Posted on 02/24/2023 5:05:40 PM PST by Golden Eagle
A 73-year-old rancher accused of killing an illegal alien on his property has had the charge downgraded from first- to second-degree murder.
George Alan Kelly was charged after a Mexican national was found shot dead on his Arizona ranch last month. The property is roughly a mile and a half from the border with Mexico.
Fox News reported that the charge was amended Friday in Santa Cruz County Justice Court.
Brenna Larkin, Kelly’s court-appointed attorney, entered a plea of not guilty on behalf of her client.
Larkin addressed the decision to downgrade the charge.
“That’s a significant change in the charge,” she said. “Second-degree murder is, frankly, a more complicated theory of the case for both the state and the defense.”
Kelly was released on a $1 million bond this week. He received the money via donations to the Christian fundraising platform GiveSendGo.
Larkin has stated in court filings that Kelly feared for his life as a number of armed men walked through his property on Jan. 30. The attorney also said Kelly heard a gunshot, according to KSAZ-TV.
“The leader of the armed group of men saw Mr. Kelly and pointed an AK-47 right at him,” Larkin wrote.
“Mr. Kelly, fearing for his life and safety, fired several shots from his rifle, hoping to scare them away from him, his wife, his animals, and his home.
“As he shot, Mr. Kelly took care to aim well over the heads of the armed group of men. The group then began running into the desert surrounding his home.”
Larkin said that later in the day, Kelly found the body of a man identified as Gabriel Cuen-Butimea.
“He does not believe that any of his warning shots could have possibly hit the person or caused the death,” she said.
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Simple forensics should have cleared him by now. Something is missing from this story.
I’m glad the old gentleman is out on bail, but does that mean he has returned to that same house that was broken into and vandalized? I hope he and his wife find some other place to live. Thanks to Open Borders, that place is not safe to live anymore. Many older people don’t want any such dramatic change in where they live, but most have never experienced what he and his wife did, with no officer of the law around to help them.
It’s a clear case of self defense and defense of one’s property. But that is apparently illegal now if illegal aliens are involved. They are the first class citizens now.
What’s next? Rounding up everyone opposed to illegal aliens flooding into our country? This incident is a touchstone to the issue of whether this nation’s leadership is willing to, or capable of, protecting this nation’s borders: one of its most essential obligations. If leadership isn’t up to the task, it should be discarded.
I watched the arraignment on TV. It was heartbreaking to see how that poor man was being treated. He was so pitiful and confused. It literally made me sick to my stomach.
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It appears he even called the police to let them know what happened, and was assuming he wasn’t guilty of anything, verses dragging the body off and/or burying it, etc.
Here’s another interesting article I posted about it the other day...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4133313/posts
Same. Look how some criminals are treated in this country and how this man was treated. There’s the real crime.
Shoot Shovel and shutup.
Police are not the friends of the Citizens anymore.
Sheriff’s are debatable.
“It’s a clear case of self defense and defense of one’s property.”
Absolutely. Isn’t there any Castle Doctrine in Arizona?
“But that is apparently illegal now if illegal aliens are involved.”
That is very scary and absolutely appalling.
The poor guy and his wife now have property that is worthless and they cannot live on that ranch any more. All for defending his own property from armed invaders.
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“Anarcho-tyranny is the combination of oppressive government power against the innocent and the law-abiding and, simultaneously, a grotesque paralysis of the ability or the will to use that power to carry out basic public duties such as protection or public safety.” —Samuel Francis
He’s a white male
Privileged; owns property
Old; therefore racist
shooting in the direction of brown immigrants that only want to work at jobs white people don’t want and have a better life. May also be attending divinity school.
The perfect fall guy for the communit messaging.
Sounds like self defense to me.
The sheriff there is a liberal stooge.
I don’t believe that a jury of his peers would convict him. Hopefully not!
“Simple forensics should have cleared him by now. Something is missing from this story.”
The Soros prosecutor is slow walking the forensic testing because the process is the punishment. When the forensics finally come back months from now, this rancher will be deep in legal debt and possibly forced to sell his ranch. (To somebody cartel connected, of course.)
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