Can someone explain the “second-degree murder” charge? If you can’t merit a first-degree murder charge by be-heading someone, then the standards for murder are being set impossibly high!
simple, 1st degree needs to be "planned", clearly this guy walks around all the time with his machete w/o incident, must have been a war tick or something that made him swing.
It’s not the method. It’s the thought process. Generally first is premeditated, thought of well in advance. Second is spontaneous, but also usually purposeful. It’s the third that they start getting really unclear.
I was thinking the same thing! If this isn’t first-degree murder I don’t know what is!
Just praying it doesn’t get pled down to involuntary manslaughter, or probably jaywalking.
“Can someone explain the “second-degree murder” charge?”
He might get a shorter sentence than Dereck Chauvin.
Compromise. They didn’t really want to charge him at all.
First degree is premeditated.