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Murderer sentenced to life without parole for Fargo dentist’s death
January 28, 2011 at 5:02 am in INFORUM
Michael Nakvinda, convicted in the murder of Fargo dentist Philip Gattuso in October 2009, was sentenced this morning to life in prison without parole. <a href=”http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/306553/”>Continue Reading</a>
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A bit of justice for Kennedy ……….
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Wonder who will be the first person the prosecution calls to the stand in the Kirkpatrick trial…..Hmmmm…
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After the trial was over Burdick stated that he wouldn’t be having Mr. Nakvinda testify at Kirkpatricks trial. Not to say that might not change, but that was the statement at that time.
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Can inmates testify? Just curious.
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They do all the time. Usually for lighter sentences. This time will be for revenge. Especially after being thrown under the bus with the “I was just talkin’. I didn’t mean it” excuse by Kirkpatrick when he testified at Nakvinda’s trial.
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Glad to see the jury didn’t buy into his pathetic “dog ate my homework” defense.
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lol okay
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Yeah, and he’ll get a life sentence too. Sorry, but to believe that this guy was sent here for anything but to kill Gattuso is lunacy.
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Overwhelming evidence I would say. Your initials suggest that you might be a family member of Mr. Nakvinda. While I commend you on the support of your family member, your time would be better served trying to figure out why in the world your brother would associate with a psychopath that would get his church to pray for the death of his grand daughters father. Then get him to actually ask for God’s forgiveness for committing such a heinous act of violence.
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Ok so your not a family member.. fine.. great. But I didn’t assume anything, I stated that your initials suggest you might be a family member.. But you’ve stated your not.. fine..
There is no doubt in my mind that Nakvinda is an evil man who carried out an even more evil man’s wishes.
I am glad that he got life in prison, I’m just sad that true justice wasn’t carried out. “If you live by the sword you shall die by the sword”.
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lulz.. ok whatever dude..
oh and get bent.
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dnk_okc – when i click on your forum name it comes up Denise Nakvinda. That would lead me to believe you are a family member. When i search the web I find an article that states Michael has a sister named Denise. So I believe Maverick was spot on in his original assessment of you probably being related.
I agree with the others that to believe that Nakvinda wasn’t here to do the dirty work of Kirkpatrick is sheer lunacy. I hope he can sleep at night knowing that he killed a small childs father.
I believe that this is step one of justice for Phillip Gatuso and Kennedy. I’m glad that the judge in that case has determined that his confession will be allowed and hopefully he will get the same or stiffer sentance than Nakvinda.
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One thing is for sure, I doubt they teach spelling in OK.
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You might consider using proper English if you want to be taken seriously. A spelling class or two might also help. This person from OK trying to sound all “all knowing”, yet does not know how to spell. Stupid, Stupid, Stupid.
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dkn okc, if not a family member than just as twisted to support him. The evidence was overwhelming. You should have followed it more if you had such interest.
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DKN OKC, in your first post you stated according to a good source the real killer is out on bond. Why on earth did you wait until the sentence was announced before sharing this bombshell on, of all places, a newspaper blog page? Some good friend you are.
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Of course, how presumptuous of me. Some good citizen and supporter of justice you are.
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Your user info pasted here: dkn okc @denisenakvinda
So Denise, did you and Michael get your ability to blatantly lie from your Mom, your Dad or both?
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Some of us are better with making the correct assumptions. Good work Mav!
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Has Kirkpatrict asked for forgiveness? I don’t think so since he is denying that he told Mike to go for it. Oh, and now he is saying that his confession should be thrown out. If there was any remorse, Kirkpatrick would man-up, confess his sins, and be at the mercy of the court and accept the consequences. But, oh no, he wants his freedom since he and his family’s ploy didn’t work. Obviously–no conscience.
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Let’s see…… The father-in-law offered him money, the car and bloody hammer were found in a place he rented, he couldn’t remember where he claimed to have to stayed in Wahpeton (a white house? give me a break…)
The bottom line is that a little girl who lost her mother has lost her father and SHE should be the center of all our concerns.
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Too little…it should be the death penalty. All this will do is force the tax payers to spend what is it now about $35000/year to support this guy for the rest of his life? And don’t forget several hundreds of thousands more in appeals likely as well. When your body has a cancer you have it cut out. After his heinous crime he should get the same consideration as a cancer on society.
