Do you know the real story?
On the afternoon of October 21, 2024, just as this paper was going to print, the Montana AG office was forced to scrap a project that seemed designed to water down our gun laws. The office dismissed the case of missionary Jesse Boyd.
The condensed version of the story is that in November of 2022, Boyd and his family were walking on a road in Cameron, Montana. This walk was part of a much larger endeavor: to walk 8,000+ miles across America with a large wooden cross to share a simple message; we have a spiritual problem here in America.
That cold and snowy day, a man named Brad Terrell objected to the cross and proceeded to threaten and then violently attack Jesse. When the Madison County police arrived, instead of arresting Terrell, they arrested Jesse and his family, charging them with assault with a deadly weapon. Between the threatening and the attacking, Jesse had pulled his gun to protect himself and his family and then prematurely put it away.
For two grueling years, Montana AG Austin Knudsen and Acting Assistant AG Thorin Geist have been trying to pick apart Montana Code 45-3-100, better known as the stand-your-ground law, by saying that Jesse didn't have the right to point the gun at Terrell.
Fortunately, Judge Luke Berger of the 5th District Court issued a statement saying that the law is clear and he will not be part of any effort to rewrite this law from the bench. In an effort to not waste further resources on a trial, Judge Berger had given the AG office until Tuesday, October 22, 2024, to dismiss the case. And that, fortunately for Jesse and all Montanans, is what happened.
Much more of this story needs to be told and to that effect, this will be done.
But for now, Jesse Boyd, his family, and his new Montana friends have committed to preserve our Constitutional rights; breathing a collective sigh of relief that the malicious prosecution track of this story is over.
Stay Tuned....Read the full story in the next edition of Truth Be Told News.
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