Evidence presented during trial, including threatening messages posted by Snow on social media saying “we gonna get her,” demonstrated Carr and Snow were planning to attack Joyner-Francis, Coonin said.
The ruling is unlikely to have much impact on Carr’s sentence. In June, Carr was sentenced to six months at a secure residential program for female youth near Wilmington.
Carr was also found guilty of conspiracy under Croonin’s ruling. That conviction will stand, but Thursday’s Supreme Court order directs the Family Court to resentence Carr based only on the conspiracy offense.
The Supreme Court disagreed with Coonin’s interpretation of what Carr could have expected to result from the fight.
“(Joyner-Francis’) death, from cardiac arrest, was simply ‘too remote’ from the hazards of (Carr’s) conduct and ‘too accidental in its occurrence’ to transform what (Carr) did from a physical attack into criminally negligent homicide,” the opinion states.
Six months for conspiracy to commit felony murder?
This is why we have school shootings.