On Monday, prosecutors in Arizona decided not to re-try George Alan Kelly after his prosecution resulted in a hung jury last week.
Kelly, you may remember, is the Arizona rancher who was accused of shooting and killing a Mexican national named Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea, who was illegally trespassing on his property. Gabriel had previously been caught illegally in the United States several times before his death. He was most recently deported in 2016.
As this trial got underway, I defended Kelly based on a pretty simple principle, which is that American citizens have a right to defend their property, their families, and themselves. That’s all we really needed to know about this case. Those men had no right to be on his property. And in this case they didn’t even have the right to be in the country, let alone his property. It is an egregious miscarriage of justice to prosecute a man for…
