Whuh!? Whuh hawppend!??
Posted on 04/17/2015 2:57:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The woman charged with shooting and killing her Miami Police officer boyfriend lost her bid to have her case dismissed under Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law.
A judge ruled Friday that Tiniko Thompson will head to trial in the shooting death of Officer Carl Patrick. Thompson, who has claimed self-defense, will remain behind bars without bond.
"What she did, she did wrong," Patrick's mother, Lucille Patrick, said after Friday's hearing. "He was a good man, I'm proud of him in his grave today."
Thompson, 46, was arrested on a murder charge in the May 2014 death. At the "Stand Your Ground" hearing earlier in the week, Thompson's attorney argued that the shooting was unintentional, and that Patrick was to blame.
Thompson and Patrick lived together in Pembroke Pines. She said he beat and abused her and that she killed him, with his gun, while they were fighting. Thompson, then a Miami Police public service aide, claims Patrick had the gun in her mouth, feared for her life and wrestled the gun away and killed him.
"She says 'he didn't have a right to stick a gun in my face and to beat me, I was fighting for my life,' and there's nothing to refute that," attorney Rod Vareen said.
Days after the shooting, Thompson told NBC 6 in an exclusive interview that the shooting was an accident.
"She comes into the courtroom on Wednesday and for the first time says 'I had the gun and I had to shoot him because I was in fear of death or great bodily harm,'" prosecutor Shari Tate said. "That's why the prior two statements when she says she shot him were important." Thompson's trial is scheduled for October.
There is two sides to every story. Unless one side is dead.
So...was it accidental? Or in self defense?
Even if it was self defense, it sounds like she’s talked herself into a court case.
Wouldn’t matter what he did. If he had her down ready to decapitate her with an axe and she shot him they would still come after her.
Even more, Hmmmmm.
Ray Charles could see that one coming. He was a cop and, as the bootlickers here will tell you, a cop’s life has more value than ours. And besides, as they will quickly and gladly tell you, a cop can do no wrong. She is prison, if not death row bound.
“She says...and there’s nothing to refute that,”
attorney Rod Vareen said.
Murder often solves the rebuttal problem..
2. Thompson, who has claimed self-defense
3. Thompson's attorney argued that the shooting was unintentional
What a terribly written article. There are three very different defenses presented here ... "Stand your Ground", self-defense and accidental. Perhaps Thompson's lawyer is throwing all sorts of mud at the wall hoping one of them sticks. But the author didn't note the distinction of each of the defenses. Based on this article alone, I have no idea what happened in this case.
If true, sounds like I would have shot him if I got the gun too.
The FR Friends of Al Sharpton heard from.
Whuh!? Whuh hawppend!??
Should be plenty of DNA from her saliva on the barrel of the gun, then...
So if he was beating her and the shooting was in self defense there are photos as evidence of her injuries?
If you’re story changes dramatically you’ll be facing a trial.
Even in this story. Unfortunately she had both of them, accident and self defense. I didn't mean to shoot him but I had to doesn't work.
[[The woman charged with shooting and killing her Miami Police officer boyfriend lost her bid to have her case dismissed under Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law.]]
How did she LOSE her right to have the case heard under stand you ground? Was there a trial to determine she wasn’t threatened ‘enough’ to use deadly force?
You can’t keep making up stories and hoping one sticks.
Is that the best you can do.
Not really three; "stand your ground" is a subset of self-defense.
The lawyer is arguing stand your ground/ self-defense; the prosecutor pointed out that earlier (apparently before she got the lawyer), she claimed accident, which is inconsistent with self-defense. (If you kill someone in self-defense, it's intentional, albeit justified; there is no such thing as accidental self-defense.)
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