so obviously u guys have heard about this? what do you think? and what do you think about what he said to that woman he held 'hostage'? how brave she was! but i believe the courthouse should have had better security. after all, the deputy he shot took off his handcuffs before he went into his cell. that gave him the freedom to take her gun and shoot her...a mistake on her part?

The man wasn't on trial for murder but for rape.

Still, a, what was it, 60 year old, 5"4 female batliff shouldn't have been escorting a 210 lb. 30-someting male convicted of rape.

I agree with BK. Something went wrong in one courthouse; it doesn't mean there is something fundamentally wrong with our entire courthouse security system, especially since there was an obvious mistake on the part of whoever put that woman in charge of the murderer.

In all honesty this is an example of where the wrong person had the wrong job. I'm all for women's rights but what was a slightly overweight short woman doing in charge of a large athletic alleged rapist? All the other murders were the result of her not being able to do her job properly. The person that escorts large dangerous criminals from court to the cell should be a large dangerous male police officer, not a small woman. Sorry but it's the truth.

It is starting to come to the forefront that this may have been a planned incident. By shooting a judge and other federal employees on the job, this man has made it a federal matter meaning that he may be tried by the supreme court instead of a Georgia court where he would most likely recieve the death penalty.