A clear case of self-defense yet Guy was arrested and charged with capital murder and two charges of attempted murder. He is currently being held on a bond totaling $4.5 million, and he now faces the death penalty.

Dig a bit deeper and you’ll find how unfair the system is and why it needs to be changed.

Enter the case of Henry Goedrich Magee

6 Months prior to  Guy’s incident, on December 19, 2013, just before 6am, Sgt. Adam Sowders of Burleson County, led a team in a no-knock marijuana raid in Somerville on Magee’s mobile home.

Fearing for the safety of himself and his then pregnant girlfriend, Magee opened fire, killing Sowders.

All charges against Magee were dropped just a few months before the deadly raid in Killeen on Guy’s home.  A Texas grand jury refused to indict Magee because they knew he feared for his safety and that it was a reasonable act of self-defense.

Now whether you think this is a race issue or not (as I do) is not what’s at stake here. This is about the sanctity of the American home and our 4th Amendment rights that are being violated.

Cornell University Law School states that the Fourth Amendment originally enforced the notion that “each man’s home is his castle”, secure from unreasonable searches and seizures of property by the government.  It protects against arbitrary arrests, and is the basis of the law regarding search warrants, stop-and-frisk, safety inspections, wiretaps, and other forms of surveillance, as well as being central to many other criminal law topics and to privacy law.

We, the people, have to ensure that our government and all branches of it are there to serve us, not the other way around. No matter your sex, race, or religion, it is your duty as an American citizen to stop arbitrary and unjust laws and actions however you can.
 

Please visit www.change.org and sign the petition to acquit Marvin Louis Guy!

 

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