So the husband is in the company of a law enforcement officer, but he decides to take matters into his own hands? I don't know what the wife does in law enforcement, but I assume she's probably had some training on how to apprehend and control a person. The husband should have requested that his law enforcement wife handle the drunk guy in the parking lot, and the wife should have recognized that a man was being choked to death. I would have just ignored the guy in the parking lot, or I would have called 911 and let uniformed officers handle it.
LOL if they are going for murder then they are just begging to get a not guilty verdict. Manslaughter, maybe but there's absolutely no case for murder.
Well, the grand jury has heard a lot more of the facts than you have. So, maybe they know what they are doing. Maybe Thompson and his wife were very much the aggressors. We just don't know much at this point.
Grand juries only hear the specific information the prosecutor wants them to hear or see to get a specific outcome and the bar for moving forward with an indictment is incredibly low. It doesn't mean much to me honestly. Anyway, I suppose we'll hear more about this when it goes to trial, but I wouldn't expect the trial to last very long.
Hahaha, glad they were indicted. Good chance for a plea to something less. This Trump supporter says screw these hillbillies.
I honestly don't feel anything will happen Until I get a conviction . .. this is yawn worthy puppet theater Rocket River
The DA doesn't want this to go to trial. The murder charge will be used to have them plea down to a lesser charge, likely manslaughter. My guess is that as part of the agreement, the husband will serve time and the wife will get a suspended sentence. This is contingent on there not being any smoking gun evidence that makes this a no-brainer case to move to trial (we don't know).
Any drugs or alcohol that may have been in their system has probably run its course. . . . because they did not bother to take that evidence at the time. They have had several days to review camera material and coordinate their stories for optimal effect . . . According to them . . . . the 1st 48 hours are the most important time in an investigation they gave them all kinds of time and space to disrupt and circle the wagons Anyone not affiliated with law enforcement would not have gotten this 'courtesy' unless they were well monied. Rocket River
The denny's employees testified and told reporters what they witnessed. Told him to stop. Saw Hernandez turn purple and the Thompson's still refused to stop. Thompson has MMA training so he knew what he was doing. The Thompson's claim self defense so let them claim it against a murder charge.
Agreed the husband never should have called uniformed officers the use of a choke hold never should have been used.The wife if she really is a officer she could have held him at gun point till uniformed officers made it to the scene.
Your asking the police to investigate for a crime that officially hadn't happened yet? All they had that night was a possible assault or self defense (remember Hernandez physically punched Thomspon first.). It wasn't a murder investigation that night because he was still alive. He didn't die from his injuries until days later. Thats when it turned to murder. Because Hernandez attacked Thompson, I would have thought that the charge would've been manslaughter, not murder. Looks like the D.A. is looking to give them wiggle room to plea it down to manslaughter (2 year minimum in prison) or criminally negligent homicide (6 months - 2yrs prison) so they don't have to go to trial. I don't think they'd let him get away with CNH, so I'm thinking it'll be manslaughter.
Well yeah, they will, and a murder charge will be infinitely easier to beat than any other charge.....that's my point.
Wait a minute. Were you on the grand jury? Did you hear what was presented to them? Who said Hernandez threw the first punch? Who said Hernandez was the attacker? Is this what all of the witnesses have claimed? Or are you just going off what the accused murderer is saying?
