The value of a protection order (if you can get it)

[Bartholomew Roberts]

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22731947/

POMONA, Calif. - Monica Thomas-Harris got the chilling news just before Christmas: Her estranged husband, jailed for abducting and threatening her, had been released.

A frantic Thomas-Harris rushed to the district attorney's office, begging for an emergency protection order that would allow police to arrest him if he came near her. But it was the Friday evening before Christmas, and no judge was available. The next business day was Monday, but that was Christmas Eve, and her husband's lawyer was on a long vacation and couldn't be reached for a hearing.

Less than two weeks later, Thomas-Harris, 37, was dead, shot in a motel room by her husband in a murder-suicide.

 

[thexrayboy]

Until the courts issue protection orders on ballistic panels they are worth their weight in......paper. Which means that from a realistic point of view they have no value at all in protecting you physically. They may have psychological and news value after your death but who cares about that.

Except those who feel its better to die than kill in self defense.

 

[MiddleAgedKen]

See also Gonzales v. Castle Rock.

 

[chipperi]

Hmm lets see I work in printing..

1000 sheets = 1"

need at least 5" to stop a handgun round

so thats 5000 protection orders...

Oh screw it get a gun!!!

Oops

POMONA, Calif

forget it after an additional 5000 sheets of BS paperwork and a lengthly waiting period she would have been dead anyway. So either way a failed government and judicial system was the direct cause of her death.