Prosecutors Are Employees Of The People
Here is a look at the St. Rita’s nursing home flood in New Orleans during Katrina that left the owners charged with 35 counts of negligent homicide and 64 cruelty to the infirm. The 35 dead have no one to speak for them except the living and those that suffered harm may be able do speak up but it is unlikely giving their state of being. So the people of Louisiana have to speak through the prosecutor to defend their right to life and what health they have. The people of Louisiana also find it in our interest that the accused have a lawyer so they will not be unjustly convicted.
The prosecutor accuses the couple of abandoning the elderly to the rising water after Katrina struck. The defense is that the government levee unexpectedly failed and the government failed to evacuate the patients.
Their defense is hogwash because the primary care for the elderly was in their hands and not the government’s and the government order a mandatory evacuation previous to Katrina striking. To make their case they would have to prove that the government had a contract with them to evacuate the patients and that the government also guaranteed the levies would stand. We know the second is not true because of the mandatory evacuation order and I have heard no evidence of the first occurring.
I have heard that they were called previous to the flooding and warned to get out by others but the government. What appears to have happened is they assumed that Katrina would not do significant damage and then when the opposite happened the panicked and saved themselves instead of taking responsibility for their actions and doing their duty to their patients. If this is the case negligent homicide is a very light charge as they knowingly committed murder while carried away with the emotion of fear which sounds like a Second or Third Degree Murder as their intend was leave them there to die.
I understand the defense in this one is the blame the government defense that sadly might work in our society at this time but we as Americans need to start taking responsibility for our actions even if those actions lead adverse effects including to bad government .
Source 1 is the article about the St. Rita nursing home flood.
The prosecutor accuses the couple of abandoning the elderly to the rising water after Katrina struck. The defense is that the government levee unexpectedly failed and the government failed to evacuate the patients.
Their defense is hogwash because the primary care for the elderly was in their hands and not the government’s and the government order a mandatory evacuation previous to Katrina striking. To make their case they would have to prove that the government had a contract with them to evacuate the patients and that the government also guaranteed the levies would stand. We know the second is not true because of the mandatory evacuation order and I have heard no evidence of the first occurring.
I have heard that they were called previous to the flooding and warned to get out by others but the government. What appears to have happened is they assumed that Katrina would not do significant damage and then when the opposite happened the panicked and saved themselves instead of taking responsibility for their actions and doing their duty to their patients. If this is the case negligent homicide is a very light charge as they knowingly committed murder while carried away with the emotion of fear which sounds like a Second or Third Degree Murder as their intend was leave them there to die.
I understand the defense in this one is the blame the government defense that sadly might work in our society at this time but we as Americans need to start taking responsibility for our actions even if those actions lead adverse effects including to bad government .
Source 1 is the article about the St. Rita nursing home flood.
posted by Kerwin | 10:19 PM
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