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Originally posted by Ramrod
Yes you do. Yes it is.
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Is it Panto Season already?
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He was done for manslaughter wasn't he?
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Tony Martin was originally charged and convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. This was later reduced to manslaughter on appeal.
If you're going to argue, it's better to do it with the facts.
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[Re: Hitting your neighbour]
Come on that is an unlikely scenario....unless your neighbour is a mute and therefore couldn't answer when you shouted "whos there?" and didn't stand by your door shouting "graham, are you ok m8?"
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Has anyone actually *mentioned* challenging the intruder first? No.
Did Tony Martin challenge the intruders? No?
Perhaps the neighbour in the scenario I presented was worried there may be burglars still in the house so didn't want to attract their attention in case they attacked him (or maybe he was planning on exacting a little bit of "righteous justice" himself)
The fact is it is not, by any means, an *impossible* scenario.,
Consider this one:
You come out from a supermarket having done your shopping to see someone leaning in through the open door of your car.
What do you do? Grab them? Thump them?
Well, it happened to a friend of mine, who was about to yell at them when she suddenly realised that someone had parked a car which was the *same* model and the *same* colour right next to hers!
Unikely, maybe, impossible, clearly not. But if you'd made a "split second decision" you could have ended up in deep... trouble.
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"Lord Woolf, the Lord Chief Justice, said there was still "no excuse" for Martin's actions.
Hence the law needs changing
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As I've already said, if the law *does* need changing, there is a proper way to go about it.
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Tony Martin's actions
That probably happened in a split second in the dark. I hope you make a reasoned judgement in similar stressfull circumstances.
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The jury, however, seemed convinced by the Prosecution's arguments that it was *not* a "split second decision in the dark" hence twelve good people and true convicted him of murder.
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I have tried writing to my MP about other matters, nothing comes of it.
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You don't supply any details, so it's difficult to comment further.
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Right and wrong are not written in stone.
So by that token it can be reasonable to argue that what Martin did was right.
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Replace "Martin" with "Saddam Hussein" and say that again...