Re: The Saga Of Joe Horn: Texas Man Cleared In Shotgun Shootings

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>
> Another Victory In The Continuing Battle Of The Right To Bear And USE
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> Texas man cleared of shooting suspected burglars
> By JUAN A. LOZANO
> ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
> 1 July 2008
>
> HOUSTON -- Ever since he fatally shot two men he suspected of
burglarizing
> his next-door neighbor's home, 62-year-old Joe Horn has been both
praised
> and vilified for his actions.
>
> Horn called 911 and told the dispatcher he had a shotgun and was going
to
> kill the intruders. The dispatcher pleaded with him not to go outside,
but 
> a
> defiant Horn confronted the men with a 12-gauge shotgun and shot both in

> the
> back.
>
> Some community activists wanted Horn to face charges for the deaths.
> Sup****ters of the retired grandfather said what he did was justified
under
> the law.
>
> After listening to evidence in the case, including testimony from Horn
> himself, a grand jury on Monday cleared him of the shootings.
>

Not so fast there - Apparently US Rep Sheila Jackson Lee has now weighed
in 
on the case.

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"U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee on Sunday called for congressional hearings
to 
investigate what she calls ''the many downfalls" of the Harris County 
judicial system.

Recent incidents, including a grand jury's decision not to indict a
Pasadena 
man who shot and killed two men suspected of burglarizing his neighbor,
have 
brought into question whether the system is fair and unbiased, she said.

Jackson Lee said she plans to bring the congressional hearings to Houston
in 
the next couple of weeks.

The hearings, for example, will *****s how the evidence in the Joe Horn
case 
was presented to the grand jury. Jackson Lee questioned why the case did
not 
go to trial.

Jackson Lee said the federal government has an obligation to look into
these 
matters because they deal with civil rights issues. Also, the jail and the

district attorney's office both receive federal funding through the state,

she said."

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1.  The case did not go to trial because a Harris County Grand Jury, after

considering all of the evidence including the testimony of Mr. Horn and a 
Police Officer who witnessed the shooting - decided that Horn was
justified 
in using deadly force.

2.  Sheila Jackson Lee does not even represent the citizens of the City of

Pasadena which lies in the Congressional District 29 of Rep. Gene Green.

3.  Civil Rights Issues???????? -  Was it a civil rights issue because Joe

Horn is white and the two dead crooks were black?

4.  A day after white Joe Horn shot and killed the two black crooks,
another 
Harris County man fatally shot an individual who was burglarizing his home
- 
Damone Barone told investigators that he awakened at 2:30 am to the sound
of 
glass shattering.  Barone discovered Steven Dunbar crawling through a 
shattered window and shot and killed him. Does Sheila Jackson Lee rise to 
the defense of Dunbar demanding that the case go to trial????  Of course 
not - both Barone and Dunbar were black and Jackson Lee only sees a
problem 
in the Horn shooting - but clearly both Horn and Barone were acting in 
accordance with the law.

Nigel Brooks