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    Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland, wife reportedly found dead in

    I just got the alert on this. This is terrible! We cannot have our law enforcement being undermined and attacked like this. How in the world the ass kite coward who murdered Mark Hasse was allowed to get away I'll never know. You would think that every agency in the United States would have been tracking down the killer.
    Instead little to no information has been released to the public who may be able to help and who obviously is in danger. I know that it is in the interest of a clean investigation that certain information be withheld from the public but what we've seen here is a joke. From the supertard Dallas DA running his mouth early in the Hasse investigation to grab a few minutes of fame to the total and complete information blackout.
    Now their DA and his wife have been murdered. A total mission failure.
     
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    TXARGUY said:
    Can you copy and paste or just give a synopsis of the info? It won't let non-subscribers see it.
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    I'm a non-subscriber, and it let me read it. There must be a limit on the number of articles you can see in a given day

    Former Army Ranger Adam Morgan, with wife Jessica, bought 100 acres in rural Kaufman County for an outdoor gun range. Complications, and a lawsuit, ensued. A civil trial set for Sept. 9 will determine the fate of Morgan's business plan.
    By SCOTT K. PARKS
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    [COLOR=#333333 !important]Published: 24 March 2013 10:44 PM




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    Adam Morgan hatched a simple plan. Buy a narrow, 100-acre rectangle of land in rural Kaufman County, build an outdoor gun range and start a shooting club for marksmen who fire at targets a thousand yards away.
    It seemed a perfect fit for a 30-year-old former Army Ranger, a trained sniper trying to carve out a civilian life after deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. So, he pulled the trigger and bought the land.
    Things got complicated, however, when neighbors with kids and cattle started hearing whizzing bullets hit metal targets with a crisp “Ding!” The district attorney got involved, filing a lawsuit and obtaining a temporary injunction to stop Morgan from operating his shooting range as a business.
    Now, the case promises to be the first test of a state law designed to prevent nuisance suits against outdoor gun ranges — which often draw complaints from neighbors concerned about noise and safety. With strong backing from the National Rifle Association, the measure, which began as Senate Bill 766, was overwhelmingly approved by the 2011 Texas Legislature.
    The law does not limit lawsuits against a gun range for personal injury or death, property damage or breach of contract. Morgan insists that he and his associates operated the range safely, saying no one has ever been harmed there.
    “Unnecessary fears are big in this case.” he said.
    Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland did not return telephone calls seeking comment about the case. In his lawsuit, the DA alleges that residents near Morgan’s property are “in immediate risk” if the shooting range reopens.
    NRA connection
    Charles Cotton, a Houston-area lawyer, is representing Morgan. Cotton also happens to be an NRA board member and the gun-rights activist who wrote the language that became Senate Bill 766.
    A civil trial set for Sept. 9 in Kaufman County will determine the fate of Morgan’s business plan. More important, the decision in Kaufman County vs. Morgan Security Consulting could help set the precedent for how courts interpret the new law.
    “I’ve seen a growing trend around the country of people filing frivolous lawsuits to shut down gun ranges,” Cotton said. “The NRA is monitoring the case, but it’s important to me personally because it was filed by a governmental entity with taxpayers’ money behind it.”
    ‘Not the boondocks’
    The gently rolling pastures surrounding Morgan’s property are mostly owned by Czech-American families who have farmed and ranched there since the 1940s and ’50s. Morgan, who lives in Waxahachie, was an unknown quantity to them.
    Raymond Bedrick, who owns 200 acres adjacent to Morgan’s property, said his family raises cattle and grows hay.
    “We are always out there on tractors,” he said. “One of my grandsons was out there one day and called me about bullets whizzing around. I told him to get down off that tractor and go home.
    “This is not the boondocks. We’ve got houses and subdivisions out here.”
    As part of his investigation, McLelland hired Richard C. Whiting, a firing range design and safety expert from West Virginia.
    Whiting visited Morgan’s firing range on March 14, 2012. He observed that there were no earthen berms or other protective measures to keep bullets from straying off the property. Areas around the metal targets mounted on posts were not equipped with devices to trap bullets that ricocheted off the ground or the targets’ edges.
    The expert noted that bullets from some high-powered rifles can travel three miles.
    “To allow live fire on this particular site in its present condition constitutes a callous disregard for safety and may constitute gross negligence on the part of the owner(s),” Whiting wrote after his site visit. “Planning for the facility appears to be totally lacking. It appears that the owner(s) did nothing other than set up a few targets and start shooting.”
    The district attorney filed his lawsuit on May 4 and attached Whiting’s report as an evidentiary exhibit.
    “If allowed to open, the sport shooting range or ‘private shooting club’ will immediately threaten the lives of men, women and children in the immediate vicinity,” the district attorney wrote.
    Cotton said the Whiting report, as a matter of law, is irrelevant because it seeks to impose a national standard on Morgan’s firing range. SB 766 requires expert witnesses in such cases to base their opinions on industry standards in Texas.
    “I’m not sure a guy from West Virginia knows much about Texas,” Cotton said.
    Despite Whiting’s scathing report, some of Morgan’s neighbors still support the former Ranger’s plans for a shooting club.
    Stefanie Lassiter, whose backyard opens onto a field that is 700 yards from Morgan’s firing line, said landowners should be allowed to use their property however they wish.
    “If I tell him he cannot shoot on his land, what’s to stop someone from telling me I can’t shoot on my land?” said Lassiter, who has three school-age children. Morgan and his associates, she added, “are expert marksmen and qualified firearms instructors, and they know what they are doing.”
    If it’s quiet, you can hear bullets zooming through the air and dinging the targets, she said, but “inside the house, with the television on, you can’t hear anything.”
    Next move
    Adam Morgan is vague about what he does for a living these days. After six years as an Army Ranger, “kicking in doors and that kind of stuff,” he left the military in October 2007.
    “I got picked back up by the federal government and I still deploy overseas in a different capacity,” he said.
    He developed a friendship with Paul McCoy, a retired Grand Prairie firefighter and professional firearms instructor. McCoy lives in a small frame house in front of the shooting range. He was supposed to be Morgan’s range safety officer.
    Now, he’s waiting to see how the court case turns out. While reticent about the situation, he praised Morgan as an American hero.
    “I think it’s an embarrassment that someone who has given so much to his country has become the victim of financial and political influence,” McCoy said.
    Injunction
    The temporary injunction prevents Morgan from making improvements at the range.
    “I’m afraid to take my tractor out there and even mend fences,” he said.
    Like any landowner, he can shoot on the property and invite friends to shoot there. Dispatch records from the Kaufman County Sheriff’s Department show that deputies have been called to Morgan’s property 13 times since July 2011 to investigate complaints about gunfire.
    “I suspect other people shoot on their property and don’t get complained about,” Morgan said.
    Meanwhile, he is getting ready for another overseas deployment and preparing for the trial in September. He and Cotton vow they will fight on through the courts if they lose at the trial level.




