Florida woman sentenced to 20 years in controversial warning shot case

[nehalem256]

Yes, wasted a perfectly good bullet.

20 years for that seems about right.

So your argument is you should be able to shoot at people as long as you dont hit them? :hmm:

 

[notposting]

Read about this earlier today. When you see the headline you think, "wow what an outrage!" Then you read on. She left the immediate area, then picked up a gun and came back. Then fired a shot with children present in a room in the house (not sure if adjoining) which resulted in the aggravated assault with a firearm.

Her lawyer (and herself as well since the decision ultimately is hers) should be faulted here for turning down a 3-year plea deal when you know there is a decent chance the jury will side against you (you know, because of silly things like the facts) and the ONLY sentence the judge can give you at that point is 20 years.

edit: apparently shot into the room her husband and 2 children were in. Plus the aforementioned going back to hit him while out on bond. Then pull out the race card and have people start chanting to get out of the crime. Do I have sympathy for her? Sure. Gonna suck not seeing her kids day to day for 20 years. But that's the price she pays for the decisions she made.

 

[randomrogue]

Couldn't the jury have hung on purpose to protest what was going to be a mandatory 20 year sentence? I would never have convicted somebody of this.

 

[Lemon law]

Couldn't the jury have hung on purpose to protest what was going to be a mandatory 20 year sentence? I would never have convicted somebody of this.

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Maybe exactly the problem, randomrogue, you forgot to be on the jury and this given jury did not opt for Jury nullification.

Now we have a fine kettle of fish and how to best fix it? Couda wooda, shoulda reasoning is useless now.

 

[Dari]

Judges don't have any power anymore. ALl the power is in the hand of the prosecutor.

 

[Lemon law]

Judges don't have any power anymore. ALl the power is in the hand of the prosecutor.

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Maybe yes or no, the problem is and remains mandatory sentencing guide lines.that bind all judges to stupidity.

And now we reap the stupidity we sowed. The system is working as designed, as we refuse to recognize our system is wrong.

 

[xj0hnx]

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Wrong song Jaskalas, agreed Rosa Parks did nothing wrong in 1954 to sit in a bus after paying her fair, but she did not take along a gun or fire warning shots which would have been wrong tehn and wrong even today.

Rosa Parks did nothing wrong, and our defendant did. But still we both agree 20 Years is way way way too excessive for what she did.

How to fix that miscarriage of justice should be our concern.

His analogy went so far over your head it has to dodge satellites.