Originally Posted by WmHunter
Originally Posted by jawbone
While everybody on here is giving Ole Rusty hell, me included, let's remember one thing. It was due to his truthful testimony that the case went out the door. He could have easily lied and said he saw a muzzle flash and it would have buried those boys. He didn't though, he told the truth and in essence admitted reasonable doubt.

Not patting him on the back, but pointing out that while apparently wrong, he was still truthful about it. A lot of people and officers (or former officers, as it would be) would have gone into CYA mode and lied.

IMO, the biggest fault in this lies at the judges feet. He convicted on speculation and what he thought happened, when there is clearly reasonable doubt.

While everyone is talking about Impersonating a Police Officer, I think the more appropriate criminal avenue to look into is Unlawful Imprisonment.


You know something, I think you make some important points here about Morrow - he COULD have lied about that to firm up the conviction for *something* (I'll address that below), and he didn't. So yeah, some credit to him on that.

It wouldn't surprise me if the man had heard a lot of night shots over the years in the area where he lives and was obviously tired of it and just made a lot of assumptions about the 3 boys that night in question and basically just lost it.

But here is the insane part, and it is not just Morrow and the Distric Judge AJ and Circuit Judge TB who screwed up **royal** -- BUT WHERE IS THE PROSECUTOR in all this???

Seriously, there is NOT ONE THING involved here that had **anything** to do with hunting or wildlife whatsoever. Any lawyer with a pea brain could see that, and you have the prosecutor and two judges (who are also lawyers) who failed to see that obvious fact. IF ANYTHING, meaning looking at the matter from the perspective of Morrow the complaining witness and in a light most favorable to his side of things, there was an attempt to destroy public property, i.e, a stop sign (that obviously didn't happen).

How in the world does a case where the complaining witness Morrow claims they shot at a stop sign become a case where there are three **hunting** related charges??? That part is just insane and I don't see how any lawyer/judge would not immediately pick up on that and say no to the three hunting charges that Morrow swore out. Under Morrow's version of what happened it was an attempt to shoot a stop sign and had nothing to do with hunting/night hunting/etc and the prosecutor and two judges should have nixed the hunting charges in the bud, really the prosecutor himself.


What about the magistrate that issued the warrants? Can't give them a free pass either.

BTW, when does the season on stop signs open? I've got a few that are nuisances I'd like to take out. If shooting stop signs is hunting, then it must have an open season, right?


Lord, please help us get our nation straightened out.