[chrisb507]

You really can't make this stuff up...

"Bailey told sheriff's detective Mark Joseph that Richardson threw the rifle at a wall and it went off, killing him, McEachran said. He then asked for a lawyer, stopping the interview, McEachran said."

:confused:

http://tinyurl.com/3947x

[wmenorr67]

The suspects mom actually believes it was an accident.:banghead:

[DMK]

How come I never get these kinds of court cases when I pull jury duty? Oh yea, because I'm the guy in the back row going [cough]bull%^&*[cough].

[Autolite]

I once read a mob related story about a woman who had fallen several stories from an apartment building. She was found on the sidewalk with her hands and feet tied together but the incident was written up as a suicide ...

[Autolite]

I wonder if the prosecution could get a computer generated recreation of that incident to demonstrate the (un)likelihood of it happening the way the accused had described. You could call it the "Magic Wall Theory" ...

[Kendra Pacelli]

I have never laughed so hard in my life. To actually think, he believes he will get away with it?

:rolleyes:

[joe sixpack]

Remember the "Twinkie Defense"?

A claim by a criminal defendant that at the time of the crime, he/she was of diminished mental capacity due to intake of too much sugar, as from eating "Twinkies," sugar-rich snacks.
This defense was successfully used in the case of former San Francisco Country Supervisor Dan White.

On November 27, 1978, in San Francisco, Dan White, who had recently resigned from his city supervisor position, climbed through a basement window in City Hall and walked upstairs to Mayor George Moscone's office. He demanded his job back, and when Moscone refused, White fatally wounded the mayor with four gunshots. White quickly reloaded, walked down the hall to the office of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person to hold public office, and killed him with five gunshots.

In White's trial, his defense attorneys stated that he was suffering from "diminished capacity," a defense that was permissible in California at that time. White's lawyers argued that he suffered from depression and was therefore incapable of any premeditation. Psychiatrist Martin Blinder testified that White was addicted to junk food and that too much sugar could have had an effect on the brain and worsened White's depression. Blinder offered the junk food addiction as evidence of the depression, rather than a cause for the crime. This distinction failed to make it into the media accounts of the trial, however.

The defense worked. The jury found White guilty of the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced him to six years. Many residents of San Francisco were outraged and riots broke out in the city.

In 1982, California voters approved a proposition to abolish the "diminished capacity" defense.

Dan White served his time, was paroled in 1985, and took his own life later that year.

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Prooving that people can get by with a lot of crap if they have
a "good" lawyer, a psychiatrist and a bunch of idiots on a jury.

cheers, ab

ps: wait 'till "the defendant" sues the manufacturer of the AK for real fun and money.

[Nightcrawler]

"He's dead. He was shot in the back five times with a bolt action Mauser rifle."

"How'd he die?"

"The five gunshot wounds, I'd guess. It's actually ten if you count the exit holes in his chest."

"Sounds like a suicide to me."

"Oh yeah, he was pretty depressed, I bet. Look at him."

"Yeah, pretty depressed. Speaking of which, this is depressing me. You wanna get some hash browns?"

"Yeah."

"Hey Bob?"

"Yeah?"

"You ever feel like cryin' and you just don't know why?"

"Get in the car, Jim."

[twoblink]

See? The Mall Ninja WAS RIGHT!! You need to think about the ceramic trama plate just in case you get shot in the back :uhoh: :uhoh: :scrutiny:

[Carlos]

but there's always the duct tape failure. Bam, you're dead.

... Missed it by ? much.

Morons should not have guns

Simple