A premeditated act only requires the perpetrator to reflect on what he is doing and decide to do it. In otherwords, once the threat was removed if he decided to shoot the perp, it was premeditated. That being said, I think the DA will have a hard time getting a conviction. As it has been said, you cannot see the perp on the video so there is no way to refute the pharmicist.Plus, this is Oklahoma and people will be sympatheitic to him.
On the DA's side of the argument, there is enough in the video to require him to bring the case. All he is saying is there is probable cause to believe a crime has been committed. A jury will decide whether a crime actually was committed. If he had not brought the charges, the African-American community in Oklahoma would have had a legitimate beef IMHO.
Why is it, that the "African-American" community selects the dregs of their race, as their "hills to die on"?
Lawdave, I’m not so sure you aren’t right here. Perhaps it would have been better to submit this to a grand jury though. (Perhaps it was since this was a capital case, I don’t know how that works) That would have taken the pressure of the local DA, and it could have saved the state a lot of costs.
When this guy gets in the witness stand with that brace, and not looking super sharp, he’s going to get off.
That’s my take on it. I could be all wet. Who knows...
As it is, does the European-American community have a beef with the little s*its who held up this elderly white man’s store?