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Man convicted of assaulting wife's heroin supplier with baseball bat
The Columbus Dispatch ^ | Sep 23, 2016 | John Futty

Posted on 09/23/2016 6:11:20 AM PDT by detective

After watching his wife's drug-dealing cousin repeatedly supply her with heroin and begging him to stay away from their Hamilton Township house, Edwin Sobony II snapped.

On Dec. 9, 2015, Sobony grabbed an aluminum baseball bat from his garage and sent Larry Jewell to intensive care with skull fractures.

Sobony's attorney, Sam Shamansky, held the bat on Friday in a Franklin County courtroom and told jurors that he would have gone further.

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To: detective

“What would you have done ?”

I would have used a wooden bat.


21 posted on 09/23/2016 6:23:37 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: detective

I can’t blame the guy for bashing his head in...

How about calling the police when the guy shows up with the drugs...

Hold him until the cops come...

It’s hard to run with two broken tibia...


22 posted on 09/23/2016 6:24:11 AM PDT by Popman
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To: fungoking
"What would you have done ? A better job of dumping the body. And used a wood bat, I’m a baseball purist."

Good answer.

23 posted on 09/23/2016 6:24:21 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: detective

Go back to the ICU to finish the job. Bring an extra bat.


24 posted on 09/23/2016 6:24:55 AM PDT by Tamatoa (Fight for our America, Fight for our Country I fought to defend!!!)
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To: detective

-—Sam Shamansky-—

Now there is a great name for a lawyer...


25 posted on 09/23/2016 6:25:48 AM PDT by Popman
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To: detective

if I was judge suspended sentence if I was on the jury . it would be jury nullification.


26 posted on 09/23/2016 6:28:52 AM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: detective

“What would you have done ?”

Paid the man a bounty.


27 posted on 09/23/2016 6:29:02 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (One party feigns virtue, the other flaunts its corruption. May God reward both as they deserve.)
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To: detective

Meh.

Swing for the FENCES.


28 posted on 09/23/2016 6:30:01 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: PGR88

Government take note. See all this support of the batter? Why is that? It’s because you are not doing your job. Worse yet, you are prosecuting the guy who is the real victim. If you don’t want vigilante justice, then give us real justice.

Will the government give us real justice? No, they are too busy figuring out new ways to tax us and finding new, obscure “rights” for things like homosexual “marriage.”


29 posted on 09/23/2016 6:31:59 AM PDT by generally
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To: grania
You’d think they could’ve selected a jury that wouldn’t convict him.

Why didn't his lawyer persuade him to plead temporary insanity? "The police wouldn't help. My wife was killing herself, with his help. I just snapped!"

30 posted on 09/23/2016 6:32:13 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: P-Marlowe

This is what you were talking about earlier. Truth over instructions.


31 posted on 09/23/2016 6:39:38 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: fungoking

:)


32 posted on 09/23/2016 6:41:56 AM PDT by ZULU (Where the HELL ARE PAUL RYAN AND MITCH MCCONNELL ?????)
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To: detective

How the Nanny State is stripping men of the ability to defend their homes, empower low lives, make society less safe, emasculate the population and create an atmosphere of lawlessness.

Charges should have been dismissed and they should have allowed Sobony to finish the job.


33 posted on 09/23/2016 6:45:27 AM PDT by ZULU (Where the HELL ARE PAUL RYAN AND MITCH MCCONNELL ?????)
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To: detective

How the Nanny State is stripping men of the ability to defend their homes, empower low lives, make society less safe, emasculate the population and create an atmosphere of lawlessness.

Charges should have been dismissed and they should have allowed Sobony to finish the job.


34 posted on 09/23/2016 6:45:45 AM PDT by ZULU (Where the HELL ARE PAUL RYAN AND MITCH MCCONNELL ?????)
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To: detective

Blown him in half with my 12 guage and told the cops the son of a bitch was threatening to kill my family.

Guy would not have survived and my story would have been the only one to believe.


35 posted on 09/23/2016 6:47:11 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: detective
What would you have done ?

Grabbed a burner cell, texted the cousin while pretending to be a user looking to score, lured the bastard somewhere way away from the home, did the deed, buried the evidence, gone home.

A reasonable person like me would see this as defending the life of a family member, but unfortunately, the law doesn't.

36 posted on 09/23/2016 6:51:39 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees! - Kipling)
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To: xzins

It’s kind of funny but I just finished with being called for jury duty last week and the prosecutor gave a hypothetical to the jury where he proposed that “Charles Manson had just been released from prison and a boy scout saw him on the street and then took a baseball bat and then attacked Charles Manson with the baseball bat.” He then posed the question to the potential jury “Would you convict him?”

To my utter astonishment, every single one of the potential jurors answer “Yes”.

The funny thing is I had spoken to a couple of them before and the two that I had spoken to both said they really didn’t want to serve on the jury, but they apparently were more afraid of being politically incorrect than they were in telling the truth or actually standing up for justice. If they had answered “no” they could have avoided jury service. But they all (like lemmings) just said they would have no problem sending the boy scout to prison for beating Charles Manson with a baseball bat.

Not one of them even asked “Convict him of what?” They just said they would have no problem convicting the boy scout.

They didn’t ask me. I would have responded by asking if they had a special merit badge for something like that.

I would think he committed a public service and should be rewarded. Just like in this case. Instead of giving the defendant a reward for public service, they send him to jail.

But that is what you have. Jurors who follow instructions like their own lives depend on it. Anyone with the ability to think for themselves is not considered juror material.


37 posted on 09/23/2016 6:58:10 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I just finished A Time to Kill...

Justifiable.


38 posted on 09/23/2016 7:04:32 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the United States of America)
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To: detective
What would you have done ?

Dumped the addict wife on her drug dealing cousin, and moved on.

39 posted on 09/23/2016 7:10:14 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: P-Marlowe

That is a great story. You should put it in your files.

I might steal it for a sermon some day.


40 posted on 09/23/2016 7:10:37 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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