By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-25 00:13:43 | Updated at 2024-09-30 19:24:33
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Trump´s assassination attempt suspect could get away with it; preparation or attempt?
EuroWeekly News ^ | 24 Sep 2024 | Anna Akopyan
Posted on 09/24/2024 4:45:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Trump´s assassination attempt suspect could get away with it; preparation or attempt? Donald Trump after assassination attempt Euro Weekly News
The 58-year-old Ryan Routh, charged for the assassination attempt on Donald Trump wrote a letter months earlier, expressing his intention to kill the former President, court filings revealed.
Letter of the assassination attempt suspect Addressed to The World; “This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster. It is up to you now to finish the job; and I will offer $150,000 to whomever can complete the job.” This is what the suspected Ryan Routh stated in a letter discovered by investigators in his home.
The letter was one among many placed in a box filled with “ammunition, a metal pipe, miscellaneous building materials, tools, four phones, and various letters.” Aside obsessive letters expressing his support of Ukraine, with criticism of the Chinese and Russian governments, notes were found revealing Routh´s relentless desire to bring an end to Donald Trump´s life.
US prosecutors included the notes in a court filing on September 23, charging the gunman with an attempted assassination of a major political candidate and two federal gun crime charges, including for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Routh has been in custody since September 15; prosecutors have argued that he remains in isolation, being at a risk of a flight and posing danger to the community.
Prosecutors also found a handwritten list of venues and dates of Trump´s events leading up to the 2024 Presidential election. On September 30, Routh is expected to plead guilty or not guilty to the charges.
Suspect could get away with it; Assassination attempt or preparation?
Despite the heavy charges, some experts argue that Routh could remain free, or, at least granted a shorter sentence. US lawyer and political commentator, Alan Dershowitz explained to the Press that the case fails to provide sufficient evidence of Routh´s “attempt,” since no shots had been fired. “Based on my experience, I don’t think they have a case for attempted assassination…Criminal law distinguishes between preparation and attempt.”
He emphasised that although Routh´s actions were premeditated, as revealed by his notes and the secret armed surveillance of the former President at the Trump Golf Course, no shots had been fired. “He never had the president in his line of fire, and of course, he never pulled the trigger.”
Potentially driving opposing views, the case remains up to the court, which will have to question, as Dershowitz phrased it; “Whether or not preparing, putting your gun in a location, putting it through the link fence, but not getting the president in the line of sight and not pulling the trigger is enough to turn it from preparation to attempt, and the law is just unclear on that.”
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1 posted on 09/24/2024 4:45:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
Planning on paper is preparation Camping out at a golf course in hiding is attempt. Life sentence.
2 posted on 09/24/2024 4:49:40 PM PDT by Gaffer
To: nickcarraway
He admitted attempted assassination in his letter.
3 posted on 09/24/2024 5:02:37 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
To: nickcarraway
Any prosecutor—any—could nail this guy for attempted murder solely on circumstantial evidence.
All it takes is focus and discipline.
4 posted on 09/24/2024 5:05:04 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
To: nickcarraway
If anyone else here is watching the History Channel nonfiction series American Godfathers, Seas.1, Ep.2 “The Rise of the New Dons” has Joey
Columbo shot three times, once in the head, and killed by a black man in his twenties holding a rented Rolex camera and pretending to just be filming. This was in a huge crowd with lots of security in the Italian American Protest rally in NYC. The black man was named Jerome Johnson. He was then suddenly shot and killed quickly, too. June 28, 1971.
Because mafia leader Joey Gallo had been trying earlier to organize black gangs to unite with Italians since he met with them in prison, it was assumed-—but never proven-—that he was responsible for hiring the phony photographer/killer.
As the now elderly witness cop said “Amazingly, with 25 cops around a big crowd, the killer of Johnson got away and was never found.”
That is incredible.
5 posted on 09/24/2024 5:09:28 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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