Category: Legal news

Armchair Ethicists JUDGE Texas Man Who Beat Daughter’s ‘Molester’ to Death

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Dad Accused of Beating Daughter's 'Molester' to Death Is No Hero | The Stir.

A Shiner, Texas father is the talk of the country for beating to death a man who was sexually assaulting his four year old daughter.

At the Stir, they’re generating hits by discussing what this man should have done, after the fact.

Given the available information, Pharmer would judge the father as neither a hero nor criminal. Paternal instincts took over, and he beat the man whom he observed assaulting his daughter. The ‘pedophile’ died of his injuries.
The Dad has to live with having seen a horrible thing done to his daughter, and with taking the ‘molester’s’ life during the act of stopping the assault.
(Incidentally, if this man had shot the molester once with a gun and killed him, there would not be the endless discussion of how many times he should have been allowed to hit the perp.)
Fortunately Texas law is reasonable with respect to self defense, and is not likely to add further misery to this family’s life.

Updates: The girl’s age has been corrected to five years. More details on the incident are HERE. Further evidence affirms that the girl was being raped.

News that the father will not be tried for murder is HERE, and remarkably the media is restraining itself from identifying the father and daughter in the case, or trying to turn it into a race war.

Effort to Undo the Indiana Supreme Court Decision Overturning 4th Amendment Rights

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AllGov – News – Indiana First State to Allow Citizens to Shoot Law Enforcement Officers.

Justice Steven David,  a Mitch Daniels appointee authored an Indiana Supreme Court decision which ruled that there was no “right to reasonably resist unlawful entry by police officers”.

Governor Daniels has signed legislation which responds to that decision by allowing Indiana residents to shoot law enforcement officers who unlawfully enter their homes. Senator R. Michael Young authored the legislation in order to provide an avenue of defense for citizens against unlawful use of force by public servants.

From Bloomberg :  “Young cited a hypothetical situation of a homeowner returning to see an officer raping his daughter or wife. Under the court’s ruling, the homeowner could not touch the officer and only file a lawsuit later, he said. Young said he devised the idea for the law after the court ruling”

The legislation was opposed by the Indiana State Fraternal order of Police, which imagines that it would make a big difference in what happens to police who are entering a home. The NRA, on the other hand, backed the legislation.

Justice Steven David’s initial term is up in November.   The voters have a chance to toss him out.

Mitch Daniels has obviously sought to create some distance between himself and his Supreme court appointee with his approval of this new law.

 

FINALLY: House committee schedules Contempt Vote against Eric Holder

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House committee schedules contempt vote against Holder – Political Hotsheet – CBS News.

Pharmer has been waiting a long time for the House to begin proceedings against Attorney General Eric Holder, for his refusal to cooperate with their investigation of the gun running of the Fast and Furious operation in Mexico.  Possibly Holder’s ridiculous  claim, that emails mentioning Fast and Furious were not about Fast and Furious, was the tipping point.

The U.S. government sent guns to Mexico in order to raise controversy about their use by drug cartels, and use this as an excuse to undermine our  Second Amendment rights.

Use of Fast and Furious supplied weapons is connected to  many deaths including hundreds of Mexican citizens outside of the cartels, and U.S. border and ICE agents.

The  executive branch of government has assisted the killings by Mexican drug cartels in order to whip up antipathy towards American gun owners.

Congressional action against   Eric Holder  is long overdue.

 

Briton Sues NHS for Firing Her Over Her Pro-Life Views | LifeNews.com

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Briton Sues NHS for Firing Her Over Her Pro-Life Views | LifeNews.com.

Margaret Forrester, a psychological wellbeing practitioner with the Central and North West London NHS Trust, has filed suit against her employer for breaching her freedom of religion and freedom of speach. Mrs. Forrester was disciplined and suspended after an informal conversation with a colleague during which she presented a booklet and her views that abortion adversely affects the physical and mental health of women.

Mrs. Forrester, a Roman Catholic, is represented by the Thomas More Legal Centre. One of their spokespersons is wondering why the NHS objects to a discussion of abortion among their health service professionals: “If the NHS is not willing to allow the effects of Abortion to be discussed by NHS staff it raises a real question as to what the NHS is afraid of.”

Texas Judge Sentences Honors Student Diane Tran to Jail for Missing School | Video | TheBlaze.com

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Texas Judge Sentences Honors Student Diane Tran to Jail for Missing School | Video | TheBlaze.com.

Seventeen year old Diane Tran, who appears not to need to attend classes to keep her grades up, was sentenced to jail and fined for repeated truancy, by Montgomery Republican judge Lanny Moriarity. She is said to be working two jobs, and helping to support siblings, after her parents divorced suddenly and apparently bailed out on the kids.
Likely no one knows the whole story of this family.

