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To: newzjunkey
can't believe the look outs aren't being charged. That's incomprehensible. I sure expected more from Texas justice.

Laws are odd everywhere, including Texas. For sometime now, the law has been on the books that if a perp is aiding and abetting another perp who commits a murder, the perp who aids and abets the actual killer can and will be tried for the murder just as if he had done it himself regardless of intent - as in the whine, "I didn't know he was going to kill someone".

A good example is the killers of Kenneth Byrd (truck dragging) incident and the killing of the Irving policeman on Christmas 3 years ago. All got the death penalty, not the just trigger man.

So, the law obviously doesnt extend to juvie rape. Too bad.

32 posted on 12/12/2007 5:14:57 AM PST by TexasRedeye (Eschew obfuscation)
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To: TexasRedeye
... Kenneth Byrd (truck dragging) ...

Ummmmm, "James" Byrd, right?

33 posted on 12/12/2007 7:39:57 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: TexasRedeye
For sometime now, the law has been on the books that if a perp is aiding and abetting another perp who commits a murder, the perp who aids and abets the actual killer can and will be tried for the murder ...

I served once on the jury trying a guy for murder, although he was only the "lookout" while someone was actually shooting someone.

We convicted him.

He was sentenced to death.

35 posted on 12/12/2007 7:49:30 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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