Algiers pastor who shot suspected copper thief outside church accepts plea offer

NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune ^ | 11/10/15 | Ken Daley, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune

[BBell]

Pastor and former New Orleans police officer Willie Littleton could face up to 15 years in prison after agreeing to a plea deal Tuesday (Nov. 10) for shooting a suspected copper thief outside his Algiers church in August 2014.

Littleton, 63, was set to face trial on a charge of attempted manslaughter. Instead, he accepted the prosecutors' offer to plead guilty to aggravated second-degree battery. Littleton faces a prison term ranging from zero to 15 years when he returns Jan. 11 for sentencing before Orleans Parish criminal court Judge Robin Pittman.

The agreement included prosecutor Bonycle Thornton stating in court that the Orleans Parish District Attorney's office would not oppose probation for Littleton. Pittman ordered a pre-sentencing investigation into Littleton's background that she will used to help determine his sentence.

Littleton's attorney, W.J. LeBlanc, declined to comment on his client's plea or on the case before a sentence is handed down.

Littleton was scheduled to go on trial Tuesday for attempted manslaughter, a charge punishable by 10 to 50 years upon conviction.

[BBell]

They do. And being a former cop I don’t think he worried about thieves too much.

[Jack Hammer]

Scandalous.

They should give him a medal.

[Rurudyne]

Even worse: if you point out that by choosing to engage in sex (where conception may happen) you are in essence sending an invitation to that life to be a guest ... and it matters not one jot if you think the guest won’t show, the invitation is still sent none the less.

So abortion is then like killing someone you invited into your home, not some criminal intruder you never asked to come, but a guest.

This line of reasoning, like pointing out how abortion resembles an old fashioned lynching or show trial (where the judge and jury not only have a vested interest in the condemnation of the accused they actually pay the executioner too), seems beyond so many.

[Pontiac]

Oddly, some of the same people I’ve encountered who maintain that you should not be able to kill a criminal in the commission of a crime over mere property

I look at it this way; when someone steals your property they are stealing that part of your life that you spent acquiring that property and they are stealing that part of your life that you will spend replacing that property (if it is replicable)

So in a sense that thief was taking the man’s life and the good pastor was defending his own life.