[Cagey]

Most of us have said it. "Anyone touches my child and I'd kill them".

[BallandPowder]

Powder..patch..Ball FIRE!

Put me on the jury...

[dokmad]

Clearly a case for a "Temporary Insanity" defense...

[Toby06]

A Fairfield lawyer has been charged with stabbing his neighbor to death after learning the man had molested his 2-year-old daughter, police said.

I see nothing wrong with the fathers actions.

[Gorzaloon]

It looks like he did not fail at everything...

[sneakers]

He did society a favor. The man will never molest another child. Put me on the jury too.

[Vaquero]

Reminds me of the Grandfather of a boy who was molested in the class of a perverted Karate instructor..... while the latter was being led out of a courtroom by court officers....the Granddad who was pretending to be talking on a pay phone wheeled around as they passed and capped the perp and ended it in a correct manner......

Bravo to this particular lawyer and I hope all lawyers learn a lesson from this about morality and true justice.

[lastchance]

Sounds like the knife slipped.

[proudofthesouth]

In cases such as this I don't think charges should even be brought against the parent(s) whose child was molested.

[DB]

Missing a lot of information.

First, the neighbor better have been guilty. And not just guilty of patting her on the bottom.

Assuming the neighbor really did molest his daughter in the true sense of the word, then good riddance. Give the father 40 hours of community service and say justice was done.

[Sloth]

Hmmm. $50 fine?

[LibertyRocks]

I can KIND OF understand why the father reacted this way although it is not the right way to deal with these things at all. Hopefully a jury will go easy on this man, although I would still be wary of someone who exhibits such a lack of self-control... It's not right, and can only serve to make things worse for everyone involved, including his daughter... Prayers for his wife, and daughter, and the mother of the man who was killed as well. What a horrible tragedy.

[M-cubed]

Ahhh...the exact reason why we get to be judged by a jury of our peers!!!....Can be found innocent no matter how much evidence to the contrary...RE: O.J. Simpson verdict

[Boston Blackie]

A Fairfield lawyer has been charged with stabbing his neighbor to death after learning the man had molested his 2-year-old daughter, police said.

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[Harrius Magnus]

What happened to shoot, shovel, shut-up?

[don-o]

Jury Nullification.

Wonder if a high octane lawyer might aviail his defense of this?

[SC Swamp Fox]

Unless he sat around and planned it they won't convict him for murder.

Plea: Manslaughter.
Sentence: Time served, fine, community service

[70times7]

I remember an Alfred Hitchcock-esk show where a beaten and raped wife gets out of the hospital to the care of her husband. She rides from the hospital in the car staring at her feet, saying nothing. He is gently babbling on about putting the whole thing behind them. As they pull into a parking garage she finally looks up and gasps as she sees a man walking toward his car; "THAT'S HIM!" she blurts out. He asks if she is certain. She keeps repeating "that's him, that's him!". The husband gets out of the car and approaches the man from behind. He grabbs him by the neck. They struggle into the man's car and then the stranger is dead. The husband looks around, closes the stranger's car door and then gets back into his own car. As they leave the garage and proceed into the street he reassures her that the rapist is dead and will never threaten her again. But now she is no longer looking at her feet; she is gazing vacantly outside of the car. As they pass each man on the street she points and proclaims "THAT"S HIM!"

As far fetched as such a story is, it points out a truth: there is no perfection where humans are involved. I may have done same if it was my daughter, but I sure hope he got the right guy.

[DustyMoment]

I'm reminded of an apochryphal story from the Navy. Two SPs (Shore Patrol) escorted a sailor into the OOD (Officer of the Day's) office. The OOD observed the 3 and asked the senior SP, "What's this?" The enlisted man replied, "We caught a thief, sir." The OOD looked the prisoner over for a moment, then shook his head. "No", he said, "doesn't look like a thief to me." The two SPs took the man outside and 10 minutes later returned with the same prisoner, beaten, bloody and bruised. The OOD observed the 3 and asked the senior SP, "What's this?" The enlisted man replied, "We caught a thief, sir." The OOD looked the prisoner over for a moment, then nodded. "Yep", he said, "it looks like you did."

Sounds like the child molester got what he deserved. The DA needs to let this one go and thank the lawyer for saving other children from suffering the same fate.

[djf]

Manslaughter, time served.