Walmart respected his 2nd Amendment rights. The manager did not ask him to leave.....He asked everyone else to.
The public defender's office goes to trial with indigent clients. If he's smart, he'll take a plea offer. If he wants to go down hard, a trial is the best way to do it. Around here if you demand speedy trial, there are non-negotiable timelines and no stopping the process once you start. The vast majority waive speedy trial, because to demand it is to take a legal rocket ride to prison.
"Gunfighting is a thinking man's game. So we might want to bring thinking back into it."-MDFA
In the Southern District of FL, many of the court appointed counsel were every bit as good as the high priced attorneys the deeper pocketed defendants had access to. Sometimes better. I can't speak to the state side...but on the federal side they represented their clients admirably.
Copycats are always a thing.
It’s important to fully prosecute these whackos pour encourager les autres.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-man-walmart-threat
Florida man arrested for alleged threat involving AR-15: ‘Don’t go to Walmart next week’
A Florida man was arrested Friday for posting a threatening message on social media that said he was going to have his semi-automatic rifle returned and shoppers should avoid Walmart, authorities said.
Richard Clayton, 26, made the threat on Facebook on Aug. 6, writing: “3 more days of probation left then I get my AR-15 back. Don’t go to Walmart next week,” Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) said.
Clayton posted his message just three days after a gunman walked into a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and killed 22 people.
Clayton, of Winter Park, was taken into custody following a joint investigation involving the FDLE, FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and Winter Park Police Department. He appeared to believe in the white supremacist ideology and had a history of writing threatening messages on Facebook using fake accounts, according to investigators.
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In Texas, a 13-year-old boy was arrested for making a terroristic threat that prompted the evacuation of a Walmart on Aug. 7, the Welaco Police Department said in a news release.
Another incident in Texas saw officers respond to a threat posted on social media Saturday. A man was arrested at a home for making a terroristic threat against a Walmart in Harlingen, the Harlingen Police Department said in a statement.
Here locally in the 10th District, I've been impressed with the quality and mindset of the court appointed counsels. They're head and shoulders above the public defenders I went up against on the local level. They're all pretty sharp and often give the AUSA's a run for they're money. They've been responsible for me internally reevaluating my opinion of the legal profession.
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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.......