It was a tough case guys. There just wasn’t enough evidence. October of 2018 a gentleman broke into my house. Wait, no. He didn’t “break in”. He tried to kick down my back door, failed, and then snuck into a window. He got inside, started drinking some alcohol he found, then rifled through my stuff.
I showed up. I walked in. I grabbed my gun. I went upstairs and by the time I got it all together he had bolted outside the back door. He runs to my car and as I walk outside he is trying to steal my bag out of it. No worries. He ducks down when I point my gun at him and takes off. Sort of. He spends a solid few minutes shouting at me from a distance telling me he is going to come back and kill me and steal more of my stuff.
Well, I walked with him a while until HPD showed up. This is the one where I got wrongfully arrested because, well, making sure a guy that said he would come back and kill you gets arrested is threatening. The judge gave him a PO bond, so he was out next month anyways. That’s why the case took so long. He no-showed the court. Not a problem. They picked him up for meth about a year later.
Today this case is going to finally come to an end. The DA called me and notified me that he wasn’t charging him with burglary, but rather trespassing. Why? Well, one of the witnesses said they didn’t think he had stolen anything on his way out. He didn’t have enough time and was chased out with a gun, so what could he steal? The DA didn’t think a jury would believe beyond a reasonable doubt that he intended to steal anything. Telling me point blank that he is stealing and intends to come back doesn’t count. Being inside my home rifling through my stuff… he could be doing anything! Who knows!
Misdemeanor. Time served. #BlueWave
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