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  • Dana Snay’s Facebook Post Costs Father $80k

    A Florida teen may have just cost her dad a major cash flow opportunity after breaching a legal confidentiality agreement.

    According to the Miami Herald, Patrick Snay, 69, was the headmaster at Gulliver Preparatory School in Miami, Fla., for a number of years.

    In 2010, Gulliver did not renew his employment contract. Therefore, Patrick decided to sue the school for age discrimination and won an $80,000 settlement in 2011.

    Unfortunately, a Facebook post by his teenage daughter, Dana Snay, may have jeopardized those future funds.

    The Gulliver graduate turned to social media in February to boast about her father’s win.

    Dana’s post read:

    “Mama and Papa Snay won the case against Gulliver. Gulliver is now officially paying for my vacation to Europe this summer. SUCK IT.”

    Dana’s page, which has over 1,000 Facebook friends, is followed by a number of students and alumni from the school.(image)

    Only four days after confirming the payout, the status update eventually got back to the school’s lawyer. He then took necessary action to appeal the verdict.

    Clearly the issue at hand is not solely Dana’s fault, since her father is the one who actually violated the settlement’s standard confidential clause.

    He argues that he decided to tell Dana about it because she was already aware of the lawsuit and suffers from “psychological scars” caused by the school.

    “We knew what the restrictions were, yet we needed to tell her something,” he told the Miami Herald.

    Third District Court Judge Linda Ann Wells explained to the newspaper why the case was thrown out.

    “Snay violated the agreement by doing exactly what he had promised not to do,” she said. “His daughter then did precisely what the confidentiality agreement was designed to prevent.”

    Patrick currently is headmaster at Riviera Preparatory Academy in Coral Gables. His attempt at saving his money includes presenting the current ruling to the Florida Supreme Court. He plans to either appeal the ruling or request a rehearing.

    Depending on the details of the contract, it’s more than likely that Patrick will never reap the benefits of the 2011 settlement.

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  • Jodi Arias’ Second Penalty Phase Banned from Live Coverage, Judge Rules

    Maricopa County Superior Court Judge, Sherry Stephens, has rejected a bid by convicted killer, Jodi Arias, which would move her retrial from the city of Phoenix. In addition, Judge Stephens has ruled that no video be permitted in the courtroom when the trial resumes.

    Arias, 33, was convicted in May after admitting to the homicide of boyfriend, Travis Alexander. His executed body was discovered June 2008 in the bathtub of his Phoenix home. Travis suffered a gruesome slit to the throat, multiple stab wounds and a gunshot to the face.

    Contrary to popular belief, Arias asserts that she was fighting in self-defense. However, the case has been painted out as an act of jealousy due to the fact that the victim wanted to end the relationship to be with another woman.

    The first jury failed to reached a verdict on whether Arias should receive the death penalty, which then resulted in a second penalty phase. Arizona law permits prosecutors to seek the death penalty through yet another trial with a jury of new faces.

    The Associated Press reported “If the second jury fails to reach a verdict, the death penalty would be removed as an option, and the judge would sentence Arias to either spend her entire life behind bars or be eligible for release after 25 years.”

    This five-month trial has received extensive media coverage with backlashes from many who follow the case. In fear that the penalty phase would be unfair due to its media popularity, the defense attorneys requested that the trial be relocated to a different county. The attorneys also argued that by moving the trial, Arias would be avoiding such ridicule and chastisement from the public, which the attorneys claim she has been experiencing.

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    Thus, Stephens denied the proposal and reassured that there will be no warrant for live coverage, including mobile electronic devices. Also, she announced that the new jurors would have no prior knowledge and insight of the case.

    “The court has no basis for finding the publicity about this case has been so outrageous that it will turn the new sentencing proceeding into a mockery of justice or mere formality,” Stephens said.

    A recollection to last October verifies just how unpleasant people have taken to this murder trial, and it clearly seems others will not be supporting that appeal Jodi was asking for on Twitter.

    A retrial date has not been set.

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  • JonBenet Ramsey Sealed Documents To Be Released

    The case that still haunts us. Beautiful doe-eyed child pageant winner JonBenet Ramsey was only six-years-old when her beaten and strangled body was found on December 26, 1996 in the basement of her Boulder, Colorado, home. Her mother, Patsy Ramsey, claimed that a three page ransom note had been found. However, there was no sign of forced entry, and a paintbrush belonging to Patsy Ramsey was used to tighten the rope that strangled JonBenet.

    Eighteen sealed documents relating to the JonBenet Ramsey 1999 grand jury indictment case are to be opened on Friday per the order by Judge J. Robert Lowenbach, and against the protestations on behalf of John Ramsey.

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    Harold Haddon, who is the attorney for John Ramsey, wrote to District Attorney Stan Garrett in order to request that the documents remain sealed.

    “Public release of the allegations of an unprosecuted indictment only serves to further defame (John Ramsey) and his late wife Patricia Ramsey,” Haddon explained in the letter.

    Regardless of these concerns, the documents, which include nine pages about John Ramsey and nine pages about Patsy Ramsey will be released in accordance with Judge Lowenback’s order.

    “The court is sympathetic to the position of Mr. Ramsey, but has nonetheless concluded that as an ‘official action’ of the grand jury, the ‘indictment’ must be released,” read the order written by Judge J. Robert Lowenbach.

    Many still question why the prosecution did not attempt to charge JonBenet’s parents. As the years pass, more and more questions seem to arise than answers. The analysis of these soon-to-be released documents may provide answers to the tragedy of a case that the public cannot seem to get over.

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