Posted on 12/15/2007 6:46:46 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
West Valley City, UT has a big trend of drug dealers ripping each other off through home-invasion robberies. Criminals using it as a random technique is not common. If you know a guy has a lot of cash or valuables around, it’s better to watch the house and wait for him to leave to grab the stuff. Confronting a guy in his own house has all kinds of unknowns and all kinds of things can go wrong.
>Not so. The life of the great dane wass worth far more than the lives of the criminals that invaded this home.
I believe that your typical violent criminal holds his own life so cheap that he figures that in trading his for yours, he wins.
And he wins even bigger when he escapes justice, as often happens even if he is caught.
Babies are innocent. Thats why I am glad the homeowners child was not hurt.
Usually both are involved.
Much as I resent that I feel this way, there is no way under similar circumstance that I would not have an attorney before talking to the police. The main reason is you have -- from a Court's point-of-view -- acquired an unimpeachable witness to all actions by both you and the police. Your wife or next-door neighbor might be good people, but the Court will accept the word of an "Officer of the Court" more readily against the opinions and statements of the cops.
The inferences from the cops here indicates he's done the right thing.
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