Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Houston stand your ground trial now with jury

 

This undated picture made available by the Harris County Sheriff's Office shows Raul Rodriguez who was charged with murder in a triple shooting that left one man dead and two others injured during a dispute over the neighbor's loud party early Sunday, May 2, 2010. When music at a neighbor's party got too loud for his liking, Rodriguez - armed with a gun and a video camera - showed up to complain. The retired firefighter ended up in a verbal confrontation, telling a police dispatcher by phone he feared for his life and was "standing my ground." But Texas doesn't have the kind of law at the center of the Trayvon Martin slaying in Florida, and prosecutors trying Rodriguez for murder call him an aggressor who could have safely left his neighbor's driveway at any time. (AP Photo/Harris County Sheriff's Office via Houston Chronicle)A Texas man who claims the state's version of a stand-your-ground law allowed him to fatally shoot a neighbor after a verbal confrontation at a 2010 party is an "angry, aggressive, gun-hungry person" who is twisting the law to get away with murder, prosecutors told jurors on Wednesday.

Houston stand your ground trial now with jury
Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:52:27 GMT

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