Posted on 06/23/2022 12:15:50 AM PDT by Morgana
We never had problems with kids being left in cars until the government mandated putting them in the back seat because of airbags.
Just another example of how government turns everything it touches to crap.
You are correct, but most here can’t emotionally get past the horror of a dead baby. If prior bad acts were admissible generally, even a reformed felon would face a high risk of being convicted, not on the evidence presented on the crime being tried, but because he had committed one or more crimes in the past.
Eligible for another trial, won’t the next jury already know what they’re saying was inadmissible?
Seems a bit wasteful of the court’s time to me.
Sorry, I agree that he should get a new trial.
The prosecution overreached with the “murder” charge.
His pathetic sexual behavior should NOT have been allowed at trial.
Retry him for something (manslaughter) that they can get a legitimate conviction on, sentence him to the MAX, and let prison kill him.
Some lifer will get justice for the little baby.
“Father, 41, sentenced to life in prison for 2014 hot car death of his baby son...”
Sorry, misuse of the word “father”.
Should have read “sperm donor”, 41, sentenced to life in prison for 2014 hot car death of his baby son.
That's an excellent point. When I was a baby, I always sat in my mother's lap in the front seat. Pretty hard to forget about me in that situation!
I hate to say it but it's entirely possible to innocently forget about your sleeping baby in the backseat. People are just absentminded. A while back, I forgot to close my sunroof and the interior of my car got drenched by a passing thunderstorm. Not on par with forgetting about a sleeping baby but a pretty absent-minded thing to do nonetheless. Another time, I drove away from a gas station with the pump still attached to my car because I went in to get a coffee and forgot to detach the pump before driving away. That was fun to deal with.
Years ago, a neighbor of mine was packing his car for a trip and had the baby and babyseat on top of the car. He thought his wife put the baby in the backseat and his wife thought he took care of it. So they backed out of the driveway and the baby and babyseat slid off the car as they headed down the street. 911 was called and the entire neighborhood emptied into the street.
Fortunately no serious injury in that case but the couple was never the same after that. It was a very shameful experience for them and within a year, the house was put on the market and the family moved elsewhere.
Except that what if he were motivated to kill his son due to his deteriorating relationship with his wife? Why should such evidence be suppressed?
But it's also possible to maliciously murder a child this way and make it look like absentmindedness.
So much for juries getting to hear the WHOLE truth.
Justin Ross Harris, 41, was sentenced to life in prison for the death of his 22-month-old son, Cooper, who died in 2014 after being left in a hot car for seven hours.
Leaving his toddler in a hot car for seven hours !!!!
Who cares if he was sexting some hottie? This was a heinous crime.
Usually the child is asleep, the parent forgets the child is in the car and realizes they forgot them after it’s too late.
I was always terrified I would do that. So I put a baby blanket in the passenger seat as a reminder my boy was in the back. I don't know if I would have ever actually forgotten him, though.
The left loathes a constitutional republic which is in principle, an inherently stable system due to it's systems of checks and balances. While it is theoretically possible to outright overthrow our system of government, it is far easier to destroy the system they loathe if it is first systematically destabilized. This is why everything the left has done over the past century has served in some way to chip away at, and erode the underpinnings of our Constitution. This is Gramsci's Long March through the Institutions.
Coddling criminal furthers their goal on several axes:
1. Taking deviants out of their cages and putting them back in society at large creates fear, panic and chaos.
2. Taking the blame off of the individual criminal and blaming society for their deviance cultivates calls for the society to be changed.
3. Undermining and corrupting the justice system shakes people's faith in the system, ultimately leading to the call for a new system...a, "great reset," if you will.
Of course it's not just the criminal justice system the left has been working at, but also the financial system, education, media, religion, etc.
The scary thing is that most participants are willing participants focused on a single lane thinking they will be making the world a better place (be they a criminal defense attorney, kindergarten teacher, progressive minister, etc.), and fail to see they're simply a useful idiot within a larger movement.
Get it now?
I will disagree.
From my observation these types of cases are rarely NOT cold blooded murder.
I know, you will whine at me about how the poor parents are just so overwhelmed by their desire to do some activity that it is perfectly reasonable that they forgot their child.
Save it.
Somehow they managed not to "forget" their purse, briefcase, or stupid phones.
>> was sentenced to life in prison for the death of his 22-month-old son
Life for manslaughter/negligence?
Curious how many pro-aborts think a life sentence is justified.
No, we didn’t. You make a good point. Never had to wear a bike helmet as a kid either. I came home from school as a kid, came in the front door and went out the back and was told “Be home by supper’’.
The America we grew up in vanished.
I think your theory makes more sense than anything else.
We’re i the mother, I’d have the solution on speed dial.
I like the way you think.
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