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Originally Posted by Johnny199r
The attempt murder change relates to the 2nd volley of shots.
But as a criminal lawyer, I don't understand this verdict. If you attempt to kill someone and are successful, then doesn't it make it murder?
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His unjustified action, the second volley, never killed anything.
The case is that Yatim died in the first volley and in the eyes of the jury was justified. Extremely poor conduct for the officer to escalate the situation, but justified. Then he attempts to kill Yatim, who's dead, when he poses no threat (unjustified). Nobody dies from this action. So he attempted to kill someone but never actually killed anything in the action. Which, at least from my very sketchy understanding of the different definitions in law, is attempted murder.
It kind of feels like the Redford surplus budget: it makes sense if you walk through the details but it's silly at first glance.