A rancher previously charged with the fatal shooting of an illegal migrant who encroached on his Arizona ranch will not have to face trial again.
An Arizona Superior Court judge on Tuesday dismissed murder and assault charges against George Alan Kelly “with prejudice,” according to 9 KGUN. This ruling means the rancher cannot face charges again, closing a final chapter in a case that began over a year ago.
“The interests of justice are not served by the dismissal without prejudice for case that cannot and will not be re-tried,” Judge Thomas Fink declared, according to 9 KGUN. “The interests of justice are not advanced where the only thing to be accomplished by a dismissal without prejudice, where there is not possibility that a re-trial will occur, is the harassment of the Defendant.”
“For those reasons, the interests of justice call for finality,” Fink added.
Shooting a human being from a distance of roughly 115 yards is literally just “hunting” a human. At that distance, unless the landowner had reason to believe the trespasser was armed with a rifle or RPG or something similar, the landowner just decided to kill someone and he appears to have gotten away with it. That’s sick.
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Don’t come on my property
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Did you read the headline? ILLEGAL IMIGRANT, No different than being invaded by a foreign force!
More people need to do what he did correctly!
Repel invaders at the border – with prejudice!