Sounds like murder.
Not a justifiable killing.
If I kill everybody that turn around in my driveway, I would be considered the worlds greatest (non military) mass murderer. ;-)
This is not good. I live in a cul-de-sac and people are constantly turning around in the circle and all of the driveways in the circle.
To date, no one has died or drawn fire.
It’s a good thing he didn’t refuse to bake a same-sex wedding cake or he could have been facing a much stiffer fine.
If this went down as reported, this is a serious miscarriage of justice, it should have been a murder charge. Unlike, say, George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin, which I’m sure many on the Left will attempt to compare this to.
Yeah, I can’t imagine a scenario where this is a good idea.
If the story is as told, this guy rightfully should be on death row for murder.
I don’t care how many No Trespassing signs you have up, or how strongly you believe in property rights, shooting someone who simply pulls into your driveway means you are a psychopathic fiend who needs to ride the lightning.
I.B.S.C.T.V.A.I.I.
(In before someone calls the victim an illegal immigrant)
Georgia has had some messed up cases this year (baby with face blown off / kid blown away for answering the door with a game controller ...)
The story, even at the Turley site, is amazingly short on facts, long on emotion.
I’d say, based on the scant evidence, that the DA knows something Turley doesn’t want to tell us, and that the homeowner made the correct decision.
As I can already see the ‘pile on effect’, when you come to deride my comments, provide additional evidence supporting your arguments.
I agree with the posts put up so far. All I can add is that the Diaz’ family is magnanimous and has class and the Sailor family does not.
There is something missing here. Its a rural home, and what time did the shooting occur? OHHHH,forget it, its some old white guy, probably a Tea Party Member who shot and unarmed kid. So, can we riot and steal stuff out of the stores because he was given a light sentence? Will the victims parents make T Shirts to sell with Justice for....?? s/
I hope Mr. Turley is providing all the information for us to appropriately understand why this “deal”.
Mr. Turley is a liberal in academia representing the interests of Republicans on the ACA that “conservative” legal interests shied away from.
This article is apparently from his blog. I get a feeling this article is meant to create fear/distrust of neighbors with guns.
did diaz appear like a gangbanger menacingly eyeing the house?
dosn’t sound like the guy had any cause to come out shooting.
it’s funny but the last few years i try t avoid driveways and do a quick y-turn in the street, when possible.
How is that not murder?
Unless there is more to this story, the killer got off way too easy.
While I find the story to be awful, I have to wonder what really took place. Having worked in journalism for a short while, I know that stories are just that - “stories”. I can’t imagine this result, based on the reporting, here. There must be A LOT more to the situation. Thank you.
Maybe once or twice a year, I will have occasion to partially turn into someone’s driveway in order to reverse my direction. I hate to think that I’m taking my life in my hands when I do that.
Trespassing into somebody’s property is met with a deadly response. I seldom see problem with that.