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Posted on 11/02/2021 7:58:47 AM PDT by marktwain
Misleading headline.
The shooter was the victim of the now deceased drunk dude’s road rage.
He played stupid games, won a stupid prize.
“...the court ruled that, when weighing the evidence, the testimonies of the eyewitness, Elledias, and his wife were credible, consistent and collaborative.
I think they mean “corroborative”.
Sounds like a happy ending to me!
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Hardly a happy ending. Norgard seems to have acted like a jerk, no doubt, and he needed to be taught a lesson, perhaps, but he paid a dreadful price for his stupidity.
He got insanely drunk. He attacked someone. That person felt his life was in danger and shot him. Now he’s dead and his estate can’t sue the person who defended his life.
That is a happy ending.
“Reasonable fear of imminent death”
That’s not exactly a new and “out there” standard for self defense. “Road rage shooter” is misleading to the point of looking like a deliberate lie.
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Norgard wasn’t shot because he was stupid or acting like a jerk (all of which he was).
Norgard was shot because he “reach into the truck as if he was attempting to grab someone,” then “lunged again,” which actions reasonably constituted an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury to the couple in the truck.
Most of the time, the person who writes the article is not the person who writes the headline.
Reasonable fear of imminent death
It did go to trial, and got a not-guilty verdict.
An armed society is a polite society.
A Johnny Cash fan.
later
It appears the other witness backs the victims and says Norgard is the one who attacked
“...The witness observed Norgard reach into the truck as if he was attempting to grab someone, and then he saw the driver try to push Norgard away. After that, Norgard lunged again, only to be pushed back and shot twice. Fearing for his own safety, the witness drove away and called 911....”
When I was in my 20s I was working in our family lumber mill business during the day and not getting paid, so at night I was delivering pizzas for Dominoes so that I had a little money to spend. On night as I signaled and started to get into a left turn lane I heard all this honking. The car behind me was trying to roar around me. I did not complete my lane change and turned left at the next intersection instead. The guy who had been behind me had his car parked across the street as I go back to the road that I had been trying to turn left onto.
I rolled down my window to see if there was something wrong. He was a huge guy and he flung my door open and grabbed me by the arm and yanked me out of the car and actually pulled my feet off the ground. (This was a 60s car with no seatbelts.) My car was still in park and rolled into the side of his car and put a big dent in the door.
He was going crazy and saying who “Who is going to pay to fix my car?” His girlfriend was yelling and screaming “Don't kill him”. So I pulled out my hand gun and shot him in the side of the head. Not really! But I thought that the guy who was the biggest strongest soldier I had ever seen was going to kill me or I was about to be beaten severely. Fortunately some police sirens went off and he and his girlfriend thought that he was going to be arrested for assault again and get booted out of the 101st Airborne, so they took off. The police went roaring by for some other reason a few seconds later. I was still alive so that was my happy ending.
A postmortem toxicology report showed Norgard’s blood-alcohol level was .188, which is over the legal limit of 0.08.
So, in addition to attacking the other driver, Norgard was driving drunk. I'm having a hard time feeling even a little bit sorry for the guy. As someone else said: play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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