To Kill a Mockingbird comes to mind.
Nothing really wrong with Mr. Harris letting Mr. Armstrong know that he did not necessarily approve of his actions regarding gender confusion. However, Mr. Harris possibly emphasized his point a bit too strongly for the specific circumstances.
(in other words, he shouldn’t have beaten the shit out of the guy)
He should have gone to trial. I doubt if a jury would have found him guilty.
Harris pleaded guilty to manslaughter.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Big mistake. He could have elected for a jury trial and gotten off.
The right jury would have sent him home to his family.
Need some ‘good ole’ boy reasoning.
The molester was found in the river wrapped in chains, and the Sheriff looked around and declared....
Just like old CD, stole more chain than he could swim with.
CASE CLOSED!!
> Harris’s daughter and her friends came out of the store and told him that Armstrong tried to get into his daughter’s bathroom stall inside. <
The daughter was out of the store, and thus no longer in immanent danger. So the father was wrong to attack the deviant. He should have just called the cops, and pressed charges.
“After getting money from Harris, Armstrong went inside the QT store”
First of several mistakes by Mr. Harris. Like that famous sign in the park: “don’t feed the bears, it only makes them lazy.”
I think people have an unrealistic idea - from the movies - about the kind of punishment a human body can take. I doubt the guy intended to kill, but that’s just how the beating panned out.
Meanwhile, one punch killings in NYC, out of the clear blue, are being punished with a slap on the wrist. One Irishman punches another in Queens. The recipient ends up in the morgue:
https://www.irishcentral.com/news/danny-mcgee-family-laws-one-punch-death
[Last Friday at Queens Criminal Court, O’Brien pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months in prison. He tearfully expressed his sorrow to the McGee family, and will return to court in January to begin serving his sentence.]
The charge to which he pleaded guilty? Misdemeanor assault. If the case had gone to trial, the perp faced a maximum of 1 year in prison.
I’ve been called to Jury duty twice in the last 6 months. Both times the case has been settled before trial. I hope I get a case like this so I can nullify this BS.
None of us was there.
never plead guilty to that... always face a jury... i vote to acquit every time.
There's not a lot to rest on here... Confrontation happened after daughter left bathroom, he talked to security about it (who apparently couldn't be bothered to get a no-trespass order?), guy was pointed out by daughter, guy was confronted, non-involved witnesses said attack continued after initial punch, fled scene.
Eight years seems generous.
Manslaughter sounds about right....
At least he didn’t burn a queer rainbow flag or he’d get life sentence
A convenience store has a security guard?!? And the pervert still managed to get into the restroom with gilrs in there?
Some convenience store. Some security guard. Maybe the father should have met his daughter and her friends at a safer place.
If he’d not pleaded to “a lesser charge” and he’d gone to trial, and I was on the jury, I’d have been hard pressed to convict.
Did he have a lawyer advise him to plead guilty?
You can be sure the judge gave piss poor instructions to the jury regarding statutes on manslaughter. It is also very likely they were not told if the “victim” had other such crimes on his record.
He should have been going home to his family after the trial.
Was there one unisex bathroom. Maybe the victim didn’t realize there was someone in there and was trying to open the door. That doesn’t mean he was attacking the girl.
The defendant was probably charged with 2nd degree murder and offered a plea bargain. If he was convicted of murder, he could probably get life. A jury might convict of manslaughter any way. 90% of cases end in guilty pleas and 95% of civil cases are settled. With the current plea bargain system, the using your right to a jury trial is usually not a good idea.
Plus, a jury might not believe that the victim was really trying to attack the girl.
65 years ago, I went with my sister to a Saturday matinee. Some guy tried to fondle my sister. When my dad came to pick us up, we told my dad and pointed out the guy. My father proceeded to beat the crap out of him. The theater manager stopped the fight and called the cops. When the cops got there they put cuffs on my dad. When my sister and I told the cops the story, they took the cuffs off my dad, and the cops began to beat the crap out of the guy. Eventually they took him away.
That was in Hampton Virginia.
He deserves the key to the city.
Thing is he waited too long so it turned into premeditated. Should have gone in and confronted the perv right then and there and he’d never have been sent to prison.