Posted: Thursday, October 15, 2009
Article comment by: Tina Willet

I hope the jury does the right thing and finds Bratcher guilty in the first degree. It was obviously premeditated since he went to store and bought the guns & ammo before hand. His wife/girlfriend at the time should've been charged as an assessory to murder. She went to the store with him. I knew Jose, don't know either Bratcher or his wife, but sounds to me she used rape as an excuse. This is Grant Co so am not real optimistic about how this will end!

Posted: Thursday, October 15, 2009
Article comment by: Erika Saul

WOW. All I have to say is at least this jury and this judge now made it known to this county that you can get away with anything!!Lots of people have post tramatic stress,half of grant county does so guess that means anyone can kill anyone and its ok cause they were STRESSED!!!!


Posted: Thursday, October 15, 2009
Article comment by: Shelley Bezona

Regarding Jesse Bratcher's verdict....let us not forget he bought a gun the day before and confronted him the next day. That is premeditation not PTS!


Posted: Thursday, October 15, 2009
Article comment by: Jaime Saul

This verdict is an embarassment to our county, and to our soldiers. Being depressed, PTSD or not, does not justify murdering another person in cold blood. I think two days of planning rules out a temporary moment of anger. Why isn't this girlfriend being held accountable for her involvement in all this? She had 24 hours to stop this from happening and did nothing. she should be charged as an accessory. It's an outrage.
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MY POINT
  A personal observation from my point of view. Some of the comments speak about premeditated acts. I see this as uncontrolable obsession.  I have obsessed over people who have wronged me for months at a time. I have obsessed about killing them,  Patroled their house after dark, reconed their family, their work, their vehicles. This is not rational thought. This is compulsive obsessive behavior. I have done this for years without knowing I was doing it. Self medication was the only thing that kept me from killing.. It was more than 30 years after Nam befor a shrink told me what I was doing.  Befor this I didn't know how it started or where it came from.

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