Posted on 04/08/2023 10:28:03 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is lashing out at a "Soros-backed" prosecutor after a Lone Star State jury found Daniel Perry, a U.S. Army sergeant, guilty in the shooting death of an armed protester in Austin during anti-police demonstrations in the summer of 2020.
"Self-defense is a God-given right, not a crime. Unfortunately, the Soros-backed DA in Travis County cares more about the radical agenda of dangerous Antifa and BLM mobs than justice," Paxton said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
The shooting involving Sgt. Perry occurred during Black Lives Matter demonstrations that erupted across the Texas state capital and the rest of the United States nearly three years ago.
Perry, who was stationed at Fort Hood at the time, was driving for Uber to make extra money in downtown Austin on the night of July 25, 2020, when he encountered a large crowd of protesters. They were illegally blocking city streets that night, according to police, as protesters in Austin and elsewhere had done during the weeks of rioting.
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Read Article 4, Section 11 of the Texas Constitution.
If exculpatory evidence was not allowed, the jury can only go by what they heard in court. Having said that, I do not excuse them. And besides, what kind of attorney did he have, to not make sure exculpatory evidence was heard?
The guy wasn’t a protester. Protesters carry signs. They do chants.
When someone points an AK at you they are a threat, there is no debate, no analysis, no concern, no problem......pull.
As a former federal public defender and immigrant rights activist, [Marxist] Garza said he will fight for marginalized communities, launching a comprehensive campaign to transform the criminal justice system through his role as district attorney for Travis County. On top of being a newly-elected district attorney, Garza is also the executive director of the Workers Defense Project (WDP)—an organization that has won significant victories for low-wage workers in Texas.
During Garza’s tenure as executive director of WDP, they have won significant criminal justice reform in Travis County through the passage of a “Freedom City” policy, ending arrests for low-level criminal offenses and severing the arrest-to-deportation pipeline.
I agree.
The affidavit was about evidence to the grand jury. There's no requirement to present exculpatory evidence at this stage and prosecutors almost never do.
Now, if this evidence wasn't available to him in his trial it would be a big problem.
IOW, he’s a Mexican Nationalist bent on turning Texas over to Mexico by aiding and abetting the only people he cares about...his own.
“an organization that has won significant victories for low-wage workers in Texas”
Hilarious. He’s helped destroy the wages of working class Americans all across Texas by importing millions of unskilled competitors.
You have no idea of cause and effect.
Good luck to you.
No, he does not.
The Board of Pardon and Parole must recommend that the Governor pardon before he can.
Every state has their own laws about this and this is the way they do it in Texas.
Abbott does NOT have pardon power, unless recommended by Board of Pardons. Austin is a jurisdiction where Perry’s actions basically screw him.
Abbott does not have the authority to pardon without the recommendation of the Texas Parole Board.
From what I gather he has asked the Board to review this case and to do so with haste.
Yeah I do. And in that very arena. You let rioters do as they please with zero consequences, things like this encounter resulting in a man having to defend himself from that feral mob happen. Then he suffers consequences further.
All because Abbott didn’t lift a finger to stop the BLM riots.
Good, he finally took my advice. But I still don’t see him demanding the DA be investigated by the AGs office for demanding the cop lie.
He’s a weakling and has to be dragged into doing anything. Unless of course, it’s covid lockdowns, or getting Californians to flood into Texas.
Abbott has applied pressure to the board and promises to sign the pardon as soon as it hits his desk.
So the Governor doesn't actually have pardon power?
“Fine, Abbott has the power to pardon, so DO something,”
He does, only AFTER the Parole Board makes that recommendation to him, by TX STATE LAW.
Abbot has already requested the Board do so, and also that they perform their review in an expedited manner.
IT WAS THE JURY!!!!!
You stop it, there wouldn't have been a jury if the DA had not brought it to trial. I am in no way excusing the scum on the jury, they are what they are.
This was legislation, I wonder does the Texas Constitution mention pardon power?
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