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On Thu, 05 Sep 2013 12:29:58 -0700, jps wrote:

On Thu, 05 Sep 2013 15:06:33 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:43:23 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

Finally, a stand your ground incident that is justified?

A Texas father who discovered a man raping his five-year-old daughter
and beat him to death with his bare hands will not be charged with
homicide under state law.

A Lavaca County grand jury decided not to press charges against the
23-year-old father in the June 9th death of Jesus Mora Flores, 47, who
was killed inside a remote shack after he was caught molesting the young
girl.

Under Texas state law, deadly force is authorized and indeed, justified
in order to stop an aggravated sexual assault and coupled with the fact
that the harrowing 911 calls made by the father back claims he even
tried to save the pedophile's life led to the grand jury's decision.

Lavaca County sheriff's deputies said that the father, whose name has
not been released to protect the little girl's identity, sent her and
her brother to feed the family's chickens.

The boy rushed back to tell his dad that someone had grabbed his sister
and taken her to a small secluded shack and the father rushed towards
his daughter's screams and arrived to find them both with their
underwear off.

Flying into a rage, the father beat Flores unconscious, but attempted to
call 911 for the rapist after he had made sure his daughter was safe.

Sheriff Micah Harmon had said in June that he was not willing to press
charges against the father, rather the case would be presented to a
grand jury.

At the time, Harmon said that the man was 'very remorseful' and didn't
know at the time he had killed Flores.

'You have a right to defend your daughter,' Harmon told CNN at the time.
'The girl's father acted in defense of his third person. Once the
investigation is completed we will submit it to the district attorney
who then submits it to the grand jury, who will decide if they will
indict him.'

Indeed, the father is heard profanely screaming at a dispatcher who
couldn't locate the property.

Becoming increasingly frazzled, the father at one point tells the
dispatcher he's going to put the man in his truck and drive him to a
hospital before sheriff's deputies finally arrive.

V'Anne Huser, the father's attorney, sternly told reporters several
times during a news conference at the Lavaca County courthouse that
neither the father nor the family will ever give interviews.

'He's a peaceable soul,' Huser said. 'He had no intention to kill
anybody that day.'

I agree the law is very applicable in this case, as it was in the Zimmerman case.

John (Gun Nut) H.

Yeah, no difference in circumstance, at all.

One was an in progress sexual battery, the other just in progress
aggravated battery.

No it wasn't. Martin was walking home.

As the Delbert Belton case shows, nobody could be hurt by unarmed
teenagers.