Guilty or Innocent?

Guilty or Innocent

  • Innocent

    Votes: 3 13.0%

  • Guilty

    Votes: 13 56.5%

  • Undecided

    Votes: 7 30.4%
  • Total voters
    23
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ReighnStorm

The Smoke that Thunders
Registered Senior Member
You decide :confused:
I think the wife did it on purpose and is making up a lie to get away with murder. What do you think?
http://www.news14charlotte.com/content/headlines/?SecID=41&ArID=102419

Mooresville police say the woman called 911 on Tuesday afternoon and told dispatchers her husband – veteran K-9 officer Quinn Witherspoon – had been shot in the head. Police say the shot was fired from the officers own weapon.

Investigators now say his wife was in the bathroom when the gun fell from a shelf. As she was taking the gun to her husband, they say she slipped on a book, the gun accidentally went off and the bullet hit Witherspoon in the head.
Concord police have established a fund for Witherspoon's three children.
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Guilty. Kill the bitch.
Not like I care if her husband's dead, anyway.
 
Was there any indications that the couple were having difficulties or domestic problems? Didn't the neighbors or co-workers know anything?

My guess is that the investigators knew what they were doing and if they say that she's innocent, that it was an accident, I have absolutely no reason to doubt it.

Now the question is .....why do you doubt it when you have nothing to go on but that story? You have no evidence, no interviews of friends, co-workers, neighbors, ...nothing but ...what?... gut feelings? And you're going to accuse someone of murder on a gut feeling????

Baron Max
 
Baron Max said:
Now the question is .....why do you doubt it when you have nothing to go on but that story? You have no evidence, no interviews of friends, co-workers, neighbors, ...nothing but ...what?... gut feelings? And you're going to accuse someone of murder on a gut feeling????
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I think that's an excellent question.
 
by Baron Max
And you're going to accuse someone of murder on a gut feeling????
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Yes, I would because I trust my gut feelings more than I would a woman who claims she fell on a book and the gun just went off and hit him in the head? I would accuse them but if theirs no way to coraborate then it's the old innocent until proven thing......
 
ReighnStorm said:
Yes, I would because I trust my gut feelings more than I would a woman who claims she fell on a book and the gun just went off and hit him in the head? I would accuse them but if theirs no way to coraborate then it's the old innocent until proven thing......
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You'd change the laws so that you could charge someone with murder, make them spend time in jail or put up $$$ in bail money, probably lose their job, maybe lose their family, force them to hire a lawyer, spend all the time in court, ..........just on a "gut feeling"? ...no evidence to support the accusation at all? ...just "gut feeling"?

How would you like it if white police officers did that to black "suspects"?????? Hmmmm? Just on a "gut feeling"?

Baron Max
 
It is in our nature to doubt. This story could go either way. Maybe she did it or maybe she did not. If there is evidence that she slipped on a book and accidently shot him, then so be it. I'd like to know what kind of evidence would point the finger at a book on the floor. Did she leave some form of skid marks to indicate where she slipped? Hmm.. maybe she did and maybe she did not. Either way, it's a very tragic story.

Accidents do happen, like the hunting dog that shot its master after said dog refused to release the dead bird. And accidental shootings are quite common. I still remember a childhood friend of mine being killed when we were both 9 years old when he and another kid were playing with his father's hunting rifle, thinking it unloaded, the other kid pulled the trigger in a game of cops and robbers, shooting my friend in the head. It was an accident. That the father should have locked the gun away is agiven and he should have been held responsible. Maybe in this case, the dead police officer should have been more careful to unload his weapon and put it somewhere safe where it would not 'fall down' from a shelf in the bathroom. After all, what if it had been one of the kids who had gotten to it. But that is another point and another thread altogether...
 
Baron Max said:
How would you like it if white police officers did that to black "suspects"?????? Hmmmm? Just on a "gut feeling"?
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You mean they don't? *GASP* :rolleyes:
 
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You'd change the laws so that you could charge someone with murder, make them spend time in jail or put up $$$ in bail money, probably lose their job, maybe lose their family, force them to hire a lawyer, spend all the time in court, ..........just on a "gut feeling"? ...no evidence to support the accusation at all? ...just "gut feeling"?
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Didn't I say yes already! I said I would accuse her.....I'm not a cop....I wouldn't arrest her I just would accuse her in the same way I accuse you of being the many things that I truly think you are ;)
 
ReighnStorm said:
You decide :confused:
I think the wife did it on purpose and is making up a lie to get away with murder. What do you think?
http://www.news14charlotte.com/content/headlines/?SecID=41&ArID=102419
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Since we are not given any other information I would not want to even consider anything about this case. This is why I dislike the news media for they never give you any real good facts about a case and since no one was charged with anything the news media wants you to speculate on what really happened.

I believe that until a case has been already been through the courts that it should remain closed to the public and the news media. This would prevent the jury from being influenced by the medias representation as to what the "facts" were. It also protects the accused from being ridiculed or losing their jobs by the public or boss.
 
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Hapsburg said:
Guns are cool, so is violence.
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I agree ....it's just that there ain't enough of either one!! ...and far too many weak, meek, whiney, liberal, doo-gooders! They should have open season of the weak, meek, whiney, liberal, doo-gooders ...good target pratice.

Baron Max
 
cosmictraveler said:
Since we are not given any other information I would not want to even consider anything about this case. This is why I dislike the news media for they never give you any real good facts about a case and since no one was charged with anything the news media wants you to speculate on what really happened.

I believe that until a case has been already been through the courts that it should remain closed to the public and the news media. This would prevent the jury from being influenced by the medias representation as to what the "facts" were. It also protects the accused from being ridiculed or losing their jobs by the public or boss.
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Good post, Cosmic ....good thinking and eloquent. Our news media is really getting out of hand and, worse, they're beginning to "tell" us what to think about every issue and every event. It's becoming scary!

I wonder what people would do if the news media began to urge us all to take up arms and attack the local police and government???

Baron Max
 
I say innocent. With guns and stupid people, I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often. Or maybe I just never hear of it.
 
the media is powerful--but, thankfully, it does not presently employ that power for any significant agenda.
 
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