A Good Juror Candidate in Garland, Texas

Ammoland ^ | 22 January, 2016 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

There was an unusual shooting in Garland, Texas on 15 January, 2016 .  It involved an old girl friend, a home security system, and a warning phone call.  It seems the homeowner and the person he shot knew each other.  The person had been told to leave the property an hour earlier.  Then the homeowner received a phone call from the person's ex girlfriend, that he was returning, and was a threat. From cbslocal.com:

Tampered home surveillance equipment is the first sign that this was not an ordinary crime. Police say that and a warning phone call is what caused a homeowner to grab his gun and go outside.

So if someone is outside your home, doing damage to your security system, what do you do?  In this case the homeowner went outside.  A confrontation ensued, and the trespasser/vandal/attacker was shot and killed. A neighbor was asked by  cbslocal.com what they would do:

"I'd probably call the cops, you know what I mean. I don't know if I'd go outside, but I don't know the situation, so I can't judge," neighbor Duc Quach said.

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 "Everybody has their rights. That's why everybody has a gun, you know what I mean? He was protecting his family," Quach said.

Texas may be the foremost state for protecting the rights of residents who protect their property and their lives with deadly force.  In Texas, you can defend your property with deadly force after dark.  Texas juries are known for being sympathetic to people who are defending themselves, their homes, and their neighbors. But anywhere that I might be, Duc Quach is the sort of person who I want on a jury.

[marktwain]

Duc Quach is the citizen that we want on juries.

[Night Hides Not]

I'm another one, but I'm never selected...lol. My stumbling block is a yes on "have you served on a military court martial?"

Had the defense attorney probed my answer, he would learn that we found the defendant not guilty.

[Made In The USA]

Someone screwing with your home security system.... Yeah, I think that’s a good time to unlock the gun safe.

[JoeFromSidney]

My stumbling block is a yes on "have you served on a military court martial?"

I've never been called for jury duty. My wife has. I once served on a court martial, and would be (sort of, anyway) interested in comparing the two. Looks like if I ever get called, they'll reject me because of that prior service.