Dad Who Killed Molester Won’t Be Charged
I should think not. Based upon the details, he discovered him in process of molesting her, yet, still encouraged police to hurry up as he was afraid the man would die.
“Come on! This guy is going to die on me!” the man is heard screaming on the recording, which authorities played during a news conference Tuesday where they announced that the father would not face charges. “I don’t know what to do!”
In declining to indict the 23-year-old father in the June 9 killing of Jesus Mora Flores, a Lavaca County grand jury reached the same conclusion as investigators and many of the father’s neighbors: He was authorized to use deadly force to protect his daughter.
The tense, nearly five-minute call begins with the father saying he “beat up” a man found raping his daughter. The father grows increasingly frazzled, shouting into the phone so loudly at times that the call often becomes inaudible.
Emergency crews responding to the father’s 911 call found Flores’ pants and underwear pulled down on his lifeless body. The girl was examined at a hospital, and authorities say forensic evidence and witness accounts corroborated the father’s story that his daughter was being sexually molested.
It's a good thing it happened in Texas and not Angela Corey's neck of the woods.
Even the judge says the sentence is a "crime." But not Angela Corey.
Cheap, stupid shot at Corey, Dan.
There have been grand juries that went rogue, and this guy could have been indicted.
As I’ve said elsewhere, you kill another human being, you WILL be looked at hard by law enforcement.
Kinda as it should be, no?
For Pete’s sake, what does it take for a libtard like the guy above to face reality?
You referring to me or Dan, Jack?
Ragspierre,
I am fairly certain that Dan was referring to a case where an old guy was up against a mandatory 20 year prison sentence for discharging a firearm. The judge tried to get it down to 3 years (still possibly a “life sentence” for this guy), but Corey appealed and got him 20 years.
Yeah, I know.
The judge was wrong. Unless you think judges should make law from the bench.
Corey applied the law, which I think is how you serve in her capacity.
I also think mandatory sentencing laws are generally stupid…like “zero-tolerance” BS…BUT I understand where they came from. (The voters)
Sometimes, we make bad law, and we have to see its effect on people in order to know to change it.
Every law passed should first be subjected to a panel of 101 “dunces” — ordinary citizens not connected in any way to the legal system. If a majority of them don’t like or understand the law, it should not take effect. No one should be allowed to “explain” the law to them. If it’s not clear enough for most ordinary citizens to understand, it’s not clear enough for them to obey.
Then, after the law has been in effect for 5 years [and again after 10 years, if it's still in effect] a new “Panel of Dunces” should re-visit the law with the ability to repeal it by a 60% vote.
Finally, *all* laws should come with a maximum 15 year sunset clause whereby they go away unless passed again *in the exact same wording* by the legislature.
For kicks and giggles I’d also like to see prosecutorial immunity severely diminished.
I agree on the sunset part, and said so over two decades ago.
I have reservations about an unelected super-legislature of dunces with veto power, however.
Full marks for novelty.
“The girl was examined at a hospital,… forensic evidence … that his daughter was being sexually molested.”
The police are not stupid, even rogue grand jury would not charge the dad, a rogue DA who wanted to pitch “the white employer, the racist exploiting class, against a Latino worker, the exploited” might. And she would be hounded out of office as soon as she tried.
“…even rogue grand jury would not charge the dad…”
You really have no sense of history. There is no organ of our civil order that does not have some history of abuse. It is just the best system in the world.
Grand juries can be stampeded by ambitious or dishonest prosecutors. Look at Nifong and Corey.
ALWAYS fear a DA in an election year.
And grand juries can…as with any group of people given power…be abusive all by themselves.
Look it up.
And grand juries can…as with any group of people given power…be abusive all by themselves. Look it up.
Doesn’t that prove the point that the right move was to not even charge in this case? What point are you trying to make?
“Doesn’t that prove the point that the right move was to not even charge in this case?”
What case?
Who defines “right”?
Who defines right? How about the totality of all prior human experience, which would have zero problem with one man killing another man who was raping his daughter.
But of course your entire sense of superiority is wrapped up in thinking that the totality of all prior human experience is completely wrong. So now you have to fall back on your “Who defines right?” ploy. We all know this is leading up to “Ragspierre defines right.”
Callmelennie, you are barking up the wrong tree, darlin’.
I expect you know that.
Like my post indicated, I was not clear about which FLUCKING “case” was being cited.
Here’s a hard fact for ya…what is RIGHT and what is LEGAL are sometimes at swords points.
Now, you take your “entire sense of superiority” and stick it.
With respect, Ragspierre, you’ve worked long and hard to cultivate your reputation for smug superiority. Why so defensive? Embrace what you’ve worked so long to achieve!
On a related note, I applaud your efforts to deflect and distract from the primary topic at hand. Keep up the good work!
“…from the primary topic at hand.”
Which is what? See if you can do dialog, since your pizzle-breathed snark is now well proven.
A truly great moment in law and order history. The molester was killed and the father goes free. Halleluiah!
Yeeeup. A good outcome, though not a great one. A great one would have that poor child being spared any of her experiences.
Hey, Ragspierre, trespass on my property, I dare you. They will never find your body.
You may know the law. but you don’t understand reality in the real world.
What about “reality in the real world” did I get wrong, Andrew?