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Okla. mom won't face charges for shooting intruder
Yahoo News ^ | 1/5/2012 | AP writer

Posted on 01/05/2012 6:18:11 AM PST by Former Fetus

Authorities don't plan to file charges against an Oklahoma woman who fatally shot a New Year's Eve intruder at her house while she had a 911 dispatcher on the phone, but the intruder's alleged accomplice has been charged in the death.

A 911 tape released to Oklahoma City media outlets Wednesday reveals that 18-year-old Sarah McKinley asked a Grady County dispatcher for permission to shoot the intruder. McKinley's 3-month-old son was with her when she shot Justin Shane Martin, 24, at her Blanchard mobile home.

"I've got two guns in my hand. Is it OK to shoot him if he comes in this door?" McKinley asked the dispatcher.

"Well, you have to do whatever you can do to protect yourself," the dispatcher is heard telling McKinley. "I can't tell you that you can do that, but you have to do what you have to do to protect your baby."

Oklahoma law allows the use of deadly force against intruders, and prosecutors said McKinley clearly acted in self-defense. According to court documents, Martin was holding a knife when he died.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
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However, prosecutors have charged his alleged accomplice, 29-year-old Dustin Louis Stewart, with first-degree murder.

LOL! This is what I call poetic justice!

1 posted on 01/05/2012 6:18:14 AM PST by Former Fetus
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To: Former Fetus
Okla. mom won't face charges for shooting intruder

?????

its Oklahoma, there Mr AP Writer....why would there even be a question???

2 posted on 01/05/2012 6:23:09 AM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Former Fetus

That is normal in most jurisdictions.


3 posted on 01/05/2012 6:23:27 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
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To: Former Fetus
Oklahoma law allows the use of deadly force against intruders
The law doesn't allow the use of deadly force - it makes it legal in the eye of the justice system.
In real life, no law is necessary for self defense.
4 posted on 01/05/2012 6:25:33 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven

“In real life, no law is necessary for self defense.”

True dat

One of those unalienable rights we have


5 posted on 01/05/2012 6:30:05 AM PST by WorkerbeeCitizen (I STAND WITH ISRAEL)
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To: Former Fetus

If Oklahoma followed Chicago Obama’s advise, relations of deceased would be allowed to sue homeowner in civil court for damages.


6 posted on 01/05/2012 6:34:29 AM PST by BonRad (Ut Roma cadit, sic omnis terra -As Rome falls, so the entire world)
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To: Vaquero

“... why would there even be a question??? “

You are using common sense. Liberals don’t have any.

“The first effect of not believing in God, is that you lose your common sense.” ...GK Chesterton


7 posted on 01/05/2012 6:36:35 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: oh8eleven
In real life, no law is necessary for self defense.

Really, now?
I'd like to see you move to NJ and repeat that.

8 posted on 01/05/2012 6:37:17 AM PST by stormhill
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen
One of those unalienable rights we have

We will do what we have to do to survive. But it is better if the State recognizes our rights and does not punish us for exercising them.

9 posted on 01/05/2012 6:40:16 AM PST by nonsporting
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To: Former Fetus
This is what I call poetic justice!

Yes! That is indeed justice!
10 posted on 01/05/2012 6:46:22 AM PST by Sopater (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
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To: Former Fetus

I watched the local newscast of the event on one of the links....the idiot reporter actually says the victim took the protective sense of motherhood to “a whole new level”.

Because....I guess this young women is the first mother in all of human history to kill a man to protect herself and her child?

It’s a terrific story....too bad a moron was sent to cover it.


11 posted on 01/05/2012 6:46:26 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny
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12 posted on 01/05/2012 7:12:43 AM PST by baddog 219
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To: stormhill

The obvious answer is that NJ is not real life.


13 posted on 01/05/2012 7:16:57 AM PST by reasonisfaith (Or, more accurately---reason serves faith. See W.L. Craig, and many others.)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

Nicest thing I could say about this reporter, is that we are living in the age of unlimited abortion... a mother defending her child, rather than killing him, could possibly surprise a reporter!


14 posted on 01/05/2012 7:27:12 AM PST by Former Fetus (Saved by grace through faith)
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15 posted on 01/05/2012 8:20:51 AM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: Former Fetus

The fact that this woman asked permission is the sad thing. That we are not taught from an early age what our natural rights are is the source of many of the problems we suffer. The moment someone forces entry into your home they forfeit their rights including the right to life and your moral obligation not to harm them dissolves in my opinion.


16 posted on 01/05/2012 8:21:02 AM PST by albionin
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To: Former Fetus

Massachusetts has the same cranial-anal inversion as New Jersey. It’s awful.


17 posted on 01/05/2012 8:28:32 AM PST by DNME (A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright. - Robert Heinlein)
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To: stormhill
I'd like to see you move to NJ and repeat that.
If you're the kind of person who thinks about what the law does or doesn't allow in a time of crisis, I pity you.
18 posted on 01/05/2012 10:19:58 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Former Fetus
The two guys breaking in were actually named Justin and Dustin.

She did good, but really poetic justice would have been shooting them both.

19 posted on 01/05/2012 10:38:05 AM PST by TheMole
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen

A deserving young, brave mother -

A fund has been established in Sarah McKinley’s name. Donations will be accepted at the Chickasha Bank and Trust, located at 1525 N. Council Road in Blanchard. Donations can also be mailed to the same bank at P.O. Box 548 in Blanchard, Okla., 73010.

Read more: http://www.koco.com/news/30136855/detail.html#ixzz1ibwvBYgY


20 posted on 01/05/2012 11:00:21 AM PST by Kozel89
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