Posted on 09/29/2019 1:00:42 PM PDT by Innovative
James Michael Meyer was charged with murder in the shooting at his home.
Authorities say a 72-year-old Dallas man fatally shot a suspected burglar behind his home and then went back to bed before finally calling police nearly two hours later.
The Dallas Morning News reports that James Michael Meyer has been charged with murder in the Thursday killing and was jailed on $150,000 bail as of Friday.
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The old man was dead tired.
A lawyer in Texas got a wealthy man off a murder charge after he killed and dismembered his neighbor. He claimed self defense. He was later caught on a hot mic boasting of other people he’d killed.
So it depends on the murder degree he was charged with. I would have to assume he is charged with 2nd degree murder.
It’s NOT murder.
But is there some law that requires you to call 911 if someone is injured right away, even if it’s someone who maybe intended to kill you?
Either way, some of these Texas folks are crazier than any Mafia guys I ever knew :)
AND they kill the bad guys.
God bless em.
Man, cut the guy some slack. So he only slept for two hours. I’m only 58 years old and I can only sleep for a couple of hours at a time myself because I have to get up and pee.
Hopefully they can get one or two on the jury, but a hung jury will not work as they will retry until they get a guilty verdict or he runs out of money defending himself and pleads.
According to the news company and the police, Meyer talked too much.
At least you wake up every two hours or so.
Steps 2 and 3: “shovel and shut up”?
If you’re not going to call a shooting in immediately, it may look a little awkward to democrats who count on felons for their votes.
Very good questions. I have to assume that the prosecutor has autopsy results, maybe showing the fatal wound was from behind the perpetrator...
The story leads you in that direction, but really short on details
(rough language ...)
Maybe he has short term memory loss ... my Dad could shoot a guy and immediately forget about it until the memory finally gets into his long term memory. He used to recall stuff he did the day before while not being able to recall something he did 30 seconds ago.
When a guy comes towards you with a pickax, it is reasonable to assume he wants to hurt you and reasonable to defend yourself.
Are 911 company dispatchers in the business of grilling callers for self-incriminating statements now?
For failure to notify the police immediately of an attempted break-in, he should be sternly reprimanded and made to pay a fine of $1.
There’s a lot of work, and emotion involved in killing a criminal who illegally enters you home to do God knows what to you. I’d be ready for a nap after that too. The guy was dead. He wasn’t going anywhere. Nobody should have to give up a good night’s sleep over some POS career criminal who has committed his last crime.
The homeowner made the mistake of following the advice of former VP Quid Pro Joe Biden: to scare off burglars, just fire off a few rounds into the night.
When do we get to see the dead perp’s criminal record, etc.?
How would police legal resources and public affairs handle this, if a police officer had shot someone who dropped a pickax and run away? Let’s see. A criminal who is on meth, young, thin and full of stamina could jump backwards 21 feet, swoop up the pickax in a windup maneuver and hurl it at over 100 miles per hour at the police officer trying to defend herself. Another 21-foot rule, unless a criminal or athlete somewhere manages to jump further.
What’s good for the goose,... ;D
[Little bad humor there.]
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