Rochester, NY - Robber Sues Victims After They Beat Him
Rochester, NY - A man is suing an auto-parts store for assault and battery after he attempted to hold up the business and employees responded by beating him with a metal pipe.
Dana Buckman, 46, walked into an auto shop brandishing a semiautomatic pistol last summer, only to have it turned on him by two AutoZone employees. The men beat Buckman with a metal pipe and held him with his own gun.
Buckman escaped and was arrested a week later. He pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery and was sentenced to 18 years in prison as a repeat violent felon.
Buckman claims the men chased him out of the store and continued to beat him. He is suing the auto shop and the men for the injuries he suffered and for emotional distress. "In some respects, you wonder if a case like this even needs a defense. It speaks for itself," said lawyer Patrick B. Naylon, who represents AutoZone and the employees.
But lawyer Phillip R. Hurwitz, who represents Buckman, said the employees crossed the line by pursuing Buckman and attacking him. "The danger was past," Hurwitz said. "These two employees took it upon themselves to go after Mr. Buckman after he left the store."
Dana Buckman, 46, walked into an auto shop brandishing a semiautomatic pistol last summer, only to have it turned on him by two AutoZone employees. The men beat Buckman with a metal pipe and held him with his own gun.
Buckman escaped and was arrested a week later. He pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery and was sentenced to 18 years in prison as a repeat violent felon.
Buckman claims the men chased him out of the store and continued to beat him. He is suing the auto shop and the men for the injuries he suffered and for emotional distress. "In some respects, you wonder if a case like this even needs a defense. It speaks for itself," said lawyer Patrick B. Naylon, who represents AutoZone and the employees.
But lawyer Phillip R. Hurwitz, who represents Buckman, said the employees crossed the line by pursuing Buckman and attacking him. "The danger was past," Hurwitz said. "These two employees took it upon themselves to go after Mr. Buckman after he left the store."
posted by VOS IZ NEIAS @ 6/12/2006 09:44:00 AM
8 Comments:
At 9:51 AM,
Anonymous said…
Welcome to the Good Ole U S of A
At 9:59 AM,
Anonymous said…
nebech, don't you feel sorry for him?
At 10:00 AM,
Anonymous said…
this is a good lesson for our Shomrim Patrol to watch what they are doing
At 2:40 PM,
Anonymous said…
If the court gives this jerk and his sleazy lawyer even a dime, it will send a message emboldening robbers and other criminals and further intimidating crime victims trying to defend themselves and apprehend their attacker(s). This suit should be laughed out of court and summarily dismissed, WITH PREJUDICE (keeps the crook from trying to file the same suit again).
At 4:59 PM,
Anonymous said…
why does this remind me of Sidom?
At 7:52 PM,
Anonymous said…
Ppl, let's learn some american law here. If you get attacked by someone you are entitled to self defense. However, you are only allowed to defend yourself in the same nature of the attack. If you take it to a higher level which is unwarranted, like shooting someone dead for smacking you in the face, or if the danger of the attack passes, than they are entitled to sue you for assault.
At 11:31 PM,
Anonymous said…
I think this is all about the metal Auto Zone workers were using!
The liberals probably prefer sheet rock against the guys head instead.
Another liberal lawyer told me that since the robber was robbing a auto zone shop the workers should have used a steering wheel or something to do with a car but not a metal pipe. It's not how you hit the guy in the head but what you hit the head with!!!!!
Only in liberal America!!
I bet if this were in China the workers would be applauded.
At 12:37 AM,
Anonymous said…
Yeah! Give this poor little kid his hard earned money, it's only fair, he's truly innocent, he had to make a living from something, it's truly not his fault, perhaps he was brought up in a troubled house, & I can go on & on with this freaken liberal nonsense! & I'm sure that many people reading this article are having some kind of sympathy for him! should he rot in hell, & never see the sunlight again!!
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