Defense Attorney Critical...

[Crosstimbers Okie]

... of Murder Conviction of Pharmacist.

http://www.ktok.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=119211&article=8659886

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Friday, June 3, 2011
Defense Attorney Critical of Murder Conviction of Pharmacist
Mickey Homsey says Jerome Ersland should not have been charged with 1st degree murder.

By Jerry Bohnen

Attorney Mickey Homsey didn't defend Jerome Ersland in his murder trial in Oklahoma county but he is of the opinion that the Oklahoma City pharmacist should never have been charged with 1st degree murder in the shooting death of a 16-year old boy who tried to rob Ersland's pharmacy.
"I was in awe," said Homsey about the guilty verdict and life sentence handed down last week by an Oklahoma County jury. He couldn't believe what happened to Ersland.
Homsey is a well known defense attorney in Oklahoma City and agreed Ersland did something wrong but he shouldn't have been charged with 1st degree murder. He also said if Ersland's guilty of murder, then so are the police who shot and killed a motorist a month ago.
Homsey told KTOK's First News and host Reid Mullins he wouldn't be surprised if District judge Ray Elliott suspends some of the life sentence when the 59-year old Ersland is sentenced in July. Regardless, he also predicts the case will end up in the hands of Governor Mary Fallin. Petititons are gathering signatures to ask her to pardon Ersland once he's been sentenced. At last report, they had gathered 9,000 signatures.

 

[Crosstimbers Okie]

I remember the fall of 1995 when a thug who called himself "BamBam" escaped from a jail in New Mexico. He made his way to OKC and shot a Warr Acres city detective who was moonlighting as security in a Wal Mart. BamBam, being the most wanted man in central Oklahoma, found an all night diner with four police cars in the parking lot and goes in to have breakfast with them. They confronted BamBam and BamBam went for his gun and they pulled their's first and shot BamBam over 30 times. BamBam was known in certain circles as "the guy who got Glocked."

Of course, that was back in the days before video cameras were everywhere...

 

[Dale00]

It is hard to believe that Mr. Ersland was charged with 1st degree murder.

Make's you think that "the powers that be" were embarrassed by the national publicity and charged him excessively because they wanted to demonstrate to the world that "We don't tolerate such violence by citizens here."

 

[Subsonic]

Hopefully the powers that be will be reminded next voting cycle that they will be held accountable for what they do or didn't do.

 

[Profreedomokie]

If only Ersland was bipolar like the doctor in Nichols Hills.

 

[Werewolf]

1st degree seems a stretch depending on how one defines premeditation.

2nd degree is a no brainer. Heat of the moment, passion and all that.

 

[Crosstimbers Okie]

Dude, you're starting to act like a stalker.

 

[Michael Brown]

Dude, you're starting to act like a stalker.

Keep it on track please.

Michael Brown

 

[inactive]

Call me skeptical, but I see this media appearance by Homsey as a way to get his name out there for the public to recognize. Though maybe that is a good thing for us SDA license holders, with the way the Ersland case was defended and verdict given.

 

[Alan Frizzell]

1st degree seems a stretch depending on how one defines premeditation.

2nd degree is a no brainer. Heat of the moment, passion and all that.

Son in law is a criminal defense attorney-army jag-, says law views premeditation as the moment the thought crosses the mind, however in this case after viewing the video and timeline and limited facts available he thinks 1st degree is b-s with manslaughter probable.