sid2000 wrote:JackJD wrote:sid2000 wrote:As of now it isn't looking good for Wilson. Usually when a person turns himself in to the authorities it's a pretty good sign that they are guilty of the crime....
The quote from sid2000 stopped me in my reading tracks. I am a lawyer with a great deal of litigation experience. For 20 years I did a lot of criminal defense work (burned out on it...just civil litigation now). Many people accused of crimes "turn themselves in" and it has nothing to do with the actual facts or the eventual outcome in the case. Most people simply recognize that if the cops are looking for them, it doesn't do a lot of good to hide. Plus, based on a couple of news items I read about Wilson, the dead guy was shot days ago and it may have been one of those cases in which the State was investigating (and waiting to see if the guy died) before charging out the matter.
For all the readers of this message board (me included) know, Wilson had a lawyer shortly after the incident occurred and the lawyer told law enforcement that when they're ready to move on it, give him a call and Wilson will voluntarily come it BECAUSE HE HAS NOTHING TO HIDE. Right now, its all speculation but one cannot draw a conclusion that things look bad for the accused simply because accused cooperated in the arrest procedure. (sid2000: you prefer the OJ car chase method of arrest? )
Incidents like this tend to put a cloud on a program. I wish the Griz well because for a while, these events, like the events down the road at MSU, take a little gloss off the program. But, you'll get through it.
And why exactly would Jimmy have a lawyer shortly after the incident occurred and then turn himself to the police without having been involved with the shooting of the victim? Even if this was in self-defense or not, things aren't looking very promising here. I guess we'll all find out more as the story progresses today.
If police are looking at charging you with a crime and you don't get a lawyer, you are one stupid human being.
There’s a lot to be explained in this story. Police don’t say why they suspect JW, other than to say there’d been some altercation between the victim and the mother of the victim’s children, not between Jimmy and the victim.
The newspaper seems to be implying that Jimmy’s family relationship with this woman—who for some reason is not being identified--is somehow behind JW’s involvement. It seems odd though that police can’t explain what this relationship is, which probably means the two people most capable of explaining the connection, Jimmy and the woman, aren’t talking to police.
Other than the above mentioned relationship, police haven’t really said why they suspect Jimmy.
The story still refers to the shooter as unidentified, which suggests there probably isn’t a strong eyewitness. Did someone identify the car, but not the person driving it? If the car was Jimmy’s, that would make him a likely suspect, but that alone probably wouldn’t be enough to charge him. Did they find the gun? Did they find gsr on Jimmy or inside his car?
Also, Jimmy Wilson didn’t just drive to the police station and turn himself in. He was free for nearly two weeks, long enough to contact a lawyer and come up with a strategy for handling these allegations. He doesn’t seem to have been interviewed by police and when he is, he probably won’t be saying much because he already has an attorney.
Chances are, the details in this case won’t be revealed until trial.
LMAO! I've always said and thought the same thing. There IS a 'm' and 'e' in 'team'. 
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