Is America burning? (Black Lives Matter protests, civil unrest and riots 2020)

[David Clapson]

Sky News earlier predicted 10 years for 2nd degree murder with no prior convictions.

 

[Ax^]

bail revoked


handcuffs on

 

[Calamity1971]

No bail off ya fuck.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

Unintentional my arse. Should be first degree murder anyway.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Sky News earlier predicted 10 years for 2nd degree murder with no prior convictions.

Can be up to 40, can’t see 10 going down well on the street.

 

[Idris2002]

Honestly if I had the choice between firing squad and lethal injection, I'd take the firing squad every time. Lethal injection is proper pseudomedical horror-show stuff, it contains ingredients that paralyse you while the others slowly kill you. It's designed to look not so bad from the outside while containing the brutality within the condemned. Fuck that, at least the firing squad is more honest about it.

My gran's cousin who had to execute his best friend by firing squad in 1922 would disagree with you.

 

[David Clapson]

His intention must have been torture or murder. Difficult to prove which.

 

[Orang Utan]

Hopes and prayers that the filth don't riot over this

 

[FridgeMagnet]

 

[glitch hiker]

Can he (i fucking hope not) appeal? IOW, can he and his tie this up in the courts for years?

 

[teqniq]

Phew. Right result.

 

[Orang Utan]

Can he (i fucking hope not) appeal? IOW, can he and his tie this up in the courts for years?

he can

 

[A380]

That’s a result then.

 

[David Clapson]

Can be up to 40, can’t see 10 going down well on the street.

I may well have misremembered. The Indy says the minimum is 12.5. But then they're not unknown to make mistakes.

Under Minnesota sentencing guidelines, for a person with no criminal history, each murder charge carries a presumptive sentence of 12 and a half years in prison, while manslaughter has a presumptive sentence of four years.

However, prosecutors are also seeking a sentence that goes above the guideline range citing several aggravating factors. If jurors convict Mr Chauvin, it’s expected they will hear arguments about these aggravating factors and decide whether he should receive an increased sentence.

 

[Cloo]

The right result, but as many have pointed out, we should not have had to have been on the edge of our seats about it.

I did reckon they'd call guilty given, y'know, the video evidence of Chauvin choking him to death for 9 minutes, but you never fucking know, especially when police are in the dock.

 

[David Clapson]

Multiple sources saying 12.5 is the minimum, but the state will ask for more.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Yup. Right answer.

Been watching the trial on CourtTV over the last couple of weeks. Very upsetting in places.

 

[Ax^]

The right result, but as many have pointed out, we should not have had to have been on the edge of our seats about it.

I did reckon they'd call guilty given, y'know, the video evidence of Chauvin choking him to death for 9 minutes, but you never fucking know, especially when police are in the dock.

aye its sad that this is an exceptional case, when their are so many people who have suffered violence and lose their life to the police service in the united states

until this is norm nothing has changed

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Channel 179 on Sky if you have it for Court TV

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Multiple sources saying 12.5 is the minimum, but the state will ask for more.

I think 25 will be closer. Not sure when sentencing takes place, often in the US it is quite a while after a guilty verdict, like months.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

I think 25 will be closer. Not sure when sentencing takes place, often in the US it is quite a while after a guilty verdict, like months.

Sentencing is 8 weeks off. Remanded. No bail.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Fuck that guy



shrugs

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Three people killed by filth in the US every single day. A day!!!

 

[cupid_stunt]

Channel 179 on Sky if you have it for Court TV

Or, Freesat channel 177, and Freeview channel 89.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

They reckon up to 40 years combined on what I am watching right now. If the aggravating factors come into it and the judge decides they are relevant these will crank the sentence up to 40. Two Thirds behind bars and 1/3 on supervised parole.

Oh - do they run concurrently!? Or the other one where they add them together (I forget).

 

[David Clapson]

Still hard to believe that we saw a close-up video of a man being slowly murdered. And amazing that Chauvin wasn't deterred by the camera. When police kill people in future they'll be sure to hide it.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Jesus - grim

 

[hitmouse]

Worth remembering that all of this, from the decision to prosecute on, was the result of the mass movement in the streets. Without that, it'd just be another Darren Wilson.

 

[David Clapson]

They reckon up to 40 years combined on what I am watching right now. If the aggravating factors come into it and the judge decides they are relevant these will crank the sentence up to 40. Two Thirds behind bars and 1/3 on supervised parole.

Oh - do they run concurrently!? Or the other one where they add them together (I forget).

New York Times is already talking about 40.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Meanwhile, in Alameda