Queer Dec 17, 2024 at 2:31 pm

They Allege DOC Is Violating Her State Constitutional Rights

Kim was moved into a men's prison after she was discovered having consensual sex with her roommate. Courtesy of a Friend of Amber Kim

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1

So... prison isn't any fun and you're not enjoying yourself. Sounds about right. I wonder how the women felt sharing their space with someone who looks like, acts like, and seems to behave like a man?

2

So 'she' was having sex with a cellmate against the rules of the prison. This is why I don't donate to the ACLU anymore.

3

Just so people understand what Kim did to land herself in prison:

casetext.com/case/state-v-kim-7

FACTS
Richard and Teresa Kim did not show up for work the morning of December 6, 2006. Their respective colleagues tried unsuccessfully to contact them and then alerted the police that something could be wrong. Two sheriff's deputies went to the Kims' home and found signs that the occupants had been assaulted. They found a cellular phone spattered with blood on the ground. They saw blood stains and a bucket in the entryway. They found no indications of forced entry.

Deputy Mark Smoldt spoke to the Kims' adult daughter, Jessica Kim. She told him what vehicles her mother, father, and 18-year-old brother, Bryan Kim, normally drove. Richard's pickup and Teresa's car were parked inside the garage. Bryan's red hatchback car was not in the driveway or in the garage. The deputies forced entry into the house. They saw more blood in the entryway area along with a bucket, sponge, and vacuum. They saw a lot more blood on the floor of the entryway closet and bloody garments hanging in the closet. A "Rambo-style" knife sat on the kitchen counter. In the upstairs master bedroom, a gun safe had been hacked apart; several guns and power tools were strewn across the floor.

For the sake of clarity, we use Kim family members' first names for the remainder of this opinion. We intend no disrespect.

The deputies surveyed the perimeter of the home and property. They saw, through the shop window, a Bobcat front loader with blood-stained snow on the bucket. They noticed that Bobcat tracks marked paths to the shop, front porch, and garage. Gouge marks on the front porch and in the garage matched the teeth on the Bobcat bucket and the Bobcat's chains. And the front porch appeared to be freshly washed. A deputy forced entry into the shop and found Richard and Teresa's bodies inside the bucket. Their bodies had plastic bags over their heads and were tied to the bucket. Richard died from five stab wounds. Teresa was asphyxiated by ligatures (zip ties) around her neck; she had also suffered blunt trauma to her head and body. The medical examiner estimated the times of death as the evening or night of December 5, 2006.

Detectives took Bryan from the high school he attended and brought him to the Spokane Public Safety Building. They informed Bryan of his rights. He declined to waive those rights. The detectives then arrested Bryan for the murder of his parents and executed a warrant to search him, his clothes, and his belongings.

Teresa's colleagues reported to the detectives that she had spoken to them about her concerns over her son. She asked one colleague if Bryan could live at the colleague's house from January 2007 until he graduated high school. And Teresa left work early the Friday before her death because of concerns related to Bryan. That same night, Teresa and Richard did not make it to a holiday party they had planned to attend.

Detectives found a billfold on the floor of the garage and a wallet containing Richard's license in the kitchen. They found Richard and Teresa's credit, debit, and membership cards in the kitchen and in the area of the basement used by Bryan. Two ATM withdrawals had been made from a bank account belonging to Richard, Teresa, and Jessica, totaling $1,003.50 on the morning of December 6. The same day, Bryan deposited $1,000 in cash into his checking and savings accounts. He also purchased a compass and a center console at NAPA Auto Parts and a video game at Fred Meyer's before going to the high school that morning.

4

Yeah…
Amber Kim is the real victim here.

5

We can talk about fairness in prison policies regardless of the crimes the inmates are incarcerated for, but the phrasing of "The degree to which Kim’s life has worsened can be measured in absolute terms: She’s gone from being a full-time college student with friends to sitting in solitary confinement" is pretty hard to garner sympathy for after knowing the details (@3).

6

@6 Yeah, I always attributed that sort of complete journalistic ethics failure to Rich Smith, but obviously, the new regime and Hannah Winter Murphy also can't be bothered with basic ethics. It's one thing to ignore a scumbag's history as irrelevant to the issue. It's another to mislead the reader into believing a contradictory history. At the risk of invoking Godwin's Law, that's like writing about Hitler by calling him a "tragic failed artist". You can't do that and claim to be a journalist.

7

I would note that the Times handles it correctly and ethically. They note the two murders as the cause of sentence while skipping the salacious details.


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