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Janissi
Comment: "Julia didn't want to deal with him because she started to see what kind of person he was," said Bennett. "Julia was already leaving him, and he got mad about that."
This is absolutely ridiculous! Okay, maybe Julia had her head in the sand as some of us women (and men) do at times, but dang! They say love is blind, but sometimes I think we (including myself in the past - thank GOD I woke up) choose not to see what's clearly before our faces. What redeeming qualities did she see in this joker? Well we all make mistakes so I shouldn't judge. Unfortunately (if he's guilty, and I really believe he is) it cost her not only her dearest mother and brother, but her precious baby boy. Hopefully she'll make better choices in the future.
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Teigh
Comment: Come On EUR stop associating Jennifer Hudson with this animal. Her sister yes...Jennifer NO! You couldn't have given her nominations a separate story? ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!
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Reds
Comment: “Prosecutors gave a brief rundown of Balfour's history at Wednesday's hearing”…This guy may have a hard and checkered past, but I’m still waiting for something substantive to link him to the crimes that he is presently charged with. And I’m also surprised that prosecutors are even allowed to bring up prejudicial events unrelated to the present case.
So far, I have to agree partially with his lawyer “Balfour's attorney, Joshua Kutnick, claims the 27-year-old is innocent and has called the prosecution's case against his client "weak." He may not be innocent, but the case against him is weak, to say the least.
OK, so they proved that he lied about being at home during the shooting and taking the train. Hello, he is trying to beat a murder rap. He also may have lied about having a gun. The jealousy motive floated is also pathetic. I’m not too keen either on believing the cops on the powder residue on the steering wheel. They desperately need some physical evidence. And where is the proof that Balfour was the one who took the gun from the Hudson’s home. ….If this guy is guilty, I want to see him fried, but I find it hard to accept that they can’t find something more substantive and trustworthy. Some video surveillance, telephone signals which pinpoints him at strategic locations, credible witnesses…
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nightshift
Comment: Teigh, I hear you!! This is all about the pin-headed-walrus and the mon-chi-chi!!
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DCGG
Comment: Who gives a damn about his criminal past...lock his azz up with Julia and be done with this shyt...
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ss69054
Comment: Reading this tells me the sister isn't wrap too tight if it took her this long to figure out he wasn't no good.
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MOTHERSHIP
Comment: Stick a piece of dynamite up is azz and light it, please?
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BrotherSlade
Comment: This is what happens when you women try to hangout with these thugs like its a badge of honor and neglect the good men around.
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MOTHERSHIP
Comment: Brotherslade, any fool can see that brother was crazy and triflin. It's those needy, desperate kind with no self-esteem that will latch on to any damned thing to say they have a man, no matter what the cost and it's truly a sad situation.
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SpecialK
Comment: When Julia got with him he had a big "Loser" stamp on his forehead and she still married him anyway. What does that say about her? Was she suffering from low self-esteem, craziness, dementia, desperation, etc? Because she used poor judgment, she lost most of her immediate family. What a shame!! If I could ask her anything, I would ask her what in da hell did she see in him.
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NYCsoul
Comment: If Julia did not want to deal with him anymore, why did she have pictures of him and listed him in her top ten on myspace? I don't know if that has changed but he was there after he wasa arrested as a suspect in the murders. If you read her profile before she put her myspace page to private, she said she likes to be in control. That Bennett person may not have known Julia as well as they think they do. As for the usual comment about women wanting 'thugs', the sweeping generalizations need to stop. It's equivalent to saying that all black men want white women because they're submissive. There are men who are not 'thugs' and still end up killng their wives and kids ala Scott Peterson. Obviously, a person like Balfour who had a prior record, should send up a red flag but if this person is a dedicated husband and father whom seemed like a stable person before he 'snapped', then is the woman still at fault for that too? I don't get that one at all.
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B00TANEB00TUS
Comment: ...I said it before and I gotta say it again...He looks like Neffe...Keyshai Cole's sistah....
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B00TANEB00TUS
Comment: ...Y'all sure he ain't one of Frankies lost kids?...Help him Keyshia...He's gonna need help too...
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smurfy
Comment: mothership, right on again.....and if you saw julia you could see the poor self esteem,,,,,she is big as a house, and very little male attention....she was desperate like so so many women are and thus fall for any male and as my friend would say "breath and britches" thats all these males have to offer
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queeniebunz
Comment: Ladies on here, help me with this. What do you consider when you look at a man who shows an interest in you romantically? How do you evaluate that man to determine you will go out with him, then date him, then possibly marry him? Me, I am looking at his "resume" for "the job". 1) He has a 10th grade education, which means he really has a 9th grade education because he didn't complete the 10th grade. Me - that would stop me right there. But if I went on for some insame reason. 2) He was in prison for attempted murder. That would stop me right there. But, if I was insane and off my meds and I went further. 3) He's in one of the most dangerous street gangs that ever existed. Again, that would stop me dead in my tracks. But then there are the issues of - a) Would he be a good example of manhood for my child? Uh, no. b) Would he be able to support me and give me a home? Uh, no. Ex-cons typically do not have good credit needed to purchase or even rent a home. Excons typically find it very difficult to find work after incarceration particularly when they don't even possess a GED they could've earned in prison. As others have said -I don't get this. The level of desperation you all speak of is just amazing.
