[cripplecreek]

This is the kind of case where jury nullification can come in handy.

[LouAvul]

So, they took out the trash. What’s the big deal?

[chevydude26]

Sad they are likely going to jail. Did the daughter want to be saved was she drugged up. This is where the police need to be investigated not the Trayvon Martin case. Sad because in San francisco pimps are probably protected by the police. It’s one thing for an adult woman choosing to be an escort but this girl was a minor.

[SIDENET]

A pimp’s love is a special kind of love.

[Lurker]

I believe that prostitution should be legal.

That being said I believe that pimping should carry an immediate and irrevocable death sentence by boiling in oil.

[SeminoleCounty]

Don’t blame the parents one bit...especially since their daughter was 17

Of course, if they aren’t at least 50% minority...they will probably be arrested, and some jackbooted Nazi thug Angela Corey type will try to get them convicted.

Shame that no LEO agency would help, especially since the daughter was underage.

[SIDENET]

I wonder who gets his walking stick and fuzzy hat.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

It was that guy in “Magnum Force” who killed the pimp.

Any pimp killed is a plus for society. They have destroyed so many lives without mercy. Payback’s a bitch, MF.

[HereInTheHeartland]

They should both be given a parade, and given high profile jobs at the Justice Department.

[Iron Munro]

"We would not charge a case unless we had a good-faith basis that we could prove the case without a reasonable doubt."

Because no one else ever tries to shoot gang banging pimps.

[familyop]

Cheers to the parents. Let ‘em go, and leave ‘em alone.

[A_Former_Democrat]

I’m really kind of surprised more of this doesn’t happen

[SERKIT]

A story made interesting by the fact that there is no real “good guy” here.

[smokingfrog]

There only crime is not being discrete enough about it. They should have made it look like some other gang or competing pimp did it.

[smokingfrog]

Their only crime is not being discrete enough about it. They should have made it look like some other gang or competing pimp did it.

[Vigilanteman]

(When they) couldn't get their 17-year-old daughter back through legitimate means, they turned to premeditated murder.

Blatant editorializing on the part of the disgusting journalist here.

Murder was not the object. Making sure their daughter stayed rescued as safe from this vicious animal was the object.

Few people actually enjoy putting down a rabid dog. But they understand it is necessary to prevent another attack.

Jury nullification, my ass! This is a clear case of self defense.

[Noob1999]

Who knew that a pimp from LA could control a kid from SF!

Must be one of them “community organizers” type of things, with a super outreach type of program, in the Chicago way!

[GladesGuru]

Pimps are out of season?

[Boogieman]

“Prosecutors, however, say that when Barry Gilton and his longtime girlfriend, Lupe Mercado, couldn’t get their 17-year-old daughter back through legitimate means, they turned to premeditated murder.”

Sounds like the prosecution just made the defense’s best argument for them. What parent will convict them if even the prosecution says they exhausted every legal means to save their daughter before icing the punk? Didn’t everyone root for Liam Neeson in a similar situation when they watched “Taken”?

[dfwgator]

It’s Hard Out Here For A Pimp.