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Originally Posted by jumpy
This is why I could never be a solicitor... also why I hold the opinion that there's a special place in hell for most of them.
You can argue the technicalities all you like, but I find a heavily disabled, wheelchair bound man to constitute very little physical threat to anyone. Bat or no. Give him a firearm on the other hand...
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Clearly the disabled guy thought a baseball bat was an appropriate weapon as he pre-meditatively carried one. I think a baseball bat in anyone's hands no matter how young or old or able or disabled can be a dangerious weapon, especially when it is used as such.
Well, the key is to not look at this issue from an emotional viewpoint. That is what Lawyers and Judges have to do. It is very easy to get swayed by the emotional aspects of this case, especially when the emotions involved agree with you.
On an emotional level we have this cripple smacking the crap out of a child molester. On an emotional level this is very gratifying.
On a logical level we have a person setting up another person and smacking the crap out of them because the first person *thinks* they are a child molester.
That is not what the Citizens' Arrest laws were written for.
Was this truly a case of assisting justice or was it a case of vigilante revenge?
The actual facts and evidence will come out in court where they will, hopefully, be examined not from an emotional viewpoint but from a logical viewpoint.