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Updyke pleads guilty
« on: March 22, 2013, 05:53:06 PM »
updyke pleads guilty. 3 years prison and 5 years probation. WDE

http://www.wsfa.com/story/21771085/harvey-updyke-takes-deal-pleads-guilty

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Harvey Updyke takes deal; pleads guilty
Posted: Mar 22, 2013 4:35 PM CDT Updated: Mar 22, 2013 4:54 PM CDT
By John Shryock - bio | email   

AUBURN, AL (WSFA) -

Harvey Updyke, the man who is accused of poisoning the iconic oak trees on the campus of Auburn University, took a deal Friday afternoon and agreed to plead guilty.

Lee County District Attorney Robbie Treese announced the deal, saying Updyke withdrew his plea of not guilty and entered a plea of guilty to Criminal Damage to an Agriculture Facility, a class C felony.

Updyke was sentenced to three years and remains incarcerated until he finishes serving at least six months. Did they fucking cave?

After being released, Updyke will be under supervised probation for a five year period.

As part of the plea deal, Updyke's probation will require him to abide by a 7 p.m. curfew, and he is forbidden to attend any collegiate athletic event. He is also banned from entering any property owned by Auburn University.

Updyke is also ordered not to speak with any member of the media.

Restitution costs have not yet been determined, DA Treese said. But he added that whatever the cost is to Updyke, it will be doubled under the Alabama Farm Animal, Crop and Research Facilities Protection Act.

"We have a significant number of violent felonies awaiting trial in Lee County," DA Treese said, "and I could not in good conscience justify financing a three week trial merely to arrive at no better a resolution."

Reese said the trial, which was to be held in Elmore County, would have forced the state to pay for transportation and lodging for as many as 50 witnesses, not including the fees that would have been required by experts.

Harvey Updyke, a die-hard fan of the University of Alabama's Crimson Tide, caught the attention of the nation after he called into a popular sports talk show months after the 2010 Iron Bowl win by the Auburn Tigers.

Updyke, who went by the alias "Al from Dadeville" claimed to have poisoned the oaks with a herbicide known as Spike 80DF as a way of getting back at the Tigers for disrespecting his team.

Officials with the University's Agriculture Department immediately began testing the soil around the trees and confirmed the presence of the chemical. Unsuccessful efforts were made to save the trees, which are considered a symbol of the University. The last time the trees will be rolled will be during the Auburn Tigers' A-Day game on April 20. They'll then be removed pending a permanent replacement.
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Re: Updyke pleads guilty
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2013, 06:02:07 PM »
Three years doesn't seem like enough when you consider that his trial has been going on for two.
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Re: Updyke pleads guilty
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2013, 06:10:03 PM »
Unfucking believable. WTF? Six months?
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Re: Updyke pleads guilty
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2013, 07:08:26 PM »
Put him in the same jail with one of the felony 4 and see if he makes it 6 months
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Re: Updyke pleads guilty
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2013, 07:15:20 PM »
100 years wouldn't have satisfied me as far as that son of a bitch goes. Btw, WTF is up the no speaking to the media clause? Wish they would let that piece of shit keep talking. Maybe he'd slip up and spill the beans on some of his buddies. Noway that stupid fuck did this shit without that other fag Wayne Barnes knowing or helping. I mean did we ever get any answer as to where Harvey got his Spike 80? I'd almost bet money the shit went beyond those two.
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Re: Updyke pleads guilty
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2013, 10:54:31 AM »
Put him in the same jail with one of the felony 4 and see if he makes it 6 months

I'm still betting on death by garbage truck.
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Re: Updyke pleads guilty
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2013, 02:45:39 PM »
100 years wouldn't have satisfied me as far as that son of a bitch goes. Btw, WTF is up the no speaking to the media clause? Wish they would let that piece of shit keep talking. Maybe he'd slip up and spill the beans on some of his buddies. Noway that stupid fuck did this shit without that other fag Wayne Barnes knowing or helping. I mean did we ever get any answer as to where Harvey got his Spike 80? I'd almost bet money the shit went beyond those two.
I'd put money on Barnes being involved, as well. The dude had access to the poison through his job. Harvey had access to it through him. There's one other fucktard who resides in Milton, Florida that may have had a hand in it - bamaperry.
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Re: Updyke pleads guilty
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2013, 03:28:29 PM »
I don't wish for wanton violence against anybody, but if I saw somebody kicking his ass I would not look the other way and would most likely help.

And I ask this again for those that know, Can Auburn University not sue the shit piss out of him, I know he doesn’t have much but fuck take what he has got.   

http://www.nevertoyieldfoundation.com/2013/guilty/

Less than a month from now the iconic trees at Toomer’s Corner will be rolled for the last time.  Destroyed by ignorance, malice and envy the century-old trees will be removed from the corner where they stood watch over decade upon decade of Auburn history. Current plans call for the wood from those trees to be carved into souvenirs.

The man charged with poisoning the oaks plead guilty on Friday finally putting to rest a disgraceful two year spectacle.

