Oregon standoff: One of protesters has murder conviction (Murdered his Dad)

[Quixote1818]

I am beginning to wonder if any of these douche bags has a clean record? Not to mention several who have been caught for their stolen valor.

Snip> Wampler was accused of killing his 62-year-old father who was asleep in bed at his Lower Lake, Calif., residence, according to police reports and newspaper stories from the time. Wampler had been staying at his father's home for eight days before the killing and had a troubled relationship with him, according to police reports.

Snip> On Aug. 8, 1977, Wampler was convicted of second-degree murder after pleading guilty, according to the Lake County District Attorney's Office in California. Wampler was sentenced to serve five years to life in prison, said Dana Simas, a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman. He was released from prison July 11, 1981, on parole, Simas said, and his parole supervision ended the following July.

http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/01/oregon_standoff_among_the_prot.html

[enough]

1. Great for the people of the area knowing these people are free to roam at will armed

throughout their neighborhood. I'm not saying this to advocate for a violent resolution, just that you can see how frustrated the local people must be getting, and what hypocrites these Bundyites are for saying the would leave when the locals wanted them to leave, and then not leaving.

[bluedigger]

2. Must be restful in the bunkhouse.

[catnhatnh]

3. On the other hand

he has more combat experience than most of those assholes...

[JudyM]

4. Disgusting that he served less than 4 years for murdering his father while he slept. Nt

[Wilms]

5. I never understand sentences like that.

I should look into that.

on edit: From the link

Wampler was accused of hitting his father in the head with an eye bolt – a 16-inch rod -- which police found on his father's body, news and police reports say. Wampler left the residence, walked a few miles, hitchhiked and wound up at a liquor store, where he became upset and told an employee to call the sheriff's office, police reports say.

"I have killed my father," he told a deputy over the phone, according to the reports.

He pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity to a murder charge in court, and a judge ordered two psychiatrists to evaluate him, news stories say. The stories say Wampler was initially charged with first-degree murder.

During a change of plea hearing in July 1977, Wampler told the court that he and his father were drinking and his father insulted Wampler's girlfriend, according to a news story. His girlfriend, who also had been staying with Wampler and his father, told police the father had ordered her to leave, according to reports.

On Aug. 8, 1977, Wampler was convicted of second-degree murder after pleading guilty, according to the Lake County District Attorney's Office in California. Wampler was sentenced to serve five years to life in prison, said Dana Simas, a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman. He was released from prison July 11, 1981, on parole, Simas said, and his parole supervision ended the following July.

[JudyM]

6. It's certainly not justice. "Insanity" but he went to regular prison, then out in less than 5. Ugh.

[bullwinkle428]

7. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm thinking a murder conviction pretty much

takes away your right to own guns from that point onward.

[Iggo]

8. Conviction of possession of less than a gram of a white powdery controlled substance surely does.

Murder must carry a similar restriction.

[REP]

10. Since he's been released from parole, his civil rights may have been restored

If that is so, he is not barred from owning firearms.

http://www.justice.gov/usam/criminal-resource-manual-1435-post-conviction-restoration-civil-rights

[B Calm]

9. What I find disgusting is calling terrorists protesters!