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Originally Posted by BktBallRef
How in the world can you charge a person with manslaughter when he puts a gun to someone's head and pulls the trigger? How in the hell is that premeditated murder?  |
I agree, with one caveat....if they charge him with 1st degree murder, then the evidence ends up suggesting something less it is hard to go down in the charges without a plea bargain. However if you start at manslaughter it is pretty easy to move the charges up as the evidence comes in.