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March 21, 2005, 10:39
Gordon D
Plain Spoken Judge
This Judge may not phrase his dissents as politely as we have been accustomed to, but you gotta give him credit for speaking his mind. The dissent is from: Watson v. State 2005WL428438

DISSENTING OPINION
*4 Let me see if I've got this straight.
A man enters a house after he has been told to leave. When the woman in the house confronts him in her kitchen she screams, telling him to get out. Instead of leaving, he drops his pants revealing his erect penis. The woman, being in the kitchen, grabs a knife (good for her). Rather than flee, the intruder grabs the end of the knife. The woman twists it in the intruder's hand, he releases it, pulls up his pants and leaves.
And from these facts a person is not rationally justified in finding beyond a reasonable doubt that the intruder entered the home with the intent to sexually assault the woman? I guess my response to the majority opinion--"You have got to be kidding"--makes me irrational, along with 12 jurors and the trial court.
When I line up the same cases the majority does, I see the following:
1. Use of force against victim--grabbed the knife.
2. Failure to immediately retreat even after challenged--unlike Walls.
3. Exposed himself--unlike Baldwin or Hays.
I dissent. [FN1]
March 21, 2005, 10:55
JB
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March 21, 2005, 11:32
Gordon D
So it was a redundant (duplicative?) posting. My apologies. I don't always have time to keep up with the forum.
March 21, 2005, 13:31
A. Diamond
It's ok, Gordon. That one was worth it.