Posted on 04/05/2011 9:57:18 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe is pressing ahead with a felony assault charge that could put a paraplegic grandfather in the slammer for up to 10 years for whacking his 3-year-old granddaughter’s alleged molester with a Louisville slugger after setting a trap for his arrest.
As a result of 57-year-old Martha’s Vineyard computer salesman Frank Hebert’s unconventional citizen’s arrest, Joshua A. Hardy, 27, of Middleboro, now faces child molestation charges in a second case out of Wareham involving another little girl, authorities tell the Herald.
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Jail?!?!? This grandfather needs to get a commendation and the key to the city.
Since when is it a crime to stop criminals? When did the criminals have more rights than the average citizen?
The Red Sox should all sign a bat and name “bat day” in his honor
bfl
Definitely.
Is self defense a legal defense in Mass.?
Evidently when one lives in Mass.
Only in Liberal, Communist, Criminal Rights-loving Massachusetts would a case like this even be considered for trial
The State’s Attorneys here in Florida would be looking for every way not to prosecute....no state atty/prosecutor in FL would survive re-election if they tried a disabled man who went after a child molester
A Liberal state with a Criminal Rights agenda gone beserk
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