A man shoots and kills his 6 month pregeant girlfriend and receive only a 10 yr. sentence for invoulentary manslaughter. Do you think this is a fair sentencing? I DON'T. Also he received a 10 yr. probation sentence for drug charges. How much time do u think he'll have to spend in prison?
2006-06-25 02:45:59 · 32 answers · asked by just_me_wonderin 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
In his defense he says he was trying to kill his self and she was trying to save him only to have killed her and their baby in the struggle over the gun. Either way you can't bring them back
2006-06-25 02:54:41 · update #1
I guess it would depend on the facts of the case. Involuntary manslaughter is usually the verdict if the death was some sort of an accident. I was at a Friends house one time, he was cleaning a gun that went off accidentally. It shot another friend of mine thru the leg, but it was an accident. Granted he wasn't practicing ideal firearm safety. If it was accidental the ten years would be enough. Hard to say not knowing the facts.
2006-06-25 02:52:29 · answer #1 · answered by johnkmayer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He should have gotten 25 years. Rules are different in other states, some states are stricter than others, but I am sure that they all have the same guidelines to follow,when it comes to prosecuting a murderer.
Simply said, he is a murderer, here in my state, he would have gotten 3 years for using the gun in the comminssion of a crime, and about 15-25 for murder.
He will get a little bit of goodtime, i'm sure, but after about doing 7 of those years, they may take a look at letting him out. Nothing is fair it seems at times.
2006-06-25 02:50:56 · answer #2 · answered by xzenea_z 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have faith in Judiciary. The judiciary has system which works to protect the innocent and in the process sentence the guilty. U and Me do not know what has actually happened and the judges and the police officers have everything in their control to go through the facts and with these facts and figures the judiciary acts. We, as a people, have invented this system and let us follow this system. Elsewhere in the world it is really dangerous.
Beheading, Rape of innocents who go for food from Government NGOs in Africa, Trafficking of humans, Kidnapping of Children, etc. etc.
2006-06-25 03:15:58 · answer #3 · answered by tnkumar1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is exactly what is wrong with our legal system.
If you have enough money you can get away with murder! Look at O.J. Simpson.
Anyone with half a brain knows that he killed his wife, now he is roaming free because he had enough money to hire the best attorneys and the jury was gutless!
That man in your question shoud serve ZERO TIME!!!
It should be like China...
Put a bullet through his head...and make his relatives pay for the bullet!
Instead we pay for his attorneys, his meals for the next ten years, his medical expenses...then he is let go..
To commit even more crimes!
That is insanity!
We let criminals out to do more crimes.
Sexual preditators convicted of child molestation...out to what?
Rape another child?
and another?
Possibly yours...hell no!!! Once is too much.
2006-06-25 02:53:07 · answer #4 · answered by Dave 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe that is not far at all....first off ten years is way too short second off he killed two people..the baby was 6 months which meant that it has been more then just a pennant but has evolded into a baby therefore in the eyes of the law it should be counted as two people dead because of him..10 yrs!! it should havebeen more like life
2006-06-25 05:20:05 · answer #5 · answered by samantha1989 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell no. He sounds like a worthless being, certainly not worthy of life. He should just be put to death or left in prison to die. A person like this can not be rehabilitated. He can not be "fixed" or taught a lesson from being in prison. I feel sorry for the woman's family who gets the slap in the face from this pathetic excuse for a sentence.
2006-06-25 02:52:07 · answer #6 · answered by gypsy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, the law is an ***. In America (where else) a shop owner shoots a would-be thief dead (a 16year old) and gets a suspended sentence. Same day, an African American shoots a dog dead and gets two years. Makes no sense.
2006-06-25 02:49:26 · answer #7 · answered by Ya-sai 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Six or seven years with good time I would imagine. Doesn't sound like a stiff sentence. What's he say? He was cleaning the gun and it went off? Obviously the court went under the assumption his killing her wasn't (or couldn't be proven) to be intentional.
2006-06-25 02:51:24 · answer #8 · answered by Quasimodo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know all the facts of the case, and I doubt you do either.
You said he was sentenced to involuntary manslaughter, well that's a world away from murder. So unless I knew all the facts it is hard to say.
2006-06-25 02:51:15 · answer #9 · answered by ZCT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that is fair. It was murder of two human beings. That is horrible, he should get life on prison. I don't know how it's involuntary, but I don't know the whole story. Was it somehow an accident? Either way, its just not right.
2006-06-25 02:48:54 · answer #10 · answered by tmac 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