Hansgunner
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Jerome Ersland, the Pharmacist who ventilated one of two would would be robbers attempting to rob his Oklahoma City pharmacy in 2009,lost his appeal to the Oklahoma Court of Appeals on 06/20/13. He will continue his appeal, according to the NewsOk article to the Federal system (good luck). Ersland was retired army (technically, he retired air force, but he actually served most of his time in the army and was combat trained and experienced). What gave the prosecutor an opening in his case was that after Ersland had dropped one of the would be robbers and chased the other for a few blocks before returning to his pharmacy, after which, he reloaded and emptied the clip into the punk laying wounded on the floor - all caught on video. Ersland's defense, quite legitimate in my opinion, was that his military training and experience taught him to finish off aggressors, and there was no racial animus. Sadly, the jury (ethnic composition not known, from my reading anyway) went with the prosecution. One moral to be derived from this is that you simply cannot trust the prosecutor to do the right thing, so be very careful in SD situations - contact an attorney ASAP and say as little as possible (other treads develop this).