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Originally Posted by transplant99
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.
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Any time a case goes to a jury there is a legitimate possibility of it coming back with either verdict, and the evidence was there to support either result.