26 August—The good news is that Bob Fisher was finally sprung yesterday after the state appellate court last week overturned his ludicrously unjust conviction last year for manslaughter for shooting and killing 39-year-old crazed drunk Matthew Bromley in self-defense because the 78-year-old lawyer (twice the drunk assailant’s age, if you hadn’t noticed), not in the prime of health, was clearly unable to retreat from his assailant in his law firm’s parking lot, as required by ridiculous Connecticut statute, before resorting to so-called deadly force.

(Connecticut’s Castle Doctrine, for all it’s worth, says that there’s no duty to retreat inside one’s own home or work place. And a parking lot is considered part of a work place. But not for purposes of self-defense and Castle Doctrine, of course. Typical.)

Fisher, whose name is misspelled “Fischer” in many news stories and was a certified firearms instructor, is “free” on $50,000 bond, on the condition he possesses neither firearms nor ammunition as all the court crap continues.

As things stand now, the unrelenting state’s attorney, whatever his name may be, intends to continue his harassment of the old, physically unfit, innocent lawyer—probably because a gun was involved in the never-should-have-been-tried non-crime and anything involving firearms excites Connecticut prosecutors and Democrats beyond all reason.

For the record and in the interest of completeness, while most witnesses to the incident in the Cramer & Anderson parking lot confirmed that Bromley had been the aggressor, one delusional (or imaginative) witness gave it a different spin: “I don’t believe that this is self-defense because the younger male did not have a weapon. I think the older male could’ve punched the other guy and settled it that way rather than shooting him. It just didn’t seem like it was that violent of an attack.”

Obviously. According to the prosecutor and jury, anyway. Shame on old Fisher for not punching young Bromley and running away.

And what would you do if you were armed with a gun, knife, axe, truncheon, blackjack, brass knuckles, or other weapon possibly considered illegal in Connecticut at the discretion of police or prosecutors and were attacked by a demented stranger? In Connecticut, you’d probably be best off by allowing yourself to be beaten to death . . .