Posted on 11/17/2016 11:14:19 AM PST by Uncle Sam 911
An Alabama father who shot and killed his daughter’s sexual abuser pleaded guilty Monday and accepted a 40-year prison sentence in the hopes of sparing his daughter from having to relive the experience through a lengthy trial.
Jay Maynor, 43, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in the June 2014 killing of 59-year-old Raymond Earl Brooks. Brooks was a registered sex offender who was shot to death at his home in rural Cullman County, north of Birmingham.
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Brooks pleaded guilty in 2002 to sexually abusing Maynor's young daughter. He served 27 months of a five-year sentence and paid restitution.
“Basically he took it so that I didn’t have to relive the molestation and also be on the stand in front of a bunch of people talking about and bringing back memories of the molestation,” the woman told AL.com. “My father was protecting me, like a father should do. He is an amazing father—actually the best. He loves us so much.”
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Exactly. It’d be cool if he announced the pardon immediately after taking his oath of office.
I understand he didn’t want his daughter to re-live the ordeal, but I would want a jury of my peers to look at me during the trial and ask themselves if they would have done the same thing if it was one of their kids...
Well you can’t just go around killing people.
No matter how justified you decide their death to be.
And there are still people that do not believe that the law is on the side of the criminal.
I’m not seeing what the dad did wrong here.
Trump can’t pardon for a state conviction, but the governor could.
Some people need to be killed.
Reminds me of an associate at work I used to deal with. One of the nicest guys I ever met in my life. He warned his son in law to not abuse his daughter ever again after he found the SIL had a rough temper, and physically cut loose on his daughter multiple times beating her severely. The SIL did it again, and my associate/friend blew his head off with a .357. My associate/friend is still serving a life sentence for taking the bastard out.
And every killer needs to go to prison.
I suspect there will be no pardon. At least not for 27 months. Might get parole instead of a pardon.
If he had done it sooner he may have gotten off the hook, but twelve years later?
Sorry, fourteen years later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PUE8fYxjq8
The dad was standing at one of those endless rows of payphones (don’t see them anymore), acting like he was talking on one.
You are absolutely correct:
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The President’s clemency power is conferred by Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the United States, which provides: “The President . . . shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.”
The President's clemency power is conferred by Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the United States, which provides: “The President . . . shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.”
>>If he had done it sooner he may have gotten off the hook, but twelve years later?<<
“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
The President can only commute or pardon federal crimes.
Well, from what I can gather from the article:
1. perp abuses daughter - convicted in 2002 to 5 years. Serves 27 months.
2. daughter still suffers.
3. daughter says something to piss off dad
4. dad kills perp in 2014 (12 years after conviction)
sorry, but that goes beyond “effect” and I’m not sure how much sympathy a jury would have had ...
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