Posted on 03/07/2018 7:47:50 AM PST by Mount Athos
Sean Donis’s wife, Nancy Donis, 38, said she was going to dinner. Donis stayed behind to watch their 5-year-old son. When he couldn’t find his iPad, he turned on the Find My iPhone app to locate it.
The software showed the electronic device moving toward an unknown location; he had a hunch that his wife had taken it, and he decided to follow. He arrived at a house and opened the unlocked door. On the second floor, he found his wife in bed with her boss, Albert Lopez, 58. With his iPhone, he recorded two brief videos of them in bed.
The New Jersey man got a letter last July informing him that a grand jury had indicted him on charges of felony burglary and unlawful surveillance for the April 2016 incident.
Donis’s wife worked for Lopez as the billing manager for his orthopedics practice.
Lopez said he was so desperate to get the enraged husband out of his home that he asked Donis “if he wanted to die.”
“Kill me. I don’t care,” he said the desperate husband responded.
Lopez also noted that Donis’s wife said they were separated, and he thought Donis was out of the picture.
The husband’s lawyer, Howard Greenberg, told jurors that the husband actually “deserves a medal,” not a prison sentence, for uncovering his wife’s unfaithfulness without physically harming his rival.
However, despite the fact that Lopez slept with Donis’s wife, prosecutor Nabeela Mcleod asserted that Lopez was a victim — a victim of Donis’s breaking and entering his home and recording him and Donis’s wife without their consent (Donis shared the videos with his wife’s relatives). He now faces a possible maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.
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He rushed in thinking she was in possible danger, ie; kidnapped.
Being outraged doesn’t excuse you from the actions you take. This guy made many conscious yet bad decisions that day... to say, that because his wife was cheating absolves him of them is ludicrous. That’s as stupid as saying PMS is an excuse for killing your boyfriend.
I empathize with the man, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have to deal with the consequences for his actions. He entered another mans home without permission, regardless of his motivations to do so. He clearly knew what he was doing was wrong, he made the decision to go find where his “ipad” was, and then to enter another mans home... He made a serious of very bad decision, and like it or not has to face the consequences of those decisions.
He’s been charged, and will face a trial for his crimes. Its unlikely he will get the maximum sentence, which the headline is using for dramatic effect, but reality is, he may. He decided to commit these crimes, and will now stand trial and possible punishment for them. End of the day, while I may empathize with him that doesn’t absolve or excuse his actions.
We all make choices, this man made some very very very bad ones.
https://nypost.com/2018/01/23/cuckolded-hubby-who-spied-on-cheating-wife-cleared-of-charges/
“Sean Donis said that when he arrived at Lopez’s house, the front door was unlocked, and he went inside.” He rang the bell and knocked. His wife was inside so he entered. No breaking. He deserves a medal for exposing the two and not doing more.
Yes, sure he did, that’s why he sat there and videotaped them for a bit
(rolling eyes)
Cute kids. Now that the judge ruled in his favor, he will have big time leverage in the custody hearing. Bye, bye to the skanky witch.
People in some more traditional regions of this country make a moral distinction. I’d decline to convict if I were on that jury. Crime of passion, alienation of affection, the man’s wife had lied to him to go screw her boss, to whom she also lied. Not guilty. No property loss or damage, no bodily injury. The only issue is trespass which is not a felony and I wouldn’t even charge him with that, personally.
There was no jury. Just the judge and the judge ruled in the husband’s favor. See my link above.
“He could have knocked on the door or rung the doorbell. But breaking in is a crime.”
He did knock and ring the bell. The judge has already dropped everything against him.
Regardless of whether you actually had to pick a lock or break a window to do so, If the door is shut, even if it is unlocked and you open and enter without permission, you engage in breaking and entering.
breaking and entering. n. 1) the criminal act of entering a residence or other enclosed property through the slightest amount of force (even pushing open a door), without authorization.
If you enter the home with the intent to commit a crime, then you have engaged in burglary.
This man made lots of stupid decisions, and will face his day in court for them. While I may empathize with his motivations, it does not excuse his behavior.
Who was watching the 5 year old when hubs went out to break in and video his wife effing her boss?
Doesn’t anyone care about the kids? Can’t we hold off on sleeping with our creepy boss til the kid is at least in high school?
Really?
Yeah, I hear ya. It goes against my grain, too.
Sorry, but you aren’t going to see this guy get off on a Jury Nullification, and are delusional if you think so. I can go to the deepest part of the bible belt and this guy would be convicted for his actions.
Empathy with ones motivations does not excuse ones actions, if you believe that, you need to change political parties. A good moral person does not enter another persons home without permission. A man’s home is his castle, regardless of the person entering’s motivations. The belief that some “traditional” section of the country would get this guy off is nonsense.
A man’s home is his castle, if you think this guy can enter without consequence, then someone may enter yours without consequence, as long as he “feels” he was doing something moral. Doesn’t fly my friend, not even in Alabama is this guy going to get a blanket not guilty.
If he’s smart, he’ll take a plea bargain.
Is anyone mentioned in this story an actual American citizen? Just curious.
In your opinion, what’s worse adultery or unlawful entry?
Accepting the notion that this man’s actions were justifiable because it was his wife is very old, very traditional and very southern. You’re not going to pawn it off on liberalism. Crime of passion and alienation of affection were or are still laws on the books in some parts of the country. It would also be very old, traditional and southern for the man whose house he entered to have blown his head off for doing so, but the fact that he was screwing that man’s wife would make such an action just as dishonorable as screwing his wife. There are clear moral distinctions, just because you don’t accept them yourself doesn’t mean they don’t exist, speaking of liberal thought.
I am sick and tired of the use of the term “slept with” instead of the actual action, “screwing”!
To actually sleep with someone, you have to have a significant amount of trust. To screw and go is just the degeneration of the ultimate act of intimacy to that of a common body function.
Opinion isn’t what the man is going to trial for. He’s going on trial for breaking the law. If he wishes to press charges, whatever they may be, against his wife for whatever legal consequences he has for her adultery, then he is welcome to go to the police department and swear out a warrant for her arrest.
Trying to argue someone else’s wrong is worse, or that your wrong is okay because of someone else’s greater wrong justified it is a non starter. These are all moral relativism lines of logic, and I would expect them out of DU, not out of FR.
I empathize with the man, but he consciously decided to break the law, to try to argue his illegal actions were moral is foolish.
“Tyranny starts when good people support bad laws”
IMHO - you win the thread.
“You enter uninvited into another mans home... regardless of his anger at what he found going on there, he broke the law...”
Seems to me that “laws” were broken on both sides - no?
And IMO they offset - in the jilted husbands favor.
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