Andrew Hampton "Andy" Mickel (born March 13, 1979) is a former resident of

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. He graduated from Springfield's

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in 1998. He went on to serve three years with the

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before attending

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and becoming a journalist with Indymedia.org. On November 19, 2002, at 1:27 am, Mickel shot and killed Officer David Mobilio of the

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Police Department while gassing up his patrol car. Mobilio was shot twice in the back, and once in the head at "very close range". A handmade " Don't Tread on Us" flag was left beside Mobilio's body. There were no witnesses to the killing, and the crime would have gone unsolved had there not been Internet postings about the crime six days later. The postings read, "Hello Everyone, my name's Andy. I killed a

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in Red Bluff, California in a motion to bring attention to, and halt, the police-state tactics that have come to be used throughout our country. Now I'm coming forward, to explain that this killing was also an action against corporate irresponsibility." It was signed "Andy McCrae", an alias of Mickel's. Mickel said that "prior to my actions in Red Bluff, I formed a corporation under the name 'Proud and Insolent Youth Incorporated', so that I could use the destructive immunity of corporations and turn it on something that actually should be destroyed." The name is taken from the novel ''

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'' written by Scottish author

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. Mickel wrote, "Just before their final duel and Capt. Hook's demise, Hook said to Peter, 'Proud and insolent youth, prepare to meet thy doom.' Mickel insisted on representing himself during his trial. His parents have been quoted as referring to their son as

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, aka the

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. They say that their son, like Kaczynski, is wrong but mentally ill and should be treated as such. In April 2005, Mickel was convicted of one count of

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. He was subsequently sentenced to death and is being held on Death Row at

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while awaiting his automatic appeal to the

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. In September 2009, The California Supreme Court, declaring that "In California, a criminal defendant has no right to represent himself or herself on appeal," appointed attorney Lawrence A. Gibbs to represent Mickel for his automatic appeal. On December 19, 2016, the California supreme court upheld Mickel's conviction and sentence.

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