The sisters’ attorney said the women were acting in self-defense and that the counts of attempted murder amounted to “overcharging.” The attorney said the fact that Jayla Hill was recording the incident with her phone as proof the sisters did not intend to commit a crime.
The sisters’ attorney said the women were acting in self-defense and that the counts of attempted murder amounted to “overcharging.”
I read a case once in law school. At the time the California Supreme Court (under Rose Bird) was finding any rationale for overturning the death penalty. The case involved a conviction of capital murder for some guy who stabbed his girlfriend a hundred time with an ice-pick. The California Supreme Court reversed the conviction on the reasoning that if he “randomly” stabbed her that many times, he must not have had an intent to kill. Right then is when I realized how screwed up our judicial system is. And that was 40 years ago.