I live in Oklahoma. I grew up in Eastern Washington State (the side outnumbered Conservatives primarily reside). Because of where I grew up Oklahoma Summer humidity has often been an annual gripe for me. BUT TODAY I read my Americans For Limited Government email dated 11/29/21 which sends Daily Torch articles (not really certain of the connection). I wish AFLG sent this Daily Torch article dated 11/24/21 earlier. The title alone makes me care less about Oklahoma humidity: “OK state senator introduces ‘Kyle’s Law’ to hold ‘malicious’ prosecutors accountable.”
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OK state senator introduces ‘Kyle’s Law’ to hold
‘malicious’ prosecutors accountable
“The right to self-defense is paramount. This
bill will ensure that what happened to Kyle Rittenhouse cannot happen to the
people of Oklahoma.” – State Sen. Nathan Dahm
OK
State Sen. Nathan Dahm screen shot
11/24/21
Oklahoma state Sen. Nathan Dahm has filed legislation to
ensure Oklahomans who use self-defense won’t have to face trial for political
reasons. Under Senate Bill 1120, victims of malicious prosecution would
be able to receive compensation for expenses and damages.
Kyle Rittenhouse was recently acquitted of all charges in
the deaths of two men and the wounding of a third during a protest in Kenosha,
Wisconsin in 2020. Rittenhouse had claimed self-defense in the shootings.
“Kyle Rittenhouse should never have been charged. The
video evidence from early on showed it was lawful self-defense,” Dahm
said. “It is our duty to protect the rights of the people we represent,
and the right to self-defense is paramount. This bill will ensure that
what happened to Kyle Rittenhouse cannot happen to the people of Oklahoma.”
Under Dahm’s legislation, if a person is charged with murder
but is found not guilty due to justifiable homicide, the state would have to
reimburse the defendant for all reasonable costs, including loss of wages,
legal fees incurred, and other expenses involved in their defense. When a
homicide is determined to be justified and the accused establishes that they
had sustained injury due to malicious prosecution, then that person will be
awarded “fair and just compensation.”
SB 1120 further states that in order to support a claim of
malicious prosecution, the claimant must establish that the prosecution was
instituted or instigated by the prosecutor and was without probable cause; that
the prosecution had legally and finally been terminated in favor of the
claimant; and that as a result of the criminal prosecution, the claimant
sustained injury.
Malice may be established if the motive for the prosecution
was something other than a desire to bring an offender to justice, or that it
was one with ill will or hatred, or willfully done in a wanton or oppressive
manner and in conscious disregard of the claimant’s rights. Under the
legislation, a prosecutor may be held personally liable to a claimant if
malicious prosecution is established.
Americans for Limited Government President Richard Manning
applauded Dahm’s efforts. “This is exactly why Justice Louis Brandeis called
our states ‘laboratories of democracy,” Manning said. “If this measure passes
and proves successful in protecting an individual’s right to self-defense in
Oklahoma, it ought to be adopted in every state of the union, and at the
federal level.”
Immediately following the Rittenhouse acquittal, Manning
issued a statement in support of the verdict.
“Justice was served in the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse,
breathing new life into the presumption of innocence and upholding the
fundamental principle of the right to self defense,” Manning said. “The jury,
which has been subject to death threats and intimidation, has proven they were
willing to put that aside to uphold the American system of justice and the
presumption of innocence. It is our prayer that they are left alone and able to
return to their regular lives as unsung, anonymous heroes defending liberty and
the justice system that is essential for the rule of law to prevail.
“The irresponsible major media companies and the President
of the United States that each tried and convicted Rittenhouse based upon
deliberate misinformation and libel should be held accountable by Mr.
Rittenhouse using our nation’s tort system. Let justice be done.”
Rittenhouse, who is now 18, lives in Antioch, a northern suburb
of Chicago about 15 miles from Kenosha. On August 25 of last year when he was
17, Rittenhouse decided to patrol the downtown Kenosha area alongside other
armed men in order to protect a used car dealership from looting and vandalism.
The city had devolved into rioting over the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a
black man, by a white Kenosha police officer.
Rittenhouse took a medical kit and armed himself with a
Smith & Wesson M&P15, which is an AR-15 style semi-automatic rifle that
police say his friend illegally bought for him.
While guarding the used car dealership, he was chased by
protesters and ended up fatally shooting two people, Joseph Rosenbaum and
Anthony Huber, and injuring a third, Gaige Grosskreutz. The defendant and the
three men he shot are all white.
He was arrested and charged with
five felony charges and one misdemeanor charge. The most serious charge was
intentional homicide, Wisconsin’s top murder charge, which carries a mandatory
sentence of life in prison. The others were reckless homicide, attempted
homicide, two counts of reckless endangerment, and being a minor illegally in
possession of a firearm.
The judge dismissed the misdemeanor firearm charge, which
was considered the easiest charge for the state to prove. Previously,
Rittenhouse was also charged with violating curfew, but that charge was dismissed by
the judge as well.
Catherine
Mortensen is Vice President of Communications for
Americans for Limited Government.
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