Courts returned guns that dad used to kill kids during visitation (Houston, Texas)

I'm a hardboiled kinda gal. You get that way when you read a lot of crime stories. I get disgusted, but seldom do I feel real anger anymore. But now I do.

I am FURIOUS with these @$$hole officials in Houston. Preening, arrogant pieces of sh**. They basically set up the murder of these kids. The evidence was all there as to what daddy MOHAMMAD GOHER was all about. Don't tell me you didn't know, or wring your hands and moan "There's nothing we could have done about it!" Whining excuses. Don't insult my intelligence.

Attorney Steven Halpert: I know you have a job to do, but you're also supposed to have certain responsibilities as a human being. You helped killer daddy get back his guns, the ones that were once the property of the courts. The ones he used to kill his kids. Happy now? And you have the goddamn nerve to tell us, after this guy slaughtered three innocent children, that Daddy was a "model probationer" and a "very nice guy"? That you never "saw" Daddy's "violent past!" You are a lying scoundrel. You have no shame. There's got to be a special place in Hell for lawyers like you. You know very well you had no problem helping Daddy set up the crime. You really didn't give a sh** as long as you got paid, and you know it.

As for the judges: It's pass the buck, time. It's not poor Judge Jean Hughes' fault that she authorized the return of the guns! If there was a problem, then the state or family Courts should have done something! Nobody ever takes responsibility for their actions, do they? Being a judge means never having to say you're sorry. It's always somebody else's fault.

It's becoming more evident every day. If you are the victim of a stalker or an abuser, the system will not help you. In fact, they will actively collaborate with the criminal who is abusing you. And then insult you with all their dithering excuses.

Hat tip to Annie.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=7683866

New details in case of dad accused of slaying kids
Thursday, September 23, 2010

Attorney: Dad thought he was losing kids
Woman: Dad accused of killing kids made threats
Police: Father shoots, kills children
Jessica Willey

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- We've learned that a gun police say a father used to shoot his three children was once handled by investigators. It's new information in a disturbing case.

The gun the father is accused of using was returned to him by the legal system. It was the same gun that was around the children for years, and there's nothing the courts could have done about it.

Mohammad Goher was still at Ben Taub Hospital Wednesday night after surviving what investigators describe as a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. They say he used the same gun to kill his three children, ages 14, 12 and 7, and that gun was once the temporary property of the court.

"It's horrifying," said Steven Halpert.

Halpert has something heavy on his mind. He was the defense attorney for Goher who saw him through a successful deferred adjudication for assaulting his wife.

"This is every human being or every lawyer's nightmare for this to happen," Halpert said. "He was a model probationer."

Halpert also helped him get back the gun investigators say he used to murder his children.

"Had I had an inkling that there was something dangerous lurking or that he would do something improper with these weapons, then I would not have signed my name to that motion," Halpert said.

That motion led to an order on June 13, 2008, from Judge Jean Hughes to return two of Goher's guns taken from him after the 2006 assault on his wife. The two weapons were a 9mm and a rifle.

Harris County investigators confirm that the 9mm was the murder weapon Goher allegedly used early Sunday morning to kill his three children inside the back of his convenience store as they slept.

"There's no fault of the judge for giving back a gun that was used ultimately in a murder here because the judge had no more jurisdiction," KTRK Legal Analyst Joel Androphy said.

Androphy says the judge was legally required to return Goher's property. Any opposition, he says, should have come from the state or family court.

Friends of Goher's wife have described a violent past that sent her fleeing to a local Islamic domestic abuse shelter. Halpert says he never saw it.

"He was just a working guy and a very nice guy," Halpert said.

But he still can't help but feel some guilt.

"If I could go back to June 12, of course; it's a nightmare," Halpert said.

Those close to Goher's ex-wife say he should have never had access to any guns and that the children were afraid of him.

Goher is charged with capital murder. The Harris County District Attorney's Office hasn't said whether it will pursue the death penalty.