If you know who did this or have any information, call the police anonymous tips line and give them any and all information you have.

Anthony Crockett was the father of a man I am proud to call my son-in-law. I think it is a sad thing that the paramedics were so incompetent as to mess such a thing as bullet holes! The police department being so incompetent as to not investigate a man found dead in his home just compiles this horrible incident further.

Here it is 10 months after his murder and the guilty party is still walking the streets enjoying life. I could say who I am positive committed this act but far be it from me to end up with a slander suit on my head.

Here is to you Mr. Crockett…your granddaughter looks a lot like you and your son. RIP sir!

I would think the greatest respect one could show would be to correct an injustice which involved your classmate’s death. The commentators here showed no disrespect to the victim, but directed it to the inept government agents charged with investigating this death. I think your thunder is misplaced.

I’m sorry for your loss, but you’re way off base with this. No one has disrespected your friend and the only quibbling seems to be on your part. Criticizing crime lab methodology is not the equivalent of framing it as a political policy argument. If there had been posting about “right wing gun nuts” or “liberals who want to take your guns”, yeah, you’d have a really good complaint about disrespect and I’d be willing to throw some smack down on that myself. See this thread for examples of the kind of reaction that kind of irresponsible and hateful posts result in – http://jonathanturley.org/2009/02/22/eleven-year-old-boy-allegely-shots-pregnant-girlfriend-of-father-and-goes-to-school/ .

If he were my friend, I’d be more appalled that the lab missed facts so basic that the mortuary had to, in essence, solve the crime for them. That’s incompetent investigation. That’s not what the police and the crime lab are paid for nor is it proper fulfillment of their duties. I don’t know about you, but were he my friend, that would piss me off more than people talking about said investigatory incompetence that – had the funeral home not been ethical or paying attention – may have led to your friend’s murder NEVER being properly investigated.

I should also point out this is a legal blog. Quibbling over political differences is par for the course, but the regular posters do have a sense of proportion and leave politics out when they are not the central issue as a general rule.

Again, sorry for your loss. Peace.

I just wanted to let you know I did catch the transitory icon change, but I was not in a position to reply. Quite the complement and thank you, sir, but in all truth it is your very continued presence posting here that honors us all.

The Bowler: Yes, the police said he fell down an elevator shaft. Onto some bullets.

The Blue Raja: You know, I’ve alwas suspected a bit of foul play there.

The Bowler: As have I.

in your honor!

I just sayin’.

Bron, looking your direction . . . and isn’t the kind of epiphany that makes you laugh just the best?

I think part of the answer to your question is male dominance. Authoritarianism is mostly, but not always (see nuns) linked to male dominance. It is “manly” to torture, go outside the law etc. Because our culture tends to worship all things macho, I think this causes worship of law enforcement, even when they are clearly in the wrong.

because we are taught from a young age to respect authority.

Sh…… I got quit coming to this site I might actually learn a thing or 2.

I have got to say that I never thought about it until you put it like that (I am having a hard time writing this because I am laughing at myself).

I think I just figured out why the right is more detrimental to liberty than the left is.

It was the suicide with three bullets to the back that was the worst. Sometimes I wonder about your thought patterns:)

I think that sums it up without elaboration.