Posted on 02/06/2023 6:14:54 PM PST by artichokegrower
The judge and the prosecutor need to be thrown over the border to Mexico.
Trespass is generally when a person knowingly enters or remains on a piece of property after they have been requested to leave.
That's a damned good law and it should be enforced precisely. Arizona has a good reputation regarding conceal carry, open carry etc., at least as I remember. Frontier carryover...
Judge never named in the article?
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No jury of his peers will convict.
Looks like Emilio G. Velasquez is the judge, and Kimberley Hunley is the prosecuting attorney.
Looks like Emilio G. Velasquez is the judge, and Kimberley Hunley is the prosecuting attorney.
“But in nearly all states, you can’t generally use deadly force merely to defend your property. (Texas appears to be an exception,”
This incident took place in Arizona. And, according to the article deadly force is allowed to protect property in Arizona. If this is in fact the case then, the judge must be aware of this and incarcerated the old man with a ridiculous bail amount knowing that his action was lawful in the state.
Once the old man is released and acquitted in accordance with state law he should sue for unlawful imprisonment, pain, anguish, etc...
I don’t think shooting unarmed people is ever a good idea. There must be more to the story.
Exactly.
“I don’t think shooting unarmed people is ever a good idea. There must be more to the story.”
We don’t live in a border state. He’s 73 years old. He lives in an area where vicious Mexican Drug Cartels and Human Traffickers run rampant. He’s alone on his property with his elderly wife.
It’s far too easy for people who do not live with this on a daily basis to render such judgments. All that said, the article states that Arizona Law allows for deadly force protection of one’s property. This judge knows this and abused his position of power to unjustly incarcerate an old man well within his rights under state law to protect himself, his elderly wife, and his property.
The way things are heading, we will be busting guys like this out of jail before long.
But under Arizona law, deadly force is allowed on one’s own property if the homeowner believes it ‘immediately necessary’ to prevent trespassing
from the article.....
You are right. This is a chance for a Jury to preserve Justice. He has land that is being violently invaded.
Where do you think the lawyer GOT those communist tendencies?
Actually, I’ve suggested a hedgewall ... drought tolerant bred with the nastiest thorns the species has to offer. The fill it with every imaginable native nasty poisonous critter and make the whole thing a bird sanctuary and get free enforcement from the Audubon crowd.
If he was here illegally, no one officially knows he was here.
Don’t post things like that. Living judges take offense. Rightly so.
Doesn’t mean you cannot pray an imprecatory prayer: Psalm 109 in full is adequate.
“a Mexican citizen” is an illegal criminal when breaking into a foreign country. The rancher should get bailed out by a wealthy celebrity.
I would like to be on that jury.
“It’s far too easy for people who do not live with this on a daily basis to render such judgments. “
Especially easterners.
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