San Bernardino Deputy Faces New Charge in Videotaped Shooting
SAN BERNARDINO, CA (AP) -- A former sheriff's deputy who was videotaped shooting an unarmed man faces a new charge as his trial approaches.
Ivory J. Webb, already charged with attempted voluntary manslaughter, was charged with an additional count of assault with a firearm. He pleaded not guilty to both charges Monday. He faces more than 18 years in state prison if convicted of the manslaughter charge, and up to 17 years in prison if found guilty of the assault charge.
Webb, 45, shot Elio Carrion, an Air Force senior airman, on January 29 following a brief high-speed chase in Chino, 45 miles east of Los Angeles. The nighttime recording shows Carrion, who was the passenger in a Corvette eluding officers, lying on the ground as the deputy orders him to get up. When he begins to rise, Carrion is shot in the chest, shoulder and left thigh.
Carrion, 22, who had just returned from a tour in Iraq, survived the shooting.
Prosecutors said that to reach a guilty verdict in the manslaughter charge, the jury must believe Webb intended to kill Carrion. The new assault charge will give jurors an alternative if they don't believe Webb was set on killing Carrion, said Deputy District Attorney Lewis Cope.
Webb was scheduled to return to court for a November 3 hearing.
Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
BSRanch Perspective
Let me see, we are going to hold trial and convict all on what Facts that we see on a Video Tape!! Myself for one don't think that this is a fair shake of a trial, sure it looks bad on the video tape! I don't know of anyone that can say with all honesty that any Killing of a Human Being is a joyous Occasion!! This is not what we are here to see how well the killing came across.
You must take into consideration the Deputy's frame of mind, what was he thinking, was he in FEAR OF LOSING HIS LIFE OR THE LIVES OF OTHERS? The Video is not the whole case and you cannot bring your life to support the whole case around that video tape.
That officer Might have saw, what he thought was a gun, in that guys hand. It might have been a shiny reflection of his ring, but for all intensive purpose, at that split moment that Reflection on that Ring might have looked like a gun, and he took the action that he did, After all he only had a split second to react to the Ring shining in the Dark, there are a lot of explanations that can clear a persons name.
I am Saddened and I feel helpless that the Criminal Justice System has resorted to the justice of one tape. One Magnetic Tape that has one very small part to the whole story filmed upon it. Just like the professional movies that win The Oscars there is a whole story behind the making of what is on the screen during that movie, and sometimes we are given the opportunity to see what they do. such as the grips made the replica front gates to "Grace Land" during the filming of the story of Elvis Presley's Life. The gates and driveway leading into Graceland look right, but to save on building costs in the budget they made the gate I/3 smaller then the original gate at Graceland.
Please Except my Apologies for the victim and the victims family, because either way, if the Deputy is guilty or Innocent, it doesn't change the out come of the case. I know this, and placing this guy in jail when he very well acted in the best interest of the Videographer, and himself in his thoughts at that time! This case should be judged by the totality of the case I cannot say this enough!!
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