Trial Starts In Pahrump Murder case

Last year, a punk kid in Pahrump decides to do his bidding of his girl friend who was in jail for a family fight.  Despite being warned many, many times, the punk kid goes to the house, refuses to leave, even when told to do by the property owner and despite a warning shot.  So, the father does what he has to do to protect his family and ends up shooting the punk kid.
From the Pahrump Valley Times (mind you, this article was written by Matt Ward, who already has shown he has bias against the defendant, so what is written may or may not be true)
“I didn’t know you, and I am so sorry. I tried to stop you. I told you to get off our property,” jurors heard the 911 recording of a hysterical woman, captured on tape apologizing to the young man her husband had just shot and killed.
It was just after 1:30 a.m. in the early morning hours of Aug. 18, 2011. Chris Mundy, 21, sat in a borrowed car in the driveway of a Pahrump home on Benson Circle, bleeding from a bullet wound to his neck.
“I feel a pulse. Chris! Chris! Stay with us Chris! Oh my God. … He’s bleeding from the head. The side of the head,” Kathie Robbins is heard telling the county police dispatcher.
Prosecutors on the opening day of the Daniel Robbins murder trial played the 911 call before calling their first witnesses....
Daniel Robbins’ defense attorney Arnold Weinstock summed up the matter in his opening on Thursday.
“The testimony will tell you again, and in some salty language, that Daniel Robbins made it clear he was not welcomed at their house, not to come. If he does come, Daniel Robbins will do what he needs to do. And you will see Facebook messages from Christopher Mundy basically saying, and I’m paraphrasing, Christopher Mundy saying ‘I don’t care, you don’t scare me,’” Weinstock told the jury.
The attorney asked jurors to note that Mundy showed up in a car, late at night, pulled into the Robbins driveway and sat there with the headlights on and car running as the events unfolded.
“You couldn’t see who was in the car. You couldn’t see how many people were in the car. You couldn’t see what, if any, weapons the people in the car had. It was dark,” the defense attorney said. “Testimony will tell you Kathie Robbins got out, and yelled, she screamed ‘Get out! Leave! Get off our property! Go! . . . That’s what a normal, rational, reasonable person would do.”...
Prosecutors used the opportunity to press the defendant’s wife about her role in instigating the confrontation with Mundy.
It started with a Facebook friend request from Mundy on Aug. 16. The reply Kathie Robbins returned started the events toward their tragic end.
“Do not contact me. I don’t know and don’t care to know you. You are nothing but garbage to my family and if you were any kind of man, you would leave Jennifer until her family situation is settled. How dare you take her away from us,” evidence submitted in the case revealed.
Mundy’s response was not so personal, though Weinstock suggested it amounted to a besmirching of the Robbins as parents.
“That’s fine, but alas, I’m not the one who put her in jail hahah, so-called parents. You know what’s so funny, I never took your daughter away from you, last time I checked she was 19. When are you going to get it through your thick f**king head she left on her own. Yeah I’m not perfect, but who is? Looks like you’re not either. It takes a lot to put your own child in jail, crazy sh*t. You and your whole family can think what they want about me, I’m not going anywhere,” his reply to Kathie Robbins reads.
Kathie Robbins’ response is too vulgar to reprint here. She essentially curses him out and tells him to drop dead. It’s apparent not only that Kathie Robbins is angry about Mundy contacting her but also about his relationship with her daughter.
 Deputy District Attorney Tierra Jones started off the trial with her opening argument, a concise rendition of the events leading up to Mundy’s shooting death.
Mundy was killed after driving to the Robbins home in an attempt to soothe what had become a torrent of hateful back and forth messages between himself and his girlfriend’s parents. His girlfriend, then 19-year-old Jennifer Robbins, had called Mundy from jail that night and asked him to retrieve her car and belongings from her parents’ house.
“Chris attempts to reach out to his girlfriend’s mother, Kathie Robbins, on Facebook. He sends Kathie a Facebook friend request. Kathie responds to that friend request with animosity, foul language and harsh words to Chris. But Chris ignores that and he goes and he doesn’t respond. A couple of days after that, you are going to hear testimony that Jennifer called Chris from jail and Jennifer told Chris, ‘I need somebody to go over and get my car and get my things from my parents’ house.’ And Chris, being her boyfriend, agrees to do this for her. In the process of Chris attempting to get this done, he again contacts Kathie Robbins on Facebook,” Jones told the jury. “He sends Kathie Robbins a message and again Chris is met with swearing, name calling and animosity.”
Later in Jones’ opening, the prosecutor describes how Daniel Robbins gets involved in the online confrontation.
“Now the defendant joins in the Facebook conversation. The defendant gets out of bed, gets on his own Facebook page and he starts making a confrontation with Chris on Facebook, he’s engaging in the name calling, foul language and animosity on Facebook. Chris says to Kathie and the defendant that he’s on his way over to their house. He’s in Pahrump and he’s on his way over to their house. Kathie responds and tells him, ‘I will have the police waiting for you.’ But, that is not what happened. When Chris arrived at that house, the police were not waiting for Chris.
“An angry, enraged Daniel Robbins was waiting for Chris when he got there,” Jones told the court.  http://pvtimes.com/news/murder-trial-opens-with-chilling-911-call/
One thing is very clear is this: the victim is a punk kid who, during a family crisis, decided to get himself involved and by doing so, aggravated the situation.
And he did this to please his girlfriend, who was sitting in jail for a family fight.
If the victim, Chris Mundy, stayed home and let things cool down, he would be alive today.  That cannot be disputed. 
He made the choice not to go home and now he is dead.  That is not the fault of the defendant, Daniel Robbins.
When Mundy did go to the property, he knew he was not wanted at the house and even after a warning shot to his car, he still refused to leave.  Had he left, he would still be alive today, but he decided to be a punk kid and do the bidding of his girlfriend.
Now, could have Robbins handled the situation different?  Sure, but if a person who you have never met before, after being told not to come over, then decides to come over to your house uninvited and then refuses to leave, even after a warning shot, what would you think, as a parent and owner of the house?  Robbins didn't know if Mundy was armed, he didn't know what Mundy's intentions were and he felt like he had to protect the family.
If he is convicted, it will be a travesty of justice, unless there is additional evidence that we have not seen.