Dad who pluggedprowler spurns deal

New York Daily News ^ | 4/08/03 | NANCIE L. KATZ

[kattracks]

A Navy veteran who shot an intruder in his toddler's bedroom decided against pleading guilty to a gun charge yesterday. Ronald Dixon rejected a deal that would have spared him from having to do jail time because he does not want a criminal record, his new attorney said.

Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes initially charged Dixon, 27, with possessing an illegal weapon - an unregistered pistol - after he shot a career burglar he found prowling in his Canarsie home on Dec. 14.

Last month, Hynes reduced the charges to misdemeanor attempted weapon possession, which carries a maximum 90-day jail term. Hynes said he would only ask Dixon to serve four weekends in jail in exchange for a guilty plea.

Criminal Court Judge Alvin Yearwood changed that deal to a year's probation.

"After the people reduced the charges, this was put on for possible disposition," Yearwood told Dixon and his new attorney, Joseph Mure, yesterday. But the Jamaican immigrant declined the deal and left the courtroom without comment yesterday.

"That means he would have a criminal conviction, and that is a big concern to us," Mure said afterward.

Dixon gained widespread sympathy after he was charged with a crime. In a tearful interview, Dixon told the Daily News he could not afford to spend any time in jail because he was working seven days a week to support his family and pay his mortgage.

Originally published on April 8, 2003

[eno_]

You are basically saying: "We [drug warriors, gun-grabbers, Disney, RIAA, etc.] bought those laws fair and square. How dare you so anything except vote? Now shut up and pay your taxes sheeple!"

Bosh! Running a JBT out of town is a perfectly legitimate response. Make sure their kids are pariahs on the playground, make sure the wife can't get a good manicure, make sure the plumber can't show up to fix a leak for a week, offer a 'special price' for car repair, and you raise the cost of stationing JBTs around the country. Make them pay a high economic and psychological cost for their thuggery.

[Dead Corpse]

Keep in mind the progression...

1) Ballot Box
2) Jury Box
3) Cartridge Box

The Ballot box no longer works. I personally cannot think of a single instance where a legislator has voted for, and replealed, a currently un-Constitutional law without first making sure that another will take its place. Voting in new representation, with one or two exceptions, is a choise of "lesser of two evils".

Jury box. This is in the process of being taken away by Judges who prefer to work with well behaved and ignorant juries only. Once this is finally gone, we have only one option left.

Let's no go there shall we?

[Critter]

When I voluntarily submitted myself to the driver's licensing process, and vehicle registration, I signed a "contract" with the state, that obliges me to obey traffic laws. I VOLUNTARILY entered into this agreement, and I pay the piper when I do not live up to my end of the agreement.

I never entered into any agreement with the state where I voluntarily gave up my 2nd amendment rights.

And yes, I will disobey any law that I feel make that, that IS repugnant to the Constitution. (It isn't a matter of feeling, or believing, it is a matter of what is, is.) To do otherwise is to piss on the graves of the people that died to make this country free and keep it that way.

[Darksheare]

What about the career crook?
Justifiable shooting.
Unless one sides with the Libs.

[Mini-14]

Nope. He tried to register his handgun but the registration was rejected, from what I remember seeing on a T.V. show.

[from occupied ga]

I had to spend 4 weeks working in Rochester, NY recently

I had it even worse, I lived in NYC for a couple of years a long time ago. It was by far and away (red shifted past the next worse place) the worst place I have ever lived, and you bet I broke the law about registering guns when I lived there. I just never got caught.

[Maelstrom]

New York makes most gun-owners criminals until proven innocent by red-tape.

Even you are a criminal in NY if you so much as pass across the border with a firearm.

It's instant criminality...1' on the other side of the border: Legitimate gun owner...take a stride in the direction of NY: Criminal gun owner

[aristeides]

Knowing that this case is a loser, Hynes should have dropped it, and still should drop it. He has what is called "prosecutorial discretion," and should exercise it here.

[demosthenes the elder]

It becomes your job if you issue the sort of challenge you did to someone who:
a. has no current need to travel anywhere beyond 300 miles from his home (easy afternoon drive distance)
b. cannot afford a ticket for pure frivolity (and demonstrating the size of my balls to some internet person IS frivolous) - real life is expensive enough.

Put up or shut up.

[Dead Corpse]

Do pillows count?

Four seperate crimes. I bet I'm up to life sentance by the end of the week. Oddly, the only "victim" in my crimes would be governments restrictions and infringements on my Freedoms.

B-O-O H-O-O.

[eno_]

Hey newbie troll!

Kewl name. Glad you have the time to read FR. Not many of your colleagues are so lucky.

But, to the point: Why be blatant? One can be perfectly effecting against JBTs in subtle ways that won't cause any muss or fuss.

[stuartcr]

Thanks for the info.

[demosthenes the elder]

well put.

[Mini-14]

AllSmiles appears to be a troll.

[SgtofMarines]

This has nothing to do with the figurative size of your balls. My figurative balls rank right up there, but I'm not about to do it. Furthermore, this could be our big chance to finally have a Supreme Court ruling in our favor. What's frivolous about that?

[demosthenes the elder]

oh, and: welcome to Free Republic.

[from occupied ga]

(the next time I have a reason to get on a plane, sometime in the indeterminate future) I showed up wearing an armor-grade chainmail sark.

It depends on your destination. In the Peoples' Democracy of Maryland, wearing body armor by anyone other than the JBTs is illegal.

[Jim Noble]

>>but I also don't want unregistered guns in the hands of gang members and lunatics...(assuming, of course that such people could not come into legitmate possession of a registered gun by themselves) He showed irresponsibility in having that gun and should be denied the right to have any further "registered" guns in the future by having a criminal record<<

Only the rich and famous can have legal handguns in NYC.

There is no way a poor black man would be granted a license. None whatsoever.

[SendShaqtoIraq]

"I have long felt that people with IQs below 130 should be put down for the general good"

I'm all for that as that would rid us of morons like you.