Posted on 03/29/2024 12:01:57 PM PDT by Morgana
The family of an elderly man beaten to death with a traffic cone have expressed outrage after charges against one of the accused teens were dropped.
James Lambert Jr., 73, was killed after being fatally struck with the object as he walked down a Philadelphia road in 2022.
Gamara Mosley and Richard Jones, both then aged 14, were among the gang of seven teens involved and were initially charged with his murder.
However, charges against Jones have been dropped, after his lawyer successfully argued there is not enough evidence to prove his blow contributed to Lambert's death.
'I think it's a slap in my family's face and every other family who is a victim of crime,' Tania Stephens, Lambert's niece, told the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The horrific incident was caught on video and showed Lambert being chased by the group, before they hurled a traffic cone at his head.
He suffered several injuries to the head and was transported to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
However, Jones' lawyer Jason Bologna, successfully argued that it was impossible to prove the blow delivered when his client threw the cone contributed to his death.
He pointed out that Lambert was able to immediately get up and walk away, indicating that he was not concussed or severely injured.
Prosecutors had argued that Jones' actions had encouraged Mosley to strike Lambert twice after he did.
But Bologna argued argued that their was no conspiracy among the children on that night, meaning his client was not responsible for Mosley's actions.
Common Pleas Court Judge Barbara McDermott agreed with his case and threw out all charges against Jones, now 16.
The District Attorney said it intends to appeal the decision, but it was defended by Bologna.
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Yes, but imagine being stuck in a soulless negro meatsuit for life. That’s the real sentence.
Say 7 people shoot a man who dies, but they can’t PROVE who’s bullet penetrated his heart for the kill shot.
They all get released?
Were woke voters starting to get the point yet? Nope, they are not.
Is that the guy that was let off? And he is how old? 14?
Savages.
Felony murder, group assault.
If you can charge a getaway driver or a lookout who never struck a blow or pulled a trigger, you can surely charge everyone in a mob who participated in the attack, who struck blows.
Too bad his name was not lamberti and Angelo Bruno is not alive.
Sterilization needs to be used more frequently.
Similar reasoning should be applied to the illegal alien invasion from the south. Those who are 1st and foremost responsible are not the invaders but the government and everyone in our society who enable and support the invasion.
Exactly.
You get what history seems to provide. Slaves, civil war
and freedom. All of society no matter the color has their
number of Nincompoops and Boneheads. JMO
I HONESTLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW “DEFENSE LAWYERS” CAN SLEEP AT NIGHT
Another Michael Brown thug.
So if one is elderly like the victim and possibly on anti-platelet medications and attacked where potentially you could be hit in the head? One needs to consider that the outcome could be attempted murder or worse as chances are it could lead to intracranial brain hemorrhage. So what to do to defend oneself if one was fortunate enough to be armed? Is it better to be judged by 12 or carried by 6? We all need to decide in such circumstances.
Investigate risks from head trauma amongst seniors and elderly on anti-platelet medications and decide.
Ping
The ones who created the corrupt system causing judges to drop charges are white.
What’s the problem with these white people? Clearly, they want black people to commit these horrible crimes.
Who is worse, the black people committing the crimes, or the white people refusing to punish them?
What about the white people who commit horrible crimes?
Are we so stupid we can’t see skin color has nothing to do with the problem?
Another question that needs to be asked—who is stupider, those who believe the propaganda for dividing whites and blacks, or those who perpetrate it?
In Paul Kersey’s time there weren’t cameras on every street.🤨
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