“His lawyer said Hooper, who had no previous convictions, acted “utterly irrationally” that day.”
What a useless lawyer. That’s darn close to an insanity plea. I’m glad it worked, but he was perfectly sane and fed up with the louts on his property and the law being useless to deal with them. That’s perfectly reasonable and sane behavior. Good for him. Boooo to his lawyer.
The lawyer is not just “useless” but part of the problem,
as well as being an @$$.