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In reply to the discussion: "wrong apartment" cop is changing story... blaming victim, said he didn't follow verbal commands [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)38. At most that just serves to make a strong manslaughter case
It shows her mindset wasnt of a person who went intending to harm someone, and that intent is needed for it to be murder, but rather someone who made serious mistakes that were criminal, but not intentional, whats needed for manslaughter.
It speaks to mindset. She thought someone she was in her own home, so in her mind he should have followed commands. Her belief she was in the right apartment meant that to her it was reasonable to expect compliance. But since her belief was based on her error, what she believed wasnt what was true under the law.
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"wrong apartment" cop is changing story... blaming victim, said he didn't follow verbal commands [View all]
Demovictory9
Sep 2018
OP
Whole premise makes no sense for a non-impaired person... how do you misidentify your own apartment?
RockRaven
Sep 2018
#4
The last time I was on jury duty there was something fishy about the plaintif's case
ProudLib72
Sep 2018
#68
Why did it take three days to charge this police officer? To get the story together?
Cha
Sep 2018
#8
That work day started out at just 12 hours, but now it is up to 15. Before you know it,
tblue37
Sep 2018
#72
+1, "He didn't follow her shouted orders, so she immediately shot him? " ... and he wasn't armed
uponit7771
Sep 2018
#47
Two witnesses heard her knocking and telling whoever was there to let her in, so
tblue37
Sep 2018
#24
If it was almost completely dark,who walks around their own house in the dark
blueinredohio
Sep 2018
#32
There are witness's hearing her saying "let me in" if she that it was her apartment then why would
uponit7771
Sep 2018
#49
Keep in mind media reports of eyewitnesses accounts right after are notoriously unreliable
Lee-Lee
Sep 2018
#59
If the positions were changed and Jean shot the cop who broke into HIS home,
no_hypocrisy
Sep 2018
#36
you don';t have to follow orders of some one who charged into YOUR apartment
beachbum bob
Sep 2018
#42
The family's attorney was just on CNN, said the cop had filed 2 noise complaints against Jean.
ecstatic
Sep 2018
#63
I have had some goddamned loud upstairs neighbors. It's just how apartments are.
moriah
Sep 2018
#80
Why doiesnt she just say , he black, me that other color poster cant mention, no harm no foul
Eliot Rosewater
Sep 2018
#76