Dad who pluggedprowler spurns deal

New York Daily News ^ | 4/08/03 | NANCIE L. KATZ

[kattracks]

A Navy veteran who shot an intruder in his toddler's bedroom decided against pleading guilty to a gun charge yesterday. Ronald Dixon rejected a deal that would have spared him from having to do jail time because he does not want a criminal record, his new attorney said.

Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes initially charged Dixon, 27, with possessing an illegal weapon - an unregistered pistol - after he shot a career burglar he found prowling in his Canarsie home on Dec. 14.

Last month, Hynes reduced the charges to misdemeanor attempted weapon possession, which carries a maximum 90-day jail term. Hynes said he would only ask Dixon to serve four weekends in jail in exchange for a guilty plea.

Criminal Court Judge Alvin Yearwood changed that deal to a year's probation.

"After the people reduced the charges, this was put on for possible disposition," Yearwood told Dixon and his new attorney, Joseph Mure, yesterday. But the Jamaican immigrant declined the deal and left the courtroom without comment yesterday.

"That means he would have a criminal conviction, and that is a big concern to us," Mure said afterward.

Dixon gained widespread sympathy after he was charged with a crime. In a tearful interview, Dixon told the Daily News he could not afford to spend any time in jail because he was working seven days a week to support his family and pay his mortgage.

Originally published on April 8, 2003

[asformeandformyhouse]

I'm all for the right to bear arms, but

I doubt it. That's a big but you've got there.

[moyden2000]

Liberals are evil.

[asformeandformyhouse]

What laws do you break on a regular basis?

Unconstitutional ones.

[meyer]

Stupid laws should be disregarded. Unconstitutional laws should be broken.

Worth repeating.

[meyer]

Unconstitutional ones.

Same here, along with speed limits on occasion!

[Zon]

You advocate that the government initiate force/harm and suffering against people that are minding their own business. You are part of the problem.

[southern rock]

There are legal ways to do things, this man, unfortunately, decided to sidestep the law.

Thank God he did!

So, NY has a choice, dismiss the law; or enforce it.

Easy choice. Dismiss it! But then again, there is no rightousness in NY, is there?

[southern rock]

Stupid laws should be disregarded. Unconstitutional laws should be broken.

Amen! However, I would have bet a million $$ (if I had it) that the "the law is the law" contingent was going to show up on this thread.

[WhiskeyPapa]

Please stay in New York. Please don't mingle with people who have common sense.

Yeah? Like you? You think laws can be broken at will?

There is a higher law than man's law.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government."

Taking away the right to keep and bear arms is not a just power of the government. No one, even with the smallest cojones on record, should have to be told that.

Just stay in New York -- please.

Walt

[demosthenes the elder]

Anyone who can read the US Constitution can decide the constitutionality of any given law.
Anyone familiar with logic and reality can decide which laws are nonsense.

I forgot to add one thing to my original reply:
"Stupid laws should be disregarded. Unconstitutional laws should be broken. The penalties for doing so should be fought tooth-and-nail."

[Rifleman]

AllSmiles wrote: This fellow broke the law. He made a conscious decision to do so. Now it's time to pay the piper. Pay like a man. It was worth shooting the intruder, wasn't it?

Rifleman replys: Well, no. The Supreme Court has held that an unconstitutional law is no law at all. And laws that are unjust, evil or simply stupid should be disobeyed. If he had hidden an escaped slave in 1858 or a Jew in 1941 he would not have been under any obligation to "pay like a man". And he is not in this case.

[bert]

Even after the enlightenment of the 911 attack, New York is still ruled by the tyrants of the left. They know they are wrong but can't swallow the bitter phlegm of defeat.

[George from New England]

This guy, HAD already filled out the paperwork and paid the exorbitant fees. He was complying with the ridiculous laws in this state. Note: He had just moved from Florida, where everything was legal down there.

It was the criminal who was out-of-step, the bad guy should have waited the six month for the paperwork to go through before he broke into the house.

There should be a noticed placed on the guy's door, you must not rob here until xxxxx xx, 2006 until my firearm permit has been approved.

[ZULU]

Hynes is a first class, A-1 political Wh-re. He panders to minorities, opposes the Second Amendment, and is highly selective in the way he impliments the law.

He's stuck here. If Dixon sticks to his guns, as he should, Hynes will probaby back down as Dixon is a minority.
Were Dixon white, Hynes would be building a cross now to crucify him.

Dixon was doing what any American has the right to do, and his minority status is a further protection in New York City. Stick to your guns Dixon, make that creep Hynes sweat. He deserves it.

[toothless]

disobedience to tyrants is obedience to god.

[todd1]

Was this the same guy that was on Hannity and Colmes? If I remember correctly he did have a license for the gun in Florida and he had filed paper work already for the license in NY. It sounds like to me that he did all the right things.. What is he supposed to do? They should have a law that gives a grace period for people moving to the state.

[todd1]

My bad.. I see this was already brought up