Texans Should Be Angry At Lavaca County District Attorney Heather McMinn For Wasting a Citizen’s and Grand Jury’s Time...

The other day I shared with you the story of a father who beat a man to death who was allegedly attempting to rape his four year old daughter.  And we have gotten enough of a picture to say that this is what happened; he was on top of her with his pants down, allegedly.  As I wrote there, I felt that barring something really surprising it looked like a justified killing—meaning it was either strictly in defense of his daughter, or an unintentional killing in the process of defending her.  And I felt that barring surprising evidence to the contrary, he shouldn’t have even been charged.

Well, they went to a Grand Jury anyway, and it came up goose egg.  They refused to even indict him.

And frankly that turns the case into an outrage.  Consider for instance this line in the article I just linked:

In declining to indict the 23-year-old father in the June 9 killing of Jesus Mora Flores, a Lavaca County grand jury reached the same conclusion as investigators and many of the father's neighbors: He was authorized to use deadly force to protect his daughter.

(Emphasis added.)  You got that?  Investigators didn’t think he committed a crime.  And they charged him anyway.

"He's a peaceable soul," V'Anne Huser, the father's attorney, told reporters at the Lavaca County Courthouse. "He had no intention to kill anybody that day."

(Emphasis added.)  I don’t want to focus on what his lawyer said, so much as he was forced to retain a lawyer.  Either he had to pay for that lawyer, or the citizens of Texas had to.

You want to know how heinous this is?  Here’s Heather McMinn, the District Attorney:

Notice that there is not one single word in that presentation discussing any evidence that his legal defense of the defense of his daughter was invalid.  So why did she even bother?

No, folks, it is an injustice that this even went to a Grand Jury.  And the citizens of Lavaca County, Texas, should have some hard questions for their District Attorney.

H/T: Hot Air.

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Sidebar: By the way, Shiner, Texas, is home of the beer Shiner Bock.  I don't drink at all, but people who do tell me it is an excellent brew, so consider raising a glass to this father.

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