an asshole.
I remember on a VNN special broadcast, I think it was Hitler's birthday last
year, there was an interview with a former KGB officer who said that (paraphrasing) "once a generation is brainwashed, they can be confronted with the truth and not recognize it, even it they know it to be true. It can take several generations exposed to truth, before they can overcome the brainwashing." I believe this to be the case with many Whites; the result of jew takeover of media, edjewcation, and all other information outlets and power centers.

This article is dated July 3 but it just showed up on my Google alert for Cleary Act+EMU today. It’s better than most articles I’ve seen on this subject

Report shows numerous Clery Act violations

http://blog.mlive.com
The Ann Arbor News, Michigan
July 03, 2007

Over the last four years, Eastern Michigan University has routinely failed to comply with a federal campus crime reporting law by inaccurately classifying crimes on campus, lacking the necessary policies and neglecting to update daily logs, the U.S. Department of Education found.

Those systemic problems were uncovered by the federal agency during its probe into how EMU handled information in the death of student Laura Dickinson last December.

Officials say the university's failure to properly adhere to the Clery Act may have contributed to its response in the wake of Dickinson's death, which also violated the Clery Act.

"(The previous violations) are what led to the problems (in the Dickinson case)," said S. Daniel Carter, senior vice president for Security on Campus, the organization that filed the Clery Act violation complaint.
The most serious violation was EMU's failure to acknowledge Dickinson was raped and murdered until a suspect was arrested 10 weeks later.
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But the report also found that campus crime statistics - a benchmark parents and potential students often use when considering colleges - have downplayed serious crimes on campus. The most glaring example was eight cases of sexual assaults labeled non-forcible when they should have been listed as forcible.

"The findings in this program review report indicate numerous and systemic violations by EMU of the Clery Act requirements. EMU misreported required statistics, failed to establish and maintain adequate polices and failed to take action to ensure the safety and well being of the campus community," the report said. "The findings also demonstrate a lack of adequate institutional training, oversight and supervision in assuring EMU's compliance with Clery Act requirements."

When universities fail to publicly report crimes, they often do so because they are concerned about image, Carter said. "It's about scrutiny and accountability," he said.

As a result of its findings, the Department of Education is requiring EMU to take several steps to correct and improve its compliance with the Clery Act.
One such measure is an independent audit of all crime data for the 2004, 2005 and 2006 calendar years. EMU also must institute training programs for personnel, and Security on Campus has already been hired to conduct such training in mid-August, Carter said.

In addition, EMU has to submit a corrective plan to the department that includes a policy for providing a "timely warning" of incidents - something the university doesn't currently have, the report said.
Carter said the "lack of a timely warning policy was the most significant" violation of past practices not related to the Dickinson case.

"Most institutions have something in place, even if it doesn't meet all the requirements," he said.
EMU Public Safety Director Cindy Hall, who has headed the department since 2004, did not return phone calls seeking comment.

The violations in reporting crime statistics date back to 2003, the report said. In addition to misclassifying crimes, there are many cases where the university released conflicting crime data in different reports.

The violations in EMU's annual security reporting were found in the areas of:

• Not accurately reporting the numbers of forcible and non-forcible sex offenses. The report said eight instances reported as non-forcible sex offenses should have been reported as forcible sexual assaults in a report distributed to students and employees.

• Not reporting arrest statistics for alcohol, drug and illegal weapons possession violations by location as required.

• Not properly reporting campus judiciary referrals for liquor, drug and illegal weapons possession violations, by not including the number of violations that occurred in dormitories or residential housing as required.

The report noted that EMU adjusted its crime statistics for the past several years while the Department of Education's review was under way in April. But even the revised data is conflicting, the report said.
During the independent look at campus crime data, an auditor will have to compare all original incident reports over the course of those three years against the annual crime reports.

Carter said it's not unusual for universities to have problems with reporting crimes, but they aren't usually of the magnitude of the violations at EMU. He said most universities are getting better at Clery Act compliance, thanks to a 2005 handbook published by the education department.

"For example, with sexual assault cases, we've seen them reported as ill students/medical assists," Carter said.
Dickinson's death was classified on the crime log as a medical assist, and that entry was never updated, the report said.

EMU also was faulted in the federal report for not including crime statistics on public property or noncampus buildings that it should have obtained from other police agencies. The report said EMU officials claimed they have historically been unable to get that information from the Ypsilanti Police Department, but campus police had no evidence that they tried to obtain that data.

Ypsilanti Police Chief Matt Harshberger said it was "totally inaccurate" for EMU to say city police would not provide information to campus police. Harshberger said EMU never asked for that information until about two weeks ago.

"We've always provided to them any statistical information they've asked for, but the first time they specifically asked for a bunch of data was just recently," Harshberger said. "And we gave it to them. We have no reason not to."

The Department of Education report also uncovered several violations in EMU's policies. Those are:

• The policy statement disclosing how EMU complies and prepares campus crime statistics is inaccurate/incomplete.

• The policy statement related to sexual assault procedures is incomplete.

