Nothing like a reporter standing in front of a burning building. Then telling everyone it was a "mostly peaceful protest."
With what?
DOJ investigations not only into the guns but if they were being racist by standing in their yard with them. They could also threaten IRS investigations, etc. It is a favorite tactic of the left. Make you go broke defending yourself over and over again.
Best thing for them.
Chances are they have already spent thousands on attorney fee's and who knows how many sleepless nights. Watching Andrew Branca's "Law of Self Defense" podcast today, he said if they hadn't taken the plea deal they were both looking at a possible 4 years of prison time if they lost at trial and would be convicted felons. This way they get a fine and no jail time on a misdemeanor.
Pretty easy decison I think
Chances are they have already spent thousands on attorney fee's and who knows how many sleepless nights. Watching Andrew Branca's "Law of Self Defense" podcast today, he said if they hadn't taken the plea deal they were both looking at a possible 4 years of prison time if they lost at trial and would be convicted felons. This way they get a fine and no jail time on a misdemeanor.
Pretty easy decison I think
Kind of my train of thought although they shouldn’t have been charged in the first place. A liberal prosecutor sympathetic to the protesters filed those charges to punish them.
They definitely took the easy way out.
I have to correct my earlier post when I said he was running for Governor.
He is in fact running for the US Senate. I’m thinking a felony of any kind would disqualify him for that office? Don’t know for sure but that is another reason he may have accepted the misdemeanor.
It wouldn't DQ him, but it would probably hurt his candidacy. I'd guess that it would also affect his ability to get security clearances, which would limit his opportunities to serve on some committees.
I'd think the plea was more about limiting the expenses and getting it in the rear view mirror. Even if the governor was going to pardon them, fighting the charges in court and cleaning up the mess wouldn't be cheap. An attorney once told me that one of his partners had helped clients with cleaning up their records following a pardon. He said it usually ran about $60K; that was back in the '90s, and I somehow doubt that it's gotten any cheaper.
Viva Frei covered this yesterday:
He posted this on FB about an hour ago. The misdemeanor didn't stop him from picking up another AR today.
I thought when this happened, it was a very stupid thing to do. This the very reaction the Libtards are looking for. Although taking and destroying their guns might have been excessive, not sure either way since I wasn’t there to see the scene play out. Could have been provocation completely by the couple. By the same token, since those rioters were known at the time, to cause damage, as well as violence, there could easily have been taunting, or even threats made by the rioters, oh sorry they call it peaceful protests don’t they…
That's because we don't have a "justice" system. We have a legal system. Big difference.
