Friday, June 15, 2012
Meanwhile - in a Philadelphia courtroom
There may be more to this story, but, somehow, I doubt it.
A reporter isn't likely to risk being too far wrong.
We could only wish that this judge didn't risk being too far wrong...
A reporter isn't likely to risk being too far wrong.
We could only wish that this judge didn't risk being too far wrong...
Paul Carpenter recently wrote about it in Allentown's Morning Call newspaper:
"In the Lowe case, news stories said, a thug named Loren Manning Jr., accompanied by two other thugs, jumped Lowe on a city street last October. Lowe, 57, is a disabled and retired Marine, who has had two strokes and two heart surgeries and wears a pacemaker.
Manning and his sidekicks attacked Lowe and witnesses said Manning chased him and tried to clobber him with a metal pole before catching him and pinning him to the ground, where Lowe managed to retrieve a small pocket knife and used it to stick Manning, who, tragically, died.
This is Philadelphia, mind you, so Lowe was charged with various crimes — the Castle Doctrine law be damned — because he did not wait for the police to come and handle things. He then agreed to a non-jury trial before Lerner, and you can decide for yourself whether that was a good idea."
