So Lowe's blood was up. He's supposed to be all calm and reasonable with a guy who chased him down, tried to beat him with a metal pipe, and was choking him before he stabbed him? If I were in that position and lucky enough to survive, I'd get in a few victory taunts, too. Besides, he can blame the extra stabs on Uncle Sam--it's his training.
Someone didn’t fill him in with the program for the protocol after you, John Q. Citizen fell a criminal intruder. Don’t ever, ever taunt! As for this attempted to stab, how that no stabbing happened given the victim, er intruder, was lying there inert? Maybe the gentleman made gestures as if to stab more, but never touched again with the knife? I could excuse a few crude comments and gestures at this juncture.
It sounds like lousy application of law and good appellate fodder. But I’m only a peanut in the gallery.
The guy convicted was disabled and in a wheel chair while his attacker (Manning) had 18 convictions including several for violent assault. Manning was also awaiting trial for assault as he knocked out a woman’s two front teeth while he was robbing her.