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<blockquote data-quote="UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)" data-source="post: 453482" data-attributes="member: 12570"><p>This is the flip side of what can happen when a homeowner with a gun tries to defend himself:</p><p> </p><p>In the early morning of June 9, 2002, former Clinton Community College student Andrew Leroux, 21, intoxicated after an evening of partying, climbed the porch of a William Street home intending to enter the residence and join a party he thought was in full swing there. He'd made a fatal mistake: the home was occupied, not by party-goers, but by the family of Lawrence Crouthers, 68, who tried to fend off Leroux, whom he presumed to be a burglar. Crouthers shot Leroux on the porch, and the young man died of the injuries. Then-District Attorney Richard Cantwell had gained a grand-jury indictment for second-degree murder but, reasoning that the evidence supported only that charge, sought no other. The grand jury didn't indict, and Cantwell was criticized for not presenting a case for lesser offenses. County Judge Kevin Ryan publicly rebuked him and ordered him to bring the lower charges for consideration. Cantwell refused, arguing that Ryan was exceeding his legal authority with the order. A state court agreed. That case was undoubtedly a factor in Cantwell's defeat for re-election by Andrew Wylie, who empaneled a grand jury to consider charges of criminally negligent homicide and manslaughter. That jury indicts Crouthers on criminally negligent homicide. Crouthers will answer the charge in February. Now living in Connecticut after a cacophonous outcry over the original outcome, he is allowed to go free on $2,000 bail.</p><p> </p><p>To update the story:</p><p> </p><p>Lawrence Crouthers smiled and joyously hugged his attorney Friday afternoon when a jury cleared him of criminally negligent homicide in the 2002 shooting death of Andrew Leroux.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UpstateNYUPSer(Ret), post: 453482, member: 12570"] This is the flip side of what can happen when a homeowner with a gun tries to defend himself: In the early morning of June 9, 2002, former Clinton Community College student Andrew Leroux, 21, intoxicated after an evening of partying, climbed the porch of a William Street home intending to enter the residence and join a party he thought was in full swing there. He'd made a fatal mistake: the home was occupied, not by party-goers, but by the family of Lawrence Crouthers, 68, who tried to fend off Leroux, whom he presumed to be a burglar. Crouthers shot Leroux on the porch, and the young man died of the injuries. Then-District Attorney Richard Cantwell had gained a grand-jury indictment for second-degree murder but, reasoning that the evidence supported only that charge, sought no other. The grand jury didn't indict, and Cantwell was criticized for not presenting a case for lesser offenses. County Judge Kevin Ryan publicly rebuked him and ordered him to bring the lower charges for consideration. Cantwell refused, arguing that Ryan was exceeding his legal authority with the order. A state court agreed. That case was undoubtedly a factor in Cantwell's defeat for re-election by Andrew Wylie, who empaneled a grand jury to consider charges of criminally negligent homicide and manslaughter. That jury indicts Crouthers on criminally negligent homicide. Crouthers will answer the charge in February. Now living in Connecticut after a cacophonous outcry over the original outcome, he is allowed to go free on $2,000 bail. To update the story: Lawrence Crouthers smiled and joyously hugged his attorney Friday afternoon when a jury cleared him of criminally negligent homicide in the 2002 shooting death of Andrew Leroux. [/QUOTE]
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