In Texas ALL homicides go before a grand jury every single one. It’s part of our Texas Penal code. The grand jury’s job is to determine if the homicide was justifiable or not and to issue an indictment or if justifiable homicide a no bill is issued. Only a grand jury can issue the no bill that’s just how it works here.
Great Point. The story was meant to whip up anger, and that it did. (That is what the media corpse does). I am familiar with a case where a friend was forced to kill a perp who had carjacked he and his wife. As it turns out, this person had already killed that day and had already told him that he would kill both he and his wife. What the murderer didn’t know, however, was that the wife had a .45 tucked away and slipped it to her husband, who was driving. The perp was in the backseat and no doubt was surprised when my friend turned around and arranged the meeting between him and the Lord. It also went before a grand jury and the hearing took less than an hour - justifiable homicide and thanks from the jury apparently. This also was in Texas.
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THANK YOU for providing that “minor little detail” about Texas law regarding homicides.
After all, it makes total sense that a “homicide”— which by definition is the “killing of one human being by another” —would warrant the calling of a grand jury, which then must determine if the killing was, or was NOT, a “MURDER”—which by definition is the killing of a human being “unlawfully and with premeditated malice”.
“In Texas ALL homicides go before a grand jury every single one. It’s part of our Texas Penal code. The grand jury’s job is to determine if the homicide was justifiable or not and to issue an indictment or if justifiable homicide a no bill is issued. Only a grand jury can issue the no bill that’s just how it works here.”
My understanding too, it goes back a long way. I’m not sure, but it might be as much to protect people against runaway prosecutors as to make life difficult for innocent people.
The only question that I would ask is why did it take 22 months? How about 22 days, or something reasonable? I wouldn’t want a grand jury hanging over me for that amount of time.
I can accept that. Let me write something I want you and everyone else to read very carefully. The BLM/Anti-fa and these criminal types do NOT accept law. If you, if you're part of the system of law here, and the others who are do not get these folks stopped, they may very well get a civil war going. When, they lose, you may have folks like me in charge once we defeat them.
I will probably be dead and gone before that happens, but I'll tell you like I told students in school. It will happen (and the things I told them HAVE happened) and we WILL get a despotic form of government for failure to execute justice swiftly. I'm going to be gentle...you can NOT imagine what will happen after that. That is not an idle comment.
Did not know that. Should give them a third option. Bill, no bill or medal. Guy deserves a medal.