Looking through the AA again I was a bit curious about the reference to WR having a 'bit' of 'awareness' or 'knowledge' that that the custody situation wasn't something that he needed to worry his pretty head about as TA had the situation 'in control'!
Not being an attorney makes understanding this all a bit challenging but if someone (here WR) appears to be in rehab on a 6 year suspended sentence and then seems to have knowledge and certain awareness of his mother having a multi year custody battle 'in control', I'm not seeing how this doesn't bring his suspended sentence into question or have him removed from rehab and placed in a secure location such as 'jail' or 'prison'? WR supposedly had primary custody at the time of the murder of VB and JK and so IDK how that situation could continue given first the gun charge, next the DV charge and finally the knowledge/awareness that TA had the custody situation 'in control'? We learned today from the interview with Atty Jones that there were some 'interim orders' that aren't visible on the OK website as they are sealed so perhaps TA had some guardianship role with the children? At present all that is unknown and perhaps we will learn more as the TA case moves to trial. It just seems that the TA claim to the children might have been quite legally tenuous and moving into the next hearing it might have been probable that VB would gain custody or certainly unsupervised visitation and this was enough to kick off the violent spiral of TA and the rest of "Gods Misfits"? IDK, just speculation.
Sorry, but little that WR experienced within the 'Court System' of Cimarron County in terms of a new gun charge (he was already a previously convicted felon) and new DV charge against at pregnant woman and her mother is making much sense to me OTHER THAN my new found believe that ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE legally in Cimarron County Courts if you have the right connections!
I still can't puzzle out precisely what happened and why in Court but it appears WR had a short jail stay, 6 year suspended sentence (combo plan it appears for new gun charge and DV charge against his pregnant wife and her mother) followed by a leisurely 6 month stay at the Salvation Army rehab facility in OKC. This would put him back on the ranch after rehab with no additional jail time so far as I can tell unless I guess he gets another charge for something else which MIGHT put him back in jail for a parole violation? IDK, seems like a sweet deal for a gun charge, particularly given his violent past, DV history, multiyear drug and alcohol history etc. WR was not a first time offender by any stretch and yet no extended prison on a felony gun charge. WHY?
Right.
Does anyone understand how any of this is possible? Gun charges for prior felons are treated seriously in most States but don't seem to be much of a big deal at all here for WR so far as I can tell? Simply baffling.
Perhaps its as simple as ANYTHING is legally possible in Cimarron County?
MOO