Comments for Hughes sentenced to state prison; appeal expected at http://lakeconews.com , comment 1 to 26 out of 20 comments http://lakeconews.com Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:43:57 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/5550/919/#comment-7706 I did not say that Edmonds was courageous or noble etc. He is human! When someone breaks into your home at night, by gun point, beats on your family, The CLOVES come off! I don\'t know the whole story, but i am human and i love my family and i feel Edmonds and his family are the victim here. I can care less about the three thugs!! 8) - fastleft Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:52:56 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/5550/919/#comment-7678 My senses alert me that something is wrong.Tried in one county then sentenced in another, what was that all about again? Not able to receive a fair trial here but able to receive a fair sentence. God were do we come up with these people? When as the law allowed for coup de grase? I know the violents I"m capable of and it is tempered by right and wrong backed by the law. Were was the law with the other parties involved in the mess? Sounds like some of the same logic as the sailboat.I say this again two wrongs have not made this right.One will go away for four years the other stays with us, good call. - James Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:18:28 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/5550/919/#comment-7703 a lot of comments here, and have expressed strong opinions...embarrassing. I could delete them all...the problem is I don\'t really know the details of the situation...so I need to say that my comments are not based on facts, but on my aversion to violence, and on not liking seeing people shot in the back, no matter who they are. If only the kid could have been saved, no one deserves his fate. That\'s the tragedy here. - Raphael Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:45:40 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/5550/919/#comment-7702 Edmonds when the kid was beaten?? Looking for his gun?? Just standing there? It\'s at that moment he could have made a huge difference, and lawfully, to save Dale Lafferty. I wasn\'t there, I do not know how it happened...I do know defense means just that. To PROTECT oneself or another, not to AVENGE, no matter how angry or full of rage you become, and however justifiably so. If Edmonds had thrown himself in between the kid and the thug holding the baseball bat, he would have done it to save him, for him...It would have been courageous...but shooting the two fleeing thugs in the back after the kid was already hit and laid on the floor, he did it FOR HIMSELF, not for the kid, not to save him, not to undo his injury, he did it to RELIEVE HIS OWN RAGE. There is nothing noble, moral, courageous, or even remotely legal about that. It might be human, but it ain\'t legal. - Raphael Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:49:52 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/5550/919/#comment-7700 Who did or didn\'t kill who isn\'t the worst part of this situation... Edmonds was growing pot in a house within a community... Like it or not, there are good people in Clearlake. He brought these acts into not just his life, but the life of those who live around him. The fact that it was ok for him to grow in a house with under age children is deplorable. You may be living next to someone who is growing. It may be leagal. Do you want a shootout in your area? I know that I don\'t. Edmonds should not be walking free. He should be charged with Two murders and with many other drug related charges. He was commiting a felony when lives were taken. They just didn,t want to make that fight. The grey area between lawful and unlawful have to be defined. No matter what, we shouldn\'t have pot grown within city limits. Keep it in the hills. - cale_page Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:53:54 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/5550/919/#comment-7694 Perhaps we can make get back our tax dollars if we can choose a different sentence. Put Edmonds and Hughes in a field, sell tickets, and have an old fashioned duel, shooting to the death. Its either that or selling pay for view tickets in an ultimate cage fight. I\'ve got no better ideas. I\'m pretty sure that debating whether or not every household should own a gun is a waste of our time. - jmadison Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:35:35 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/5550/919/#comment-7691 We haven\'t heard the end of either of these characters. They both will be frequent flyers in the legal system. - gabby Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:01:07 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/5550/919/#comment-7690 A THUG plain and simple, These guys beat someone with a baseball bat! do you get that. I can care less if Edmonds was selling pot. These guys drove to his house, broke in and beat his kid, why is it so hard for you to feel the rage Edmonds must have felt. So Rapheal lets say someone for whatever reason BEAT your kid with a BASEBALL BAT half to death. What the hell would you have done? These kind of guys need to be removed from this planet so the rest of us can live in peace! Thanks to Edmonds, two have been removed! :shock: - fastleft Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:55:23 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/5550/919/#comment-7683 He could not have received a fair sentence or trial here. That is just the way I feel. I still feel strongly that Edmonds should have some resonsibility in all of this, I mean shooting them in the back, one as he lay twitching on the ground, and he walks away with no charges. This whole thing reminds me of the movie Deliverance - Sunshine Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:48:10 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/5550/919/#comment-7681 hopefully Hughes will come out of prision and get his life back on track, he got a heck of a break and should make the best of it. Hopkins should be removed from