Source: themirror.com 11/24/25
Levi Axtell was charged with second-degree murder for the 2023 killing of Lawrence Scully, an elderly sex offender.
A judge ruled that Levi Axtell, a Minnesota father who was charged with killing an elderly sex offender, could not stand trial after ruling him incompetent.
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“The Court finds that Mr. Axtell is currently not competent to proceed because he suffers from ongoing delusions that prevent him from rationally consulting with his legal counsel and participating in his legal defense,” Judge Hanke wrote.
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Axtell was 27 when he allegedly beat a sex offender, Lawrence Scully, 77, more than a dozen times with a shovel, before killing him with a large pair of moose antlers in Grand Marais, Minn.
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According to court documents, Axtell had a decade-long fixation with a sex offender and believed that Scully had been harassing his 1-year-old daughter, a claim he was unable to prove in court.
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According to evidence introduced during an April hearing, Axtell— who did not appear in person— still believes himself to be a “hero” and that his actions were justified because there was an “imminent danger and needed to be taken care of.”
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So, permanent civil commitment for this guy?
The only apparent “imminent danger” that exists here is from the government, diligently working in opposition to fundamental law and the public safety, which it purports to protect.
ANOTHER MAN IS DEAD because of the government’s judicially blessed, unconstitutional evil plot against its citizens!
When will retaliatory emergency intervention be sought against the corrupt who created and blessed this historical hate crime being perpetrated against the people of this country?
We must have EMERGENCY RELIEF NOW!
LIVES ARE BEING LOST!
Another nail in my home state’s coffin
So he could locate, identify, stalk, keep track of and calculate deadly force, but he doesn’t have the ability to know what he is doing. Uh-huh. I bet if he was violent to the DA of judges family member to this degree he would surely be found competent to stand trial.
@TWALAW:
No, not at this stage. He is only considered “not competent to stand trial’, which is not the criteria used when determining qualification for civil committment. When the court deems someone “not comptetent” (at least in California), the defendant is sent to a state-run hospital (a locked facility), where they are then diagnosed and ‘treated’ until they are “restored to competency”, after which they are then sent back to face trial.
The media is doing some heavy lifting mental gymnastics to find a justification for this murder. They so badly want to emphasize the victim was possibly stalking the murderer’s child even though that was never proven in court and likely a paranoid delusion.
So when does this dude get sent to treatment for restoring his competency? Or is that being delayed by his attorney? He is risking getting his client civilly committed if he doesn’t get his competency back.
This is just so pissing me off these days I can’t take it anymore!
PFR, A creation of the legislature, are already deemed to be a separate “class” from the rest of society.
By definition, a non-human, hunted, “class” with its very own, unlimited hunting list/hit list, at that!
So, when do we demand to be a protected class?
Even animals are protected at certain times of the year from hunters!
We have no safe place that limits where these hunters/trackers can go.
The government announces where we are and sends the trackers/hunters out after our families!
For “the safety of the public,” mind you.
Yeah, how’s that working out!
More innocent people are turning up dead from the government’s unlawful actions than before their “public safety law” was created!
Now what?
Authorize our protected class status, or just keep abusing the power of the legislative and judicial branches to exterminate this class of non-humans and bystanders into extinction?
No registry, then no murder. Family of deceased should sue the state.
can a civil remedy be punishable with a felony
No, a civil remedy cannot be punishable with a felony. Civil and criminal legal systems are separate, with different goals, procedures, and outcomes.
what is a civil law that imposes criminal penalties called
A civil law that imposes criminal penalties is referred to as quasi-criminal law or a quasi-criminal proceeding. The term “quasi” is a Latin word meaning “as if,” indicating that the action or proceeding resembles a criminal offense but occurs within a civil or administrative context. Lucid Legal Support
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Key aspects of quasi-criminal actions include: