Joel Steinberg Wants Damage Award Thrown Out

Maybe someone should kick the snot out of him and leave him lying in a public bathroom somewhere. What a piece of absolute garbage.

Surely this motion will be tossed as quick as it comes to a judge. Ridiculous. Isn't it true he is out now and working in the media somehow?
If that's true, what kind of justice is this? What happened?

Jersey Chick said:

Maybe someone should kick the snot out of him and leave him lying in a public bathroom somewhere.

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Perhaps in a Minneapolis airport?

Good god, I hope they do the right thing. He deserves to live in a prison cell, but if they're going to let him roam, let him to it in rags.

It seems he's out of prison.

Joel Steinberg wants $15M damage award thrown out

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By JOSE MARTINEZ
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Wednesday, September 5th 2007, 4:00 AM


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Joel Steinberg wants court to toss $15M award to Lisa's mother.

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Lisa Steinberg
Joel Steinberg, whose horrific murder of his daughter stunned the city 20 years ago, is still a cold-hearted monster.

The disbarred-lawyer-turned-laborer wants the state's highest court to toss the $15 million in damages he has been ordered to pay for the beating death of 6-year-old Lisa in 1987.

His twisted argument is that the tortured girl - whom he illegally adopted - only endured, "at most, eight hours of pain and suffering."

Although Lisa was found bruised and battered, Steinberg, 66, contends he was hammered too hard in 2004, when Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Louis York ordered him to pay the money to Michele Launders, Lisa Steinberg's biological mother, who sued as executor of her daughter's estate.

Steinberg served 17 years of a 8-1/3-to-25-year sentence after being convicted of first-degree manslaughter.

Interviewed at his Harlem apartment last night, Steinberg said he waived his right to argue his case at the state Court of Appeals today because "the tabloid media would have turned it into a circus." He submitted written arguments instead.

He said he thought he had a good chance of winning, based on the "quality of my legal briefs" and medical reports he claimed that showed Lisa had no serious injuries.

Should he lose, Steinberg barked, "I'll continue to labor and live in poverty. I'll have my salary garnished at 10%. But maybe I'll go to another court."

He then slammed his door.

"It's obvious, even at this late point, that Joel Steinberg still is not taking any responsibility," said Wayne Schaefer, a lawyer for Launders.

In the court papers, Steinberg wrote that he was a "doting, responsible parent" with a "very happy" child.

The killer also wrote that he has been unfairly made to look like a bad guy in news stories detailing Lisa's death.

In January, a divided Appellate Division panel upheld York's judgment and condemned Steinberg as being "asdevoid of any empathy or human emotion" now as he was the night Lisa died.

But because two of five judges thought Steinberg should not have to pay for past abuse of the child, he was allowed to take his case to Albany.

Steinberg ate dinner and freebased cocaine as Lisa lay unconscious for hours in the bathroom of a Greenwich Village apartment after being felled by a "staggering blow" to her head.

When Lisa died in a hospital, she weighed 43 pounds and her little body was covered in bruises. She also had layers of dirt on her feet and smelled of urine and vomit, a court found.

The medical examiner concluded that Lisa lingered unattended for eight to 10 hours before dying.

Who was he supposed to be paying damages to?

and why is he out?

Ack. And people rot in prison for stealing a television or selling weed.
Our country has gone farkin' mad.

Unique said:

Who was he supposed to be paying damages to?

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Lisa's biological mother.

Susan G.

Indeed I remember the case (yes, I'm middle-aged). Do y'all remember what the girlfriend looked like before and after Joel Steinberg? She was a children's book editor.

I was pretty young when this happened, but I remember this lying sack of @#*t. I hope they double the damages!

I can't believe this moron is actually going to make such a stupid argument and think it's going to work.

F*$@wad scum of the earth. Prision was too good for him, but that's where he should be instead of out on the street. 'Scuse my language. This thing makes me mad and incoherent.