"I'd rather face a grand jury five times a day than the medical examiner once."
There was a British angle here.......Holmes said that during the controversy that followed the mistaken-identity shooting of a young Scots businessman by a Houston homeowner, who thought the Scotsman (who'd been out for a long evening of socializing with brews and shots) was "yelling incoherently" and trying to break into the house. There had been some kick-robberies in town, and the homeowner produced a .25-cal. Beretta and fired through a glazed door at the Scotman (what's the bad luck there? Ordinarily you couldn't get a .25 to stop someone if you needed it, unless you emptied the whole clip into his eight-ring), killing him. Britons were outraged; they didn't understand at all, kick-robberies being as yet nearly unheard-of in the U.K.