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Originally Posted by wazu
Pfft, whatever. Dude was waving a loaded gun around that he owned and it blew somebody's head off. In what world do we accept that as just an accident, no charges filed? That is ****ing ridiculous.
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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.)