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- 0:04Speaker 1: Standard Bullock Oscar winner Sandra Bullocks a desperate cry for help.
- 0:12Speaker 1: She made a panicked call to police after coming face
- 0:15Speaker 1: to face with an alleged stalker inside her home. Come
- 0:18Speaker 1: on house, I'm hiding in the closet. Yes, yes, they are.
- 0:24Speaker 1: The silver screen sweetheart was sleeping at home when loud
- 0:27Speaker 1: bangs from inside her house woke her up in the
- 0:30Speaker 1: middle of the night. I locked in my closet. I
- 0:32Speaker 1: have a faked door in my bedroom and I I've
- 0:34Speaker 1: locked it and I'm locked in the closet right now.
- 0:36Speaker 1: The gravity star seeing Joshua Corbett walking down the hallway
- 0:40Speaker 1: of her sixteen million dollar Hollywood Hills mansion. This is
- 0:44Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Police say they found the
- 0:47Speaker 1: thirty nine year old roaming in Bullocks house, screaming Sandy,
- 0:50Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Please don't press charges. Corbett was carrying handwritten
- 0:54Speaker 1: notes addressed to her, calling Bullock his wife America's sweetheart,
- 1:00Speaker 1: Sandra Bullock, I love her. A stalker breaks into her home,
- 1:06Speaker 1: stalking her. She has to hide in her closet in fear,
- 1:11Speaker 1: and this guy gets straight probation. Have they lost their minds?
- 1:16Speaker 1: I Meancy Grace, this is crime stories. Thank you for
- 1:19Speaker 1: being with us. This stalker who breaks into America's sweetheart
- 1:24Speaker 1: Sandra Bullocks home is now going to be released on
- 1:28Speaker 1: straight probation. He will walk the streets a freeman because
- 1:34Speaker 1: a judge orders him to serve just five years probation
- 1:38Speaker 1: and quote stay away from Sandra Bullock. Now, according to TMZ,
- 1:43Speaker 1: he's got to go to treatments at a mental health
- 1:46Speaker 1: facility and he will be monitored by a probation officer
- 1:50Speaker 1: to make sure he's taking his medication. You have got
- 1:54Speaker 1: to be kidding me. He can't be monitored. He can
- 1:58Speaker 1: check you with the probation officer and block in the
- 2:00Speaker 1: morning and go straight to her house, straight to her house.
- 2:04Speaker 1: And then this judge rules that this guy Corbett has
- 2:07Speaker 1: to stay away from Miss Congeniality for ten years. Okay.
- 2:13Speaker 1: The Oscar winner who was terrified lives alone with her
- 2:17Speaker 1: adopted children, Louis and Layla. She bumps into the stalker
- 2:22Speaker 1: in her home while when she's awakened in the middle
- 2:26Speaker 1: of the nightmare a loud noise. Now, think about it,
- 2:28Speaker 1: you wake up in the middle of the night, you
- 2:31Speaker 1: get up, and you actually bump into some pervy, freaky dude,
- 2:37Speaker 1: wandering around in your home in the dark, and you've
- 2:41Speaker 1: got your two children there. She had to go hide
- 2:43Speaker 1: in the closet while she guided police to her home.
- 2:47Speaker 1: They don't get what happened to call her I D,
- 2:50Speaker 1: Alan Duke. The police don't have call her I D.
- 2:53Speaker 1: She's got to call police and then tell him, Okay,
- 2:55Speaker 1: turn right here and left it. What there's a problem here, man,
- 2:58Speaker 1: you're not kidding. People live in Beverly Hills West Hollywood,
- 3:03Speaker 1: Hollywood area. There are I was looking at this map
- 3:06Speaker 1: last night. There are three different jurisdictions. There's Beverly Hills Police,
- 3:09Speaker 1: the West Hollywood jurisdiction covered by the Sheriff's Department of
- 3:13Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and then there's the l A p D,
- 3:15Speaker 1: which covers Hollywood. You've seen Congressional Jenny. You need to
- 3:19Speaker 1: just stop right now. Alan, don't start telling me how
- 3:23Speaker 1: police can get lost in their own jurisdiction. They can.
- 3:27Speaker 1: It's horrible. You've been up in the Hollywood Hills area.
- 3:30Speaker 1: It is like a jerrymandered congressional district, you know how
- 3:34Speaker 1: the little whining that's the way they cut up the jurisdictions.
