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		<title>Prosecutor reflects on trial, conviction of Joe &#8216;Fatter&#8217; Blacknell in Richmond gang case</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/03/19/prosecutor-reflects-on-trial-conviction-of-joe-fatter-blacknell-in-richmond-gang-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the jury’s deliberation dragged into a second week, the pressure mounted. Always unflappable in the courtroom, prosecuting attorney Derek Butts nevertheless found himself wracked with inner anxiety. “Those two weeks were brutal,” Butts said. For more than a month in the trial of Joe Blacknell III, Butts’ scratchy monotone had never wavered. Hostile witnesses...]]></description>
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		<title>Blacknell convicted in murder of Marcus Russell, other counts</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/03/08/blacknell-convicted-in-murder-of-marcus-russell-other-charges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 02:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Blacknell III was found guilty Thursday of 20 felony counts, including the first degree murder of Marcus Russell in 2009. Jurors reached their decision after more than eight days of deliberations. Blacknell, 21, was convicted on 20 out of 22 felonies with which he was charged. He was found not guilty on two counts...]]></description>
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		<title>Blacknell&#8217;s mother takes stand in Richmond murder case</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/02/23/blacknells-mother-takes-stand-in-richmond-murder-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Blacknell III’s mother took the stand in his defense Wednesday, testifying that her son is a hip-hop fan and father of three, and not a violent gang member who killed one man and wounded at least four others in 2009, as police and prosecutors allege. “You guys make him out to be this,” said...]]></description>
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		<title>Blacknell defense opens case, focuses on science and inconsistent witnesses</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/02/22/blacknell-defense-opens-case-focuses-on-science-and-inconsistent-witnesses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the first day of witness testimony for the defense, public defender Diana Garrido spent several hours focused on what may be the prosecution’s biggest weaknesses in its case against Joe Blacknell III: shaky witnesses and inconclusive scientific evidence. The prosecution’s star witness, a woman shot and wounded while driving with murder victim Marcus Russell,...]]></description>
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		<title>Spate of city gang violence has deep roots</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/04/12/spate-of-city-gang-violence-has-deep-roots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Oltmanns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police are saying that some of the violence that has been brewing in the city recently, which has left three dead and four wounded over the last two weeks, seems to be part of an escalating feud between gangs in North and Central Richmond.]]></description>
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		<title>A Richmond activist fights gangs and governors</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2010/01/12/a-richmond-activist-fights-gangs-and-governors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie F. Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's not hard to imagine how Barbara Becnel charmed her way into spending more than 12 hours a day with Los Angeles gangsters for a year and a half. Or befriended a former gangster on death row for murder. Or ran for governor of California.]]></description>
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