07-09-2013, 09:10 PM
(07-09-2013, 08:56 PM)BlueTiki Wrote:(07-09-2013, 07:56 PM)username Wrote: I'm not ashamed to admit that the stand your ground law baffles the shit out of me.
Yes, your honor, I thought for sure the 12 year old kid was going to stab me in the eye with his #2 pencil and I feared for my life, so I yelled help and then I shot him.
*snicker*
Gee . . . I wonder if there is an exception (disqualification from using) if a death is caused during a domestic incident?
What am I saying!
That's silly.
This SYG is really about racial injustice . . . NOT one of a poorly written law.
Sometimes I get impatient with your tendency towards snark/sarcasm versus just saying what's really on your mind.
A jury in Florida has acquitted a 70-year-old Vietnam War veteran accused of shooting dead an actor half his age whom he caught having sex with his wife in the couple’s home.
It took the jurors two hours Thursday to clear retired Lt. Col. Ralph Wald of second-degree murder charges in the March 10 slaying of 32-year-old Walter Conley.
Prosecutors said Wald heard his wife, 41-year-old Johnna Lynn Flores, and Conley having sex in the living room of their Brandon home, grabbed a gun and shot the actor three times, killing him.
Marriage on the mend: Flores told reporters that her husband has '100 per cent' forgiven her, and the two plan to celebrate his acquittal with a trip to a Waffle House
The 70-year-old man, however, claimed self-defense, saying that he thought his wife was being raped.
Wald's attorney, Joe Episcopo, has built his defense around Florida 'stand your ground ' law, which says that a homeowner has no obligation to retreat when faced with an intruder on his property.
In court Thursday, the defendant said he does not regret shooting and killing his wife's lover, MyFox Tampa Bay reported.
'If the same thing happened again, I would do the same thing,’ Wald said. ‘I didn't think I did anything wrong.'
He then added: 'I had a problem, I found someone raping my wife. I took care of it. I got a gun and I shot him.
He also expressed hope that he and Flores would be able to salvage their marriage – a process that would likely require counselling for their sexual problems.
‘In fact, she would joke a lot with me … that we were a perfect couple,’ Wald said. ‘She didn't want to do it, and I couldn't do it.’
Outside the Hillsborough Circuit Court, Wald's philandering spouse gushed to the gathered reporters that she was 'elated' by her husband's acquittal.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z2YbHw6oIb
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