08-21-2014, 05:56 PM
(08-21-2014, 05:27 PM)Midwest Spy Wrote: As a prosecutor, do you really want to throw the book at somebody who experienced this? You don't want vigilante justice, but, the drunk driver essentially executed two young children, and there should be consequences.
If I was a prosecutor and the evidence pointed at him, I'd charge Barajas and I'd want to win the case. I'd not push for anywhere near the max due to mitigating circumstances if he was convicted, however.
Vigilante justice is not something that I support, no matter what. I cheer at extreme non-lethal self-defense sometimes, but not revenge violence and killings.
Had he not been executed, Banda would have faced consequences. He would have been arrested on the spot and it would be he instead of Barajas whose world is revolving around having committed a terrible criminal action while facing years behind bars.
Sounds to me -- from the testimony that Duchess just posted -- that the local cops involved don't feel as strongly about it as I do, which is a bit strange (though I'm sure that accident scene was absolutely heart-breaking and horrifying). Sounds like they turned a blind eye to vigilante justice and one lost his job over it.
All of that apparent vengeance and cover-up, for what? Two boys are still dead, another baby's father was executed, and a cop lost his job.