Originally Posted by wazu (Post 17460556)

I believe it was an accident. An accident is still majorly illegal. Manslaughter or something.

The murder we're charging people with at the parade was an "accident". She wasn't the intended victim. Bullet hit somebody it wasn't supposed to.

Originally Posted by DaFace (Post 17460558)

You can believe that. That doesn't mean you can prove in court to the point that a jury will unanimously believe it, too.

Originally Posted by DaFace (Post 17460534)

I feel for them, but if people got charged for guns going off accidentally, Dick Cheney would be in jail. They would have had to prove that the guy was acting negligently, and it sounds like they didn't have the evidence to do it.

Originally Posted by wazu (Post 17460560)

Maybe, but it sounded like the undisputed facts of the case were pretty open and shut.

Originally Posted by DaFace (Post 17460550)

The article says someone in the car said it was an accident. If you don't have evidence of negligence, you can't get a conviction.

I know it's easy to blame prosecutors for stuff like this, but their job is to press charges when they think they can get a conviction - not to waste the court's time.

(I sat on a jury trial that never should have been brought to trial a year ago. Was it likely there was negligence involved? Yep. Could they prove it? Not anywhere close. It was a giant waste of time, and even the judge was clearly frustrated.)

Originally Posted by DaFace (Post 17460550)

The article says someone in the car said it was an accident. If you don't have evidence of negligence, you can't get a conviction.

I know it's easy to blame prosecutors for stuff like this, but their job is to press charges when they think they can get a conviction - not to waste the court's time.

(I sat on a jury trial that never should have been brought to trial a year ago. Was it likely there was negligence involved? Yep. Could they prove it? Not anywhere close. It was a giant waste of time, and even the judge was clearly frustrated.)

Originally Posted by mr. tegu (Post 17460570)

His cousin said it was an accident. You trust him as an impartial witness? The article also says there was video of him waving it around. Obviously this moron was being negligent and playing gangster.

Also, this person doesn’t have a mental health problem. It’s a cultural (sub culture) problem that no amount of mental health services will fix.

Originally Posted by DaFace (Post 17460566)

Even if he was waving the gun around, the article makes it sound like it went off when he was holding it in his lap, so the waving isn't necessarily even material.

Originally Posted by staylor26 (Post 17460574)

LMAO

DaFace has Reddit brain...

Originally Posted by DaFace (Post 17460583)

(Not so) fun fact to the point I'm trying to make: only around half of murder/manslaughter cases in the U.S. even lead to an arrest, let alone lead to a conviction. It's REALLY hard to get convictions for stuff like this.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...ype-in-the-us/

Originally Posted by staylor26 (Post 17460589)

Yes Kyle Rittenhouse was charged when anybody with half a brain could watch the videos and see a clear case of self-defense.

Bullshit excuse from somebody that clearly lives in an echo chamber.

Originally Posted by wazu (Post 17460586)

It's even harder to get a conviction when you won't even press charges after getting a confession. Very low success rate.