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Originally Posted by valo403
How was a guilty verdict not within the realm of possibility? This was anything but an open and shut case in either direction, there was a very real chance that the jury could have returned a guilty verdict and there was a sufficient basis to support it.
And sorry, the local police conducted a poor initial investigation. I'm not sure why it offends you so much to have someone point that out.
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No there wasn't....not even close.
In fact it was so far from a possibility of 2nd degree murder, the prosecutions last minute hail mary to allow lesser charges fell on deaf ears with the jury.
Had they treated this as a negligent manslaughter case from the beginning, its possible that we may have a different outcome, but the initial charges were so far from what lined up with the evidence available, they were doomed to fail from day 1.