- 3:37Speaker 1: Three different police agencies. When there's a fire up there.
- 3:40Speaker 1: It is a mess. They don't know which firetruck to send.
- 3:43Speaker 1: Please finish your thought, please, how long can you go on?
- 3:47Speaker 1: It's a geographic mess because you've got these hills and
- 3:50Speaker 1: these cross jurisdictions. I'll show you the map. It's are done,
- 3:55Speaker 1: are done well. I'm just saying you asked me a question.
- 3:58Speaker 1: That's the answer. It's because it's messed up. You said Alan,
- 4:02Speaker 1: you said it, You said it. You basically said it's
- 4:05Speaker 1: The map is too confusing for the police to get
- 4:08Speaker 1: to a nine one one stalker call. When Supervy Freak
- 4:11Speaker 1: is in Sandra Bullets House in the middle of the knight,
- 4:14Speaker 1: they have to debate which jurisdiction is supposed to go.
- 4:17Speaker 1: It's a problem. Okay, I hear your objection. It's overruled
- 4:24Speaker 1: to suggest the police don't know how to get to
- 4:26Speaker 1: Sandra Bullets house. I mean, every tour guide in l
- 4:30Speaker 1: A knows how to get to our house, and they've
- 4:32Speaker 1: got buzzes going by with lambs. The scandal is they
- 4:35Speaker 1: make that stuff up. When you take one of these
- 4:38Speaker 1: Hollywood tours and they say that Sandra Bullets house there,
- 4:40Speaker 1: they might be lying to you and and some of
- 4:42Speaker 1: them got busted for it. Some perv is in her
- 4:44Speaker 1: home and you say the scandal is that tour guys. Lie. Okay,
- 4:51Speaker 1: clearly you're not understanding what could have happened to her
- 4:55Speaker 1: because when police, oh no, I covered this story. When
- 4:58Speaker 1: it happened, I know this guy, I was armed and dangerous.
- 5:01Speaker 1: This guy had a weapons cash in his home, a
- 5:04Speaker 1: machine guns. The person, Joshua James Corbett, was charged with
- 5:08Speaker 1: a felony stalking and felony burglary. When police got there,
- 5:12Speaker 1: he was clutching a black notebook with a two page
- 5:15Speaker 1: letter to Sandra Bullock and magazine photos of the actress.
- 5:20Speaker 1: He was unarmed at the time, but police found automatic
- 5:25Speaker 1: weapons and illegal tracer illegal tracer ammunition in his home.
- 5:32Speaker 1: Now the weapons were found while cots were trying to
- 5:34Speaker 1: find eight legal firearms he owned, but needed to surrender
- 5:39Speaker 1: due to a t r O that was already issued
- 5:43Speaker 1: against him. Now catch this. An appeals court later rules L. A. P.
- 5:48Speaker 1: D illegally searched his home so prosecutors could not submit
- 5:53Speaker 1: the evidence at his trial. He has expressed remorse, saying
- 5:58Speaker 1: I had already hurt some body. I didn't intend to.
- 6:01Speaker 1: I did not want to affect my family with my actions.
- 6:04Speaker 1: What what about her and her family? I mean, if
- 6:08Speaker 1: you hear this nine woman calls, she says, let's play it.
- 6:11Speaker 1: Someone's broken into my house. I'm hiding in the closet. Yeah,
- 6:16Speaker 1: please roll it. Hello, I will want to emergency before recording. Yes,
- 6:23Speaker 1: I'm everything like someone's poking my house. I'm hiding in
- 6:27Speaker 1: the closet. Yes, yes they are. I could saw them.
- 6:31Speaker 1: Welcome to the attic. I have I'm luck in my closet.
- 6:38Speaker 1: I have a fake door in my bedroom and I
- 6:41Speaker 1: I've locked it and I'm locked in the closet right now.
- 6:43Speaker 1: Come and I'll give you the gate coach on second. Okay,
- 6:51Speaker 1: we're not gonna kill me, but I haven't hung up
- 6:52Speaker 1: on you. Okay, okay, can tell what the person was wearing?
