Read the article. It explains why he took such a bad plea deal.
Hopefully another court ruling will get this man out soon.
The DA is a scoombag.
A plea deal with a range of sentence
and the Judge took the upper range? Or a plea deal with 40? Makes a difference for appeal purposes.
I think the daughtee is stronger tgan people are giving her credit for. Doesn’t she want to testify, rather than this?
She would let her father rot in prison so that she wouldn’t have to tell her story and get all upset? There are no words...
Maybe a few, but I won’t print them.
Somehow “entitled diva snowflake” doesn’t quite say it.
She doesn’t deserve him.
I tend to disagree...somewhat. Shooting up a convenience store while on the way to kill the perv shows he should be kept under wraps and receive some serious counseling. 40 years is a bad deal but a decent attorney could have worked a temp insanity plea and gotten him into a proper facility. Prison will do him no good.
What an absurd charge and sentence. Recall the judge and the prosecutor. There is something wrong with the sentence when the rapist child molestor walks free for years but his executioner is given 40 years.
This would make a great presideatal pardon.
40 days would’ve been sufficient.
I think there is more going on in this story than is being reported.
That is a bit different from what the headline implies.
That there is why he got 40 yrs.
Pardon is the appropriate course, or commutation.
A jury trial would have found him guilty of murder 3 and sentenced to 5yrs minus time served.
Or, completely hung.
Out in 13 months on probation.
[On his way to Brooks’ home, Jay Maynor also fired shots into a convenience store]
This is what sunk him.
From the comments of article.
Daddy was 18 and momma was 15 when girl was conceived. (Wasn’t that Statutory rape at the time back in 1991 in Alabama?) Grandaddy probably didn’t like daddy too much for raping his daughter. I doubt they got along very well after that.
Daddy is crazy. I mean in 2014 he shoots into an occupied public building at a step-daughter’s former boyfriend.
Grandaddy (momma’s daddy) is trying to protect girl from nutcase daddy back in 2002. So Daddy accuses grandaddy of sexual abuse and coerces momma and daughter to go along with it. They’re probably terrified of him and what he might do to them if they don’t play along, seeing as how he’s so crazy that in 2014 he shoots into an occupied grocery store because a step-daughter’s former boyfriend is inside.
Daughter he fathered with mother in 1991 when he was 18 and mother was only 15 is now 24 so mother is around 39-40. Yet two years ago in 2014 he’s shooting at a teenager who is step-daughter’s boyfriend which probably means step-daughter is also a teenager. Sounds like he’s no longer with momma of daughter #1 and is with momma of younger step-daughter instead.
Zero physical evidence a crime was ever committed back when daughter was a little girl.
Maybe granddaddy is the one who plead guilty back in 2002 in exchange for a light sentence so granddaughter wouldn’t have to go through the pain of a trial either lying about granddaddy about stuff she doesn’t even understand or spilling the beans about how crazy daddy is? Or maybe grandaddy is just as bad as daddy is and did do it?
Now daddy takes a 40 year sentence in a plea bargain to prevent 24 year old daughter (who is now racked with guilt because she realizes what crazy daddy manipulated her into helping him do to granddaddy back in 2002) from having to go through the pain of testifying after daddy kills grandpa in 2014. Yet same daughter is willing to painfully spill her guts to the newspaper about it? Have you ever heard of Stockholm syndrome?
A lot of good comments but one thing is certain, it was not justice by any reasonable standards.
Dad could have shot his elbows, knees, and cut his d*ck off privately.
Discharging a firearm in the direction of a person is a Federal felony, hit or miss. Some of the sentencing then becomes non-negotiable, along with a long-term Fed conviction on a criminal record.
The molester is dead, which is about the only good that came of this.
I don’t get it. The old man plead guilty and served 27 months. THEN his son in law shot him? Why didn’t he shoot The sick creep before he did prison time.
His crime wasn’t shooting a man.
His crime was overruling the black robes.