Posted on 12/15/2023 10:32:59 AM PST by V_TWIN
CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. - Hannah Payne, the 25-year-old woman found guilty in the death of 62-year-old Kenneth Herring in Clayton County, will spend the rest of her life behind bars with a chance of parole.
Payne, handcuffed and wearing her prison uniform, was overcome with emotion as Judge Jewell C. Scott sentenced her to life in prison with the possibility of parole plus eight and five years to be served concurrently.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox5atlanta.com ...
Horrible story.
I’m sure she never thought she would be where she is now.
*Cue Nelson Ha Ha*
If her story is accurate, I wonder how this would have played out if the roles were reversed?
If her story is true, then this is not justice.
Yeah, you do - if you run into the wrong cop.
This "prosecutor" lies like a rug. "minding his own business", indeed.
Steer clear of Clayton County, Georgia.
“If her story is true, then this is not justice.”
Multiple witnesses said her story wasn’t:
“the jury heard from witnesses that she chased Herring down and punched him before pulling the trigger ... Witnesses also told the court that Payne brandished her hip-holstered gun, threatened to shoot Herring twice and “immediately” did so.”
Nasty piece of work, aren’t you.
You gloated over people dying on another thread, post removed, and now this.
If what she says of the incident is true your comment is simply trolling.
what ever possessed her to get involved?
he did not hit her car, and she’s not police.
I have my standards of which people to hate and which ones to idolize. And you will not order me to idolize Rashid Buttar.
Wonder if a dashcam would say differently.
Had a kid run a red turn arrow and take the nose off my car.
His friends who weren’t at the scene claimed otherwise.
Witnesses can and have been wrong.
Didn’t say anything about you having to idolize anyone.
Being a decent human being, that’s different.
Each case is unique and I don’t know how deserved this sentence might be.
But I can say that if a criminal commits a crime, the police may or may not be interested, prosecutors may not may not want to get involved. A lot of time, criminals are just sent on their way.
HOWEVER — if a citizen ever tries to get involved and tries to make sure a criminal is punished in some way ... then the Justice system will spring into action and stomp on that citizen good and hard.
As I say, in this particular case, I don’t know who was right and who was wrong. But I know the government hates helpful citizens a lot more than it hates crooks.
I read the article. I would not have convicted, based on the article.
Exactly
Security guards (not police) are told to observe and report. Get physically involved only when someone’s life is in danger.
Seems like good advice for the average citizen as well.
The government, in general, views itself as master rather than servant. The government, as master, thinks it holds a monopoly on the use of lethal force and the enforcement of law. ("Keeping the peace" is so 10 minutes ago ...)
Any act on the part of a citizen subject that might possibly be construed as threatening or questioning either the government's mastery, or its monopoly on force, becomes in government's mind an existential threat to the very existence of government, and must be quashed with extreme prejudice.
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