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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: crt360 on May 13, 2010, 01:08:11 AM
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I didn't want to jack the "Census worker rapes woman" thread, so:
Leander Woman Accused of Shooting at Census Worker
Updated: Wednesday, 12 May 2010, 4:15 PM CDT
Published : Wednesday, 12 May 2010, 3:24 PM CDT
Leander attorney Carolyn Barnes, 53, has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after police say she shot at a U.S. Census worker on Saturday.
The census worker told investigators that she went to Barnes’ home in order to make contact with her. The census worker said that Barnes pointed a handgun at her. As the census work was trying to escape, she said Barnes fired five shots.
The census worker positively identified Barnes as the woman who was shooting at her, according to court paperwork. It is unclear if the census worker was injured.
She is currently in the Williamson County Jail with a $50,000.
Barnes was previous arrested for assaulting a court officer after she tried to pass a multi-tool knife blade through x-ray machine at the Hemann Sweat Courthouse in December of 2009.
http://www.myfoxaustin.com/dpp/top_stories/leander-woman-accused-of-shooting-census-worker
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This will only worsen. =|
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I have a county? :O =D
Oh, and per the actual thread discussion, the attorney is clearly off her nut. Doesn't weird stuff happen anyway around Census times? ???
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Okay, just a dumb question. Is it just the census worker's word on this or are there bullet holes and such to back it up? The word of census worker doesn't amount to a whole lot to me. Even if she did it, she could just claim it never happened. The article gives little indication other than she was arrested.
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we should give her the benefit of a doubt. but her record does not help her
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If she shot at a census worker for no good reason, she's not only an unstable screwball, but a bad markswoman as well. (Five shots, five misses, according to the story.)
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Maybe she was shooting at coyotes and the census worker just happened to be standing there ???
:P
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If you miss does it still constitute assault? This is a 53 yo attorney doing the shooting? I had to read that twice to get it straight. Wow. Note to self: Never hire a female attorney with the last name of Barnes. :O
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IIRC in Texas you can use the threat of deadly force if someone does not vacate your property after being asked to do so, and if you feel the threat of imminent serious bodily injury or death. That said, this being a census worker, and a woman no less, I can't see the attny being able to get even remotely close to the "threat of serious injury or death" part.
I give her a ten for effort and a zero for application. It won't go well for her.
Brad
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WENT IN HER HOME, WTF?
edit: dropped the tags since it was a useless post anyway.
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WENT IN HER HOME, WTF?
Where do you get that? The article says:
The census worker told investigators that she went to Barnes’ home
There's nothing in there about going in.
On another note, the writer of that article needs to learn a thing or two about the disambiguation of pronouns. Oh, and about sentences that complete a whole thought:
It is unclear if the census worker was injured.
She is currently in the Williamson County Jail with a $50,000.
Why would the census worker be held in the jail? And with a $50,000 what? ;/
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ok, not the first time. =)
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after she tried to pass a multi-tool knife blade through x-ray machine
So she took the blade out of a multi-tool and tried to get it through an x-ray machine?
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More than likely, it was a forgotten Swiss army knife. :(
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IIRC in Texas you can use the threat of deadly force if someone does not vacate your property after being asked to do so, and if you feel the threat of imminent serious bodily injury or death. That said, this being a census worker, and a woman no less, I can't see the attny being able to get even remotely close to the "threat of serious injury or death" part.
I give her a ten for effort and a zero for application. It won't go well for her.
Brad
I think in Texas, the threat of deadly force is the critical part. Trespassing has some other rules especially at night.
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"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors [or census workers] and miss."
- apologies to R. Heinlein