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seamusTX wrote:

The medical examiner in the investigation into the death of north Caddo Parish attorney John Morneau, who was shot and killed by a Miller County, Ark., sheriff's deputy two weeks ago, has made an about-face when it comes to saying where Morneau was shot.

Morneau's first death certificate said he was shot in the back. Miller County Coroner Eddie Hawkins Jr. has now issued a new one that indicates Morneau, 71, was shot in the chest.

OK.

You don't want to get crosswise with the law in that part of the country.

- Jim

Texas is a "whole 'nuther country", but the ArkLaTex is a whole 'nuther country from that.

Arkansas coroners don't do autopsies, they just issue death certificates. I smell one county's good ole boy system all tied up in this.

Saw this on the news.

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longtooth wrote:It is all summed up in the one fact. He pointed 2 guns at LEOs. It does not matter if the warent was for traffic or bank robbery, he pointed 2 guns at the officers.

I would call that an allegation, not a fact. Mr. Morneau can't give his versin of what happened. Th enews doesn't have to say "allegedly" because he won't be charged with a crime. No suing for libel.

I like what Charles Cotton said. We should all worry about that. Small towns have military surplus vehicles and swat teams. I read a report about how many times swat teams are used for warrants. Not just hostages or kidnappg or barricades, but just because someone might have a marijuana plant in the garage.

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Read the report or play wiht the map. Looks to me like police wind up hurt as often as suspects.

I don't live too far from there. , in the four states area. Mr. Morneau has a reputation as a freindly flamboyent kind of person. I heard that he thinks the state line was drawn wrong. the land he claimed was where he thought the border really was.

I wonder why two game wardens and one deputy would wander through private woods to serve a misdemeanor warrant on a small piece of land. The man owned much more land and lived and worked in Louisiana and was an officer of the court. Sounds like the caddo sheriff should of served him.