Wednesday, March 17, 2010

The Right to Face One's Accusers

Let's see--one kicks out on the "prohibited persons" list and is facing charges, and the other is his girlfriend who lied in an official police investigation...[Read]

Nope, no reason to doubt a strong case here...

3 comments:

Crotalus said...

Maybe Larry thought it was an honest sale to the girlfriend, but if I were him, I'd err on the side of caution, and not make the sale. But what's with the "no money back"? Was it the fee for the background check, or was the buyer out the price of the gun, a serious chunk of change?

Carl Bussjaeger said...

"he was told that he had been denied and that the store would not give him his money back."

That is odd, if true. I've never had a dealer ring up a purchase until after the approval.

straightarrow said...

I think there may have been some hints during Bridges' "interview" that a good story on someone else might garner him some favor in the plea deal department.

A little more hinting and he knows who they want a rollover done on. Only problem, he didn't know that the money doesn't change hands until after the approval. And the cops being cops and used to lying all the time, themselves, never questioned the logic of the story because they have come to expect the most outrageous lies to be accepted as truth when they tell them and it never occurred to the dumb bastards that someobody might just say "Hey, that doesn't make sense!"

Doesn't mean they won't get a conviction, because the jury most likely will be a panel of dumb bastards. Otherwise, they wouldn't be accepted on the jury.