Posted on 09/15/2023 4:28:39 AM PDT by marktwain
In June of 2022, Gilbert Grooms was confronted and threatened at his job in the presence of his wife and children. He refused to fight hand-to-hand with a younger, brutal, and violent man. When the man continued to confront him and come at him, he used a shotgun to stop the assault.
A South Dakota man facing six felonies in connection with a June 2022 shooting at the Sheridan County Livestock Sale Barn in Rushville has been acquitted.
After a four day trial, a Sheridan County District Court jury on Thursday found 45-year-old Gilbert Grooms not guilty of Attempted Murder, First Degree Assault, Terroristic Threats, plus three Felony Firearms charges that had been filed in the case.
Almost all information to be found about the case on the Internet was from the prosecution. I wondered what had persuaded a jury to acquit Gilbert Grooms of all charges in only two and a half hours, which included lunch. It must have been a powerful defense. I contacted the attorney for the defense in the case, Tim Rench. He explained what the jury had heard.
Gilbert Grooms is a rancher with two children and a loving wife. He is 46 years old. He has had numerous injuries and surgery from working with horses, which have left him with metal screws in his shoulder and a broken vertebra. These injuries limit his balance and ability to act quickly. He lives on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation near the southern border of South Dakota.
About two years before the assault, Gilbert was repeatedly threatened by a friend of his deceased brother.
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Shot him in the ass and his crotch with 00 buck shot. That had to hurt.
I read about this right after it happened.
He was either brave or confident or both to take a jury trial.
Good news that a jury refused to convict.
Ol’ Gil is too old and broken to take an ass whoopin’ and too young to die. I would have found him not guilty myself.
Likewise.
This is a prosecutor that should not remain in office.
But it wasn’t a fair fight. He came at him with a shotgun.
So clearly not in fear for his life and just out for mayhem.
That was a good story.
The only significant negative is the threatening loudmouth is still alive. Nothing was said about his state of recovery.
One word: USCCA insurance. Tell them Paul sent ya, I get $200 bucks referral.
“ Then, the adversary charges Gilbert, and Gilbert shoots him in the groin area. This slows down the adversary.”
I’ll bet it did.
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You forgot the sarcasm tag. Here’s one for you to use in the future /s/.
The jury disagreed.
Don’t threaten to kill people and you won’t get shot.
Seems pretty simple to me.
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Well this post explains where they find jackasses like the prosecutor.
No one is obligated to fight a hostile and vicious drunk threatening not only him but his family.
The assailant didn’t just want to fight, he wanted to terrorize, assault, and kill a man and his family. His protests to the contrary after the fact have to be weighed against his earlier stated intentions when he still has the ability to carry them out.
It wasn't a fair fight until the shotgun came into play. The jury agrees.
“But it wasn’t a fair fight. He came at him with a shotgun.”
i assume you’re being sarcastic, you know, the “fair fight” bit ...
So the cops get there and the guy bleeding tells them he just wanted a fight? I’d be very tempted to give the guy his shotgun back, let him reload and tell the guy on the ground “Okay, fight him.”
Problem is that when we abaondon common sense and simple truths we are lost. Trouble is that really clever people like "it's just a tax" Roberts have little to contribut to society if commonsense rules the day because most poepl have a lot more of it than do Harvard/Harvard law summa cum laude graduates. So what is all of their brains good for if not to figure out clever ways to defy common sense. It's sad.
“Then, the adversary charges Gilbert, and Gilbert shoots him in the groin area. This slows down the adversary.”
I’ll bet it did”
Hopefully a loss of testosterone will slow him down permanently.
Good story, justice served, prosecutor should find a new career.
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