Man Shoots Wife's Lover, Wife gets charged

[lacoochee]

Unless you told them to stop they are under arrest for committing a violent felony. The police don't have special arrest authority just better unions and immunities, you can arrest anyone if warranted. If you are however wrong you are going down for kidnapping, etc.....

 

[pacodelahoya]

There is the LAW and there is right and wrong. The two are not always one and the same.

Guy is raping someone, anyone, he deserves what he gets. Did this guy deserve to die? No, of course not, it was consentual. The husband, however was led to believe that it was in fact rape. Would a police officer happening upon the same situation be allowed to use deadly force to stop a fleeing felon?

As an ex correctional officer in a pretrial facility(count jail) we were authorised to use deadly force if an accused rapist tried to escape.

All police powers can only come from the rights of the people they govern right?

There are entirely too many laws and statutes in the USA, that's why you have CCW holders getting shot and killed in the malls, because they are taking too much time to think about if it is a legal shoot or not.

 

[Roccobro]

From the little fats that we have here (we aren't privy to ALL the facts like the GJ was) I feel justice was served.

It kind of makes me wonder though. The cheating spouse KNEW that he would respond the way he did. She thought he would have killed them both. She brought the condemned lover to the house. She cried rape to save her own skin but not the lovers. Almost sounds as if the killing was all premeditated by her in that context.

I hope TX divorce laws help him prevail on that front as well. She shouldn't get a penny of the shooter's (aka: true victim here) estate.


Although it has been said several times here already we must remember that not all states or counties share the same laws or statutes. As mentioned a in the prior post there is Right and Wrong, and law usually isn't in line with that. Thankfully in TX, in this circumstance, it is. Laws are usually a reflection of that particular societies norms for the area they are enforced. I don't think we will find a consensus her on the InterNot as to the "fleeing Felon Rule" being justified in all or most cases similar this.

Justin

 

[thegriz]

follow up

Has anybody seen an update on the case against Tracy Roberson? I did some searching and found nothing. I think this is an important case and I would like to see if it went (or is scheduled) to trial and what the result was.

 

[george29]

GO TEXAS!!!! Betcha that jury was made up mainly of Spanish decendants, the only ones that appear to have any huevos left in this country.