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S.F. man’s winning robbery defense: Entered home to board spacecraft
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| April 8, 2015
| By Hamed Aleaziz
Posted on 04/08/2015 3:00:10 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A 41-year-old San Francisco man was acquitted of robbery and other felonies after telling a jury he entered a Mission District home only because a methamphetamine-fueled psychosis led him to believe he needed to board a spaceship to flee the imminent destruction of the earth, the public defender’s office said Wednesday.
ikely to produce great bodily injury and battery with serious bodily injury, his attorneys said. He was convicted of misdemeanor battery and assault, while the jury couldn’t agree on a burglary charge.
In May 2014, defense attorneys said, Aviles ran to a Mission District building while under a delusion that it looked like a spaceship docking station and that he was being chased.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: crime
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Police: “Don’t worry about it, man. We’ll make sure you get on the spaceship all right, just come with us....”
To: doug from upland
Isn’t that the Jupiter II??
:-)
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posted on
04/08/2015 3:54:51 PM PDT
by
CA Conservative
(Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Proper response to that: Well I shot him dead because the aliens told me to.
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posted on
04/08/2015 4:04:14 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(The question, Jeb Bush? The answer: NO! Rove, is a devious propagandist & enemy of Conservatives!)
To: Pearls Before Swine
That Public Defender has a good shot at being elected Mayor! I live here! I know!
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posted on
04/08/2015 4:17:40 PM PDT
by
SFmom
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Aviles testified that when he woke up, he threw an inflatable exercise ball onto the fire escape in hopes of floating through the galaxy with it. He also loaded a backpack in the apartment with a passport and earthquake kit, attorneys said. You notice they don't actually say you can't float through the galaxy on an exercise ball.
That's because it's classified.
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posted on
04/08/2015 4:38:32 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: Billthedrill
I hope he had a towel... Don't panic.
To: Billthedrill
I hope he had a towel...A week ago, I wouldn't have understood that comment. Just watched that very strange movie.
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posted on
04/08/2015 4:57:56 PM PDT
by
digger48
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Nope....lock him up for the crime and add 5 years for the illegal drug use....stop playing games with these idiots.
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posted on
04/08/2015 4:58:47 PM PDT
by
terycarl
(common sense prevails over all)
To: Talisker
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posted on
04/08/2015 5:25:48 PM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
04/08/2015 5:48:50 PM PDT
by
ExCTCitizen
(I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I guess he watched ‘Star Trek: The Voyage Home’ before doing his robbery. (ST:TVH was set in San Fran and Spock was the most normal person in SanFran)
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posted on
04/08/2015 5:55:01 PM PDT
by
ExCTCitizen
(I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
To: CA Conservative
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posted on
04/08/2015 9:35:41 PM PDT
by
doug from upland
(Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
San Francisco - ‘nuf said
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posted on
04/09/2015 4:56:51 AM PDT
by
hattend
(Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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