This is unbelievable. Based on this case, you now have no right to defend yourself or property in Oklahoma....red
First Degree Murder? Damn!
Ha, this little phony war hero, with phony combat disability claims psycho, that claimed he was in a shootout with the robbers, and even put bandages on his fake wound is convicted, that is good.
What’s going on in OK?
Any background on this case? The story at the link doesn’t give any.
He defended himself from an armed robbery and now he goes to jail. I have to wonder who the jurors were.
If suggest everyone watch the video from the store....it was an execution after the man was on the floor that warranted this verdict.
The guy is a disabled veteran and was also protecting a couple of women that worked at the pharmacy with him. I don't think you can judge him by what is just on the surveillance video.
I understand the adrenaline. I even understand the sentiment. But you can't walk up and pump 5 shots into an unarmed person lying on the ground, even if he just took part in an armed robbery, if you want to keep walking the streets as a free person.
Not unless you're a cop, anyway. And maybe not even then.
From another article that tells a lot more about the perps:
He was in the ninth grade at SeeWorth Academy, a charter school, his mother said.
“We was trying to get his grades up,” she said. “A lot of times SeeWorth would frustrate him because they had so many rules.”
Jennings said her son still would get scared of the dark. “At 16, he didn't sleep with the lights off. Antwun still sucked his thumb,” she said.
She said the boy did not see much of his father. “He never tried to be any type of a role model or father figure,” she said.
And THAT, my friends, is about the bottom line.
We had a similar case many years ago in California. Party B jumps party A. Party A takes away the knife from party B and then stabs party B. Up to here self defense is in play. HOWEVER, party B falls into the gutter and is laying there disabled when Party A stabs party B again and kills him. Party A claimed self defense and the court rejects the claim saying he should have stopped when party B was disabled.
His counsel needs to contact the force science institute.
When he went back, changed weapons (iirc) and then pumped rounds into a guy who was no longer a threat he ceased to be a victim acting in self-defense and became a murderer.
People living in liberals’ Utopia seem to think the victim pharmacist should have offered the robber a free aspirin after shooting him once.