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On July 4, 2003, William Burden and an accomplice tried to rob a Deerfield, New Jersey, home, but a gun-owning resident interrupted their plans. On December 9, 2005, Burden was finally sentenced after being found guilty of that crime. At the sentencing hearing, it became clear how significant the actions of that gun owner, Robert DuBois, were.
In court, Burden bemoaned the fact that DuBois had armed himself, and had not answered the door, when Burden and a cohort, Howard Dunns, were preparing to invade the home: "I wish they had answered the door. Had they done that, me and my boy would have gone on our way." According to the Daily Journal, he also added, "Maybe it wouldn't have brought down all these other burglaries and stuff I didn't commit on me.... I'm going through a terrible situation because of all these charges I'm facing." The other "charges" that Burden was referring to and that so bothered him were the crimes the police charged him with after DuBois caused him to be caught.
In 2003, DuBois refused to answer the door when Burden came to the ...