You wouldn’t get 40 years for shooting at a convenience store. Yoy wouldn’t get anywhere close to 40 years for child molestation.
No indeed. But such actions would cast some doubt on one’s mental stability. Which is the avenue his attorney should have tried.
No; but you *might* get 40 years for shooting at the conv store when the story is that you are pissed off at something else. The problem; that act screams “out of control, with a gun, danger to society.” At least to me, it does. I’m not advocating one thing or another, but I could see a judge finding maximum alarm from such an act.