Monday, October 1, 2012
The man convicted of killing an East Cobb resident and stabbing her son in 1995 was sentenced on Monday.
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Monday, October 1, 2012
Waseem Daker, convicted on Friday of strangling Karmen Smith and stabbing her son in their East Cobb home in 1995, will serve life plus 47 years. That's the sentence handed down Monday morning by Cobb Superior Court Judge Mary Staley, who told Daker he had committed "untold evil." According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Daker protested his innocence after the sentencing. Daker was a Georgia Tech student at the time prosecutors say he killed Smith, a flight attendant for Delta Air Lines, and stabbed her son, Nicholas Smith, at the time a student at Timber Ridge Elementary School, a total of 16 times. He survived the attack and now at the age of 22, was a key witness for the prosecution. Daker, now 35, served as his own attorney …
Friday, September 28, 2012
Waseem Daker was convicted Friday in the 1995 strangling death of a flight attendant in her home.
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Waseem Daker, who earlier this month went on trial for a murder that took place in East Cobb 17 years ago, was convicted of the killing on Friday. A Cobb Superior Court jury found Daker guilty of strangling Delta flight attendant Karmen Smith and stabbling her young son, as well as nine other felony counts, including burglary, false imprisonment, aggravated assault and aggravated stalking. According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the jury returned its verdict around 2:40 p.m. Friday, with Smith's family members present. Their deliberations began around 10 a.m. Friday. Daker, 35, was convicted in 1996 of stalking Lottie Spencer Blatz, who owned the home where Smith and her son lived. He was released from prison in 2005. He acted as …
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
A 90-day continuance has been granted in the trial of Waseem Daker, charged with strangling Karmen Smith in 1995.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The previously delayed trial of a Gwinnett County man charged with murdering a woman in her East Cobb home 17 years ago has been delayed yet again. On Monday a visiting judge in Cobb Superior Court issued a 90-day continuance for new attorneys representing Waseem Daker, who is accused of strangling Karmen Smith and repeatedly stabbing her young son in October 1995. The delay was granted because Daker's newest attorneys, the father-son team of Michael and Jason Treadaway, were appointed less than two weeks ago, according to a report in The Marietta Daily Journal. The story said prosecutors fought against the delay, accusing Daker of "whipsawing this by asking for a speedy trial, and then doing things to slow it down.” Daker, now 34, had …
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10:16 am on Wednesday, February 22, 2012
To me it is terrible that a person who commits such a horrible thing can get so many years to play around when he did not give this mother and her son time to play around. more ›