{"id":51610,"date":"2014-06-18T13:44:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T17:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=51610"},"modified":"2014-06-18T13:44:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T17:44:50","slug":"prosecutor-doesnt-like-cos-make-my-day-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=51610","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutor doesn’t like CO’s “make my day” law"},"content":{"rendered":"

David sends us a link to n MSN News story<\/a> about Mesa County District Attorney Pete Hautzinger who is unhappy with the fact that Colorado’s “Make My Day” law doesn’t allow him to prosecute Joseph Hoskins for the shooting death of Randy Cook. The law protects homeowners from prosecution for shooting a person if that person has illegally entered their home and intends to commit a crime.<\/p>\n

After a night of drinking at a party in the western Colorado city of Grand Junction, Cook and another man went to fight Hoskins outside his house. The fight moved inside and to Hoskins’ bedroom, where the homeowner said Cook tried to snatch away his shotgun. Hoskins tackled Cook and shot him, according to Hoskins’ account of the night, which was relayed to investigators through an attorney.<\/p>\n

“These grown men, otherwise basically upstanding, law-abiding citizens, are acting like drunken children, and as a result, a good man got killed, and I can’t hold anyone accountable for it in the criminal justice system,” Hautzinger told The Associated Press.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The altercation began in Hoskins’ yard and Cook followed him to his bedroom. It seems to me that there were plenty of opportunities for Cook to avoid being ventilated and I don’t know how far the prosecutor expected Hoskins’ to retreat. Unless, of course, Hoskins marched Cook and his friend into his bedroom at gunpoint, I don’t see a problem.<\/p>\n

“It sticks in my craw to be unable to hold Joseph Hoskins accountable for his actions,” Hautzinger said. “But it’s not a very close legal call.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently, the argument began on Facebook, FFS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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