Posted on 09/20/2017 8:44:51 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
At first glance, it looks like the judge deliberately imposed the larger sentence, hoping that an appeals court would reduce it as being overly harsh. However, the part about the defendant shooting at the convenience store on the way to killing the scumbag makes me wonder a bit about the whole thing...
Sounds like a job for the late Paul Harvey and "The Rest of the Story!"
A lot of good comments but one thing is certain, it was not justice by any reasonable standards.
Dad could have shot his elbows, knees, and cut his d*ck off privately.
Discharging a firearm in the direction of a person is a Federal felony, hit or miss. Some of the sentencing then becomes non-negotiable, along with a long-term Fed conviction on a criminal record.
The molester is dead, which is about the only good that came of this.
My first thought as well.
He looks like a biker, so there will be alleged freepers here who don’t think the sentence was harsh enough.
FWIW, here’s a petition for his pardon:
“She would let her father rot in prison so that she wouldn’t have to tell her story and get all upset?”
diminishing the psychological effects of deviant abuse and rape...nice
If the dead guy was just an "innocent" civilian then this could constitute,at least,second degree murder...which certainly could warrant 40 years.
You wouldn’t get 40 years for shooting at a convenience store. Yoy wouldn’t get anywhere close to 40 years for child molestation.
I don’t get it. The old man plead guilty and served 27 months. THEN his son in law shot him? Why didn’t he shoot The sick creep before he did prison time.
His crime wasn’t shooting a man.
His crime was overruling the black robes.
No indeed. But such actions would cast some doubt on one’s mental stability. Which is the avenue his attorney should have tried.
No; but you *might* get 40 years for shooting at the conv store when the story is that you are pissed off at something else. The problem; that act screams “out of control, with a gun, danger to society.” At least to me, it does. I’m not advocating one thing or another, but I could see a judge finding maximum alarm from such an act.
“diminishing the psychological effects of deviant abuse and rape...nice”
Really? I “diminished the psychological effects” because I believe going to prison for FORTY YEARS is worse than having to tell what happened to you as a child? That she would let her father do that knowing she could intervene? Are you sure you are on the right website?
There is a time for harsh sentencing, and there is a time for leniency. I have issues with the shots fired into the convenience store, but I am have no issues at all with putting down a predator who harms children.
I thought in Texas, “They needed kill’n” was an acceptable reason for murder in these situations?
Yes, but at the minimum he would have a disturbed emotional state defense. To me, it’s not clear what happened at the convenience store, or if he was charged with it.
His daughter Julia Maynor, now 24yrs old should have testified on behalf of her father IMO.....even if it would mean she’d have to repeat her grandfathers sexual abuse, she’s a grown woman now and really should have stepped up.
This story happened in Alabama. Where - believe it or not - there are even more rednecks than in Texas.
I have an issue with the daughter...at 24 yr’s she wouldn’t take the stand in front of people but now that he’s been sentenced she has no problem speaking to news people with it all about her wrecked life and what she thinks and feels about her misery.
She should have stepped up and testified FOR her father....
But SHE won’t spend 40 yrs getting beyond that as she already said she has done so.
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