Black People : White Man Did The Killing - Black Man Charged

[Destee]

Robbery Suspect Charged With Murder

In this photo released by the Lake County Sheriff's Department is Renato Hughes Jr., 21, of San Francisco. Three young black men broke into a white man's home in a rural Northern California county. The homeowner admits to shooting two of them to death, but it's the surviving black man, Hughes, who's scheduled to face a murder trial Thursday Nov. 15, 2007 in Lakeport, Calif.

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Destee

 

[oldiesman]

Robbery Suspect Charged With Murder

In this photo released by the Lake County Sheriff's Department is Renato Hughes Jr., 21, of San Francisco. Three young black men broke into a white man's home in a rural Northern California county. The homeowner admits to shooting two of them to death, but it's the surviving black man, Hughes, who's scheduled to face a murder trial Thursday Nov. 15, 2007 in Lakeport, Calif.

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Destee

here we go again,when oh when are we gonna STOP defending CRIMINALS just because thier BLACK,if the chumps had broke into my house,i would've shot em too.

 

[BlackMamba]

They were wrong for breaking in that mans home--but I'm not sure he should be charged with murder--I dont think that is befitting. He should take all of the charges associated with breaking and entering, burgerly, etc...but not murder.

 

[Mad Skillz]

Nobody is defending criminals, Oldiesman. The offender should be charged with burglary, but first degree murder is exuberant and a charged that is rarely, if ever, used in a case such as this. The point is "Lady Justice" is not blind and her scales are not calibrated. There are two sets of rules in this country for two different people. Always has been. What white folk can get away with Blacks can not. How often is this section of the penal code ever used in similar situations such as this? Almost never. Nobody can tell me if this perp was white the district attorney would charge him with 1st degree murder in addition to burglary. The "law" perpetuates double standards against Blacks regarding matters of civil and criminal offenses, punishment and sentencing. That's the point. This system looks for any minor detail to charge Black people with an offense that is normally overlooked or unenforced.

Two men walking down the street, one Black one white. Both men step in a crack in the sidewalk in the presence of a cop. The Black man gets a citation while the white man gets a verbal warning.

 

[Zulile]

Long time Mad Skillz..

"Hughes was charged with first-degree murder under California's Provocative Act doctrine..
...The Provocative Act doctrine does not require prosecutors to prove the accused intended to kill. Instead, "they have to show that it was reasonably foreseeable that the criminal enterprise could trigger a fatal response from the homeowner," said Brian Getz, a San Francisco defense attorney unconnected to the case."

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The man should be charged with the crimes he committed - not a "foreseeable" hypothesis..