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Excusable Homicide


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Do you agree with the outcome?  

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  1. 1. Do you agree with the outcome?

    • Yes
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    • No
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    • Not enough infrormation
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Aug. 24, 2005 — Florida prosecutors say they will not try the man who choked another man to death during a fight in a McDonald's parking lot.

The April 24, 2005, fight between Martin Robless-Taylor and Anthony Makowski, who died from strangulation, was caught on tape by a security camera in the Pasco County McDonald's parking lot. Because the tape shows Makowski to be the aggressor, the Florida State Attorney's office on Monday ruled the death an "excusable homicide."

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I voted not enough info.

If there was enough info I'd say hell yeah. If somebody poses a true bodily risk to you and violently pursues a confrontation - I say defend the shit out of yourself.

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I voted no. It's one thing to defend yourself, quite another to defend yourself, particularly where there are no arms involved...

Of course this is Florida - they get away with crap like this...

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It depends.

I don't have enough information about the "aggressor" and if the "aggressor" was incapacitated BEFORE he died.

This is borderline, but I think if he was able to strangle someone to death, on average, that usually means he could have disabled or restrained him without killing him. It seems to me, with what little I have, that this man was overzealous about protecting himself, and is probably a little more than just someone defending himself. He seems to have killer tendencies.

It's hard to strangle someone physically and emotionally. I suppose his military training explains the action, but it doesn't lend it integrity.

The attorney's office said all four men involved in the altercation had been drinking.

This throws a wrench into orderly and coherent self defense.

I need to see the video.

I vote "not enough information".

Maybe ogrish.com will have it.

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Being "glad" about someone dying says a lot about a person.

I didn't say I was glad he died. I said I was glad he choked the shit out him. The fact that he died is an inconsequential and irrelevant footnote to a story with a happy ending. :lol:

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I didn't say I was glad he died. I said I was glad he choked the shit out him. The fact that he died is an inconsequential and irrelevant footnote to a story with a happy ending. :lol:

:lol:

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