To: SmithL
Sad story but a very poor article about it. There was no information about what constitutes first and second degree murder in Tennessee or any information on why the jury may have picked second instead of first? Maybe this was one of a set of articles, so this one provided the human interest part rather than the facts of the case, in which case I could excuse it. If it was the only article about the trial it just has a huge gap in it.
2 posted on
02/20/2009 12:32:11 PM PST by
KarlInOhio
(On 9/11 Israel mourned with us while the Palestinians danced in the streets. Who should we support?)
To: KarlInOhio
Apparently in Tennessee, the trial was for murder. The jury voted 11 for guilty, 1 not guilty. If all 12 voted guilty, the charge would’ve been 1st degree. Since there was one not guilty, it became 2nd degree murder.
8 posted on
07/10/2023 12:57:23 AM PDT by
MoeH
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