office, for this case and a slew of others he\'s mishandled. It seems likely that Edmonds WAS selling pot, so he probably brought this on himself and his family, which was a pretty squrrilly bunch even before this happened. I\'m just sorry for his kid, who was the big loser in this, followed by the taxpayers. The two dead guys played the game and took their chances, that\'s what happens when you try knocking-over drug dealers yourself. - smurf Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:40:53 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/5550/919/#comment-7667 not guilty of murder because he didn\'t shoot his accomplices in the back while they were running away...although the provocative act doctrine states that he could have been found guilty of murder, it is an absurd law and common sense prevailed. Meanwhile, Edmonds, who used unnecessary force, walks free, and the next individual who feels like pursuing and shooting a fugitive in the back outside of his own property while feeling "reasonably" threatened (explain this one!!!) should be free to do so, even execution and vigilante style, to the approval and cheers of the community. Welcome back to the wild west. Next, we will have judge Roy Bean, a rope and "swift justice" for those who escape being shot by the "good citizens". That should attract a lot of tourists...no need for frontier days re-enactment, we can have the real thing!! The real tragedy in all of this is Dale Lafferty, but here where it really counts the facts are murky. - Raphael Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:28:15 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/5550/919/#comment-7676 let\'s everybody who uses or sells drugs keep guns to protect their stash...like in the deep woods or in South Central LA. Then we can have more shootouts, since even illegal drugs are apparently considered "private property" by the law in this particular and peculiar case, setting a precedent... - Raphael Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:25:25 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/5550/919/#comment-7674 I did not mean to imply all people who have guns are rednecks or ignorant...that would be unfair and inaccurate...the majority are responsible citizens. And even thought I would never want to own a gun, I believe in normal self defense, that is a fundamental, "god-given" right. Edmonds is neither responsible nor was he exercising self-defense...his shooting had to be out of rage and for immediate revenge. That\'s not legal, although it can be considered human. - Raphael Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:18:37 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/5550/919/#comment-7675 was not protecting his family, he was avenging his family... This is not Iraq or Afghanistan...you don\'t shoot fugitives in the back because you think they might get away or come back. And you don\'t seek revenge with a gun. If you want to return to the wild west, create the laws that make wild west behavior legal. Then wear a bullet proof vest and keep your head down. In the meantime, abide by the law and let the police apprehend a fugitive and a wounded man. - Raphael Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:16:31 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/5550/919/#comment-7666 not only can Edmonds live with shooting 2 men in the back, one of whom was running away and the other was lying on the ground with 4 bullets in him already (are these facts correct?), but he can walk free, thanks to a warped local justice system, although he is a low life drug dealer and a coward (only a coward shoots anyone in the back, that\'s a fact...) Can Edmonds still legally own a gun?...I wouldn\'t be surprised. May be he should graduate to being given a permit to own and operate a fully automatic weapon...and be given a medal by the NRA...I know many local rednecks would approve. - Raphael Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:58:32 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/5550/919/#comment-7673 Put yourself in Edmonds shoes, 3 men have just broke into your home and have beaten your son unconscious, would you let them run off, knowing that they would get away, or come back later and finish you off. I don\'t think so. To many people have become compliant and turned into sheep. This man was protecting his family, no matter where he shot them. - gmack_1978 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:51:21 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/5550/919/#comment-7671 is not my blog.I do believe in protecting your family,but shooting a man in the back.Coward. - DDean Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:39:12 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/5550/919/#comment-7669 What this man did(Edmonds) was a cowardly act.He gives a bad name to all gun owners.Law abiding gun owners,all would agree.What Edmonds did, to me does not seem law abiding.Our justice system is so strange.Raphael,you dont have to be a redneck to own a gun.Sounds like your calling all rednecks stupid.Im not a redneck,but i have guns. - DDean Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:32:43 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/5550/919/#comment-7668 I hope he can still own a gun, it is a proven theft deterrent. People will think twice about breaking into his home and beating his family again. These people deserve everything that happened to them. If you are ever put in a situation of defending yourself or family members, what are you going to do? In fact every house in California should have a gun. As well has making this a \"will issue\" state. How many criminals would commit crimes knowing their PREY are able to defend themselves. God bless this man and his family! Because they are the victims here. Don\'t forget that. - DDean Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:29:21 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/5550/919/#comment-7665 it is better to have people BUY drugs than steal them from \"respectable\" drug dealers like Edmonds? Yeah right!! - Raphael Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:48:27 +0100