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Shooter acquitted in slaying - but charged with il
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Shooter acquitted in slaying - but charged with illegal possession of a handgun
KABA NOTE: Some people who call themselves liberty advocates would frown on this self-defending shooter because his case involved one of the handful of drugs from which the federal government doesn't overtly and directly profit. We pose the following questions to such a naysayer:
1) Does someone who chooses to put something into his own body that the government doesn't like have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? A right to self-defense? If not, which clause in the Constitution validates such a wholesale stripping of basic rights?
2) When your firearm is banned like a handful of drugs are banned and you are demonized as a criminal for mere possession, would you like to be hated by people who call themselves liberty advocates?
Shooter acquitted in slaying
By Michael Zeigler
Democrat and Chronicle
(August 1, 2002) - A 19-year-old man acted in self-defense when he killed one man and wounded a second during a drug-related shootout in northwest Rochester, a jury said Wednesday.
Monroe County Court jurors acquitted Christen Dowdell of second-degree murder, second-degree assault and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in the Jan. 30 death of Timothy M. Fruster and wounding of Prince Trotter.
But jurors convicted Dowdell of fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a misdemeanor, because Dowdell admitted on the witness stand that he illegally possessed a 9mm pistol used in the shooting, said his lawyer, Joseph S. Damelio.
Acting County Court Judge Stephen R. Sirkin allowed Dowdell's release on $1,000 bail. Although Dowdell can be ordered to jail for up to one year on the weapons charge when he's sentenced Sept. 17, he'll be credited for six months he was jailed before his trial.
Dowdell testified that he and a friend, who wasn't charged, pulled out 9mm pistols and fired in self-defense when Fruster, 36, shot at them in an alley off Ambrose Street.
Dowdell said he and the friend were looking for a place to buy marijuana when Fruster confronted them, told them he didn't know who they were, and fired four or five rounds from his 9mm pistol.
Dowdell answered with two shots and his friend, whom he didn't identify, fired three shots, Dowdell said. Fruster was cut down by a bullet that went through his left arm and chest, piercing his heart and both lungs, a forensic pathologist testified.
Trotter, 18, was hit in one knee.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/news/0801story16_news.shtml
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
KABA NOTE: Some people who call themselves liberty advocates would frown on this self-defending shooter because his case involved one of the handful of drugs from which the federal government doesn't overtly and directly profit. We pose the following questions to such a naysayer:
1) Does someone who chooses to put something into his own body that the government doesn't like have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? A right to self-defense? If not, which clause in the Constitution validates such a wholesale stripping of basic rights?
2) When your firearm is banned like a handful of drugs are banned and you are demonized as a criminal for mere possession, would you like to be hated by people who call themselves liberty advocates?
Shooter acquitted in slaying
By Michael Zeigler
Democrat and Chronicle
(August 1, 2002) - A 19-year-old man acted in self-defense when he killed one man and wounded a second during a drug-related shootout in northwest Rochester, a jury said Wednesday.
Monroe County Court jurors acquitted Christen Dowdell of second-degree murder, second-degree assault and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in the Jan. 30 death of Timothy M. Fruster and wounding of Prince Trotter.
But jurors convicted Dowdell of fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a misdemeanor, because Dowdell admitted on the witness stand that he illegally possessed a 9mm pistol used in the shooting, said his lawyer, Joseph S. Damelio.
Acting County Court Judge Stephen R. Sirkin allowed Dowdell's release on $1,000 bail. Although Dowdell can be ordered to jail for up to one year on the weapons charge when he's sentenced Sept. 17, he'll be credited for six months he was jailed before his trial.
Dowdell testified that he and a friend, who wasn't charged, pulled out 9mm pistols and fired in self-defense when Fruster, 36, shot at them in an alley off Ambrose Street.
Dowdell said he and the friend were looking for a place to buy marijuana when Fruster confronted them, told them he didn't know who they were, and fired four or five rounds from his 9mm pistol.
Dowdell answered with two shots and his friend, whom he didn't identify, fired three shots, Dowdell said. Fruster was cut down by a bullet that went through his left arm and chest, piercing his heart and both lungs, a forensic pathologist testified.
Trotter, 18, was hit in one knee.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/news/0801story16_news.shtml
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878