- 6:55Speaker 1: What color? All I saw was like dark wet shirt
- 6:59Speaker 1: and dark chance. I'm going up the stairs to my
- 7:02Speaker 1: attic and have a door to my bed at the
- 7:04Speaker 1: faith door and I could kick the button and I'm
- 7:06Speaker 1: hiding the clocket right nine seconds. No, I'm not okay
- 7:14Speaker 1: an no, no, not right now. And my son's not
- 7:18Speaker 1: here either right now. I'm sorry. What was that pound
- 7:23Speaker 1: and ninety seconds pound shoot eight and twenty nine seconds
- 7:31Speaker 1: standard Bullock zero eight nine. I want you to let
- 7:41Speaker 1: me know if you hear anything at all, I mean
- 7:44Speaker 1: my clock. I don't think you could see anything, but
- 7:47Speaker 1: I will zero sick thirty eight nine seconds was question.
- 7:58Speaker 1: And oh, there's the door stops a lot. But I
- 8:01Speaker 1: heard them break in, so tell them to walk around.
- 8:04Speaker 1: I heard annis, and I know that they've broke in.
- 8:06Speaker 1: They had gotten in somehow. Tell the office get to
- 8:09Speaker 1: walk around and see where they can, like I couldn't
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- 9:45Speaker 1: And so when I tell Alan Dout this, he tells
- 9:49Speaker 1: me the police probably got lost because through some windy
- 9:54Speaker 1: roads in the area. Are you serious? I just you
- 9:57Speaker 1: know what, Please, I don't want to reopen and that
- 10:00Speaker 1: can of worms again, all right, I don't want to
- 10:03Speaker 1: hear you start telling me about the wide de roads
- 10:05Speaker 1: and Hollywood Hill. Okay. Jurisdictional lines, yeah, okay, yeah, you're
- 10:11Speaker 1: just putting perfume on the pig. Now, jurisdictional lines. In
- 10:14Speaker 1: my rear end, they didn't know how to get to
- 10:17Speaker 1: her home. All right, now there are two children in
- 10:21Speaker 1: the picture. What does that mean? How does that change
- 10:25Speaker 1: anything to me? It would change a lot, because now
- 10:27Speaker 1: you've got to worry about what he may do to
- 10:30Speaker 1: these children. The intruder was arrested in her home who
- 10:33Speaker 1: came face to face with her right outside her bedroom door.
- 10:38Speaker 1: She walks out of the the bedroom door and literally runs
- 10:41Speaker 1: into him. Now, the search warrant that allowed the Cots
- 10:44Speaker 1: to search for an arsenal of weapons indicates what police
- 10:48Speaker 1: were looking for, but they believe that there are more
- 10:51Speaker 1: out there. The search warrant, as we know it, outlines
- 10:56Speaker 1: the confrontation between Bullock and her stalker. This all goes
- 11:00Speaker 1: down around one a m. She's in bed and she
- 11:03Speaker 1: hears a loud banging, goes to her bedroom door to
- 11:07Speaker 1: close it and lock it, and there is Corbett right there,
- 11:12Speaker 1: wearing dark ninja colored clothing. She slams the door locks,
- 11:17Speaker 1: it calls nine one one. She tells Cups she showered
- 11:20Speaker 1: before going bed, so he may have been there the
- 11:23Speaker 1: whole time. And when police arrive, he starts screaming, Sandy,
- 11:29Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Please don't press charges. He's not crazy, Alan,
- 11:33Speaker 1: He's saying Please don't press charges. He knows darn well
- 11:36Speaker 1: what he did is wrong. He's obsessed. He's not crazy.
- 11:39Speaker 1: Please don't press charges. That's true, he's he knows the
- 11:43Speaker 1: difference between right and wrong. That's the definition right of
- 11:46Speaker 1: in Santa. You know the difference between right and wrong.
- 11:48Speaker 1: He knows. So he was carrying the notebook I told
- 11:50Speaker 1: you about, with cutout magazine photos of Bullock and multiple
- 11:54Speaker 1: handwritten notes. One of the notes reads, I will forever
- 11:58Speaker 1: be thinking of you and Louis my son, as you
- 12:02Speaker 1: are my wife by law, the law of God, and
- 12:05Speaker 1: you belong to me and me to you. Okay. He
- 12:11Speaker 1: also says he forgives her for quote anything you might
- 12:15Speaker 1: have done, and tries to compliment her, saying she is
- 12:18Speaker 1: hot and intelligent, listen and taught. Okay, t A U
- 12:25Speaker 1: g h T. I'm not going to comment on that, okay.
- 12:29Speaker 1: So aloys on probation because somebody explain that to me.
