Serafine666 wrote:This is a real shame... it would have been nice to haul this guy into a courtroom, convict him, and let him run out his 40 years of appeals before the state put a needle in his arm. But it's hard to feel too disappointed; at least posthumous evidence closes the book on his guilt (based upon the article).
No it's a real shame that the first shot he took didn't slowly bleed him out. The officer at least saved the state hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to convict and sentence this fucker by spending a few ounces of lead.
Huckabee said on Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor" Monday night that Clemmons was allowed back on the street because prosecutors failed to file paperwork in time.
Has anyone been able to get used to the denial of responsibility by people like Huckabee? Its just amazing how often they brazenly get away with passing the buck to the next person down the hill.
SpacedTeddyBear wrote:Has anyone been able to get used to the denial of responsibility by people like Huckabee? Its just amazing how often they brazenly get away with passing the buck to the next person down the hill.
This is why, when Harry Truman put a sign that said "The Buck Stops Here" on his desk, it didn't matter that it wasn't always 100% true. People wanted to kiss his feet just for pretending to have an ounce of personal responsibility. Incidentally, buck-passing is how we get the whirlpool of denial in Washington DC: Republicans blame Democrats who blame Republicans who blame Democrats and something resembling a tornado, but less destructive and more childish, appears.
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The world is black and white. People, however, are grey.
When man has no choice but to do good, there's no point in calling him moral.
SpacedTeddyBear wrote:
No it's a real shame that the first shot he took didn't slowly bleed him out. The officer at least saved the state hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to convict and sentence this fucker by spending a few ounces of lead.
More then hundreds of thousands even, the minimal cost for a death penalty case these days is usually around two million, and with something this high profile the cost would have surely been way higher. This guy sounds like he’d be way too crazy to plea barging for life in prison too even if they had caught him with a bullet wound still oozing and guilt not in doubt. Course now they have to put all the worthless assholes who were hiding this guy on trial and god only knows how long and expensive that process will be.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
The story I quoted on the first page wrote:On Monday, officers detained a sister of Clemmons who they think treated the suspect's gunshot wound.
I don't see how her treating her brother's wound is necessarily a problem legal-wise, but assuming he wasn't threatening her, she is of course obligated to report him immediately to the police, yes?
FSTargetDrone wrote:I don't see how her treating her brother's wound is necessarily a problem legal-wise, but assuming he wasn't threatening her, she is of course obligated to report him immediately to the police, yes?
I believe it's dependent on what she knew. Her legal responsibility if she's unaware of how he got the wound (although that seems pretty unlikely) is minimal but if she knew what he did, bandaged him up, and sent him on his way, she's an accessory after the fact which carries a penalty similar to the crime she was an accessory in. Suffice it to say, that would be very bad for her.
"Freedom is not an external truth. It exists within men, and those who wish to be free are free." - Paul Ernst
The world is black and white. People, however, are grey.
When man has no choice but to do good, there's no point in calling him moral.
FSTargetDrone wrote:
I don't see how her treating her brother's wound is necessarily a problem legal-wise, but assuming he wasn't threatening her, she is of course obligated to report him immediately to the police, yes?
Yup, all gunshot wounds must be reported to the police, for exactly this reason. But in this situation is kind of blatant that she must have known more, especially if she traveled to treat him vs. the guy just stumbling into the house and asking for help.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
