Two guilty in beating of (74 y.o.)newspaper carrier (lawyer blames victim)

sacbee ^ | June 15 06 | Ramon Coronado

[churchillbuff]

Two people were convicted Wednesday for the vicious beating of an elderly man who was delivering newspapers at 5 a.m. in Del Paso Heights last year. Dante Laron McFall, 17, who was prosecuted as an adult in Sacramento Superior Court, and Roy Lee George, 24, were convicted of felony attempted robbery, assault and elder abuse. ...

[snip] In closing arguments, Deputy District Attorney Sheri Greco told jurors that Bentley was attacked July 31 in an attempt to steal his truck. ...

[snip] William White, McFall's attorney, said the incident wasn't a robbery attempt.

"This is one of those things where you drive into a place you are not supposed to be and you get jumped," White said in closing remarks.

[churchillbuff]

William White, McFall's attorney, said the incident wasn't a robbery attempt.

"This is one of those things where you drive into a place you are not supposed to be and you get jumped," White said in closing remarks. """""

So the victim had it coming for going where he's "not supposed to be"?

[wideawake]

In other words, if someone ever decides that William White is "not supposed to be" on whatever street he happens to be on, it is OK to assault him as far as he himself is concerned.

[Millee]

He's delivering newspapers. Isn't it his job to be in that neighborhood then???? I'm thinking this atty. didn't graduate at the top of his class.

[BibChr]

What surprises me is that his argument didn't prevail.

After all...

...it WAS Sacramento.

/c:

[Ben Mugged]

I'm thinking this atty. didn't graduate at the top of his class.

What do you expect? He took the Bar in California..... And probably at a time when you didn't have to read in order to graduate from either High School or College.

[Fatuncle]

The only place "you are not supposed to be" is on private property without permission.

You know, what this country needs is some sort of political action group dedicated to disbarring lawyers.

We could start with this one.

[iowamark]

Fred Bentley, 74, was beaten as he was delivering The Bee on Modell Way shortly after 5 a.m. He suffered broken ribs, a fractured skull and bleeding in the brain, trial evidence showed.

In closing arguments, Deputy District Attorney Sheri Greco told jurors that Bentley was attacked July 31 in an attempt to steal his truck. After George jumped into the truck he abandoned his plan to steal it because he couldn't operate a stick shift.

I am sure that the victim will now be sued for not having an automatic transmission for the yutes to drive.

[Buck W.]

"This is one of those things where you drive into a place you are not supposed to be and you get jumped,"

That sounds like profiling to me. Where's the outrage?

[samtheman]

what this country needs is some sort of political action group dedicated to disbarring lawyers

Good idea.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Actually the California bar exam is known as one of the toughest in the nation. The state is the only one I know of that doesn't require graduation from an accredited (or any) law school as a pre-requisite for taking the bar exam and being admitted to the bar, and they make up for it with a tough exam. Good system IMO, because 1) people who may be excluded by law school admissions committees because of their political or religious views can still practice law; and 2) people who just don't want to fork over $100,000 in tuition to some socialist-brainwashing institution can just skip it, and educate themselves and/or pay a competent tutor of their choice to educate them.

[dighton]

“This is one of those things where you drive into a place you are not supposed to be and you get jumped.”

You’ve got it backwards, counsellor. Thugs like your clients are not supposed to be there, and so they’re off to prison.

[50sDad]

So the victim had it coming for going where he's "not supposed to be"?

Surely Mr. White will next defend an alleged rapist with his "The beeyacht wanted it! Look at the way she dressed!" defense.

[calex59]

I used to date a black women whose mother lived in Del Paso Heights. This is a hell hole! Her mother made good money but would not move, much to her daughter's consternation.

Needless to say I was made aware of some violent incidents in this area while I was dating her(because she just had to go see momma about twice a week and drag me along!)including the shooting of a pizza guy because some black guy wanted to join a gang and had to kill a white guy to join, so he shot a russian(legal)immigrant who was delivering pizza they had called for with the express intention of killing the delivery man. It worked, fortunately the perp was caught. I guess he had never heard of phone records!

[50sDad]

"Things in the future run much quicker, now that we killed all the lawyers!"
--------------------------- Doc Brown, Back to the Future 2

[wolfcreek]

There was a case here locally where the lawyer of a 6 time DUI perp told the jury that it was possible the man was drugged at the bar. Witnesses claimed the man had at least 8 drinks before leaving the bar.

[Taylor42]

Oh yeah, I remember that incident. It was all over the news as a hate crime. /sarcasm off

[nosofar]

There was a case here locally where the lawyer of a 6 time DUI perp told the jury that it was possible the man was drugged at the bar. Witnesses claimed the man had at least 8 drinks before leaving the bar.

Exactly! And he could have ingested the drug in any one of those 8 drinks. :)

[samtheman]

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" - it's a lawyer joke

[kjo]

I have heard a lot of dumb arguments in my time but that has to be the worst.

[toddlintown]

"I'm thinking this atty. didn't graduate at the top of his class."

Only one per class.