I'm so tired of scumbag criminals playing the race card. These guys break into a house, beat everyone inside, one so badly that he now can't even take care of himself, and they want to complain that the criminal is being prosecuted because he is black? No, he's being prosecuted because he is a scumbag criminal!
Rare Robbery Case Brings Cries of Racism
Thursday, November 15, 2007
LAKEPORT, Calif. - Three young black men break into a white man's home in rural Northern California. The homeowner shoots two of them to death - but it's the surviving black man who is charged with murder.
In a case that has brought cries of racism from civil rights groups, Renato Hughes Jr., 22, was charged by prosecutors in this overwhelmingly white county under a rarely invoked legal doctrine that could make him responsible for the bloodshed.
"It was pandemonium" inside the house that night, District Attorney Jon Hopkins said. Hughes was responsible for "setting the whole thing in motion by his actions and the actions of his accomplices."
Prosecutors said homeowner Shannon Edmonds opened fire Dec. 7 after three young men rampaged through the Clearlake house demanding marijuana and brutally beat his stepson. Rashad Williams, 21, and Christian Foster, 22, were shot in the back. Hughes fled.
Hughes was charged with first-degree murder under California's Provocative Act doctrine, versions of which have been on the books in many states for generations but are rarely used.
The Provocative Act doctrine does not require prosecutors to prove the accused intended to kill. Instead, "they have to show that it was reasonably foreseeable that the criminal enterprise could trigger a fatal response from the homeowner," said Brian Getz, a San Francisco defense attorney unconnected to the case.
The NAACP complained that prosecutors came down too hard on Hughes, who also faces robbery, burglary and assault charges. Prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty.
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I'm so tired of the race card
Discussion in 'Other News' started by leannamarie, Nov 15, 2007.
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Years ago, I think it was on paul harvey. A crook broke into someone's house and tripped over a footstool and broke his leg. Sued the homeowner and his policy had to pay.
There are some stupid laws out there. Another one I read in readers digest. Prisoner got the death sentence. He had a heart attack before he was executed. State did a triple bypass on him. Got him stable and then carried out the death sentence.
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