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Thread #168020 Message #4102867
Posted By: Steve Shaw
20-Apr-21 - 08:06 PM
Thread Name: BS: Black Lives Matter - change on the way?
Subject: RE: BS: Black Lives Matter - change on the way?
Well we can all have opinions about that horrid nine minutes, but I can only go from what the jury was asked to consider. First-degree murder was not on the charge sheet, and the strongest charge was unintentional second-degree murder. I worry that the talked-up expectation of forty years, if not met, will lead to unrest. Alternatively, that a too-severe sentence may be given under some pressure because of that talking-up.