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a texas man has been found not-guilty after murdering and escort
who refuse to have sex with him
the story is as absurd as it is shocking and uh... as unbelievable as it is real
if that makes any sense
it's a real story in case that analogy did not go anywhere
this is the type of story they could only come to you from florida north
africa
ezekiel gilbert shop lynn or on t_v_ for a go
in the neck on christmas eve after she denied his requests for sex
and wouldn't returned a hundred and fifty dollars he paid her now
his lawyers said
or my second
he was actually authorized to use deadly force in texas because she refused sax
who did this is just insane
under texas law an individual is authorized to use deadly force to quote
retrieve stolen property at night
an gilbert's lawyers said that provisioning xx what he did okay the
reasoning is
fray go had received a hundred and fifty dollars from him by taking his money
and she refused to deliver the sax therefore it was nighttime and she had
essentially taken his property and he was entitled to use deadly force to get
that property back and that included up to and including uh... killing her which
is what he did in this case and there was a police interview which was played
for jurors gilbert never mentioned anything about theft according to a
detective said and um... that the woman that he killed was twenty one at the
time she was critically injured when this initially happened in that died
several months later
in florida you of stand your ground right stand your ground is
you do not have the duty to retreat in defending yourself or your home you can
stand your ground and i guess the ideas you can walk actively defend yourself
this line texas is even more broad it goes way beyond that it says
to protect any peace of tangible or movable property including
cash cash money
you can use deadly force now a lot of times arguments about these things kind
of repre later freedom right once someone's freedom in florida is taken
away by an intruder you don't have to retreat you can stand your ground and
and defend yourself using force
if the liberty and freedom
in texas
depend on being able to kill a *** because she wouldn't have sex
with you
what kind of a sick and twisted version of freedom uh... uh... is that
but that's not even really get because
it wasn't prostitution in the first part as the other thing eyes and i i by that
people dot this and the articles don't address this
prostitution is not legal in texas right if you have an escort that you pay for
you hire the escort
you're hiring the escort to provide companionship she isn't escort
if sex and this is the legal explanation
if sex by coincidence happenstance to develop organically because the guys
typically guy
is so charming
that was not paid for only companionship is paid for however
he says sheet she didn't doesn't give me sex or return the hundred and fifty
dollars i gave her
for sex
isn't this guy soliciting prostitution in that case
i'd just don't understand and that's how i i've looked this up
i've asked people about it
it just doesn't uh... up it get will i'm not getting an answer to that
of course uh...
i mean you're absolutely right and that's an important point but let's go
back to the basics which is that this law is completely insane the paris it
would surprise me if there was in some sort of an appeal to a federal court to
see if this is even constitutional i mean you're basically saying that you
can use deadly force even when you're not confronted with force bright and
uh... yes that's exactly that is which is why as i said this goes even above
and beyond stand your ground which as it is is problematic in the ways we've
discussed this quote this post standard ground out of the water
think about this if you're sitting next to someone in a bar yeah
uh... it's nighttime this nighttime cell phones are on the counter this person
has had a few drinks and accidentally pics of yourself on because it looks
like he has is that the water i walk out the door and you can just shoot 'em in
the back of a hat
i don't think it to that
cut-and-dried but that's not that different from what happened here that's
no different
indifferent or is it not
what it is a little different you know that you have a here's what happened
here is probably the the prosecutor of the escort
said mel are not going to give your money he said to be the money
and she repeated i'm not going to give you money and then he shot her right so
there was at least an indication that she should return the money in terms of
the ridiculousness of the situation
and they really are what are you feeling said percent yes it just is ridiculous
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