Posted on 10/11/2014 1:21:08 PM PDT by marktwain
The penalty seems way out of line when compared with the nature of the wrong and the consequences. The kid was criminal and as usual the courts favored the criminal rather than the poor home owner.
“hid daughter” should be “his daughter”
The old “better to be judged by 12 than be carried by 8” doesn’t seem to have worked here.
Or carried by 6. Depends on the obesity thing, I suppose.
Not quite. The law was clarified to allow the threat of force to be treated the same as the actual use of force, *as long as the threat poses no risk to public safety*.
"No one was hurt, but the bullet penetrated the walls of the house and struck the house next door."
His problem would be that this probably wouldn't qualify as an allowed threat since it put other people at risk, and that it's subject to mandatory minimums if convicted. Those haven't changed either.
Much of the problem is that over the last hundred years, lawyers have succeeded in diminishing the power of juries to a mere finder of “facts” that lawyers decide are relevant.
They are not allowed to know what sentences may be handed out, nor many pertinent facts about the accussed. They are not allowed to be told that they have the power to override the law and the judge, if they think an injustice is being done.
All of that is contrary to the role of juries at the time of the passage of the Constitution.
All of it just happens to increase the power of lawyers and judges. We should pick our juries by lot, not by lawyers. Only obvious disablers, such as financial interests, or being a close relative to the accused or victim, should disqualify a juror.
All because his stupid teenage daughter couldn’t keep her panties on.
Guy should have been using hollow points. They won’t go through walls too well.
Make a mess if they hit ya though.
The Florida law is pretty clear...
I literally tossed two of my daughters "boyfriends" out the front door for not following MY house rules when visiting...
Seat of the pants, back of the shirt and heave hoo out the door...faceplant on the grass...
Never fire warning shots, never!
Maybe not.
It is easy to see possibilities in hindsight.
“...but the bullet penetrated the walls of the house and struck the house next door.”
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Sure wasn’t a problem in California when the LAPD cops looking for Christopher Dornier opened fire on a Mexican woman and her daughter who were delivering newspapers. Some of the many rounds fired at their truck missed and hit at least one nearby home.
Of course, those cops are still on the job and the taxpayers were stuck with the multi-million dollar settlement.
CBS did an entire segment, including an interview with this man, on CBS Sunday morning a week ago.
I recently read of a woman charged with a drug offense. She had the choice of pleading guilty to a reduced charge and receiving probation or going in front of a jury and facing a potential life sentence. She took the deal. These examples of "offers you can't refuse" make a mockery of our legal system. Whether you're guilty or not, who's going to take their chances?
You see a lot of this with sex offenses as well. Plead guilty and get probation and register on a database or go in front a jury full of grandmas and face life in prison.
I truly believe there's a lot of innocent people out there who pled guilty to various crimes they didn't commit simply because the consequences of losing in a jury trial were far too severe to risk.
Very true...
I have to wonder what kind of parent/father this guy really is...
Seems like the daughter manipulated dad in letting her "boyfriend" stay because he was homeless...boohoo.
It will be be in the same realm of possibilities as the moon exploding that one of my daughters boyfriends "lived" with us to make her happy...
I raised two daughters and will guarantee you I took their virtue very seriously, I understood teenage girls have mush for brains and any male species had to meet my expectations to even be friends with my daughters...dating was a whole other level...
In many cases I make my daughters angry with me for watching over them so closely...
Both will tell you today...It was well worth their headache...
Should have shot center-of-mass.
“I truly believe there’s a lot of innocent people out there who pled guilty to various crimes they didn’t commit simply because the consequences of losing in a jury trial were far too severe to risk.”
And prosecutors push for the max for those who chose a jury trial, so that those who choose it will “be made a lesson of”.
“Never fire warning shots, never!”
Absolutely 100% correct. A firearm should only be used if one is willing to apply deadly force to prevail in a situation. It is NOT a warning device.
Let the punk’s morgue photos speak for him at the coroner’s inquest.
Yep. Our system is broken. Plead guilty and pay a fine, maybe some probation, and have a criminal conviction on your record or face an uninformed jury and risk life in prison. That's not justice.
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