Posted on 08/27/2014 12:46:56 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Edited on 08/27/2014 1:03:51 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
ANGLETON, Texas (AP)
(Excerpt) Read more at mysanantonio.com ...
All very well indeed.
And I trust your GF and the prosecutors were satisfied with the outcome?
If not, why not?
Mr. Holder, pick up the “other than white” phone.
Why? So the relatives of the drunk killer could
sue the father for millions?
Nah, not guilty was just. Don’t want to die, don’t
drive drunk.
A few years ago young man who was arrested for child rape was being escorted through a courthouse hallway when the father of the victim who was at a pay phone turned and extended gun and shot the perp in the head. As I recall he was not convicted of a serious crime. There is video of the whole incident somewhere on the Web.
Love it!
Man! That first step can be a doozy!
All I know is that the supreme court needs to revisit their decision that jurors need not be informed of their rights. It was a late 1800s or early 1900s decision that has effectively dumbed down juries so they just sit there and do as they’re told.
‘Vehicular manslaughter — especially while drunk — is a horrible crime, and those guilty should pay. If people, like most on this thread, want it to be a capital crime (or alternatively, if they believe vengeance killings of passion should NOT be a crime), they should have the guts to say so explicitly and work for changes in the criminal statutes. This is a miscarriage of justice. RIP.’
Actually a lot of people on this thread believe there is reasonable doubt. What makes you so certain the father was the shooter? He had no gun powder residue. How did he manage that, if he’d just shot the drunk driver?
The holster and ammo indicates that someone in the house was probably experienced with .357. It is likely that all of the adults in the family and maybe the children were capable with the gun.
Yeah, I’m reading a lot of concern here about correct police procedure.
Curb must of been 100 feet tall.......
lol
Thanks for your service Marines!
Agree. Somebody shot the drunk driver, & as you said, there were items in the house that could well have been associated with that incident. However, the prosecution did not prove the father was the shooter. Thankfully the jury took all the evidence into consideration and arrived at the correct verdict. Who exactly the shooter was, we may never know.
You didn’t answer my question/s.
That depends on ones definition of justice......a drunk killing two people and getting a few years in jail or making bail and running back to Mexico.....that's a miscarriage of justice. Fact is even if the father did it, it was either temporary insanity or justifiable homicide IMHO!!!
I am surprised the Ethan Couch story did not end this way.
I am so, so sorry for your loss.
If one could actually manage to get into a courtroom and listen to a judge's orders
to a Jury we might find the legal system not so just. What really struck and angered me
was the Zimmerman trial where the prosecutors stood there talking hypotheticals and
boldly deceiving the jury. Outright Lying.
Nice one!
I am so sorry for your great loss.
My first boyfriend, only one when I was in high school, was killed by a drunk driver. He was 18 years old. That was 34 years ago. I often wonder what he would be like today, and I know the SOB that killed him will get justice after he dies.
I am so sorry you have had to endure such pain.
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