• There is no statement that indicates how information can be obtained on registered sex offenders.

EMU updated its online handbook recently with those policies, the report noted, but said violations still exist.

Source (http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/2007/07/report_shows_numerous_clery_ac.html)

Security on Campus Inc. (http://www.securityoncampus.org/)

EMU Dept. of Pub. Safety, Annual Security Report (Cleary Act Handbook) (www.emich.edu/publicsafety/ASR07.pdf)

Dept. of Ed. Report on EMU (www.emich.edu/DOE_report/EMU_Final_Draft.pdf)

I think I'll ape the negroes and name my first child "Lemon".

Or maybe "Mango".

Jurors seated in second
trial of Orange Taylor

Monday March 31, 2008, 8:17 PM
mlive.com
Michigan News
http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/03/medium_orange-taylor.jpg
Orange Taylor III
Lawyers involved in the second trial of a former Eastern Michigan University student charged with killing fellow student Laura Dickinson, settled on a panel eight of women and six men to hear the case in Washtenaw County Circuit Court.

Jury selection in the trial of Orange Taylor III was delayed about an hour this morning as attorneys haggled over what to call Dickinson throughout the trial.

In one of two pre-trial motions filed late Friday, Taylor's attorney, Assistant Public Defender Laura Graham argued that referring to Dickinson as a victim and her dorm room as the crime scene would be prejudicial.

Hinting at the crux of Taylor's defense, Graham said Dickinson's death was not a homicide.

Dickinson, 22, was found dead in her Hill Hall dorm room in December 2006.

Assistant Washtenaw County Prosecutor Blaine Longsworth said he would give potential jurors benefit of doubt.

"I think it's inappropriate for the court to be, in essence, the language police," Longsworth said. "Whether Ms. Dickinson is referred to as a victim doesn't suggest the matter has been adjudicated. They'll know they're here to adjudicate it."
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Bob & Deb Dickinson

Circuit Judge Archie Brown denied the motion.

Taylor, 21, is charged with open murder and other felonies in the December 2006 slaying of Laura Dickinson, whose partially clothed body was discovered in her Eastern Michigan University dorm room.

Jurors deadlocked in Taylor's first trial after days of deliberations last fall.

In her other motion, Graham argued a pair of panties police found during a search of Taylor's Southfield home should be excluded from trial because there was no evidence, either physical or from witnesses at the first trial, linking them to Dickinson.

Police believed the panties were taken from Dickinson's room.

"They're only being used to show that Mr. Taylor is a predator, or collects trophies. There is no link and, therefore, they are irrelevant," Graham said.

Brown granted the motion, but added he could reconsider if evidence linking the panties to Dickinson was introduced this week.
http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/03/medium_laura-graham.jpg
Public Defender
Laura Graham
Source:
http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/03/jurors_seated_in_second_trail.html

EMU Slaying Trial
Gets Under Way

April 01, 2008 00:04AM

The Ann Arbor News
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Like many other college students, Laura Dickinson looked forward to getting through finals week and her first semester at Eastern Michigan University so she could enjoy the holiday season with her family.

But what set the 22-year-old apart was the tragic and terrifying way she was attacked and killed inside her dorm room in December 2006, Washtenaw County Assistant Prosecutor Blaine Longsworth said at the opening of her accused killer's second trial Monday.

As he did during Orange Taylor III's initial trial last fall - which ended with a deadlocked jury - Longsworth portrayed Dickinson's death as every woman's worst nightmare.

Many of the arguments on both sides were nearly identical to those in the first trial, and several witnesses are taking the stand for a second time this week in the high-profile case.

With pictures of the smiling Hastings native displayed on a projector screen, Longsworth described how she awoke to an intruder in the middle of the night. She was dragged to the floor, sexually assaulted, and left suffocated by her pillow, naked from the waist down, Longsworth said.
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"What she woke up to, how she takes her last precious breaths, and how she is left to decompose is simply horrific," he said. "This case is about a chilling disregard for life, hard scientific evidence and efforts by the defendant to cover it up."......

Source:
http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/2008/04/emu_slaying_trial_gets_under_w.html

Complete Ann Arbor News:
http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/breaking_news/emu_trial/

Video Prosecution's Opening Statements:
http://videos.mlive.com/annarbornews/2008/04/orange_taylor_iii_day_1_prosec.html

Video Defense's Opening Statements:
http://videos.mlive.com/annarbornews/2008/03/orange_taylor_iii_day_1_defens.html

Unbelievable, your daughter is killed by a nigger, so what does this guy do? Funds a charity to breed more niggers, so that some other White men's daughters may be murdered, What an asshole.
I remember on a VNN special broadcast, I think it was Hitler's birthday last
year, there was an interview with a former KGB officer who said that (paraphrasing) "once a generation is brainwashed, they can be confronted with the truth and not recognize it, even it they know it to be true. It can take several generations exposed to truth, before they can overcome the brainwashing." I believe this to be the case with many Whites; the result of jew takeover of media, edjewcation, and all other information outlets and power centers.

You said it better than I could ever hope to.

