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A TEXAS court has freed a man who murdered a prostitute, saying the shooting was JUSTIFIED because she took his money but refused to have sex with him.
The jury accepted accused Ezekiel Gilbert’s claim that he was only trying to retrieve his own property when he blasted escort Lenora Ivie Frago in the neck on Christmas Eve 2009.
The call girl — who Gilbert met on website Craigslist — was paralysed from the gunshot wound and died seven months later.
Gilbert, 30, said he had never intended to kill the 23-year-old and was merely trying to stop her from taking his money.
He testified that she had spent 20 minutes in his home before leaving with the money, saying she had to pay her driver.
Gilbert's lawyers argued her actions became theft when she refused to have sex with him or give the money back, as he had believed sex was included in the £150 fee.
They claimed that under Texas law Gilbert was entitled to use his firearm.
The law states that people are allowed to use deadly force to retrieve stolen property at night, as long as they reasonably believe they have no other way of doing so.
But prosecutors argued this law didn’t apply to Gilbert as it is intended for law-abiding citizens, which he couldn’t be as he had solicited a prostitute.
Upon hearing the not guilty verdict, Gilbert hugged his lawyers. He thanked them and the jury outside court for being able to "see what wasn't the truth".
He said: “I sincerely regret the loss of the life of Ms. Frago.”
“I’ve been in a mental prison the past four years of my life. I have nightmares. If I see guns on TV where people are getting killed, I change the channel.”
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...#ixzz2VZ0ae9HP
You can kill someone for stealing some dust in that state it seems.
The jury accepted accused Ezekiel Gilbert’s claim that he was only trying to retrieve his own property when he blasted escort Lenora Ivie Frago in the neck on Christmas Eve 2009.
The call girl — who Gilbert met on website Craigslist — was paralysed from the gunshot wound and died seven months later.
Gilbert, 30, said he had never intended to kill the 23-year-old and was merely trying to stop her from taking his money.
He testified that she had spent 20 minutes in his home before leaving with the money, saying she had to pay her driver.
Gilbert's lawyers argued her actions became theft when she refused to have sex with him or give the money back, as he had believed sex was included in the £150 fee.
They claimed that under Texas law Gilbert was entitled to use his firearm.
The law states that people are allowed to use deadly force to retrieve stolen property at night, as long as they reasonably believe they have no other way of doing so.
But prosecutors argued this law didn’t apply to Gilbert as it is intended for law-abiding citizens, which he couldn’t be as he had solicited a prostitute.
Upon hearing the not guilty verdict, Gilbert hugged his lawyers. He thanked them and the jury outside court for being able to "see what wasn't the truth".
He said: “I sincerely regret the loss of the life of Ms. Frago.”
“I’ve been in a mental prison the past four years of my life. I have nightmares. If I see guns on TV where people are getting killed, I change the channel.”
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...#ixzz2VZ0ae9HP
You can kill someone for stealing some dust in that state it seems.
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