The state attorney says his office determined there was insufficient evidence to file a murder charge in the death of a woman fatally shot through a door. She is charged with manslaughter.
Charging Lorincz with murder would require prosecutors to provide evidence of hatred, spite, ill will or evil intent toward the victim at the time of the killing.
The alleged shooter told detectives that she called the victim’s children racist slurs in the months leading up to the slaying, admitting that she used “the n-word.”
Fucking pathetic. She should spend the rest of her life behind bars.
aiming a firearm at the door, and pulling the trigger is legally insufficient to prove depraved mind.
That’s my favorite part. Yes, because totally rational, normal human beings who aren’t Danny DeVito just start blasting. Nothing to see here. What a clown show we’ve become.
Her lawyers would probably argue something along the lines of how she was in fear for her life at that moment. Yes, that’s BS. But an important part of criminal law is the “beyond all reasonable doubt” part, and if her lawyer can create reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury that she really didn’t want to kill someone then that’s enough to get her off on that charge.
Frankly, I’d prefer the legal system to err on the side of caution and innocence. Even when the person on the stand is “obviously” a terrible person. It’s easy for the media to depict someone as a terrible person even when they’re not, so let’s account for that situation before we account for the situation where she really is a terrible person.
Manslaughter’s got the possibility of a lengthy sentence, let’s see how that goes before we write the justice system off completely.
See, she was a racist piece of shit who hated blacks up until the day of the shooting but since she wasn’t overtly racist while she murdered the children’s mother it’s okay, they let those things go in Florida. What they don’t let go is things like letting people of color knock on doors in order to have conversations between adults.
Manslaughter with a firearm and assault, its not the charges we want but they will almost certainly be proven and she will go away for a long, long time.
I wouldn’t be so quick to call a system “sick and twisted” when it encourages prosecutors to only pursue charges that they feel are open-and-shut rather than aiming for the worst possible charge when there’s actually doubt about the outcome.
There have been studies that indicate that the preventative nature of the justice system (ie, the extent to which it makes people who are about to commit a crime think to themselves “maybe I shouldn’t do this, in case I get caught”) is enhanced far more by the perceived chance of getting caught and convicted rather than the severity of the punishment that gets meted out. If someone’s standing ready with their gun and deciding whether to pull the trigger they tend not to think to themselves “will I get 10 years in prison or 30? If it’s 10 I’ll take it, 30 is too much.” They simply think “what are the odds I will face significant punishment for this at all?”
A lot of these racist assholes walk around thinking they’re completely entitled to start blasting, that nothing will happen to them or that they’ll be considered heroes. I would much prefer them to start thinking “I’ll definitely get 10 years in prison if I do this” than for them to think “I might get life in prison, or I might walk Scott-free.” Because these sorts of people will tend to assume the Scott-free outcome, since they work so hard to justify their asshole thoughts to themselves they’re likely to think others will also find them justified.
Fucking pathetic. She should spend the rest of her life behind bars.
That’s my favorite part. Yes, because totally rational, normal human beings who aren’t Danny DeVito just start blasting. Nothing to see here. What a clown show we’ve become.
Her lawyers would probably argue something along the lines of how she was in fear for her life at that moment. Yes, that’s BS. But an important part of criminal law is the “beyond all reasonable doubt” part, and if her lawyer can create reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury that she really didn’t want to kill someone then that’s enough to get her off on that charge.
Frankly, I’d prefer the legal system to err on the side of caution and innocence. Even when the person on the stand is “obviously” a terrible person. It’s easy for the media to depict someone as a terrible person even when they’re not, so let’s account for that situation before we account for the situation where she really is a terrible person.
Manslaughter’s got the possibility of a lengthy sentence, let’s see how that goes before we write the justice system off completely.
Florida jury. Florida judge.
See, she was a racist piece of shit who hated blacks up until the day of the shooting but since she wasn’t overtly racist while she murdered the children’s mother it’s okay, they let those things go in Florida. What they don’t let go is things like letting people of color knock on doors in order to have conversations between adults.
How is bringing charges that will carry up to 30 years in prison “letting things go”, exactly?
Manslaughter with a firearm and assault, its not the charges we want but they will almost certainly be proven and she will go away for a long, long time.
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I wouldn’t be so quick to call a system “sick and twisted” when it encourages prosecutors to only pursue charges that they feel are open-and-shut rather than aiming for the worst possible charge when there’s actually doubt about the outcome.
There have been studies that indicate that the preventative nature of the justice system (ie, the extent to which it makes people who are about to commit a crime think to themselves “maybe I shouldn’t do this, in case I get caught”) is enhanced far more by the perceived chance of getting caught and convicted rather than the severity of the punishment that gets meted out. If someone’s standing ready with their gun and deciding whether to pull the trigger they tend not to think to themselves “will I get 10 years in prison or 30? If it’s 10 I’ll take it, 30 is too much.” They simply think “what are the odds I will face significant punishment for this at all?”
A lot of these racist assholes walk around thinking they’re completely entitled to start blasting, that nothing will happen to them or that they’ll be considered heroes. I would much prefer them to start thinking “I’ll definitely get 10 years in prison if I do this” than for them to think “I might get life in prison, or I might walk Scott-free.” Because these sorts of people will tend to assume the Scott-free outcome, since they work so hard to justify their asshole thoughts to themselves they’re likely to think others will also find them justified.