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“I'd like to call Mr. Baumgardner to the stand.” Douglas interjected.
Robertson explained that as counsel for the commonwealth. Baumgardner couldn’t be called upon to testify.
Douglas argued that Baumgardner has some type of relationship with Pejer Marx, the victim in the shooting. "I’d like to know what that relationship is.”
The judge replied that Wednesday’s hearing was not the proper forum in which to explore the question.
Douglas repeated that he wanted a suspended sentence with reasonable conditions, specifically “the right to leave society." He insisted that he will not cause problems for Marx or anybody else but still stated that “I'm very proud to have done what I did. I stood up for right when nobody else would do a thing.”
Payne, court-appointed counsel for Douglas, noted that his client’s earlier conviction for breaking and entering grew out of a domestic difficulty when Douglas tried to see his exwife.
Likewise, his 1974 conviction on three counts of attempted murder came after Douglas spotted his ex-wife in a car and attempted to run her off the road, according to Payne. In both instances, he added, Douglas has paid for his crimes.
In ruling Douglas legally sane and imposing the jury’s sentence of 15 years, Judge Robertson noted that the defendant will receive credit for the time he's already spent incarcerated on the malicious wounding charges. "The court sincerely hopes you make parole," the judge concluded.
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