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Opinionated, cancer has no cure. Cancer also spreads, he doesn’t. How can you justify one murder with another? Besides, if the judge wasn’t there at the crime scene when it occurred, then there isn’t any evidence that proves 100% that he is the murderer… I seem to remember something not too long ago where courts reviewed about 165 death penalty cases and found out that 35 or so were wrongfully convicted and should have never received such a terrible punishment. I’ll tell you this: if it’s money you are worried about, be glad its only the $35,000 a year. If he were executed, but wrongfully convicted, it would be in the millions instead. Sure, the courts may have been right and hit the nail on the head, but they sure do get a lot of things wrong also.
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oh brendan, why didn’t we house rodriguez for life then? is executing rodriguez murder??? or was executing rodriguez and not this white trash or the other white trash of a man just a matter of exposing the myth of a color blind justice system and the racism of north dakotans. i preached from the beginning these two white trash should of been turn over to the feds to fry ( there’s is federal statue covering this) based solely on my belief in equitable justice.
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Good question, maybe they should of kept him for life. The definition of murder is “to kill intentionally and with premeditation.” Therefore, execution IS in fact murder. I agree that North Dakotan’s are quite racist, but you calling him “white trash” is just as bad. In my eyes, you aren’t much better.
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“I agree that North Dakotan’s are quite racist,…”
You’re statement lumps all people in the state into a group and stereotypes them – that makes you no better than racists.
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To administer justice is a proper role for government. In fact, it is the first role that is stated in the preamble to the constitution (establish justice). Housing him for life is a valid use of our tax dollars.
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it for sure doesn’t say anything about equitable justice. this white trash and the other white trash (out on bail) should have been turn over to the federal government for execution. if you don’t know there’s a federal statute covering this, there is.
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just my 2 cents, you should keep your 2 cents, pick up 3 pennies off the ground, and proceed to make a nickel. Use that nickel to go and buy a clue. For talking down upon NoDak and how racist it is, you sure like to use the terms “white trash” a lot. You also seem to think that everything deserves the death penalty. This man couldn’t even been put in Fargo at the time of the murder. How can he have killed someone without being here? So, because you don’t like him and formed a biased opinion, you think he needs to be executed. Also, people are out on bail because a judge approved them to be out in public as long as they posted the bail to make sure they return to court. Obviously, if the crime was serious enough, they wouldn’t be out and about. But that’s okay because according to you, they need to die to. Why doesn’t the USA just execute all the people going through the justice system while they are at it? Save your 2 cents because it isn’t even worth that.
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Rodriguez took his victim across state lines, this guy was convicted of killing a person in the state. State has jurisdictions over crimes in their state. Feds have jurisdiction over taking people from one state to the next and killing them. ‘We’ didn’t kill Rodriguez, the feds. are responsible for that.
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So, what are you trying to imply- that you are Denise Nakvinda’s cat-who knows how to log in and post at In-Forum? ?
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I hate the tone of your post, but I’m going to answer. North Dakota has not put a man to death since 1905. It is my understanding that we no longer have a death penalty. Rodriguez was convicted under federal laws and penalties and as such was subject to the federal death penalty as one of the punishments for his crime.
I cannot answer why the Nakvinda case was not tried in a federal court of law other than the commission of the crime was conducted in North Dakota even though the persons of interest were from out of state. Rodriguez crossed state lines with Dru which is why his was a federal case.
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it wasnt a federal case on the murder- the difference between the two is she was kidnapped in ND- and the body was found in MN. They crossed state lines – they chose to prosecute rodriquez in fed court.
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I’d like to see some numbers on the conviction rate in ND courts as compared to other states. I bet that ours are pretty high. I get the impression that people here understand the jury instructions on burden of proof differently than in many other places.
Burdick really didn’t have much to work with on this one, he couldn’t even put the guy in Fargo….still got him.
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As conservative and red neck as ND is, why not is there a death penalty? I keep hearing Republicans talking about death squads. What are these for? Can one of these take care of this man? Texas has the death penalty and is more liberal than ND. Do you like to support these people for all of their lives?
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ND has plenty of funds to keep the D-bags on the inside, when we run short then we may consider trimming the waste at the State Penn.
Death sqauds are redneckish and more a way of the past, there are still innocent people on death row.
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yep, stick with that whole “framed” thing, it’s working well for you so far.
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