- 12:33Speaker 1: The idea is that the guy needs mental help, and
- 12:35Speaker 1: that's what the court has imposed. You can get that
- 12:38Speaker 1: behind bars. To use some movie titles. She's involved in
- 12:41Speaker 1: the court realizes the gravity of the situation so that
- 12:45Speaker 1: she not be blindsided by this guy again, I really
- 12:49Speaker 1: wish you hadn't done that, because in my mind, as
- 12:52Speaker 1: funny as you may think it is, it really makes
- 12:55Speaker 1: light of this. I mean, if I woke up, especially
- 13:00Speaker 1: with my children home, and he actually refers to Louis,
- 13:03Speaker 1: I mean, this is her home, her home was, She's
- 13:09Speaker 1: supposed to feel safe. What's amazing to me is he
- 13:13Speaker 1: entered this as a no contest and no low. There
- 13:17Speaker 1: was no agreement for sentencing. Clearly they could not reach
- 13:21Speaker 1: an agreement with the d A. So the judge did
- 13:24Speaker 1: this all on his own, all on his own. He decides,
- 13:29Speaker 1: this guy's gonna walk Scott free. It's not Scott free.
- 13:33Speaker 1: He's got probation. It's probation, but they they're going to
- 13:38Speaker 1: require that he receives this mental health evaluation. He's going
- 13:41Speaker 1: into mental health facility. That's not free. He's on probation, Hello,
- 13:47Speaker 1: and he has to check in with a probation officer.
- 13:50Speaker 1: He lurked outside the gates of her home for days
- 13:54Speaker 1: before jumping over the fence. He rang her doorbell and
- 13:57Speaker 1: then entered her home through a un room door. She
- 14:01Speaker 1: didn't know any of this. She was probably that's when
- 14:03Speaker 1: she was probably in the shower. He had twenty five
- 14:07Speaker 1: pages of writing, including the note describing his obsession, saying
- 14:13Speaker 1: he's her husband. His lawyers challenge all of this. They
- 14:16Speaker 1: challenged the basis of police searching Corbett's home and finding
- 14:20Speaker 1: that arsenal of weapons, and then some moron on an
- 14:25Speaker 1: appeals court agrees he faced up to twelve years behind bars,
- 14:31Speaker 1: but instead he's getting straight probation. Well, the twelve years
- 14:36Speaker 1: was not for the stalking, that was for the guns.
- 14:38Speaker 1: And they couldn't, I mean an illegal search. We can't
- 14:42Speaker 1: have illegal searches. You know what, I don't even know
- 14:44Speaker 1: what language you're speaking. Corbet's defense lawyers tried to suggest
- 14:50Speaker 1: he was having an opiate withdrawal experience because he granted
- 14:54Speaker 1: police consent to search his home. Okay, he allowed allow
- 15:00Speaker 1: them to search his son. So it has really nothing
- 15:02Speaker 1: to do with the warrant at all. What do you
- 15:05Speaker 1: make of the claims of the illegal tracer ammunition? The
- 15:11Speaker 1: tracer ammunition, I've I've shot those. I was in the military.
- 15:14Speaker 1: You have those in the military. The only reason you've
- 15:17Speaker 1: got those is if you've got a machine gun and
- 15:20Speaker 1: you at nighttime want to follow the trail of your bullets.
- 15:23Speaker 1: It's it's got this phosphate on it and it makes
- 15:26Speaker 1: like an arc in the sky. The bullet thing, it's
- 15:28Speaker 1: a pretty cool thing, like a fireworks thing, but it
- 15:30Speaker 1: doesn't make the bullet more dangerous. Okay, why would he
- 15:35Speaker 1: need that? Just means he's into guns. We know that
- 15:38Speaker 1: you wouldn't accept at a shooting range unless you're a
- 15:41Speaker 1: freak or in the military and you need it, or
- 15:44Speaker 1: a gun enthusiast exercising your your right to bear arms,
- 15:49Speaker 1: a gun enthusiast with alleged opiate withdrawal. Well, the thing
- 15:53Speaker 1: is now he loses any right to have a gun.
- 15:57Speaker 1: It's hard to have a gun legally in Los Angeles anyway,
- 15:59Speaker 1: but he loses any right to have that because of
- 16:02Speaker 1: this conviction. Alhen, could you please play for nine on
- 16:04Speaker 1: one column one more time. I want to hear this. Hello,
- 16:09Speaker 1: I will want emergency before reporting. Yes, I'm addressing. Someone's
- 16:15Speaker 1: smoking me to my house. I'm hiding in the closet. Yes,
- 16:19Speaker 1: yes they are, I just saw them. Welcome to the attic.
