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What leads to life?

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

A good, perhaps great, cop dies at the hands of an illegal immigrant with a record who snuck back in to the country after being deported in the county that has executed more people than every state in the union save Texas itself. Here is how Officer Johnson, the victim has been described. By all accounts the late Rodney Johnson was one of Houston’s finest police officers, and a jury yesterday gave his murderer life without parole, leaving many in Houston wondering why the death penalty wasn’t imposed in the wake of the tragedy. Scott Hansen, Grits for Breakfast and I believe that whenever a person thinks of what the ultimate police officer should be, that they need only to look to the example set by Officer Johnson. A veteran police officer who had stayed in the patrol division like Officer Johnson did is clearly an officer who likes being out and interacting with his community and doing everything in his power to improve it...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on May 21, 2008 (boomark / email).