[Ikeon]

You are on the jury, What would you do?

[oldasrocks]

Hang the guy. If he was on dope it’s his fault.

[TheZMan]

Given what you have posted, I’d have A work off a debt to the wife and kids, followed by life in prison. This doesn’t feel like death penalty.

[Larry Lucido]

Send you to remedial English.

[Reno89519]

As a query, are you from the US? In the US we list money with the $ first. Maybe you are a foreign troll?

[Tea Party Terrorist]

You’re racist if you want A to get the DP, because A is black.

You’re racist if you don’t want A to get the DP because that proves you don’t care about black lives, in this case B.

Either way, whitey, you’re racist.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Meth. It’s always meth.

[Red Badger]

Guilty, of manslaughter, as charged.

He shot thru the door, not intending to kill, but he did...........

[bk1000]

Murder? Perhaps not as much as some version of manslaughter. There was stupidity involved, to be sure, but it does not sound like the intent was to kill B.

[Windflier]

You are on the jury, What would you do?

I'd fine the reporter for the crime of illiteracy.

The dollar sign goes before the number.

[Haiku Guy]

It is murder.

A reasonable person would think that firing into the door, when you know somebody is standing behind it, can result in the death of the person behind the door.

Whether or not the shooter is in a self-induced altered mental state is irrelevant. He is responsible for his mental state and for what he does while he is in that state.

He knew his friend was behind the door, and he shot into the door four times. No question. Murder.

[cuban leaf]

Life in prison. Not as punishment but to protect everyone else from him.

I see this as similar to what we do when an animal kills someone. We put it down. In this case, life in prison would be the equivalent.

This guy should never walk among us. Ever.

[DannyTN]

Lessons learned:

• Don't buy your drugs from Mr. A.
• Don't be friends with Mr. A.
• Don't owe Mr. A.
• Don't shrug at Mr. A.
• Get a bullet proof door.
• Don't sell drugs
• Don't sell drugs to your friends including Mr B.
• Get paid up front for your drugs.
• Don't make collection calls on friends with a gun.
• Don't pull a gun on a friend.
• Hire a collector.
• Don't fire a warning shot through a door where someone is.
• Don't fire a warning shot over $30.

[SamAdams76]

Never talk to the police. Nothing good ever comes from it. Nobody has ever been exonerated by talking to the police. But many innocent people have been convicted by unwittingly getting tripped up during a police interview.

Always go to a lawyer when you are asked by the police to come in for questioning and say NOTHING. The police will often act like it's no big deal, you know, we just want to ask you a "couple questions" to clear a few things up. More often or not, you end up in that interrogation room for hours and you will leave that room in handcuffs.

So when the police say they want to ask you a couple of questions, you are already a SUSPECT or a PERSON OF INTEREST in the investigation.

Haven't you ever watched Columbo? The TV show with the kindly looking disheveled man in the raincoat? He looks like a man you can trust, right? He looks rather harmless does he not?

But the man is a shark! He is going to disarm you with his casual, friendly demeanor and lay his traps. Just when you think the interview is over, and you put your hand on the doorknob to leave the room, Columbo will raise his finger and say "Just one more thing..."

It is then that you know you are screwed. For when Columbo has that "one more thing" kind of question, you are now one commercial break from going to jail!

Jail!

So clam up and lawyer up.

Any policeman worth his salt will tell you that. But some people, they just have to run their mouths...

[9422WMR]

A,B,A,B, oh what BS!!
Who wrote this crap?

[Bartholomew Roberts]

$30

[TheBattman]

Friends (true friends) don’t shoot friends over a $30 debt. PERIOD...

[Ikeon]

the eye opener to this whole thing for me was the jury was split for a couple of days. And it wasn’t racism. It was 2 different sets of personal experiences with both sides never bothering to let go of their own beliefs to try and understand what the other side was feeling or seeing in the whole situation. We all need to get along to get along and putting yourself in someone elses shoes means you have to empty your mind if your own beliefs and really really relax and listen to what someone esle is saying. Black folks from rural areas are used to some things white folks never experience and white folks from white neighborhoods never had to deal with a black person whos gone off the rails. Black jurers saw this as mostly normal waving a gun around when theres drugs and money involved and figured the guy didnt mean to kill his friend. Theres a guy who killed his best friend by doing something totally stupid. Blacks dont want this guy running free. but theydont see the death penalty as necessary in the case of ann over reaction to a challenge from the deceased. They see the dead mans family and the killers family seeing the whole situation move along to a sad conclusion. whites on the jury saw the whole thing in reverse. A man is dead, lets find the killer and question him, have a trial and then we’ll decide what to do with the murderer. It wasnt racism, it was 2 different ways of looki g at the whole.

[HamiltonJay]

Its clearly murder...

Wanton disregard for human life... That’s murder.

Discharging a firearm in the direction of a human being, whether you think the wall between you will stop the bullet or not is depraved indifference.

Its not 1st degree murder, but it is murder.

If the perp had even a remotely good lawyer he would have worked a plea deal.....

[PAR35]

Second degree murder or whatever they call it in that jurisdiction. Not a death penalty case by any stretch of the imagination.

If the dude behaves in prison, he’ll probably be out in 12 to 15 years. (He’s going to do more than the minimum because it was drug related - parole board will probably take that into account and pass his first couple of tries at parole.)

[USS Alaska]

What would you do?

Get person A a 357 magnum, then he'd only have to use one round.

Who cares what two meth heads do?