 I realize now that I am an ID addict. I’ve suspected it for a while. Yesterday it was confirmed. When I talk about ID, I’m not talking about stealing glances at people’s driver’s licenses. I’m talking about Investigation Discovery. Now that Court TV is gone, ID is the channel I go to for my daily dose of murder and mayhem.
Practically every day, I’m watching shows called Deadly Women, Who the Bleep Did I Marry, Unusual Suspects, Scorned, Deadly Sins and Killer Trials. I have spent entire Sundays glued to ID. I don’t know if it’s normal. The more I think about it, it probably isn’t. I defend my predilection for ID by saying, if I could do it again, I would probably go into forensic psychology or something similar. I am completely fascinated by the criminal mind.
Anyway, I have wondered, as of late, if maybe I’m watching a bit too much ID. I got my answer (YES!) as I drove home yesterday. While listening to my classic rock station, I Shot the Sherriff came on (the Eric Clapton version). I found myself questioning the lyrics, developing my own theory of the crime and theorizing how this would play out in court.
So this is the premise of the song:
Eric says: I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy. I say: Oh really? Let’s look at this a little more closely.
Eric says: All around in my home town They're trying to track me down. They say they want to bring me in guilty For the killing of a deputy.
I say: So you admit shooting the sheriff but you deny the charge of shooting the deputy. Hmmm…
Eric says: I shot the sheriff, but I swear it was in self-defense. I shot the sheriff, and they say it is a capital offense.
Sheriff john brown always hated me; For what I don't know. Every time that I plant a seed He said, kill it before it grows. He said, kill it before it grows.
I say: Depending on the state, shooting the sherriff is a capital offense and since you admit to killing him, this makes you a cop killer, so regardless of whether or not you shot the deputy, you are probably going down.
As far as the sheriff hating you, we’ll have to look into that. However, this animosity between you and the sheriff has me thinking premeditation and not self-defense.
Eric says: Freedom came my way one day And I started out of town. All of a sudden I see sheriff john brown Aiming to shoot me down. So I shot, I shot him down.
I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy. I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy. Reflexes got the better of me And what is to be must be. Every day the bucket goes to the well, But one day the bottom will drop out, Yes, one day the bottom will drop out.
I say: The bottom is dropping out right now. You were heading out of town and you just saw the sheriff aiming to shoot you. You blame your reflexes however this means that when the sheriff saw you, you were probably already holding the gun and must have been pointing it at him as well. Given this admission of ‘reflexes’ combined with the whole bad blood between you two, I say it was premeditated. I’m not saying that you plotted this but I am saying that some thought went into this before you pulled the trigger.
I also think it’s odd that you deny shooting the deputy but you make no reference to where the deputy was or what he was doing when you got into this showdown with the sheriff. Did you actually shoot the deputy as well or is there some accomplice that you are protecting?
Basically, I want to order some ballistics to see if the same gun that shot the sheriff also shot the deputy.
For the sheriff alone, I am willing to plead this down to Murder 2 and take the death penalty off the table in return for life with no parole.
I need to start watching more Lifetime….
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