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Originally Posted by Steve
If I plan to do something on my own, and include no one else in the execution of my plan, there's no conspiracy.
If my plan to kill someone is found out, and I'm stopped, where's the crime?
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If you do not tell anyone, how would the authorities find out? I do not think that you can go to jail for a crime that you plan, if you do not carry it out, and you tell no other person.
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Originally Posted by Steve
I'd imagine that the reason charges haven't been brought is more likely due to an ongoing investigation.
Given the man's statement to the 911 operator (I'm gonna' kill 'em"), I think we will see charges brought against him. Whether he's found guilty of those charges is another matter altogether, but I don't think it takes any great stretch of the imagination to see where a case could be made to support the charges...
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Okay, you
think charges will be brought against him. Fair enough. I don't, and have cited the legal reasons why. As for whether he is found guilty, if he does go to trial, we have to keep in mind that a jury of his peers would be selected from the very people in the area in which he lives. If you have been following the story at all, you would probably note that his fellow Texans are hailing him as a hero. Anyone with a competent lawyer could get him acquitted under the laws I cited.
Really, Steve, I do agree with your sentiment. I do not think those burglars should have been killed, at least not by Mr. Horn. But I am not a Texan, I live far from Texas, so I do not presume to second guess their laws for them. It's simply not my place.