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2024-02-28 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Would-be robber, Chicago jewelry store worker who shot him both released without charges

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [29 views ] Top

#1 At Least 21 Shot During Weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago

Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-28 05:49|| 2024-02-28 05:49|| Front Page Top

#2 ^^ Final Weekend Tally: 6 killed, 25 wounded

Posted by Mullah Richard 2024-02-28 09:02|| 2024-02-28 09:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Most likely sales district or contract disputes. Nothing personal, just binness.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-28 09:05|| 2024-02-28 09:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Yikes ... I wouldn't take legal advice from Miller. The video seemingly shows only crimes against property, no life-threatening threat to any individual working in the store. I don't see anyone being threatened or put in jeopardy by "lethal force." YMMV. Regardless of Illinois law as read by Miller, most classroom training cautions individuals NOT to shoot a fleeing felon, in part because that individual is no longer a threat. Honestly, I suspect that politics more than legalities controlled the charging decision.

Posted by Jolusing Hatfield1692 2024-02-28 09:18|| 2024-02-28 09:18|| Front Page Top

#5 ...you mean like getting a jury to convict?

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-02-28 10:29|| 2024-02-28 10:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Mutual combat

Posted by Rex Mundi 2024-02-28 10:43|| 2024-02-28 10:43|| Front Page Top

#7 most classroom training cautions individuals NOT to shoot a fleeing felon

Now where is the sport in that? I swear, some people just want to suck the joy out of life.

Posted by SteveS 2024-02-28 11:33|| 2024-02-28 11:33|| Front Page Top

#8 That jewelry store worker would still be in jail if his store was in California.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-02-28 11:51|| 2024-02-28 11:51|| Front Page Top

#9 It'd be a real quandary for me if I was a potential juror sitting through the jury selection process. No way in hell could I vote to convict somebody trying to protect his business by shooting a robber. But they make you promise under penalty of perjury to tell the lawyers the truth when they ask if you can be impartial. My heart would tell me to lie so I could free that worker but my head would want me to tell the truth so I could be excused from jury service.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-02-28 11:58|| 2024-02-28 11:58|| Front Page Top

#10 ^That's why the progressives been beating you like a drum for a 100 years!

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-28 12:13|| 2024-02-28 12:13|| Front Page Top

#11 Let the felon flee seems ill advised with respect to rape and other violent crimes. Releasing illegal immigrants that we can’t even identify seems like a bad plan as well.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-02-28 12:57|| 2024-02-28 12:57|| Front Page Top

#12 I was skeptical of Miller's comments, but looking on line he's been admitted to the bar since 1975 and his specialty is criminal defense.

Posted by Too Old To Work 2024-02-28 14:43|| 2024-02-28 14:43|| Front Page Top

#13 The law is now like trying to nail down a blob of mercury. Existing precedent is no guarantee of a similar outcome in the future.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-02-28 16:44|| 2024-02-28 16:44|| Front Page Top

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