Especially if the cops were already in the past called to his house over complaints of brandishing firearms and firing his weapons.
That will destroy him at trial, if it’s admitted.
The one thing that I don’t like about our justice system is that past history can’t be taken into account. I understand the trial should just be about the particular crime and judgment of innocence and guilt based on the evidence for it, but when it comes to sentencing, if the guy has a history, he’s likely to do it again.
I hear of too many stories where the guys violent past or record are hidden from the jury and when they find out, they’re ticked because they weren’t sure and gave him the benefit of the doubt. They said later if they had known, they wouldn’t have. Then the guy goes out and kills someone later.
Likely his past will get out somehow or other. No doubt the people living in the area know of him if he’s been like that.