Send A Letter to the Nashville DA

[cbfan55]

From PFT:

In order to ensure that this one doesn't get brushed under the rug by the powers-that-be in Tennessee, we encourage all concerned readers to make your voices heard.

How, you ask? By contacting the chief law enforcement official directly:

Victor S. (Torry) Johnson III
District Attorney General
Washington Square, Suite 500
222 2nd Avenue North
Nashville, Tennessee 37201-1649
Phone (615) 862-5500
Fax (615) 862-5599

We'll post the text of the letter we send. Ideally, readers in Nashville (i.e., voters) will send in their own.

Thanks to a reader who explored the web site a bit more carefully than we did, there's a page that allows a crime to be reported. Why don't we all fill the thing out and send it in? (We just did.)




A criminal act deserves criminal charges.

Everyone should also go nflplayers.com and send Haynesworth an email letting him know how you feel.

 

[WV Cowboy]

My son is in Nashville this week for training, I will have him stop by the DA's office and make sure this does not get swept under the rug.

 

[BigDFan5]

I don't have to look it up. I work in a DA's office. A SHOE is not a deadly weapon and Water is not a deadly weapon either. There may have been something IN the Water that made it deadly, but water in and of itself is not a deadly weapon.

I'd love to see your case where the spit of an HIV person was considered "deadly." Not saying that's not true, stranger things have happened. but the SPIT wouldn't be deadly. The virus would be, and if you had the intent to transfer the virus and you can prove that, then there's some justification for considering that a deadly weapon. Think about it like this... would the spit of a HIV free person be a deadly weapon?

Water as a deadly weapon link

Hazing experts and attorneys said the case appears to be the first in Texas in which water has been considered a deadly weapon.

Spit as a deadly weapon link

the Ohio Supreme Court Wednesday upheld a man's conviction on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon for spitting at a police officer,

Oh and just to help you out on what is a deadly weapon in the state of Texas link

Texas law defines a deadly weapon as anything that in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of causing death or serious bodily injury.

Maybe you should have looked it up

 

[AbeBeta]

Water as a deadly weapon link

Spit as a deadly weapon link

Oh and just to help you out on what is a deadly weapon in the state of Texas link

Maybe you should have looked it up

Interesting.

Pep?

 

[peplaw06]

1) I told you with the HIV thing... stranger things have happened. Anyone can find runaway judges/DAs if they look hard enough. Not every decision is going to be in complete harmony with laws or the Constitution.

Did you notice the dissent in the HIV Spit case??

"The fact that the indictment calls something a deadly weapon does not make it so," wrote Justice Paul Pfeiffer in his dissent. He called Bird's spitting no more dangerous than an assault "with a powder puff, a water balloon, or a jelly doughnut."

Again just to reiterate, the spit doesn't appear to be the deadly weapon there. It's the virus. I think it's a ludicrous decision anyway, but ask yourself if the spit from a HIV free person would be considered a deadly weapon? I think it less likely. It seems like they got the conviction on a technicality... that the spit contained a deadly virus.

2) In the article you've posted on the water case, there has been no conviction on that charge.

http://www.***BANNED-URL***/sharedc...ws/stories/062706dnmetsmuhazing.c3ddc3a6.html

This is the latest article.

Raymond Lee received 10 years' probation, a $10,000 fine and 180 days in jail. The 28-year-old DeSoto fitness trainer was convicted Friday of aggravated assault in connection with the November 2003 off-campus ritual of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.

Thus there is no precedent for holding water as a "deadly weapon" from that case.