EssFo Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 I don't think I would shoot the guy. I would go Gerard Butler, Law abiding citizen on him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceGhost Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 I don't think I would shoot the guy. I would go Gerard Butler, Law abiding citizen on him. I would execute him on the spot with anything I could find, I expect to lose my freedom, divorce my wife as she should move on as I will be dead in spirit, serve my time, start to drink myself to death and live out my shitty existence alone assuming someone doesn't off me in prison before I get out. I don't see more than 5-10 years handed down for the crime. No prosecutor is going to seek a death sentence or life in prison for this murder, manslaughter may be the charge, not Murder 1 unless they find out about this post. Drug dealers and users get more time than murders these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Bastard Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 Being a father myself, I can't blame the guy for what he did. I personally don't feel that I could take another human life, but in that moment having lost his children, idk what I would have done in that situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Pomade Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 so, what do you think this guy's best chance at not going to prison would be? i know if my children were murdered right in front of me, i wouldn't be my normal self for a while. i have no problem with what the father did. One option is for him to plead insanity. I would think that you could easily argue that witnessing your children die would be sufficient enough to cause some kind of acute stress reaction that resulted in a dissociative state in which you were not really conscious of your actions or caused your thinking to be so disorganized that you didn't know what you were doing was wrongful (e.g., "I saw my kids die, and then I just kind of went into a shock, like I not inside my body anymore - I was just kind floating above it, watching things happen. I don't even remember grabbing my gun, pulling the trigger, or hearing the shots. I was just kind of numb, I guess - just there but not really there"). If his insanity defense is successful, then he will be adjudicated not guilty by reason of insanity and avoid prison. (As an aside, he could be committed to a psychiatric facility for a period of observation as well as treatment. But that's not prison.) Another option would be for his attorney to get him a favorable plea bargain. Like Ben intimated, the prosecutor on this case may be willing to "go a little easy," realizing the circumstances surrounding the event. Maybe the prosecutor agrees to a plea deal in which the defendant pleads guilty to a lesser offense - like Reckless Homicide or something - and, in return, the defendant gets time served (as, in all likelihood, he'll be in jail a while awaiting the proceedings) and has to comply with treatment (e.g., counseling). A third option is to proceed to trial and beat the case straight up. Here things like the "just world hypothesis" (i.e., the inherent tendency of people to think that people get what they deserve) and jury nullification (i.e., when a jury disregards the letter of the law and in an act of morality opts to find a defendant not guilty when the evidence would suggest that the defendant is not guilty) come into play. /copy pasta (for Ben) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KennyFKINPowerz Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 I have kids so my decision is pretty clear. Same here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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