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Teen turns down 25-year prison offer, laughs in court as he is sentenced to 65 years in murder case
New York Daily News ^ | 04/06/2019 | David Boroff

Posted on 04/06/2018 12:41:30 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

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1 posted on 04/06/2018 12:41:30 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd
65 Years??

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2 posted on 04/06/2018 12:45:20 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

I have a problem with the mental gymnastics involved in charging someone with murder who did not in fact commit murder. Charge them with the crimes that they actually committed, no less, no more.


3 posted on 04/06/2018 12:46:52 PM PDT by rednesss (fascism is the union,marriage,merger or fusion of corporate economic power with governmental power)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Is sixty five more than twenty five?

/s

4 posted on 04/06/2018 12:46:52 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Build the Wall, with flamethrowers and machine gun nests.)
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To: rednesss

They were charged with being an accomplice to murder. Yes, that’s a thing.


5 posted on 04/06/2018 12:48:05 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Build the Wall, with flamethrowers and machine gun nests.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Savages.


6 posted on 04/06/2018 12:49:20 PM PDT by Noumenon (It isn't racist if it's true, is it?)
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To: BipolarBob

Maybe not if you’re using “afrocentric” math


7 posted on 04/06/2018 12:49:39 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Are you saying that's too much time?

Personally...I think they should hang um.

8 posted on 04/06/2018 12:50:06 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: Responsibility2nd

65 years at roughly $30,000 / year = $1,950,000

That is housing costs alone. No medical, no legal, no rehabilitation, no education, no training, nothing “extra”. Just housing this low life. Should have given him the death penalty but the only problem with that is that it is even MORE expensive.

Our legal system is seriously screwed up.


9 posted on 04/06/2018 12:50:53 PM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt)
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To: rednesss

He committed Felony Murder.

From Wiki....

There are two schools of thought concerning whose actions can cause the defendant to be guilty of felony murder. Jurisdictions that hold to the agency theory admit only deaths caused by the agents of the crime. Jurisdictions that use the proximate cause theory include any death, even if caused by a bystander or the police, provided that it meets one of several proximate cause tests to determine if the chain of events between the offence and the death was short enough to have legally caused the death.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_murder_rule


10 posted on 04/06/2018 12:52:08 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

Typical feral loser. What a waste of taxpayers’ money to keep him alive.


11 posted on 04/06/2018 12:53:25 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Looks like biggdogg is about to become *sunglasses* little bitch. Yeeeeeeeeeeah


12 posted on 04/06/2018 12:54:03 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters ("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
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To: rednesss
The charge is "felony murder". Perhaps a better name for the crime could be devised, but basically felony murder is a [felony] charge used against people who share the responsibility for another person's death, even though did not actually do the killing.

As Whoopi Goldberg might say, it's not murder murder.

13 posted on 04/06/2018 12:54:20 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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14 posted on 04/06/2018 12:55:13 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: rednesss
Kinda have mixed emotions about that...myself.

But I don't think these boys were innocent.

And this dumbass showed us...what he thinks of law and order...such as it is.

15 posted on 04/06/2018 12:55:23 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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Keyword... http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/felonymurder/index

Seems to be plenty of articles where “teens” are guilty of felony murder. Even if they didn’t pull the trigger.


16 posted on 04/06/2018 12:55:26 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: musicman

LOL!!!


17 posted on 04/06/2018 12:55:52 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: taxcontrol

Just the fiscal cost to our society for this kind of dysfunction/feralness is astronomical. And it’s the gift that keeps on taking as it’s passed down from one generation to the next.


18 posted on 04/06/2018 12:56:04 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: rednesss

“I have a problem with the mental gymnastics involved in charging someone with murder who did not in fact commit murder. “
Hey cool it...we got a four-fer out of it.


19 posted on 04/06/2018 12:59:10 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: rednesss

My understanding of their law is that the dead kid was with this kid and 3 others all committing a burglary when the cops showed up. Dead kid decided to go out shooting and fired at the cop who put him down. Because this kid died during the commission of the crime, the other kids were charged with murder.

Do I think its fair? No, but they explained the law to him in the plea bargain but his lawyers either couldn’t get him to take the deal or they said they would be able to beat that rap. I’m sure it was a public defender.

I would have brought up that each party was acting in their own self interest during the burglary and when confronted by the cops gave up except the dead kid. The actions of the dead kid were his alone and he knew the possible outcomes. Another point is if it was murder than how did the cop get off, since the cop didn’t murder the kid but used justifiable means to stop the threat.

But at the end of the day, don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time...


20 posted on 04/06/2018 1:02:37 PM PDT by shotgun
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