You are out of line! I think you should refrain from talking badly about someone that isn't even alive anymore to defend himself against your extremely judgemental and one-sided comments! About the "self defense" case, you are making judgements without knowing what happened. Just because someone claims self defense doesn't mean they were truely acting in self defense. A LOT of people use self defense as a cover up! Shooting someone 6 times in the back (2 of those while the person is lying on their face) does not appear to be self defense to me! If this truely was a self defense case (and Mike was as much as a fighter as you bad mouthed him out to be) don't you think that at least one of those shots should have been in his chest...not his back/sholder/thigh/ankle? Also, the comment you made about Jess having a black eye...according to Jess' statement he said that Mike didn't give him the black eye. Jess said the 3rd person that was with them that night punched him twice. However, Jess can't recall or identify the 3rd person! If the "other guy" was the one beating on Jess, why didn't Jess shoot that guy instead of Mike, who what it sounds like, was walking away from Jess. Mike called Jess his "friend." The family knew Jess...had hung out with Jess. What Jess did was wrong. This was not self defense.
To the other people that were commenting about "being guilty until proven innocent" so to speak, all the evidence pointed to the fact that this was more than the self defense claim Jess was stating. That is why he was charged and held since day one. Please people, start thinking about things a little more. Sometimes the system knows what they are doing.
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