The plot thickens
University Police and the College of Architecture failed to follow well-established procedures by not reporting Rebecca Griego's pleas for help to a high-level safety team that could have taken steps to protect her, a top University of Washington official acknowledged Wednesday. [Paragraph one] . . . .
Federal immigration authorities said Thursday that Rowan was living in the United States illegally — the British citizen overstayed a 90-day visa granted him to enter the country in 1996 — and that they had been seeking him for more than three years. [Paragraph fourteen] - Seattle Times, April 5, 2007Contrary to the early reports in which all in authority seemed to insist that "nothing more could have been done", it appears to me that the UW stalker/murderer had been deportable for more than ten years. I'm not sure the real story here is about how the UW College of Architecture failed to Rebecca Griego. It interests me that neither she nor any advocate she may have consulted seems to have considered exploiting Rowan's immigration status to bypass the whole restraining order process entirely. Why focus on keeping a stalker X number of yards away when he is begging to be sent across an ocean and kept from returning?
There is a reason for all that issue spotting we used to do in law school.
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