Posted on 12/24/2010 8:08:49 AM PST by Charlespg
A black father has been sensationally pardoned for the racially charged murder of a white teenager he claimed was part of a ‘lynch mob’ that stormed his home.
John White, 57, was freed after serving just five months of a two-to-four-year prison sentence for the shooting.
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You keep saying “on his property”. Where do you get this?
Also, you speak of Mr. White being within inches of the belligerents. How do you suppose this came to pass?
Are you 12?
Because that's the way it works.
An appellate court either State or Federal will look at any 'new" evidence that could possibly emerge if it has the potential to change the outcome. They would then overturn that conviction and order a new trial. But that is very rare.
Outside of that, they will only overturn a conviction and send it back to a trial court if it can be demonstrated that either the judge, jury or prosecutor did not do their jobs correctly and according to the rules.
They don't judge innocence or guilt. They only review the process used to reach that verdict. See this from the ABA. http://www.abanet.org/publiced/courts/appeals.html
Some drunken white trash meat head was charging onto his property. Mr White was justified, peru understanding of the case, and the little gabbaghoul should have thought twice. But then again, this is Lawn Guyland, Aja LIdiot land where the cops are “always right” and drunken coogine thugs are always “nice little boys.”
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I may not care for the racial rhetoric on both sides of this case, but Mr. White was justified despite what all the whimsy Vinnys and Paddies in LIdiot land may think.
But it seems this guy was pardoned by the governor. He didn’t win any court appeals.
I think a reasonable person would have first dialed 911 asking for help. Arming oneself to confront a mob shows me an intent to reach a violent conclusion.
“Are you 12?
That would be great!
“Youth is wasted on the young.”
George Bernard Shaw
If what you say were true then there would be a few dead SEIU thugs from last year's hate demonstrations outside bankers' homes.
You misrepresent the facts of the case.
That would be a basis for ordering a new trial. Apparently, the appeals court didn't see an evidence of that.
That’s probably why the jury called it manslaughter.
I infer that there was provocation, bad judgment was used, and a tragic accident ensued.
If anyone in the mob had shown a weapon it probably would never even have been brought to trial, even for the gun possession charge, even in Liberal New York.
Sweet was defended by Clarence Darrow and was acquitted. Sadly, Sweet committed suicide years later.
what a pantload. They were at his house to merely talk to him? I’m happy he’s home for Christmas with his son. The number of people showing up to menace him alone justifies a gun. That’s why Sam Colts gun was called an equalizer. The guy who got shot sounds like a typical jerk. And claiming the black kid was going to rape a white girl? Very 1920s.
You spew a bunch of racialist garbage and then say you don’t care for the racial rhetoric.
You state flatly that Mr. White was justified but don’t say why or explain what the jury got wrong.
Popping off a bunch of racialist nonsense doesn’t make you moral or cool.
Mr. White took another person’s life and this is morally acceptable only in very limited circumstances. The jury decided that those conditions were not met.
Several people on this thread have claimed that Mr. White’s prosecution was racist, yet none of them have given one honest, intelligent reason for this shocking claim.
I think that the leftists have gotten inside of the heads of many of the posters to this thread and have duped then into embracing the inexcusable.
Do you have a link to a source with more detail? This is the first I’ve heard of this particular case.
Exactly. He was justly tried and convicted. He was given a light sentence to the great disappointment of the victim’s family. He was released for no good reason after just five months in jail. All in all this is a terrible miscarriage of justice and the majority of posters to this thread are unwittingly demonstrating just how this miscarriage came to pass.
In New Mexico at least, the right to self defense haas nothing to do with where you are. If you are in legitimate fear of death or great bodily harm, you can shoot, no matter where you happen to be standing. A sane rule in a world of jerks like this guy who went to Mr Whites house.
In New Mexico at least, the right to self defense haas nothing to do with where you are. If you are in legitimate fear of death or great bodily harm, you can shoot, no matter where you happen to be standing. A sane rule in a world of jerks like this guy who went to Mr Whites house.
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