Posted on 05/28/2011 11:54:51 PM PDT by TigerClaws
OKLAHOMA CITY - An emotional jury decided Thursday that pharmacist Jerome Jay Ersland is guilty of first-degree murder for fatally shooting a masked robber two years ago in an Oklahoma City drugstore.
Jurors recommended life in prison as punishment.
Two co-workers at Reliable Discount Pharmacy told jurors that Ersland was a hero who saved their lives on May 19, 2009.
Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=14&articleid=20110527_222_A15_CUTLIN912500
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He should have been convicted of second degree, not first degree.
He did not go into work with the intent to kill, be
Ut he did kill when the opportunity presented itself.
At least, as far as I understand what first degree and second degree means.
Happened two days ago, may 27th. Like re runs of old news.
I hadn’t seen the story or the video. Sorry I don’t live on the internet.
2nd degree at least for the guy, I’d say.
I think it’s still good to discuss these things.
There are Freepers who think that if somebody has broken into your home, it’s ok to tie them up in a chair and put a gun two inches from the head and pull the trigger.
I find that to be highly disturbing, in an entertaining fashion.
Let’s keep this case in mind when contemplating the Guerena case.
You would have if you had done a search, anyway, he can file an appeal, but I would put his odd of winning at about zero.
Unrelated.
I hope everybody who had a reasonable chance to determine what happened to Guerena loses their jobs, and where warranted, faces criminal charges, but bad acts by cops doesn’t give the average person the right to act criminally.
If you think it is good to discuss this thing try sticking to the story and do not wonder off on the what ifs and maybes stuff. All of which has zero to do with this guys conviction.
If someone breaks into my home, there absolutely, positively will be lasting (as in eternal) consequences for the criminal. That's my Second Amendment Remedy and it's sacred as far as I'm concerned.
Which is why I said, Eric’s comments were unrelated to this case.
He made it seem, that because of a bad situation in an Arizona county, that this country should become a war zone.
I was just saying to Eric, that I understood his feelings, but it’s unrelated.
The chain of command including the judge should have their assess hauled in front of a Military tribunal.
A logical jury may have found differently.
A logical jury may have found differently.
Your second amendment right gives you the right to defend your home and even allows you to kill in defense of your home.
But it doesn’t allow you to kill somebody, execution-style and I doubt you can find a single case anywhere in the contiguous United States where somebody was proven to have killed somebody in such a fashion and got away with it.
Any one who breaks into my house has deminstrated his desire to do harm to me or mine. That is reason enough to kill as far as I am concerned. End the threat once and for all. A dead guy cant come back and kill you when he gets out of jail.
The jury reached the correct conclusion, this phony war hero fake, had murdered someone on tape.
I don’t know about a military tribunal, but if any of them didn’t follow their procedures, they should lose their jobs.
I certainly think Sheriff Podunk should definitely be gone over this. All he had to do was ask who it was and what sort of criminal record the guy had, because a few parking tickets would have been a big enough clue to show that SWAT was not required.
It would have to be shown that mistakes were criminally related, before you could hoist anybody before a justice system and not do it as a form of revenge.
They may not have had much choice. Prosecutors sometimes makes it an all or nothing case.
Either they convict the guy of first degree or let him go and the jury may have thought they didn’t really have a choice on that point.
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