| The Ghost of RubangB said: "Don't go outside the house," the 911 operator pleaded. "You're going to get yourself shot if you go outside that house with a gun. I don't care what you think." "You want to make a bet?" Horn answered. "I'm going to kill them." After the shooting, he redialed 911. "I had no choice," he said, his voice shaking. "They came in the front yard with me, man. I had no choice. Get somebody over here quick." He actually said to the cop on the phone "You want to make a bet? I'm going to kill them." That is a clear motive. He wanted to kill them for the burglary alone. The guy was nuts. He's lucky they gave him a reason to shoot. He already wanted to. That said, I read that whole new article, and if they really came at him, he's totally justified in shooting. Still no reason to shoot the other guy in the back. That's a case of not being able to control his adrenaline, or "getting in the zone" with baddie-busting. That's one innocent self-defense murder and one manslaughter. I wonder which one got shot twice. Now that new information has come to light, I will withhold judgment. However, that first article was crap and never mentioned any sort of threat or fear, and just mentioned that he told the cops he wanted to kill the guys and then he did, so my earlier posts were based on misinformation. |
To be clear, if your assumptions and deductions are correct I'm pretty much agreeing with you that he should have been charged. My point is that we almost certainly are missing important details as this second article shows, so I'm not really willing to condemn the guy based on incomplete info. The fact that a grand jury threw it out is astonishing to me.
I should ask if you know what a grand jury is? Its a situation where you basically have no rights, they ask you questions, they don't have to let you have a lawyer, the deck is completely stacked against you. The trial is where all of the rights come into play, the grand jury is just for filtering out cases that clearly don't need adjudication. In most cases they are literally told that if they aren't sure just to indict to be safe.
Thats sort of why I've assumed we were missing info.
 |
| To Each Man, Responsibility |
