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A pRiL 27, 2011
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V OLuME XXXiii, N O .26
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Sonny Bonoho
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World Rhythm Fest
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Black in Latin America
C hallenging P eoPle to S haPe a B etter F uture n ow
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EastEr Eggs
MLk
parade
Bomb
White supremacist
suspect in Spokane
pleads not guilty
PHOTO BY SuSan Fried
By nicholas k. Geranios
The associated Press
Marquess Huggins, 1, drops a couple of eggs he found into a basket during the Jefferson Community Center Egg
Hunt April 23 in Seattle. Dozens of families and children took advantage of a beautiful day to enjoy a pancake
breakfast and search for plastic eggs filled with candy and prizes.
tacoma killer Left trail of Murder, Rape
Parents suing Pierce County, City for wrongful death of 12-year-old
By adam lynn
The News Tribune
TaCOma, Wash. (AP) —
Terapon Adhahn was angry the
night of July 4, 2007.
He’d hoped to pick up his son
for a little one-on-one time that
evening, but the child and the
boy’s mother weren’t home
when he stopped by unan-
nounced.
Adhahn, then 42, flew into a
rage, even though it wasn’t his
night to have his son.
“I wanted to destroy a human,
cause pain,” he told two FBI
agents during a Sept. 8, 2008,
interview at the Washington
State Penitentiary in Walla
Walla, according to recently
filed court documents.
He still was “seeing red” a
few hours later when he spotted
12-year-old Zina Linnik pedal-
ing her bicycle on Tacoma’s
Hilltop.
Within five minutes, the girl
was in his van, bound with plas-
tic ties and praying aloud,
Adhahn told the agents. Not
long after that, she was dead.
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Tacoma police detective
Lindsey Wade documented
Adhahn’s comments in a report
she filed in June 2009. Wade
and fellow detective Bradley
Graham observed Adhahn’s
interview with the FBI.
She waited nine months to
write the report to give
Lakewood police more time to
investigate Adhahn’s possible
connection to the disappearance
of Adre’anna Jackson, a 10-
year-old girl who went missing
on her way to school in 2005
and later was found dead.
Detectives call Adhahn a per-
son of interest in that case, but
he’s not been charged.
Wade’s report - made public
recently as part of a wrongful
death lawsuit brought by Zina’s
parents — is the first public
glimpse of how Adhahn
snatched the girl, and why.
In the lawsuit, which seeks
unspecified damages, the family
contends Pierce County and the
state did not do enough to mon-
itor Adhahn and that the City of
Tacoma was negligent in not
See killer on page 3
SPOkane, Wash. (AP) — The man
charged with planting a bomb along the
route of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day
parade in Spokane pleaded not guilty on
Monday to the four charges against him,
including new hate crimes charges.
Kevin Harpham, 36, entered the pleas
before U.S. Magistrate Cynthia Imbrogno.
Harpham, who has extensive ties to white
supremacist groups, remains without bail in
the Spokane County Jail.
Public defender Roger Peven said after-
ward that the additional charges of a com-
mitting a hate crime and using a firearm
during a violent hate crime — which carries
a minimum sentence of 30 years — raise the
stakes for his client.
“This is very serious,’’ Peven said. But
two of the charges also carry maximum sen-
tences of life, and “that’s kind of high, too,’’
Peven said.
Harpham replied only to the magistrate’s
questions during the brief court appearance.
Trial is set for May 31 in federal court. The
bomb was found the morning of Jan. 17 and
was disabled before it could explode.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Rice could
not say if any more indictments are antici-
pated in the case.
Harpham last month pleaded not guilty to
attempted use of a weapon of mass destruc-
tion and unauthorized possession of an
unregistered explosive device. A grand jury
this month added the two additional
charges. The superseding indictment con-
tended Harpham planted the device in
advance of the Spokane parade ``because of
actual or perceived race, color and national
origin’’ of participants.
Legally, the bomb is considered a firearm,
Peven said.
The Hate Crimes Prevention Act was
passed by Congress in 2009, and this is its
first use in the Eastern District of
See BOmB on page 3
Mumia Abu-Jamal gets a Legal Break
Court grants new hearing for journalist on Death Row since 1982
By maryclaire dale
associated Press
PHiladelPHia (AP) — A federal
appeals court on Tuesday ordered a new
sentencing hearing for convicted police
killer and death-row activist Mumia Abu-
Jamal, finding for a second time that the
death-penalty instructions given to the jury
at his 1982 trial were potentially mislead-
ing.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals told
prosecutors to conduct the new sentencing
hearing for the former Black Panther within
six months or agree to a life sentence. Abu-
Jamal’s first-degree murder conviction still
stands in the fatal shooting of Officer Daniel
Faulkner, who was white.
District Attorney Seth Williams pledged
to mount another appeal to the U.S.
Supreme Court, at the urging of Faulkner’s
widow, Maureen.
“Yes, the criminal justice system in
Philadelphia, the criminal justice system in
America, have had a history of problems
and racism,” said Williams, the city’s first
black district attorney. “(But) this is not a
whodunit.”
See mumia on page 3