    “I’m not looking to run a multimillion-dollar operation here,” Morgan said. “I had in mind a small club that might make my car payment; a place for guys to go on the weekend, just like the ones who play golf or go to the YMCA to play basketball.”
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    Oh hell, my county is going to hell... I live here. On the story of the long range, from what I heard there were no berms and the place wasnt safe... Never made it there myself though.
     
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    Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland, wife reportedly found dead in

    Just heard on the radio that a former Kaufman county justice of the peace who was prosecuted for theft by McClellen and Hasse is being questioned in the murders.
     
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    Acera said:
    That guys wife has confessed to the crime.
    Woman confesses to killing Texas prosecutors | Reuters



    So much for the Aryan Brotherhood theories...................
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    :confused: That seems weird. Women don't generally do that kind of stuff. Crazy psycho women do crazy psycho things - but this doesn't seem like a situation that ratcheted up to that level?

    Well, whatever. If she is the one who shot these three people she deserves what she's got coming.
     
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    I read something a couple of weeks ago about this Williams dude posting on his Facebook page about how the Kaufman County DA's office was crooked....blah blah blah. Sounded like sour grapes. It appears he took it much farther than just posting on Facebook, but he hasn't been convicted of anything yet.
     
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    Shorts said:
    :confused: That seems weird. Women don't generally do that kind of stuff. Crazy psycho women do crazy psycho things - but this doesn't seem like a situation that ratcheted up to that level?

    Well, whatever. If she is the one who shot these three people she deserves what she's got coming.
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    She confessed that she helped plan but husband did actual shooting.
     
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    First reports were she confessed to the killings, then more comes out later, so a clearer picture develops.

    With her confession and implication of him, hopefully both will spend the rest of their lives in a cage.
     
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    This should prove to be interesting. Texas has a law that married persons can't be forced to testify against their spouses. This woman has confessed and pointed the finger at her husband. This may not be admissible in a court of law. The lawyers will have a field day with this case. We taxpayers be be left to foot the bill, just like in the OJ case.
     
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