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No Retrial for Arizona Border Rancher George Allen Kelly
AmmoLand ^ | May 4, 2024a | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 05/07/2024 5:38:52 AM PDT by marktwain

On April 29, 2024, Fox News reported Prosecutors in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, would not re-try border rancher George Allen Kelly.  The Fox report has since been verified. From Fox News. com:

George Alan Kelly, the Arizona rancher charged with murder in the shooting of a Mexican national on his border property, will not be retried, prosecutors with the Santa Cruz County Attorney’s office said.

Kelly underwent a lengthy accusation, arrest, and trial process stretching out for nearly a year and a half. In the end, the local jury could not agree on a verdict. This created a mistrial and the possibility Kelly could be tried again. The eight-person jury had one holdout, which refused to acquit Kelly. On April 23, the judge declared a mistrial.   From courttv.com:

At about 2:00pm local time the 8-person jury declared they were at an impasse, but the judge asked them to continue deliberating and gave them the option of breaking early for the day.

In Arizona, in criminal cases where the penalty does not exceed thirty years in jail, the size of the jury has been set by the legislature at eight.  From AZleg.gov, size of jury:

A. A jury for trial of a criminal case in which a sentence of death or imprisonment for thirty years or more is authorized by law shall consist of twelve persons, and the concurrence of all shall be necessary to render a verdict.

B. A jury for trial in any court of record of any other criminal case shall consist of eight persons, and the concurrence of all shall be necessary to render a verdict.

Kelly gave an exclusive interview on YouTube, explaining his state of mind. From the video:

We still live in the same place. We are still faced


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: aliens; arizona; banglist; border; ranch; trial
If I were the Kellys, I might consider selling out and moving north...
1 posted on 05/07/2024 5:38:52 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Overhead view of Kelly's place from Zillow. The Mexican border is 150 yards away.

2 posted on 05/07/2024 5:40:02 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: marktwain

who would buy it? I wouldn’t live there if you paid me. How can you sleep at night?


3 posted on 05/07/2024 5:51:23 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: Cen-Tejas
The market is going crazy.

Their must be a few left wing professors who want a dacha in the country, where, if you have the proper attitude of brotherly love, the poor refugees crossing the border will be at peace with you...

They have to have some place to put the money being distributed freely by the Biden regime...

4 posted on 05/07/2024 5:55:37 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: marktwain

He never should have been tried in the first place - for doing the job the feds should have done in the first place - lock down the border from invaders.

Now he’s got death threats against him and his family.


5 posted on 05/07/2024 5:56:41 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Cen-Tejas
On the other hand, from the Cartels point of view, it looks like a conveinient place.

The Cartels are rolling in money and could install a compliant owner...

6 posted on 05/07/2024 5:57:03 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: marktwain

On second thought, I would be interested in the ranch, but I am not sure that I would buy it, at the moment.


8 posted on 05/07/2024 6:00:01 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: marktwain

..........I guess we forgot the FBI. They will protect the owner occupant from foreign criminals....no problem. s/


9 posted on 05/07/2024 6:01:22 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: marktwain

I would think he could sell out to the cartel.


10 posted on 05/07/2024 6:21:17 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: woodbutcher1963
The Cartels would never mention they are the Cartels. They would sent an agent to make the purchase.

The agent would have a plausible story.

11 posted on 05/07/2024 6:24:55 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: marktwain; All
“They have exhausted their life savings in paying for the defense, in spite of generous help at GiveSendGo.”

Seems to be worthy of some financial support, don't you think?

12 posted on 05/07/2024 7:01:32 AM PDT by PsyCon
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To: marktwain

RANCHERS are often multi-generation operations.

THEY won’t be driven out by INVADERS.


13 posted on 05/07/2024 7:02:07 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: PsyCon

Lawfare in action. The rancher has already served his sentence.


14 posted on 05/07/2024 7:05:50 AM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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To: PsyCon

“They have exhausted their life savings in paying for the defense, in spite of generous help at GiveSendGo.”

Fighting this regime is expensive! It’s cost me and my family everything we will ever have.


15 posted on 05/07/2024 7:08:50 AM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: marktwain

“They would sent an agent to make the purchase”

Yes, some DEMOCRAT politician


16 posted on 05/07/2024 8:20:17 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: marktwain

If not for government policy, looks like a wonderful place to live.


17 posted on 05/07/2024 11:29:29 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton
Border areas are, by nature, "edge" environments.

They are interesting areas to live in.

18 posted on 05/07/2024 11:31:42 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: marktwain

‘Interesting Areas’
.
I can agree to that!
Have a buddy that lived in an RV 30 feet from the Border Fence in Campo!
I’d visit every weekend just for an update then spend Friday night maybe Saturday too. This was 2004-2008 and it was a non-stop Wild West Show from so many directions. You name it I saw It.
Old “Little Dog” is in Northern Nevada now
Raising Cattle.
Lucky I Survived Amigo.


19 posted on 05/07/2024 3:11:42 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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