David Lewis Rice (born 1958) is a follower of the Christian Identity movement who, on Christmas Eve 1985, forced his way into the Seattle home of civil rights attorney Charles Goldmark with a toy pistol and stabbed Goldmark, his wife, and two children to death. For the general identity of an individual with certain core essential religious doctrines see Christianity. Christmas Eve, December 24, is the day before Christmas Day, the celebrated birthday of Jesus. Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) An attorney at law (or attorney-at-law) in the United States is a practitioner in a court of law who is legally qualified to prosecute Rice, a member of the Duck Club, a right wing extremist organization, erroneously believed the family was Jewish and Communist, and saw the crime as part of a broader religious war between American Christianity and Soviet atheism. Far right, extreme right, ultra-right, or radical right are terms used to discuss the qualitative or quantitative position a group PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based A religious war is a War caused by religious differences It can involve one state with an established religion against another state with a different religion or a different Christianity ( Greek Χριστιανισμός from the word Xριστός ( Christ)is a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings A soviet (сове́т, "council" originally was a workers' local council in late Imperial Russia. Atheism Goldmark and his family had been active in progressive politics in Washington for years, and his parents had won a highly publicized libel suit in 1964 as part of an effort to refute accusations of past membership in the Communist Party. Progressivism is a term that refers to a broad school of international social and political philosophies. Washington ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. When confessing to the crimes, Rice called Goldmark the "top Jew" and "top Communist" in the state.
Rice was convicted in 1986 of aggravated murder for the four deaths and was sentenced to death, but the conviction was later overturned on the grounds of an incompetent defense. Aggravation, in Law, is "any circumstance attending the commission of a crime or tort which increases its guilt or enormity or adds to its injurious consequences but which Capital punishment, the death penalty or execution, is the Killing of a person by judicial process as Punishment. A sticking point of Rice's case throughout the trial process was the psychotic symptoms that he sometimes displayed, and his attorney's lack of emphasis on them. Psychosis (from the Greek ψυχή "psyche" for mind or soul and -οσις "-osis" for abnormal condition with adjective psychotic In 1998, he finally pleaded guilty to the crimes in exchange for avoiding the death penalty. For the Pygmy backswimmer Genus, see Plea (insect. He remains in prison serving out a life sentence. Life imprisonment or life incarceration is a sentence of imprisonment for a serious crime often for most
The Goldmark Murders remain one of the most notorious anti-Semitic hate crimes in recent memory in the United States, even though the victims were not actually Jewish. Antisemitism (alternatively spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism; also rarely known as judeophobia) is the Prejudice against or hostility Hate crimes (also known as bias motivated crimes) occur when a perpetrator targets a victim because of his or her membership in a certain Social group, usually defined The United States of America —commonly referred to as the It also remains a cause celebre of capital punishment proponents, since Rice avoided death based only on the ineptitude of his attorney's work at trial. A cause célèbre (plural causes célèbres, French famous case) is
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David Lewis Rice at historylink.org
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