The Virginian-Pilot
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CHESAPEAKE
Ryan Frederick, convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a police detective during a drug raid, has been denied an appeal by a three-judge panel of the Virginia Court of Appeals.
The decision Thursday, as reported on the court’s website, comes after a single Court of Appeals judge denied the same request in January.
Frederick's attorney, Eric Korslund, said today that he plans to appeal further to the Virginia Supreme Court. He has argued that Frederick's jury shouldn't have been given the option of choosing voluntary manslaughter because the elements of that crime weren't present.
"Unfortunately, I'm not surprised," Korslund said. "But we're going to keep on trying."
Frederick claimed self-defense against unknown attackers to explain his shooting as police broke in during a January 2008 raid on his South Norfolk home. Jarrod Shivers, 34, was fatally wounded. A jury in February 2009 convicted Frederick, then 29, and sentenced him to 10 years in prison.
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Chesapeake Police will never
Chesapeake Police will never admit that they didnt have to act like RAMBOS because then they would have to live with the fact that they acted overzealous, Ryan had his whole life in front of him, why would he intentionally destroy it over $25 worth of weed, it just does not make sense!! So all you people that want to call him names and stand in judgement of him.....you'll are the ones I feel sorry for. Ryan is going to remain positive and strong and believe me, there is nothing you negative people can say or write about him that will make him feel worse than he does already, he has to live with his tragic mistake for the rest of his life and he deals with it everyday! But he will get his life back and he will never take it for granted ever again, before you judge someone else, put yourself in their shoes and think about how you might have reacted in the same situation!!
Live in Judgement
And he will have to live with the fact that he killed a human being for NO reason.
I hope when he sleeps at night he thinks about it. Because after his release he will not be able to work at any respectable occupation.
Reason
I could think of no better reason to kill someone than to protect my family from a stranger busting through my front door.
I grieve for Det. Shivers's family, but the policies of the CPD are what got him killed and put the taxpayers on the hook for the trial and incarceration of a man who until that night hadn't bothered anyone.
Ever hear of self defense?
He didn't just choose to kill a man in cold blood. He woke up in the middle of the night with a bunch of armed masked men trying to invade his home, and he reacted in self defense. The fact that the police failed to identify themselves and chose a tactical route that escalated a peaceful situation into a violent one is not the fault of Ryan Frederick.
Anybody who is convinced that Frederick is guilty should watch the footage of his police interviews after the incident. To call the person in those recordings a ruthless killer requires some seriously messed up judgment.
Sorry
He did not know what he was shooting at.
For all
For all of you who say he is this and he is that,
HE SHOT HIS GUN THRU A DOOR!!! PERIOD!! he did not identify his victim. He did know what he was shooting at. He DID make a bad decision, plain and simple! Im not saying the police wasnt at fault for their bad decisions also. BUT YOU DO NOT SHOOT AT WHAT YOU CANNOT SEE!! What if his wild west antics hit someone beyond the approaching officers, and hot a baby in his/her crib in the house across the street?
Would you still be singing the same tune?
Hey, gmarlie223, try
Hey, gmarlie223, try Googling "Tarika Wilson". She was killed by a cop who shot into a closed room even though he couldn't see what or who he was firing at. She was also holding her baby who was wounded in the shooting.
And guess what happened to the cop? Absolutely nothing.
Now let me hear you sing a different tune.
Googled it
and all I found was Specultation on what happened! Soo seeing as how you are GOD and can see all please prey tell how did you know she wasnt holding a weapon and not the baby?
She was as bad as the five drug dealers who impregnated her. I guess she didnt learn the first 4 times that dating or sleeping with a thug gansta drug dealer was a good thing!
His home was being invaded
If you're in your own home and several men are attempting to forcefully break in and do who knows what to you and your family, you absolutely are allowed to use force to defend yourself. This is true whether you know who the invader is or not.
I highly doubt that anyone here would react with calm reasoning if we awoke to that madness in the middle of the night.
Technically
If you were in texas where THEY HAVE the castle law then yes it would be perfectly ok to use in your words LETHAL force but you must prove that your life was at risk! If someone breaks into your house with no firearm or weapon you go ahead and shoot them and try to get off scott free!!