Jury Convicts Suspect In Highway Patrolman's Death

[Squatch]

If it hadn't been for Massigh Stallman, Missouri Highway Patrol Trooper Ralph Tatoian would still be alive, and Stallman is responsible for his death, a jury has ruled.

In April of 2005, Trooper Tatoian was driving on Interstate 44 to the scene were police were looking for Stallman, a wooded area in Gasconade County. As he drove with his lights and siren on, he came over a hill near Pacific, and slammed into a tractor trailer. Trooper Tatoian was killed.

Stallman's attorneys planned to appeal the conviction for second degree murder (:wow:) in Trooper Tatoian's death, saying he should not be held responsible for the crash.

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1) Guy commits a crime and then goes on the lam.
2) Police officer responds, and while he's still 40 miles away, has an accident and dies
3) Criminal guy gets convicted of murder of a police officer

:crazy:

[T Wolf]

1. This is total bullshit.

Unbelieveable.

[Jed Dilligan]

2. That's a load of bollocks

I'm sick of these creeping murder charges we keep hearing about.

Better luck next time, officer--you should have learned to drive better.

[BOSSHOG]

3. "I shouldn't be held responsible - a conservative value

In a somewhat related story, a parish deputy in Louisiana was responding to a call about an accident, he slid off the highway, hit a tree and was killed. Turned out there was no accident to go to. To make matters incredibly worse, a few days later another deputy was driving to his funeral, stuck in a traffic jam, a heavy storm came up, blew a Pine Tree on that deputies car killing him.

[T Wolf]

5. Cops who speed as a matter of routine to boost their own male ego are a

danger on the roads.

A friend, going with a green light, was hit in an intersection by an unmarked car with no lights or siren that ran the red light and she was fined and had to pay to have the pig's car repaired.

[mainegreen]

4. Pathetic.

Sad and pathetic.
I suppose if my cat runs across the street and someone breaking the speed limit swerves into a child on the sidewalk and kills that child, I'm really to blame?

God, what tortured logic people use to allow them to do what they see fit.