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For an average 185 to 200 pound man, as a matter of more or less accepted scientific fact, .10 BAC is four to five beers in an hour or so. It isn't schit faced and most who drink a little would hardly even consider themselves buzzed at that level of BAC.

From what has been presented, do you folks think the police did a good job that night? Would you hire them to work in your towns?

I've arrested .28s that didn't consider themselves "buzzed"

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I've arrested .28s that didn't consider themselves "buzzed"

Why didn't this go to the grand jury?

.28? SOB.... That's coma level for most everyone.

And his BAC was taken when and where?

And his BAC was taken when and where?

I'm still not tracking.

The deputies testified he fired the rifle one time.

Unless you're reading something I didn't.




Travis

Why didn't this go to the grand jury?

Deputies testified he fired the rifle AT AN OFFICER.

That is a distinctly different from an ND into the ground at Yantis's feet.

I for one would surely like to know which is actually more akin to the truth.

If a man threatens a cop, and/or points a weapon at a cop? Smoke his ass! yes absolutely! I sure as hell will never ask a cop to use his fists in a gun fight!

We pay cops nowhere near enough to ask them to take extraordinary risks.

But the things I have read, including the deputies' statements leave me far from convinced that in Yantis's case, the cops were ever actually threatened.

If we need a measure of the caliber of man we are talking about, in the case of one deputy, we need only remember that on the night of the shooting he was yelling that Yantis had shot him. That certainly turned out to be a total fabrication.

Had a .37 one night that was coherent enough to tell.me the exact number of beers he had drank.
BTW that was 23

in todays world, if you have had one beer your the party at fault, right or wrong has nothing to do with it

in todays world, if you have had one beer your the party at fault, right or wrong has nothing to do with it

I'm f'kin' impressed.

Then maybe you have a drinking problem

Buy .104 is schitfaced

The DA made the call that there wasn't enough evidence to proceed with a prosecution beyond a reasonable doubt. Other than that, all the rest is in the 5300+ pages from the investigation.

Hey, I think the grand jury should have at least been presented the case. Were I the DA, I would have if for no other reason than to cover my ass. If the GJ indicts and a jury acquits, or a judge dismisses, the DAs office is clear. If the GJ no


It wasn't the DA bills, the DAs office is clear. That said, I know a lot of DAs that think doing so is a sell out and a waste of GJ time and resources.

The folks in that area elected the sheriff and the DA. They can elect someone else later, and since no charges were brought the case could be revived (which would not be the situation had it gone to trial and ended in an acquittal).