This was probably considered to be pretty bad optics.

It was obvious the man was simply defending his home. You can get some white women on the jury who will just convict any white man because they hate their fathers. But it looks ridiculous.

AP:

Prosecutors said Monday they will not retry an Arizona rancher whose trial in the fatal shooting of a Mexican man on his property ended last week with a deadlocked jury.

The jurors in the trial of George Alan Kelly were unable to reach a unanimous decision on a verdict after more than two days of deliberation. Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Thomas Fink declared a mistrial on April 22.

After the mistrial, the Santa Cruz County Attorney’s Office had the option to retry Kelly — or to drop the case.

“Because of the unique circumstances and challenges surrounding this case, the Santa Cruz County Attorney’s Office has decided not to seek a retrial,” Deputy County Attorney Kimberly Hunley told Fink Monday.

Fink agreed to dismiss the case. He said a hearing would be scheduled later to determine if it would be dismissed with prejudice, which would mean it couldn’t be brought back to court.

Kelly’s defense attorney Brenna Larkin told the judge that she would file a request for the case to be dismissed with prejudice.

Larkin did not immediately return a request for comment sent by email after the ruling.

When a reporter from the Tucson TV station KGUN asked for Kelly’s reaction outside the courthouse, he said he felt “relief.”

“The nightmare’s over,” Kelly added, saying that the victim’s family “has my sincere sympathy.”

Unfortunately, sir, the nightmare has just begun.

Don’t worry, you won’t run out of invaders anytime soon

This guy literally did nothing wrong.

No one even understands how he was arrested.

America is a farce.

But at least there are still a few reasonable people left.

AP:

An Arizona judge declared a mistrial Monday in the case of a rancher accused of fatally shooting a Mexican man on his property near the U.S.-Mexico border.

The decision came after jurors failed to reach a unanimous decision after more than two full days of deliberation in trial of George Alan Kelly, 75, who was charged with second-degree murder in the Jan. 30, 2023, shooting of Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea.

“Based upon the jury’s inability to reach a verdict on any count,” Superior Court Judge Thomas Fink said, “This case is in mistrial.”

The Santa Cruz County Attorney’s Office can still decide whether to retry Kelly for any charge, or drop the case all together.

A status hearing was scheduled for next Monday afternoon, when prosecutors could inform the judge if they plan to refile the case. Prosecutors did not immediately respond to emailed requests for additional comment.

Kelly was charged with second-degree murder in killing of Cuen-Buitimea, 48, who lived just south of the border in Nogales, Mexico.

Prosecutors said Kelly recklessly fired nine shots from an AK-47 rifle toward a group of men, including Cuen-Buitimea, about 100 yards (90 meters) away on his cattle ranch. Kelly has said he fired warning shots in the air, but he didn’t shoot directly at anyone.

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Kelly had earlier rejected an agreement with prosecutors that would have reduced the charge to one count of negligent homicide if he pleaded guilty.

Kelly was also charged with aggravated assault that day against another person in the group of about eight people, including a man from Honduras who was living in Mexico and who testified during the trial that he had gone into the U.S. that day seeking work.

The other migrants weren’t injured and they all made it back to Mexico.

Cuen-Buitimea lived just south of the border in Nogales, Mexico. He had previously entered the U.S. illegally several times and was deported, most recently in 2016, court records show.

They arrested Kelly just to make an example.

It doesn’t matter he wasn’t convicted. Everyone saw these humiliating pictures of an old man dragged around in handcuffs, and that was the point of it all.

They’re probably gonna do another trial

There is no question that this man was acting reasonably in self-defense.

Basically, it’s everything the Daily Stormer predicted: it’s illegal to defend yourself if you’re white.

Nonwhites are allowed to come into your land and do whatever they want, and if you defend yourself, you go to prison.

Western Journal:

Prosecutors on Wednesday revealed that a Mexican national whose death led to a murder charge against Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly was in a group of eight people on the day of the shooting.

Kimberly Hunley, chief deputy attorney for Santa Cruz County, said all of those in the group were unarmed, according to the Associated Press.

The group “posed no threat to him or family,” she said, alleging Kelly “shot at them repeatedly with an AK-47, striking and killing one of them.”

“Mr. Kelly shot an unarmed man in the back in an unprovoked attack as he ran for his life. There was no warning, and the victim was more than 100 yards from the defendant’s residence when he was shot and killed,” she said, according to the Arizona Republic.

She said two other people who were shot at have come forward, leading the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office to file an amended complaint that added two counts of aggravated assault to the first-degree murder charge Kelly faces.

Kelly is accused of killing Gabriel Cuen-Butimea of Mexico on Jan. 30. Cuen-Butimea had been deported to Mexico multiple times, the last time in 2016, according to AP.

Gabriel Cuen-Butimea

Since his arrest, Kelly has been in jail on $1 million bond. On Wednesday, Justice of the Peace Emilio G. Velasquez kept the amount the same, but changed the conditions to a surety bond. That would allow Kelly to put up his land as bond to be freed from jail, according to AP.

During Wednesday’s hearing, Brenna Larkin, Kelly’s attorney, said the case against Kelly has been a procedural travesty, according to Fox News.

“There was a huge divergence in how investigation and prosecution should happen and how it did happen in this case,” she said.

“The Alec Baldwin case comes to mind of a case where an incident occurred, there was a shooting, there was an investigation and following the lengthy investigation, then there were criminal charges. That’s an example of how a criminal case should be handled. This case was not handled in that manner, Your Honor. This case was charged first and investigated later,” she said.

She claimed authorities “lit a match over a very intense political powder keg” by arresting Kelly before all the facts were in and “predictably, there was an explosion.”

She said testimony of the two alleged witnesses is meaningless because the case has been “compromised by publicity.”

“There’s a very large incentive structure for people to come forward and to have claimed to have been witnesses. People can possibly obtain immigration benefits for doing so, or at least have the expectation of that, and people can succumb to pressure from traffickers who have an interest in blaming this event on Mr. Kelly,” Larkin said.

Larkin said drug traffickers want Kelly convicted.

“Testimony is something that is bought and sold by drug traffickers the same way that drugs and people are bought and sold. It is a valuable commodity, and it is used by these traffickers to obtain what they want,” she said.

“In this case, the benefit they’re getting is security for their smuggling route through Mr. Kelly’s property, and they’re sending a message to anybody else defending his or her own property that if you defend your property against us, you will be arrested, and there will be witnesses who come to stand against you,” she said.

That’s exactly what it’s about: it’s about sending a message that you will be prosecuted for defending yourself if you are white.

This is just what we said. All those things we said in 2020 are happening now, and it’s ridiculous.

These people are still flooding into our country by the millions and no one is even talking about it.