I'm bothered by the fact that the jury did not have to consider whether the killing was intentional. I have a feeling that if that had been on the charge sheet the jury might have had more difficulty. There's been much talk of forty years. I hope that that doesn't drive towards a sentence that is too severe. As first-degree murder was not considered, a too-severe sentence is entirely possible. Justice will be done not by putting a man away for forty years for a killing not proven to have been intentional. It will be served by a massive effort to rid your police of what looks, from this distance, to be its rotten culture.