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DC_Diva
Comment: Queeniebunz >>> I agree with 100%, but see you sound like a woman that has some sense...Julia on the other hand seems like she has very low self-esteem. This man knew she was THE Jennifer Hudson's sister, he turned on the charm (whateva that was) and got his foot in the door thinking he was about to move on up to a deluxe apartment in the sky. So to you, me and probably 99.9% of the women on this board, her actions were quite desperate, which truly amazes me as well!
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MOTHERSHIP
Comment: Queeniebunz, I know it's his spirit with me. I can feel ya funkiness. I judge the way he he acts and looks. For one, I have to know you and your history. Ain't no hookin' up shyt when I don't know a damned thing about you and first off, a person has to click and be friends. All that straight hookin' up, no. Hell, I barely like people that much, so it's a rare situation when a person just gels with me. It's a different trip with me because I sense when things ain't right and I can feel a mofo. It's weird, but true.
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cuteleggs
Comment: Queen> this is so a co-worker of mine who met some guy who had just did 20, yes 20 years. They met the month he got out she slept with him got preggers, and he went back to jail. a) she couldn't have possibly known him well at all. b) on the 20- year bid alone I would have been moonwalk'n backwards. He's coming home in the next couple of weeks after doing another 3 years and I just wanna shake some sense into this fool. What could he possibly do for her and her child. Some women just need a man and will take them any way they can get them. I just see all kinds of wrong in this.
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CaliRedbone
Comment: re: the no-good man... some women think they can change a man...(CTHU) Ima' just say this, I used to think I was a part time Social Worker, and all a brotha' needed was some love and a lil' help... Well praise Jesus I woke up outta that nightmare... a man wont change until he's ready.. maybe! (JMHO)
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shulamite
Comment: OJ Simpson just got sentenced for at elast 15 years. I'm not a Simpson fan but I disagree with the sentence. I think this was payback for the Nicole Simpson murder. Well, OJ, YT got your back now???
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queeniebunz
Comment: >cuteleggs - I met a man at the gym about 5 years ago and he told me while we were out shooting pool that he did 34 months for drug charges. He is now a trainer and seems to be keeping his nose clean. (I've seen him in passing at the gym a few times since and he seems to be okay.) After he told me about his prison time, I told him that I appreciate his honesty but still - lose my number. I also appreciate it that he didn't claim innocence where there was none. He did say he did it. But here's the thing. While out with him, he told me that he went to the "country club" prison and that he was in there with CEOs who left jail in limos and whatnot. He basically said in the conversation that he didn't do his crime correctly, i.e. he didn't hide his money as they did or whatever. I was like, wow. He still has the criminal mind. He got nothing from prison but how to commit the crime the right way. Even though he had a career and had changed his ways, at least that's what it looked like, I couldn't see myself with someone who never said, "Selling drugs is wrong and I got caught for it and I won't do that again." I would've had to worry that if an "opportunity" came up that was "on the other side of the game" he'd take it and I'd end up without a man/father for my kids/etc. So, he got da boot. I do respect him for giving me the information to make a decision before I got caught up. If he'd said that, I'm still not sure I'd have continued to date him past shooting pool. Honestly, I just don't mess with people in the crime club. The closest I like to get to crime is watching it on TV.
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queeniebunz
Comment: >shulamite - There was a skit on Dave Chappelle where he had a "Race Draft" where different races claimed famous people. The blacks wanted to give away people like Condi Rice and OJ. Well, as far as I'm concerned, screw OJ. And I think just about everyone else - blacks and whites - feels the same way. OJ has thumbed his nose at everyone. Him getting 15 years - absolutely it's "payback". But I'm like a Muslim on Christmas - I just don't really care.
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TMan
Comment: There are many sad elements to this whole situation. One of them is, this guy, like a lot of dudes out here, had moe drama going on with him then a lil bit, so already you startin dirty from Jump Street. Alot of these types of guys are in a disadvantage because almost any crime can potentially be pinned on them, given their records. I hear what the mother is saying, but the sitatuion is still ugly any way you slice it and that was even before he got caught or accused of this. I understand her jumpin up for her son, but given his track record, I am not sure if she should be hollering that loud to the media in a freestyle way without an attorney present to advise her good or bad. Her behavior and the way she is handling and expressing herself is one of the reasons we have lawyers. Sometimes all your mouthin off even if you feel like you or yours been done wrong can hurt you more than it can help you or them. This case and scenario got "stank" all over it any way you slice it from beg to end.
