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I recall my college days when a girl imbibed a bit too much, walked to her dorm, and entered the bedroom directly under her own on the 2nd floor rather than the 3rd. She actually undressed and climbed into bed. It wasn't until the guy whose bed it was arrived home and found her there. Sent her on her merry way.
I know it is not the same thing and a man is dead, but there is bit of similarity.
So if your son was home and a cop burst in and murdered him for being in his own apartment, you'd be cool with the cop getting five years because "she was tired"?
Everyone wants retribution for the wrongful death of a loved one but manslaughter does not result in life sentences, as mathguy said the average is about 5 years.
There are two reasons to put people in prison, the main one should always be to protect the public, that is why people who intentionally kill or maim a person get very long prison sentences- to keep them off the streets. The other reason is for punishment, and 5 years in prison is a big punishment, it disrupts your entire life, it can cause you to lose your home, your car and even your family.
I recall my college days when a girl imbibed a bit too much, walked to her dorm, and entered the bedroom directly under her own on the 2nd floor rather than the 3rd. She actually undressed and climbed into bed. It wasn't until the guy whose bed it was arrived home and found her there. Sent her on her merry way.
I know it is not the same thing and a man is dead, but there is bit of similarity.
no word about her being intoxicated but that could certainly increase her chances of making such a dumb mistake in entering the wrong room.
The guy she killed has had his life disrupted also. Permanently. In my view, the only way it's justified in killing someone is if it's self defense. I don't buy all the "I feared for my safety" lines we get fed sometimes. As a cop if your first instinct is to shoot before questioning a perp, you maybe are in the wrong line of work.
So she's going to only be charged with manslaughter?
If the roles were reversed, and a black man walked into a white woman's apartment, shot her head, and claimed it was an accident because he entered the wrong apartment. I wonder if he would get just manslaughter?
If somebody walks into my child's home and kills them, I want Murder 2 charges. To say this woman cop was "unbelievably irresponsible" doesn't even begin to capture her fatal mistake. Somebody is dead because she's an idiot.
Murder 2 may be a tough charge. Depends how good the DA is.
Second-degree murder is ordinarily defined as: 1) an intentional killing that is not premeditated or planned, nor committed in a reasonable "heat of passion"; or 2) a killing caused by dangerous conduct and the offender's obvious lack of concern for human life. Second-degree murder may best be viewed as the middle ground between first degree murder and voluntary manslaughter.
These sorts of killings occur in the heat of the moment, and don't involve any premeditation on the part of the killer. At the moment the murder occurs, the killer definitely intends to kill the victim, but up until that moment, the killer had no intent or plan to commit murder.
She could be charged with 2nd degree and intent to cause serious bodily harm. This is where the perpetrator intends to cause serious bodily harm with full knowledge that death could result from the act. The killer might not necessarily intend to kill the victim, but knows that death is a likely outcome. She could claim she was just trying to "stop" the "intruder", but knew shooting the person could result in death.
She made a terrible mistake and is going to go to jail over it. But we need to rattle the empty noggins of those who are trying to make this a race issue.
And if she had been a black man and he a white woman, he is in custody immediately. He doesn't get three days and special treatment to get his "story" straight.
I think she probably just entered the wrong apartment thinking it was hers and acted recklessly by shooting the real resident. I doubt neighbors would hear knocking and the exact words of the conversation they claim. They might've heard something but are just filling in the details.
I can hear people knocking on my neighbors doors and occasionally hear their conversations.
This is why I don't want a gun. I don't want to be one of those people who get freaked out and overreact. Now her "life is over." Her career..everything. Why, for being an idiot.
Not to mention the poor man who was only guilty of minding his own business, at his own apartment.
Such a waste. Rip to him.
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This is why I don't want a gun. I don't want to be one of those people who get freaked out and overreact. Now her "life is over." Her career..everything. Why, for being an idiot.
Not to mention the poor man who was only guilty of minding his own business, at his own apartment.
Such a waste. Rip to him.
Yep, me too. I don't want to risk my gun being used for harm.
Swimming pool, too. I'd dearly love to have a swimming pool but don't want the risk of someone drowning on my property.
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