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To: Smokin' Joe
The ballistics will tell the story regarding the distance he shot from. He didn't have to catch up to the kid. The prosecutor looked at this for 3 weeks before pressing the manslaughter with weapon charge, not murder. This seems to be the right fit for the crime. Levin had another attorney who supposedly got a guy acquitted on a similar situation. Apparently after they looked at the case, I'm sure Mr. Levin looked at the mess he's in and decided to mortgage his and probably his parents' belongings to get Roy Black and try to beat this. From the local news today this may is shaping up to be a big case.

What is interesting is that this is not a big-money neighborhood where this happened. How can he afford one of the most expensive lawyers in the country?
518 posted on 11/25/2003 5:20:35 AM PST by untwist
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To: untwist
Most folks I know who are rich don't live as if they are rich. Oh, they drive a nice vehicle, but nothing exotic, live in a nice home, but not a mansion, etc. you don't have money if you spent it.

Ballistics probably won't tell much, per se, but wound channel angle might, powder burns (if present), location of the bullet either inside or outside of the body (if recovered and if a through and through wound with little or no deflection off of skeletal elements).

Blood and tissue distribution in the grass/on the sidewalk, etc. from an exit wound could provide the location at the time of the shooting, and to some degree the angle of the shot. (Warm climate, wait a day and watch for flies--they'll locate the meaty bits.)

Anyway, Levin's world, and life is on the line here. He's going to figure if he stays out of prison, he can relocate and work to pay the bills, whatever they are.

I have to believe that the prosecutor selected charges which have some likelyhood of producing a conviction or which they deem appropriate to the offense. Mitigating circumstances might include an unrelated death threat or other factors we will not read about in the papers. Keep in mind that most newspapers are owned by media outlets which are anti-gun and which are perfectly willing to hang any CCW permit holder (even though he probably didn't need a permit in his home), just to further the 'Dodge City' myth.

519 posted on 11/25/2003 6:32:32 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (You gotta dig a lot deeper than the fables they sold you in High School.)
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