Marcus Jamal Jones: Arrested
Hmmm...no photograph available or included in any of the stories about his arrest for the beating of Denton Ward. I wonder why that is?
Sympathetic jury wanting to do “something” for the victims’ families...and lawyers going after the deepest pockets. This will be tossed, or greatly reduced, on appeal..
Wonder why McDonald?
Why don’t they sue the manufacturer of the pickup truck?
////
I’d like to sue them over that crappy slop they sell as the Big Mac. Absolute worst burger of all the fast food chains.
I know there are some stupid, ignorant people in America, but after this verdict and the Ventura verdict, how in the hell do they continue to get twelve of them altogether, at one time?
I mean, these two verdicts take a leap of faith, a shot of something out of Harry Potter, and two HUGE blinders to get to these conclusions!
WTF is happening in America?!?!
Simple solution, all McDs have to do is to have a sign declaring the store a “mob free” zone.
Easy, isn’t it?
Marcus Jamal Jones: Arrested
Hmmm...no photograph available or included in any of the stories about his arrest for the beating of Denton Ward. I wonder why that is?
It’s the Moons fault. Didn’t provide enough evening light. Sue the moon.
Are there no nightime cops on patrol in CS?
As conservative as Texas is, it still has a tort system that makes these illogical, “Jackpot” verdicts possible. As others have posted, you get a bunch of jurors who vote on emotion rather than logic and you end up with the absurd result that McDonalds is 97% liable and the actual murderers are 3% liable. Its not like this kid slipped on a wet floor and cracked his head open and died. He was killed. The only — only — way you get to a result of it being 97% McDonalds’ fault is if you permit people to simply assign blame based on ability to pay. Hell. Why not get a list of stockholders of McDonalds, find the richest ones, and sue them too. Why not award the family a billion dollars?
I’m waiting for the story of the employee, forced to be unarmed due to his/her workplace, “No Guns,” policy, robbed, beaten or killed while heading out to his/her car before or after work...
And the employer gets sued by the victim for removing his/her right to defend him/herself, and having inadequate security.
Bush’s fault.
If the victims would have been armed and fought back, I suspect that McDonalds would still be getting sued by the “crowd of 15-20 people.” It’s the litigation lottery.
With slime-ball lawyers like these, it further encourages business to stay out da hood.
College Station TX is home to mostly white Texas A&M University, where is this McDonalds?
Absurd.
Lawyers, the bane of society. They have perverted a justice systems to turn it into a disturbing legal systems. Between defense attorneys (liars for hire) and televultures I don’t know which to consider the worst.
“The teens’ families sued McDonald’s.... who, although completely uninvolved, have lots of dough.
This is yet another frivolous lawsuit. McD is a cheap fast food restaurant. There is no reasonable expectation of safety in their parking lot at night. Parasitic lawyers disgust me as much as their parasitic clients do.
Just another case where the jury wanted to do something and looked around for the deepest pockets.
This case misses the point. The true danger of McDonalds is not the character of its premises - it’s the content of the food. It’s sad to see so many corpulent, unhappy Americans flocking to McDonalds so that they can pay to be poisoned.