Posted on 02/04/2011 6:39:17 PM PST by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court has upheld $78,000 in damages to illegal immigrants who were held at gunpoint by a rancher in the southern Arizona desert, a case that prompted death threats against a federal judge who was fatally shot last month in Tucson.
U.S. District Judge John Roll was one of six people slain Jan. 8 when a gunman opened fire outside a supermarket at a crowd of constituents meeting with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., who was critically wounded. Jared Lee Loughner, 22, is being held in the slayings.
Roll, 63, was killed nearly three years after ruling in the case of the rancher, Roger Barnett, who found the migrants in a dry creekbed near his 22,000-acre property in March 2004. They said he had threatened to shoot them or turn his dog on them, called them racial names and kicked one of the women.
Barnett denied assaulting or threatening them but acknowledged holding them while summoning the Border Patrol.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
I saw a great sign on a post near Sahurita, AZ several years ago. It said in English and Spanish “If you can read this, you are in range.”
Texas would permit armed pursuit of a thief off your property at night, but not pursuing a mere trespasser. Where the trespassers were, is likely the basis of this decision.
Quite a legacy.
That’s all I’m sayin’.....
A federal appeals court has upheld $78,000 in damages to illegal immigrants who were held at gunpoint by a rancher in the southern Arizona desert, a case that prompted death threats against a federal judge who was fatally shot last month in Tucson.The moral of the story is -- don't hold invaders at gunpoint -- shoot them, bury them, and forget about them. Thanks SmithL.
Judge Roll was not the “hero” some claim he was. He supported Illegal alien rights over US citizens.
San Franfreako is even a worse court.
Ditto.
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