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To: Cboldt

See post #166 where one witness says he was standing (with his wife) about 7 or 8 feet away... that isn’t a lot of room-for-error & depending on how things were lined-up the effective angle-difference from [from the shooter’s perspective] between the ‘target’ and the ‘bystanders’ could have been quite small.


169 posted on 07/13/2010 8:16:24 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark
-- that isn't a lot of room-for-error & depending on how things were lined-up the effective angle-difference from [from the shooter's perspective] between the `target' and the `bystanders' could have been quite small. --

Assume for argument sake that they killed two people, the intended target of their volleys, and some kid who was just in the wrong place. I think both are voluntary manslaughter.

I'm not saying a second degree murder charge is off the scale, just that I don't see a jury finding the sort of "indifference" that is connoted by murder.

174 posted on 07/13/2010 8:24:43 AM PDT by Cboldt
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