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Originally Posted by brassmonkey
well when he said "they always get away with it" i think it switch from manslaughter.
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Hmm, I can't agree there. I think that's one hell of a huge jump to take it he intended to kill the guy, whether he meant 'black' or 'burglar' or 'criminal' in the context of 'they'. I could no way convict someone of murder over manslaughter on that point - it isn't evidence, it's opinion, and second-guessing when it comes to the clinical business of going by evidence only is a dangerous thing, imho.
Which, really, negates my own statement of even doing the bloke for manslaughter - you absolutely cannot 'prove' genuine self-defence, nor lack of it.
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Originally Posted by brassmonkey
im no lawyer so i really dont know which way it will go. I suspect they will just let him slide. some people will be killed in random areas some things burned and life will move on.
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Maybe so, and that's just humans being too fucking stupid to understand that the whole point of civilised trials is to *prove*, beyond a reasonable doubt (any doubt is reasonable, again, imho) absolute guilt. No probablys, no maybes, etc, but 100% rock solid proof
