Posted on 03/11/2005 6:39:06 AM PST by mhking
The implied supposition in your question most likely doesn't match the facts in this case.
Ah, thanks, I had not heard that. Too much media out there to keep up with.
That makes more sense.
This still just boggles my mind, though. I've been in criminal courthouses in LA, Hollywood, Ft. Worth, Dallas. . .there are usually a ton of cops.
Even in a civil courthouse, there are tons of bailiffs. I'm just thinking about the county courthouse in downtown LA. If you shot someone in a courtroom by the time you got halfway down the hall there'd be bailiffs pouring out of every courtroom.
What they need is in a situation like that for someone to be able to hit an emergency alarm that would seal the exits.
I guess we'll have to just agree to disagree on this one. My interpretation of the jeopardy clause is that it's intended to keep people who've been found not guilty from being tried over and over until they get convicted.
The deputy shot in front of the courthouse has died now as well? Ugghh.
What a horrible day.
I still can't believe that this guy escaped from a courthouse that would have been crawling with law enforcement officers.
Itis just that: If you are found Not Guilty, you can't be tried again, but that jury never reached a verdict, so they essential were starting over again.
no, I disagree...maybe in the Middle ages the kings were more important, but gee, we have this little thing called a constitution that says that we are all created equal.....
my point only is that the very judicial system that has let all Americans down is the same system that helped produce this tragedy today.....
if we weren't so politically correct, if we didn't let the ACLU run roughshod over our laws, if we were more concerned with the safety of society instead of making the defendent look good, then Mr. Nicohls would never have been out of prison garb and he would have had handcuffs on......
its the same fuzzy thinking that allows convicterd child molesters to ever walk the streets again.....that allowed Steven Straynor's rapist and abductor to be free to try it again....
Bad if the emergency is a fire though, or if the shooter is roaming the halls killing indiscriminantly.
Well, not that much of a disagreement. I don't claim to be any kind of expert on it. Yet, since there was only one day and a half of jury deliberations and they were breaking 8-4 for acquittal, the whole rape trial/re-trial seems a little fishy to me. Who knows? We weren't in the courtroom to hear the evidence in that case.
Yes, he did.
He was the fatality. The deputy who lost the weapon survived, and is going to have a tough road back, both emotionally and physically.
I put that badly--not seal the exits as in automatically. I meant seal the exits as in an alarm that would notify the law enforcement that they needed to head to the exits to physically seal them.
Good. And good!
Then there is no shortage of available council, is there?
Unless, of course, you've committed a crime against political correctness, in which case you get tried again in Federal Court if you're found not guilty at the state level.
Boy am I confused--
"Fulton County (Ga.) Sheriff's Deputy Cynthia Hall is shown in an undated photo provided by the department. Hall was shot and killed Friday, March 11, 2005, in Atlanta, when a man being escorted into court for his rape trial stole a deputy's gun, killed the judge, Hall and another deputy, Sgt. Hoyt Teasley, then carjacked a reporter's vehicle to escape, setting off a massive manhunt and creating widespread chaos across the city. (AP Photo/Fulton County (Ga.) Sheriff)"
That's the caption from an AP photo that accompanies a story wherein this appears:
"Nichols got the semiautomatic pistol by overpowering the female deputy while he was being led down a corridor in the Fulton County Courthouse, Assistant Police Chief Alan Dreher said. After shooting the deputy in the face, the suspect then went to the courtroom, held about a dozen people at bay for a short time and shot and killed Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes and court reporter Julie Brandau, authorities said.
Another deputy, identified as Sgt. Hoyt Teasley, was later killed outside the courthouse when he confronted the suspect, Dreher said. The deputy shot while leading Nichols to court, identified as Cynthia Hall, was in critical condition but was expected to survive."
Greta reporting on Fox that he definitly has two firearms. The firearm found at the scene belonged to the dead deputy. The second firearm he has belonged to the judge's "balif" deputy, who the perp handcuffed in the Judge's chambers, but did not shoot. No word on if the perp took the spare magazines from the deputy he killed. I guess he figured two guns was enough.
Idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Basic physics eludes him.
Yeah. I nearly wrecked the car when I heard that!
Nice job of caption writing, huh? The caption's wrong, the story's right.
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