Rabid Alabama fan Harvey Updyke first confessed to pouring poison on the oaks on the airwaves, bragging of his deed on the Paul Finebaum radio show.  After a two-year circus that featured Updyke receiving far too much airtime on the ESPN special “Roll Tide/War Eagle”, ridiculous stories of being attacked, a variety of confessions and denials,  and multiple stops and starts by the legal system, Updyke finally agreed to a plea bargain.  He changed his plea from not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect to guilty and accepted a three-year prison sentence with an additional five years of supervised probation.

As part of the agreement Updyke must serve six months of his three-year sentence. Given credit for 104 days of jail time he will serve only 76 more.

Under probation, Updyke is forbidden from attending any collegiate sports event, has a 7 p.m. curfew, cannot talk with the media, and is banned from any Auburn property.

It hardly seems enough.

During his sentencing hearing Updyke apologized to the court, his family and the State of Alabama.  Once again, in his last opportunity to do so, Updyke failed to apologize to Auburn or Auburn fans.  In his black and crimson heart Updyke has no remorse for what he did, only regret that he got caught and distress that he failed to find the groundswell of outward public support he no doubt expected.

In his mind he was Alabama’s Marcus Crassus. He struck a bold blow to avenge his beloved Tide after the rebel Auburn army led by the Cam Spartacus Newton had the audacity to make a mockery of the gladiatorial games in the Bama Coliseum. He expected the Tide legions to rally to his cause and was dumbfounded when that public support did not materialize and he was not given his own statue at the Walk of Champions.

Private support, however, was another matter. Updyke was celebrated by the worst of the worst.  He was lauded on message boards and disgraceful Alabama fan blogs as a hero. The “charity” fund to support his court costs and bail money was happily donated to by a legion of devoted fans. He was treated like a celebrity as he wandered the streets of New Orleans prior to the 2011 national championship game.

After watching Updyke bumble and stumble through the legal process and make a buffoon of himself on more than one occasion, it’s virtually impossible to believe he was cunning enough to devise and execute the plan to destroy the Toomer’s Oaks on his own.  There were likely accomplices, instigators and aides who helped Updyke craft and carry out his attack on Auburn.  But we’ll never know. Updyke fell on his sword and will take those secrets to the grave.

Meanwhile the trees Updkye destroyed will have their last hurrah on April 20. Tiger fans will roll them for the final time after the Auburn A-Day spring scrimmage.

At 5 p.m. that day Auburn administration will unveil plans for the renovation of Toomer’s Corner.

On April 23 the removal of the trees that meant so much to all of us will begin.

City of Auburn planners say a temporary structure to allow the corner to continue to be rolled will be erected for the short term. New trees will be installed at some point within the next four years according to Auburn vice president of alumni affairs Debbie Shaw.

There are no winners in this sad saga.  Cherished landmarks have been destroyed and generations of current and future Auburn fans will be denied the simple joy of meeting and celebrating together under the same trees that stood when their parents and grandparents had done the same.

A bitter, deluded and pathetic old man is branded a felon and sentenced to prison for his role in the destruction of those trees.

An already rancorous rivalry grew a few degrees bitterer.

Much was lost in that wanton act of destruction.

What those trees represented can never be destroyed. The Auburn spirit is alive and well.  We will say goodbye to the oaks on April 20, but the love they embodied will live on forever.
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Re: Updyke pleads guilty
« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2013, 06:27:31 PM »
I hope his wife contracts AIDS while he's in jail, passes it to him and they both die long short lived miserably deaths.
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Re: Updyke pleads guilty
« Reply #9 on: March 27, 2013, 09:41:35 AM »
I'd put money on Barnes being involved, as well. The dude had access to the poison through his job. Harvey had access to it through him. There's one other fucktard who resides in Milton, Florida that may have had a hand in it - bamaperry.
Seen the name bamaperry float around before. Missed the story behind him though.

But yeah, now that this thing isn't even going to trial, we will probebly never know how big the group of fucktards really was. I'm certain it wasn't just updick.
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Re: Updyke pleads guilty
« Reply #11 on: March 27, 2013, 10:00:41 AM »
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/02/toomers_corner_trees_postings.html
So bamaperry and Wayne Barnes are fags from the same town in FL? Any other links between the two? I know there has got to be more to that story.
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Re: Updyke pleads guilty
« Reply #12 on: March 29, 2013, 03:16:35 PM »
Listening to the al.com Auburn podcast.

Blake Ells makes a great point.

The Bammer that teabagged the LSU fan at the New Orleans Krystals?

Two years.

The one that destroyed Toomer's Corner?

Six months.

Fuck that.

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Re: Updyke pleads guilty
« Reply #13 on: March 29, 2013, 04:23:34 PM »
Remember the names Wayne Barnes AND Harvey Updyke. I too suspect they both played a part. If Barnes didn't help, he knew about it at least and seemed pleased with it, according to the posts that were published under his user name. They went to HS together, Updyke lived in Barnes Lake Martin trailer, someone posted about knowledge of this before it was released to the media under Barne's username, etc.

Remember both names.
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