Scientific evidence introduced
at trial for Orange Taylor

April 01, 2008
The Ann Arbor News

http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/2008/04/large_040108taylortrial.JPG
Assistant Prosecutor Blaine Longsworth, right,
asks Jennifer Dohring of the State Police crime
lab questions about DNA evidence during the
trial Tuesday.
After a swift start Tuesday, testimony in the second trial for Orange Taylor III slowed considerably as the focus turned to crucial but potentially confusing scientific evidence.

But jurors selected to ultimately decide Taylor's fate in the slaying of Eastern Michigan University student Laura Dickinson, 22, appear to be prepared for the complex testimony.

Among the 14-member panel is a retired chemist and researcher from Pfizer who said he's been on at least six past juries in civil and criminal cases.

Another is a fairly recent University of Michigan graduate with a biology degree who works professionally in the field, and a third juror is seeking an advanced degree in financial engineering, which relies on mathematics and statistics.....

....The jury includes students, young professionals, middle-aged and retired residents from across the county. Unlike the first trial, no black jurors were seated. Taylor is black; Dickinson was white.

Source:
http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/2008/04/scientific_evidence_introduced.html

Defense: EMU student died of natural causes

In opening arguments,
attorney says alleged
killer had nothing to do
with Laura Dickinson's death.

April 1, 2008
The Detroit News
ANN ARBOR
http://cmsimg.detnews.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=C3&Date=20080401&Category=METRO&ArtNo=804010363&Ref=AR&Profile=1409
The question of whether Eastern Michigan University student Laura Dickinson was killed or died of natural causes was at the heart of opening arguments as the retrial of Orange Taylor III got under way Monday.

The first trial in October was declared a mistrial when the jury couldn't reach a verdict after three days of deliberations. At least one juror in that trial said she doubted Dickinson was killed....

...The defense will try to show that Laura Dickinson was not murdered, but died of natural causes due to a previously diagnosed irregular heartbeat and the stress of finals week. The prosecution's case will center on surveillance videotape of Taylor entering Hill Hall the night Dickinson was last seen alive and then exiting later. His DNA was found on her body....

....The court dismissed 24 jurors for various reasons before both prosecution and defense agreed on a jury of 14, which consists of eight women and six men....

....Family members and other supporters on both sides listened intently as two of Dickinson's friends, a boyfriend and a former campus police officer testified in the case....



Source:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080401/METRO/804010363/1409/METRO

Family of Orange Taylor III speaks about verdict

April 07, 2008

Mlive.com

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When a Washtenaw County jury came back with a verdict just hours after deliberations began, Orange Taylor III's family didn't think it was a good sign. And indeed, Taylor was declared guilty.

"I kind of expected (the guilty verdict) because of the short deliberations," Taylor's brother, Genero Cofield, said after the verdict was read.

But that doesn't mean family members were prepared for the guilty finding.

"The word guilty is a very big word," Cofield said. "We're very disappointed. We still believe that (Taylor) did not kill Laura Dickinson."

But he also said, "We hope the Dickinson family can have some closure."

Cofield said the family plans to appeal. He said they believe Taylor was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

"This is a tragic day for both families. The Dickinsons lost a daughter and today my mother lost a son," he said.

Interim Eastern University Michigan president reacts to verdict

Eastern Michigan University Executive Vice President and Provost Don Loppnow issued a statement after Orange Taylor III was found guilty of the murder of Laura Dickinson.

The statement says:

/////"Our first thoughts are with the Dickinson family and friends.
/////We hope this provides the closure the family has sought.
/////The entire Eastern Michigan University community continues
/////to wish them the very best."

The slaying caused controversy on campus after it was revealed that EMU issued misleading statements after Dickinson's body was found in her dorm room in December 2006. EMU officials did not acknowledge her death was a homicide until 10 weeks later when Taylor was arrested.

The ensuing controversy led to an independent probe and U.S. Department of Education investigation. Both issued reports finding EMU in violation of the federal Clery Act, which requires timely warnings of crimes on campus.

EMU was fined, and three top administrators - President John Fallon, Vice President for Student Affairs Jim Vick and Public Safety Director Cindy Hall - were ousted.

EMU agreed to pay Dickinson's family $2.5 million in a settlement.

Source:
http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/04/family_of_orange_taylor_iii_sp.html

Laura Dickinson's Hometown
Happy With Guilty Verdict

April 07, 2008
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Bob and Deb Dickinson

HASTINGS - In the small town where Laura Dickinson grew up and her father operates a coffee shop, residents said the outrage they felt last fall has now been replaced by satisfaction.

Many voiced anger when a Washtenaw County jury deadlocked during the first trial for Orange Taylor III last October. But Monday, a second jury found Taylor guilty of murdering the 22-year-old Hastings native in her Eastern Michigan University dorm room in December 2006.

"The whole town's pretty happy," said Chris Bolthouse, owner of Help Hardware on State Street. "When the verdict came the last time, there were a lot of upset people around."....

Source:
http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/2008/04/residents_in_laura_dickinsons.html