Posted on 06/18/2021 4:32:22 AM PDT by EBH
Mark and Patricia McCloskey agreed to give up the guns used in the 28 June confrontation in St Louis, Missouri.
Mr McCloskey, 63, pleaded guilty to misdemeanour fourth-degree assault and was fined $750 (£538). His wife, 61, pleaded guilty to misdemeanour harassment and was fined $2,000.
Because the charges are misdemeanours, the personal injury lawyers can keep their law licences and continue to own firearms.
Judge David Mason accepted their guilty pleas, but rejected their request to donate Mr McCloskey's rifle in a fundraiser, US media said.
A grand jury had indicted the couple on felony charges, which would have sent them to jail if convicted. But special prosecutor Richard Callahan said in a statement he opted for misdemeanour charges for a series of factors including "the age and lack of a criminal record for the McCloskeys, the fact they initially called the police, and the fact that no-one was hurt and no shots were fired".
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Amerika is lost!!!!!!!!
A felony charge of non-violently protecting your house from real trespassers?
Shoulda used those guns.
Let their lack of resolve serve as an example to others
I knew a long time ago that the left plans to take guns from non-violent citizens (us) and leave them in the hands of violent criminals.
It has done so. Look at Chicago, New York, Newark, Portland, Seattle, etc. Then look at who they are taking guns from.
The plan is to disarm us, then take our money, then take the few remaining liberties, then eliminate us.
Amerika is indeed lost!!!!
Eliminating us, might be the number one priority on the list, not the last.
We lose...every time. Used to it by now. The left are active, aggressive winners, the right are passive wimpy losers.
“Let their lack of resolve serve as an example to others”
It wasn’t a lack of resolve at all. I guess you climbed inside their heads to come to this conclusion.
In actuality, Mr. McCloskey had to get this case over with pronto, and as a misdemeanor only, as he has announced and is running for the U.S. Senate as a Republican from Missouri in the coming mid-term elections. He’s a brave man, and I hope he wins and sticks it to the Dems in Missouri once he is Senator, and I bet he will win. Go Mark!
I saw those videos of the McCloskeys on their porch defending their property. I saw no assault except by the rioters bashing down the gates of a privately owned community, invading, and trespassing on private property. I saw homeowners legally defending that private property of which they were both part owners of the joint ownership part and their own personal real property. This is a travesty of justice and a trampling of the McCloskey’s right to keep and BEAR arms and their right to self defense.
They should have chose a jury trial...
Basically it was less than a slap on the hand. The most they gave up was just some money. And not much. They can still own guns. They can still do everything they could do before this. They are just out a few dollars. It’s hard to pass up a deal like that if you want to get on with your life at age 61 and not spend the rest of your life fighting this.
It’s not even “the plan” - it’s just what totalitarians DO. It should be considered ‘expected behavior’.
Isnt there home in the area near Ferguson? The jury of inner city Dems would have given them the death penalty.
I’ll never get used to it.
Yes, they probably would have. Then, we would see, and hopefully will still see, if the governor has any stones, to pardon them, as he said he would.
May their chains set lightly upon them.
Shows how grand jury system has been hopelessly corrupted by prosecutors.
They live in a multi-million dollar house in a gated community, and her fine was $2000 and his fine was $750. I don't think those chains will weigh them down.
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