Shorty eventually turned around, put the gun back in his pocket and headed toward his car. At this point John Paul got angry and decided to punish him. He darted out of the bar, accosted Shorty, tackled him to the ground and administered some measure of retribution with his bare hands. E nter U.S. federal prosecutors for the district of Connecticut. Hard to tell whether these guys were vicious, down on their quotas for the month, or just plain stupid.
Vengeance is all too often the motive behind a prosecutor's charges.
You might think they would have a tough time convincing a jury that John Paul truly sought to carry a weapon, and you would be right. Apparently District Judge Daly could. In his decision, Newman pointed out that the critical moment where duress would have come into play was not necessarily, as the prosecutors and judge apparently deemed, when John Paul decided to leave the bar to inflict vengeance upon Shorty. Copyright 1997 by We the Sheeple and Pop Data Technologies. Email for website information.