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Not that Salt Lake Tribune is any better (infamous for its editorial biases against gun rights this year), but the article is interesting nonetheless.
There should be a state law where the proven criminal/aggressor's family's case be thrown out ofcourt upon conclusive evidence the criminal/aggressor behaved so irrationally as to be truly threatening bodily harm with intent to murder towards others.
In this case, it's justifiable homicide. Thehot-headed man's family members who filed the lawsuit suing the person who shot the aggressor in self-defense are idiots seeking judicial revenge.
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The family of Mike J. Mays, who was slain by an off-duty security guard, said they are "very upset" by Salt Lake County prosecutors' decision not to press charges.
"I totally think it was unjustifiable . . . at least they could have written him a ticket, something," said Mays' first wife, Holly Mays, 49. "I think now people think you can basically open fire in a residential area and say, 'I did it in self-defense.' "
Prosectors last week concluded that George Harrison, 59, shot Mays in self-defense in a July 9 confrontation between the two men that started when Mays was across the street from Mama's Southern Plantation restaurant, 1394 S. West Temple, according to a news release from the prosecutor's office. [...]
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_10099713
Not that Salt Lake Tribune is any better (infamous for its editorial biases against gun rights this year), but the article is interesting nonetheless.
There should be a state law where the proven criminal/aggressor's family's case be thrown out ofcourt upon conclusive evidence the criminal/aggressor behaved so irrationally as to be truly threatening bodily harm with intent to murder towards others.
In this case, it's justifiable homicide. Thehot-headed man's family members who filed the lawsuit suing the person who shot the aggressor in self-defense are idiots seeking judicial revenge.
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The family of Mike J. Mays, who was slain by an off-duty security guard, said they are "very upset" by Salt Lake County prosecutors' decision not to press charges.
"I totally think it was unjustifiable . . . at least they could have written him a ticket, something," said Mays' first wife, Holly Mays, 49. "I think now people think you can basically open fire in a residential area and say, 'I did it in self-defense.' "
Prosectors last week concluded that George Harrison, 59, shot Mays in self-defense in a July 9 confrontation between the two men that started when Mays was across the street from Mama's Southern Plantation restaurant, 1394 S. West Temple, according to a news release from the prosecutor's office. [...]
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_10099713