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TMan
Comment: The way his moms is acting - for those of us that grew up wround the way, how many times have we seen and still see situations like this when it comes time to interview the mother? She out there fighting on the corner with the police about what her son did not do, and Lawd knows he all saw how he whoever he was would be actin on the daily and nightly. Yet and still the moms stands up for the son. I aint saying its wrong for a mother to stand up for her own, that's what good parents do, but Lawd knows if I had to count how many times I have seen similar situations like this play out live right in front of my eyes, I'd be commenting till next year easy.
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MsWhitt
Comment: There is still something fishy about this whole mess...I just can't put my finger on it. I do believe Balfour is involved and Julia knows more about this than what we have heard. I think William had some help and his mom knows it. The police seems to be doing a terrible job with this case. CSI would have had this wrapped up last month.
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JudgeJoanieInLA
Comment: I think Balfour's mother needs to put a lid one it. Her public ranting and raving saying, "they're not going to do this to my son," is not helping him, one bit. All of her "in-your-face" posturing isn't going to stop the state of Illinois from doing what they have to do to prove her son's involvement in those three deaths. If she really expects to see her knucklehead of a son vindicated, then she needs to let his attorney do his job. She keeps spouting off about the fact that there's no way her 100+ lbs. son could have killed 450-lb. Jason by himself... well, he could have if Jason was in bed as the city prosecutor claimed in a statement on Tuesday. Besides, when a person is firing a gun, since when do they have to have physical contact to kill the person they're aiming at? And as far as Julia goes, it is something very disturbing and sinister about her. If you got a chance to see her MySpace page before it was set to "private," all you needed to do was read her profile to realize that her sensiblity isn't much better than someone who's had a frontal lobotomy. She certainly has a self-esteem problem and probably needs a man to feel, somewhat, adequate in the shadow of her sister... even if he's a no-good, ex-convict, dreg of society named William Balfour. And, even as much as may continue to speculate what we believe to be the facts of this case, all will be revealed in time... 'cause all things eventually come to light.
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Conrad
Comment: I, too, think it's ridiculous when Balfour supposedly massacred that family because he was jealous. He killed them because he was enraged that his gravy train reached the last stop and he was kicked off. In all the reporting on this case, never have I heard that he has a job, or for that matter, ever had a job. Lazy, triflin', low-life poster boy for abortion (as is his mother, who should have been drowned at birth). And if what has been reported is true, he shot the mother and brother while they were sleeping in their beds -- one of the most cowardly acts I've ever heard of. After he was kicked out, why didn't someone, ANYONE change the locks on the front door? And don't get me started on his ignorant azz mother. "I'm not trying to sugar-coat anything, but I can definitely say my son had nothing to do with it." Obviously, this wench has no idea of what the term sugar-coat means. She acts as though prior to this horrendous crime, her little boy was a church-going choir boy, not some Black trash with a record long enough to rival that of someone twice his age. And isn't her "man" in jail, too? I know this is harsh, but I think any siblings he might have left should be forcefully sterilized so this cancer can die for good.
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JudgeJoanieInLA
Comment: Conrad, from the tone of your posting, would I be correct in my %*$essment that you don't like these people? LOL!!! I ain't mad at ya, at all. Personally, I'd like to catch both of 'em and just beat the pure d-shyt out of 'em. When you know you've raised a worthless, shiftless, no good bastud, the best thing you can do for all concerned is to sit your azz down and shut the heyell up. I don't know if my native home state of Illinois has removed their moratorium on the death penalty but, if not, William Balfour is a good reason to re-enact their "dead man walking" program. He should be the first in line and his simple-azz momma ought to give him his much-deserved "hot-shot"... which would give true meaning to the phrase, "I brought you into this world and I'll take you out." This court is adjourned!!!
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kblackelegance
Comment: I know everyone is gone, but this is just my observation. I don't understand how Julia could think this man was marriage material. How could she think he was the model for manhood to present to her son, as her husband???? Uhhh what was sister girl thinking???? Also my mother never looked at her children with rose colored glasses. If you were dirty or wrong or raggedy she told you the truth. I have a relative who did run with people like this Balfour person claims to be associated with. And if they the media keep running that connection. I can see the Gangsta Disciples killing him themselves they don't like or need that type of heat or attention. I don't expect him to live long at all.
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Name:
MorrisOKelly
Comment: I think some people have missed the point on Balfour.
You're judging the "merits" of the evidence. That's for a court to decide. But in terms of arrests and charges, they have access, motive, witnesses putting him at the general scene and a weapon.
Did he do it? Maybe, maybe not. But it's enough to arrest and the courts sort out the arrest.
Thin evidence, is still evidence.
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BigMamaThang
Comment: I holding off on judging the case until I learn more. Very interesting article about Balfour - http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-jennifer-hudson -william-balfour-081207,0,4287643.story. All kinds of drama going on in his life. Very strained relationship with his mother. I now understand why she claims he loves other people more than he loves her.
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