Posted on 08/17/2015 6:24:06 AM PDT by marktwain
On October 18th, 2014, a Concealed Handgun Permit holder, Victoria Lynn Jenkins, 52, defended herself from attack by a woman with multiple assault convictions. Her attacker had been convicted of assault in 1989, 1990, 1995, 1999, and had an assault and battery conviction in 2001. Jenkins' only criminal history was a trespassing charge in 1994. She had a license to carry her pistol. The defense attorney argued for bail. From daileyprogress.com:
Defense attorney David Deal argued that Jenkins was a lifelong resident of Madison and Culpeper, with property and business interests in the latter and was not a flight risk. He said her actions were defensive in nature and that she had knife wounds in the hand and abdomen and bruising from being hit with a cell phone. He said she had no criminal history, other than a trespassing charge in 1994 and that her gun, which she did have a license to carry, had been confiscated.Virginia has a presumption against bond for the charge of malicious wounding. That is the charge the prosecutor, George S. Webb, III, pressed. The other two charges flow from that well. Because the aggressor claimed that the defender in this case was the attacker, and the aggressor was in the hospital, the judge denied bond, noting that the denial could be appealed.
“We would argue that this was an argument that got out of hand [and Jenkins] responded to being attacked,” Deal said.
During the three-day trial, both women claimed self-defense. Bayne testified that while she was in the process of moving that day after a disagreement with Clements, an “agitated” Jenkins showed up “ranting and raving” and the two got into a fistfight before the shooting. Bayne said she was shot after besting Jenkins in the struggle.Given the conflicting testimony, I have to wonder why Bayne was not arrested on yet another assault and battery charge? The evidence for her guilt was at least as strong as Jenkins'. In fact, the jury found Jenkins not guilty, implying that Bayne was guilty. The prosecutor had to know that he was sentencing Jenkins to jail without bond by pressing the malicious wounding charge.
Jenkins testified that her gun fell out of her purse during the altercation.
During the trial, defense attorney Blair Howard was allowed to introduce Bayne’s criminal history since his client maintained she was protecting herself from Bayne.
He was clearly making a comment by the way he handled this case.
Virginia was once one of the most conservative states in the union. It’s becoming a liberal trash heap. Our rights are being assailed daily and this poor woman’s ordeal is just one example. I have no doubt in my mind that the prosecutor is an anti gun zealot.
Defend Yourself - Go To Jail.
Is this a great country or what?
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What.
Another example of why you don’t want to live in a liberal cesspool.
She should sue for false imprisonment, loss of income, pain and suffering and anything else her shyster can come up with.
I have been posting that for a coon’s age. That is why it is best to avoid any contact with these people. You can’t win. Successfully defend yourself, the law jumps on you with all four feet. Harm or kill them, the same thing happens. I realize that sometime they can’t be avoided. When that happens, go al out. While you are in jail, they will be in hell.
Too bad the defense attorney didn’t say she was an illegal alien with a history of violent crime.
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