If she murdered the guy, dumb ass, she should be executed.......I disagree with the politacally motivated sentence....
Again.....you fail to tell us...what was her motive for murdering the guy who lived in the apartment that was directly above or below her own and her statement she got off on the wrong floor...
Why did she murder the guy? That you refuse to answer that basic investigatory question shows the political nature of the prosecution and verdict.
This should be overturned, and reduced to manslaughter.
The sentence was inappropriate. She should be going away for life
For what?
Do you honestly think she intentionally sought this guy out and shot him just for kicks?
For murder...which she was convicted of.
Dunno. I do know she was convicted of murder. And, like the first post, I think she should go away for life because of it. Sorry...if you start this whole business of making excuses for people based on what you think their intent was...you have to do it across the board. Ready to do that for every gang banger?
“Officer...I thought it was my house. I lost my keys and had to break the window to get inside”.
"if you start this whole business of making excuses for people based on what you think their
intent was"
Intent is a prerequisite in nearly
every criminal proceeding. It is on that basis that the appropriate charges are determined. Forget the "conviction".
Murder is an unjustified and
intentional homicide. In order for a murder charge to even remotely make sense in this case you would need to prove that she specifically wanted to kill this man and deliberately sought him out to do so. Now call me crazy, but I'm guessing a friggin COP of all people has the knowledge, training, and foresight to set up a much more convincing scene than "oops, I went to the wrong apartment" if their intent was to murder someone and get away with it.
The position of the defense is far more plausible. It was late, she was tired and distracted by her phone and went to the wrong floor/door in a multi-unit apartment building where everything looks similar. I believe this because
I've done it myself, as I'm sure thousands if not millions of others have done. You seriously cannot tell me a similar situation has never happened to you. Have you never walked out of Walmart to your vehicle... and then realized it's not your vehicle but one that looks almost exactly like it and yours is across the aisle?
So she starts to enter what she thinks is her apartment, sees someone inside, freaks out and fires. That is negligence, NOT murder. She did not go home that night with the intent to kill someone. A manslaughter charge is deserved, a murder charge is a complete mockery of the criminal justice system.