- 16:22Speaker 1: I have a woman, he was a man. I'm locking
- 16:27Speaker 1: my closet. I have a faith door in my bedroom,
- 16:30Speaker 1: and I've I've locked it, and I'm locked in the
- 16:32Speaker 1: closet right now. Come and I'll give you the gate coach.
- 16:39Speaker 1: Okay one second, Okay, we're not gonna kill me. But
- 16:41Speaker 1: I haven't hung up on you, okay, okay, felt that
- 16:44Speaker 1: what the person was wearing, what color? All I saw
- 16:47Speaker 1: was like dark sweatshirt and dark pants. I'm going up
- 16:51Speaker 1: the stats to my attic and have a door to
- 16:52Speaker 1: my bed in the saith door and I could kick
- 16:55Speaker 1: the button and I'm hiding the closet right now. No,
- 17:01Speaker 1: I'm not okay, you know an no, no, not right now.
- 17:06Speaker 1: And my son's must here either right now. I'm sorry.
- 17:11Speaker 1: What was that? Think that count? And ninety second pound
- 17:16Speaker 1: shoot eight and twenty nine seconds a standard book zero
- 17:27Speaker 1: eight nine Okay, I want you to let me know
- 17:31Speaker 1: if you hear anything at all, I mean my cloth.
- 17:34Speaker 1: I don't think you could see anything, but I will
- 17:38Speaker 1: act zero sick thirty eight eight nine seconds. It was
- 17:46Speaker 1: question and that the door stop. There's a lot that
- 17:50Speaker 1: but but I heard them break in, so tell them
- 17:53Speaker 1: to walk around. I heard noises and I know that
- 17:55Speaker 1: they've broke in, so they got they had to have
- 17:56Speaker 1: gotten in somehow, So tell the officers just to walk
- 17:59Speaker 1: around where they came in like I I couldn't hear
- 18:02Speaker 1: look at Alan. Who is the judge that allowed this? No,
- 18:08Speaker 1: it's not even a plea deal because I'm sure prosecutors
- 18:10Speaker 1: would not go along with straight probation. But they couldn't
- 18:14Speaker 1: stop Corbett from pleading guilty. That's his right under the Constitution.
- 18:18Speaker 1: And then the judge imposed this sentence. What moronic judge
- 18:21Speaker 1: did that? Well, I don't want to call him Moronick,
- 18:24Speaker 1: that's you saying that, but it is me saying it.
- 18:27Speaker 1: I own it. I own it. I said it. I
- 18:31Speaker 1: said it. The judge is an idiot in this case?
- 18:34Speaker 1: God is it? I don't even want I have to
- 18:36Speaker 1: live here, Nancy, Okay, tell me I will come there
- 18:41Speaker 1: to your home and beat it out of you with
- 18:46Speaker 1: a noodle. What the judge over this case is Los
- 18:49Speaker 1: Angeles Superior Court Judge Edmund W. Clark Jr. That's the
- 18:52Speaker 1: same one that ruled the evidence out. Yes, that is
- 18:55Speaker 1: the one. Why I mean, are the judges they're elected
- 19:00Speaker 1: or what? There was a three court appeals court panel
- 19:03Speaker 1: in this California's Second District Court of Appeals that then
- 19:07Speaker 1: throughout the gun evidence Okay, yeah, I get that. I
- 19:11Speaker 1: get that. So he had to rule that way on
- 19:14Speaker 1: the gun evidence because an appellate court, a higher court
- 19:16Speaker 1: made him, But they didn't make him take this no plea.
- 19:20Speaker 1: They didn't make him agree to straight probation for a
- 19:25Speaker 1: stalker of Sandra Bullet. And I'm not saying she is
- 19:28Speaker 1: any more important than any other stalking victim. But what
- 19:33Speaker 1: this case does is bring to light how lightly this
- 19:37Speaker 1: type of felony crime is treated. And I don't like it,
- 19:42Speaker 1: and I think he should be off the bench. And
- 19:44Speaker 1: if the judges there are elected, his constituents need to
- 19:48Speaker 1: vote his sorry rear end off the bench. That's what
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