General News Michael Dunn guilty of attempted murder, jury hung on murder

It's only the beginning for that piece of garbage.

 

The problem is that he committed second degree murder, but was charged with first degree murder. They can't ever get a conviction off that charge, because that isn't what he did. He should have been charged with one count second degree murder and three more attempted.

 

Here's to hoping he doesn't get away with it like Zimmerman did.

 

America: Where you can be found guilty of attempted murder of the three people you missed, but not found guilty of the murder of the person you actually killed.

Anyways, if he gets off of the murder charge, he's still facing a minimum of 20-75 years in prison, depending if he serves the terms continuously or consecutively (I'm hoping for the latter).

---------- Post added 15th Feb 2014 at 11:59 PM ----------

Sorry for a double post, but I just wanted to clarify something. You can premeditate something in the heat of the moment, and that's been held up by court systems before. I believe him firing four or five more shots at the SUV as it drove away is clear evidence he was intending to kill someone. Premeditation can happen in the blink of an eye, and it can be as close as the difference between one or two shots fired.

 

That seems like quite a stretch, and is probably why he got a hung jury when he clearly killed with no justification. To me, first degree it would mean he had intention to kill before he got pissed off about the music.

 

When people try to make excuses for this shit, it's sickening. How the hell are you going to get an attempted murder charge, if you killed the damn person you intended to kill?? Just another example of the value of black lives in America. And then other gay people want to look at me funny when I tell them I haven't gotten around to giving a shit about gay rights.. We're prejudice within our own. I've been black and gay for the same amount of time, and I can tell you that they don't equate to one another. Especially when you live in the South. There's nothing patriotic about me, and there likely never will be. It'd be silly for me to think I'd be able to contribute to equality for gay men and women, when there's still not equality for black men and women in this country. There's always a loophole or technicality when it comes to what's right somehow. And prejudice is a lot more elusive than racism. The evolution of hatred is definitely out there. Hopefully, he'll still get the sentence that keeps him in jail for life, but even if he goes, something tells me they'll find out how to parol his ass too in the next 10 years.

 

The reason is that the murder charge used was the wrong one. Instead of charging him for the second degree murder he committed the prosecutor tried to reach for first degree. This was a big legal stretch, and a difficult argument to make. If she had charged him with second degree murder instead, he would have been convicted on that charge.The attempted murder charges were for the other three people in the car who did not die, and those were charged as second degree, so he was convicted. It's not a matter of the jury not valuing black lives, it's a matter of the prosecutor wanting to go for the highest charge instead of the charge that fits the crime.

---------- Post added 16th Feb 2014 at 05:22 PM ----------

The best part is that she charged the three attempted cases as second degree. All four people shot at were shot at in the same incident. So, how does it make sense that one was premeditated and the others not?

 

The jury is stupid buying his words just bc the boy is black and the man is white what a shitty excuse.

 

It sucks he dodged the murder charge(and says a lot) but his racist ass is still going to prison. He better hope the Aryan brotherhood is taking applications because that's the only way he's not shived within the first two weeks.

 

Again, that is not what happened.