Lanny Moriarity ran in 2010 unopposed in his district in Montgomery County. Yes he is a Republican. The Teaparty could send a primary challenger to make his life interesting in the next election cycle.

Moriarity is, at best, a lazy judge. He apparently encountered Diane Tran’s case more than once (a prior warning is mentioned) and did not investigate the cause of her truancy for 2 minutes. Much more time had to have been spent on the paperwork than consideration of the case.

This kind of use of the legal system leads very motivated and talented young people to develop disrespect and hatred of authority and government.

Graphic Surveillance Video Of Kelly Thomas Beating Shown In Court. Shhhhhh it’s a Secret

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Graphic Surveillance Video Of Kelly Thomas Beating Shown In Court « CBS Los Angeles.

Fullerton, CA cops beat Kelly Thomas, a  schizophrenic homeless man, to death last summer (July 2011), and  the incident is under investigation.   So far the story  has garnered only local news attention. The main reason for the disinterest is that it has no value for WAGGING the RACE WAR.

There’s a video of the proceedings at the above link.  Most are likely to conclude that the cops used excessive force.  There will be no demonstrations nor riots in response to this event.

Breitbart: Are They Erasing?

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Breitbart’s forensic technician poisoned to death?.

Michael Cormier, described as “respected forensic technician” for the LA Coroner’s office died, in his North Hollywood home, of questionable circumstances on April 20, 2012. This is the same day that the Coroner’s final report on the death of Andrew Breitbart was made public.

The report does not describe Cormier’s role in the investigations of Breitbart’s cause of death.

Cormier was transported to Providence St Joseph Medical Center in the early AM, complaining of pain and vomiting. He died later that same day. The police have been involved, and Cormier’s home searched. Toxicology tests have been done, with results pending for six weeks.

Secular Prolife Notices: Drexel Law School Official is Fuzzy on the First Amendment

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Pro-Life News of the Day: Drexel needs a civics lesson.

There’s a watchdog group at Drexel Law School waiting for pro-life protesters to violate the First Amendment. Kelsey at Secular Prolife notes that the Bill of Rights puts limits on government, not individuals. It’s not possible for an individual citizen, (who is not in government) to violate the First Amendment.
Kelsey also reveals that Drexel law students can get pro-bono credit for helping minors use the judicial by-pass to get abortions without their parents consent. With this comes the info that their own local Planned Parenthood, down the road, failed a 2010 health inspection, for failing to adequately follow up on their abortion patients. (Remenber when Kermit Gosnell’s infanticidal atrocities and slimy clinic suddenly aroused Pennsylvania interest in monitoring the status at abortion clinics?)
Karen Pearlman Raab is the director of Pro-Bono Public Interest Programs. Here’s the web page of her program and her contact link is in the first paragraph. The Judicial by-pass Intake project is on this page, under Working with Youth.

A Peek Inside the Frazzled Leftist Mind

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Bill introduced to regulate men's reproductive health.

Whacko Ohio Democrat Senator Nina Turner is upset by the Heart Beat Bill HB 125. She sees it as effort to regulate the health of women, by limiting the availability of abortion.

In response she has introduced Senate Bill 307, which puts in place a series of hoops for men to jump through in order to get Viagra. These include seeing a sex therapist, getting a cardiac stress test and supplying an affidavit from the sex partner, certifying the a state of impotency.

Perhaps she sees limitations on abortion as affecting women more, due to sex selective abortion practices.

How Turner connects impotence and the decision whether or not to kill an unborn baby is anyone’s guess.

America’s Ongoing Tort Litigation Nightmare – Forbes

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America’s Ongoing Tort Litigation Nightmare – Forbes.

Kathleen Sebelius has more  wrong with her than pro-abortion extremism. (She’s the one who has  protected Planned Parenthood in Kansas  from the legal consequences of failing to report sexual abuse of minors.)

Obama directed  Sebelius, who headed a trial lawyers association for 8 years, to move forward on health care tort reform.  As anyone would expect, her progress is zero, because she can’t stop feeding her own.

Linked above is the tale of a 65 million dollar  court decision against an exercise equipment company.  The award goes to a physical therapist who was paralyzed when a Cybex  leg EXTENSION  machine fell on her.  She had been using the machine incorrectly, standing beside it and pulling it backwards to STRETCH.  So far, the company has been appealing and the last decision cut the award to 44 million.

With court decisions like this….. bookshelf makers should also stop production.  Those things can be pulled down on top of people also.

Forbes contributor, Matt  Kibbe estimates that tort litigation costs each American individual  $838 per year,  and suggests that such legal maneuvering makes up 27% of health care costs.   That might be worth Kathleen Sebelius’s attention.