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Arizona father accused of killing man who tried to enter teen daughter's restroom stall
ABC13 ^ | 08/15/18

Posted on 08/15/2018 6:45:47 AM PDT by Simon Green

A Phoenix father is charged with murder for allegedly killing a man who was trying to get into his daughter's bathroom stall.

Melvin Harris' fiancée, Diana Jackson, says he and his 16-year-old daughter stopped at a convenience store so she could use the restroom. Harris said a man, later identified as Leon Armstrong, tried to get inside the stall with the teen.

They alerted store management and security.

But Jackson believes Harris felt not enough was done about it.

Harris told the security guard to 'take care of the situation, or he would do it himself.'

As they were driving away, Harris spotted Armstrong again and got out to confront him.

Witnesses say Harris then went after Armstrong, repeatedly stomping and kicking him.

"He did was he was supposed to do for our kid," Jackson said. "You cannot tell someone they're wrong for protecting their children."

Armstrong died at the hospital. Harris told police Armstrong took a swing at him first.

Harris is charged with second-degree murder.


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Melvin Harris III

41 posted on 08/15/2018 7:27:15 AM PDT by Blue House Sue
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To: norwaypinesavage

Melvin will do hard time.


42 posted on 08/15/2018 7:31:53 AM PDT by Blue House Sue
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To: Simon Green

This is why the left frantically pushed for special bathrooms for insane people - to lead to a normal person defending a normal person with deadly force.

The man is in the right. If I win the lottery his defense attorney’s costs are paid.


43 posted on 08/15/2018 7:36:06 AM PDT by I want the USA back (If free speech is taken away, dumb and silent we are led, like sheep to the slaughter: G Washington)
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To: Simon Green
He needed killin' your honor seems like an appropriate and logical defense in this situation. Why would any rational person disagree?
44 posted on 08/15/2018 7:38:41 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Blue House Sue

Yes, I screwed up and put the wrong name. I asked
the mods to pull the photo but so far they haven’t.


45 posted on 08/15/2018 7:46:05 AM PDT by deport
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To: HamiltonJay

Yeah. I’ve calmed down.

However, death is the best way to insure he doesn’t come after you after the beating.


46 posted on 08/15/2018 7:49:30 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Simon Green
Ask to have the trial moved to Chicago.

47 posted on 08/15/2018 7:50:22 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWITR,FACBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: allendale

However given the “multicultural” nature of juries, a white
male protecting his daughter may not seem sympathetic to some.

************

What does that statement have to do with this case?


48 posted on 08/15/2018 7:51:37 AM PDT by deport
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To: Simon Green

One statement and one question, by the defense, to the jury.

Statement: Jury Nullification ... explain what it is and how they can use it.

Questions: What would you do if it was your daughter?

Defendant should walk out of the court room a free man.


49 posted on 08/15/2018 7:56:12 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: Simon Green
I guess i will swim upstream here...

Vigilante justice is wrong even if the perv deserves it..

50 posted on 08/15/2018 7:57:42 AM PDT by Popman (Wisdom is not what you know about the world but how well you know God.)
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To: Simon Green
Harris said a man, later identified as Leon Armstrong, tried to get inside the stall with the teen . . . Harris told police Armstrong took a swing at him first.

I wonder how many witness there are to that swing. There could be tens of thousands of reliable, decent people who saw the predator swing first and saw Harris use only the force necessary to stop that immediate threat.

51 posted on 08/15/2018 8:04:14 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Simon Green

A black man protecting and raising his daughter. The left won’t stand for that.


52 posted on 08/15/2018 8:09:19 AM PDT by Tell It Right (Me driving a truck doesn't cause terrorism in the middle east.)
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To: Pollster1

“There could be tens of thousands of reliable, decent people who saw the predator swing first and saw Harris use only the force necessary to stop that immediate threat.”

That defense does not work when the accused tracks someone down, initiates a confrontation and then shoots to kill.

Melvin will be living in a gated community for quite some time.


53 posted on 08/15/2018 8:10:27 AM PDT by Blue House Sue
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To: katana
Cases like this are why we have juries. They don’t guarantee a common sense result, but are a better bet than most prosecutors and black robe bozos.

Unfortunately, based on my experience, prospective jurors must swear to follow the law and the instructions of the judge no matter what. This will probably intimidate most jurors into doing exactly that. (But if that's the case, why the hell do we need juries?) There is a Catch 22 in that neither judge nor defense attorney can advise the jury of the nullification concept but ....

From Wikipedia, "In recent rulings, the courts have continued to prohibit informing juries about jury nullification. In a 1969, Fourth Circuit decision, U.S. v. Moylan, 417 F.2d 1002 (4th Cir.1969), the Court affirmed the concept of jury nullification, but upheld the power of a court to refuse to permit an instruction to the jury to this effect.[42] In 1972, in United States v. Dougherty, 473 F.2d 1113, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a ruling similar to Moylan that affirmed the de facto power of a jury to nullify the law but upheld the denial of the defense's chance to instruct the jury about the power to nullify.[43]".

54 posted on 08/15/2018 8:14:32 AM PDT by DeFault User
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To: Pollster1

The immediate threat was stopped. It was the
events that occurred after they left the store


55 posted on 08/15/2018 8:15:36 AM PDT by deport
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To: Simon Green

Soooo, if this had taken place in Florida and Leon was packing and shot Harris claiming Stand Your Ground... what would y’all think of that?


56 posted on 08/15/2018 8:20:37 AM PDT by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: Simon Green; null and void; aragorn; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; Beautiful_Gracious_Skies; ...

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PING.


57 posted on 08/15/2018 8:20:59 AM PDT by LucyT (It is President Trump, - not "Trump.")
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To: HamiltonJay

If it is murder 2 verses a lesser charge I don’t se a jury going for it. Involuntary manslaughter with mitigating circumstances they would go for with a low prison sentence and probation I think a jury would vote for. Me, a white guy would vote innocent in a second especially if the father had no other issues with the law and was other wise a good citizen.

The lbtg culture has corrupted the traditional civil right movements to the detriment of minorities. Many blacks are upset about it. Politicians won’t touch this issue leading to a rising potential of vigilantism in the general populace when sex perverts are allowed to do as they will without societal and moral restraints.


58 posted on 08/15/2018 8:22:40 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (Men and Devils can't out-"alinsksy" God! He knows where "all the bodies are buried!")
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To: deport

I guessed it was the father. Did not think the perv would have looked that good.


59 posted on 08/15/2018 8:23:03 AM PDT by madison10 (Pray for President Trump, his family and Devin Nunes)
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To: DeFault User

It’s not a murder 2 case it’s an involuntary manslaughter case. Manslaughter may be what they’ll plead the man down to because I don’t see murder 2 being voted for by a jury. Or murder 2 may be used with the knowledge by the police and prosecutors that the man will be acquitted.


60 posted on 08/15/2018 8:27:31 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (Men and Devils can't out-"alinsksy" God! He knows where "all the bodies are buried!")
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