Kill your son in law...No, your too fat!!
Just thought this was interesting...
Man using 'fat' defense in NJ depicted as marksman.
AP – Edward Ates is shown in this undated photo provided by his attorney and released by the Trenton, NJ prosecutor's …
By BETH DeFALCO, Associated Press Writer Beth Defalco, Associated Press Writer – 10 mins ago
HACKENSACK, N.J. – New Jersey prosecutors are trying to portray a Florida man who claims he was too fat to have killed his former son-in-law as a skilled marksman.
Edward Ates (aytz) claims he didn't have the energy to accurately shoot Paul Duncsak (DUNS'-kak) and make a quick getaway.
Under cross-examination Thursday, Ates admitted he once used his revolver to shoot a snake during a road trip.
The 62-year-old was 285 pounds when Duncsak was killed in 2006.
Duncsak and Ates' daughter were involved in a bitter custody dispute after their divorce.
A defense lawyer says the prosecution theory would mean that the killer would have had to run up a set stairs. He says Ates couldn't have done that and fired a gun accurately. He says exertion would cause his hands to shake.
Heck, @ 461 I couldn't barely MOVE up a flight of stairs .. I would be so badly out of breath afterward .. and I was much younger than he was ..
I think he has a plausible defense, as long as his family M.D. backs it up ..
(wait a mintue, isn't that Wilford Brimley???
) Frank talk about the DS / "All I ever wanted to be was thin, like that Rolling Stones dude ... "
HW/461 LW/251 GW/189 CW/274 (yep, a DS semi-failure - it happens :-( )
