{"id":30224,"date":"2012-06-02T18:58:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T22:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30224"},"modified":"2012-06-02T18:58:13","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T22:58:13","slug":"philly-former-marine-convicted-for-self-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30224","title":{"rendered":"Philly former Marine convicted for self-defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clint dropped off this link from the <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.philly.com\/2012-06-01\/news\/31923578_1_stab-wounds-manslaughter-nonjury-trial\">Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a> about 57-year-old former Marine Jonathan Lowe who was convicted of manslaughter by a judge for defending himself with a knife despite Pennsylvania&#8217;s &#8220;Castle Doctrine&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When he had his hands around my neck, I pulled out my knife and started stabbing him,&#8221; Lowe testified Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Stretton noted that Lowe stayed at the scene and cooperated with police, believing himself to be the victim.<\/p>\n<p>Stretton said case law barred him from introducing Manning\u2019s 18 criminal convictions at trial because Lowe wasn\u2019t aware of them and most of them were too old, the most recent from 2002. According to court records, Manning was awaiting trial for allegedly knocking out a woman\u2019s teeth while robbing her two years ago Thursday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I just don&#8217;t know how the judge arrived at that decision. Lowe was attacked by at least three men according to the article, and he gets slammed in court. Unless there&#8217;s something else the Inquirer isn&#8217;t reporting other than the judges&#8217; statement that he has questions about what happened. Seems to me if he was unsure about the events, he&#8217;d have to rule in favor of the defendant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clint dropped off this link from the Philadelphia Inquirer about 57-year-old former Marine Jonathan Lowe who &hellip; <a title=\"Philly former Marine convicted for self-defense\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30224\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Philly former Marine convicted for self-defense<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}