Reamond
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posted on April 30, 2004 01:38:39 PM new
Williams was found guilty on lesser charges and will in all liklihood do no prison time. No conviction for the actual killing. Just tampering and lesser offences.
Amazing that the jury found him guilty for tamperinmg with evidence but since no conviction on the shooting, there was no crime and therefore no evidence to tamper with.
Where do they get these juries ?
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Linda_K
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posted on April 30, 2004 02:15:30 PM new
Where do they get them from?
Normal everyday people who don't get 'passes' to be excused from jury duty because their jobs are just too important to let them off to serve. [I'd support a manditory jury duty law....so all have to fulfill their obligation to do their civic duty - with only very limited excuses for not doing so].
Anyway and without a link...I'm going off my 'cuff'.
If the jury decided his victims death was an accident....they would not find him guilty.
But if it was proven he did tamper with the body or crime scene after the 'accidental shooting ??' then he would still be guilty of that.
Re-elect President Bush!!
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Reamond
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posted on April 30, 2004 02:36:54 PM new
We have a mistrial on one of the serious counts. The prosecution hasn't decided on whether to re-try it yet.
There is no way I would trust our justice system unless of course I were a multi-millionaire.
Where is the outrage ?
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fenix03
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posted on April 30, 2004 08:28:59 PM new
So you are being an idiot and shoot someone, rather than contact te police and beig straight up about the situation you remove your prints from the gun, alter the scene, place the victims prints on the the gun and call the police to report a suicide and you get to get off on tampering charges as opposed to being held to any degree of responsibility for the death of the man? Oh well - at least the family will be able to bring his inflated ego back to earth as they sue him for every penny he will ever make in a wrongful death suit.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
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Reamond
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posted on April 30, 2004 09:21:08 PM new
Oh well - at least the family will be able to bring his inflated ego back to earth as they sue him for every penny he will ever make in a wrongful death suit.
The family settled the civil suit before the criminal trial started.
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fenix03
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posted on April 30, 2004 09:43:55 PM new
Well in that case they should sure their lawyer, you never run the civil suit before the criminal trial.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
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Reamond
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posted on April 30, 2004 11:41:13 PM new
I think they were given a ton of money to settle, and the settlement probably has a clause that the family must remain publicly silent about the case.
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Bear1949
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posted on May 2, 2004 07:05:07 PM new
With the counts he was found guilty of, he IS facing prison time of a minimum of seven years.....
"The Secret Service has announced it is doubling its protection for John Kerry. You can understand why — with two positions on every issue, he has twice as many people mad at him." —Jay Leno
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Reamond
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posted on May 2, 2004 07:40:32 PM new
The statutes he is convicted of state that there is a presumption of probation if there is no prior record.
It would be highly improbable that he serves any time.
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desquirrel
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posted on May 3, 2004 10:22:45 AM new
I hope they retry. I saw one of the idiot jurors on TV claiming they were "torn" because it was "obviously an accident".
Maybe these dopes should be forced to stay in a hotel room for 6 months watching L&O re-runs.
If you play with a shotgun and it "accidentally" puts a hole in someone's chest it IS an accident--one you go to jail for.
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Reamond
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posted on May 3, 2004 03:45:26 PM new
What Williams did at best was reckless homocide/manslaughter, and at its worst murder.
It is just another example of money buying justice.
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