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Originally Posted by meritmat
Second Degree murder made no sense.
Manslaughter yes. I honestly thought he would get this. But as you said I didn't hear the evidence
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Well, again, the uncontradicted (albeit simplified) evidence was that, in the heat of the moment, he shot someone in the head at close range and killed him. Absent self defence, those facts are, in my opinion, going to result in a second degree murder conviction in the vast majority of cases.
This was one of the exceptions. Fair enough. I’m not saying the jury got it wrong.
But I find it not at all surprising that people are frustrated and angry that this case, involving a white farmer and indigenous young person, should be one of those rare exceptions (especially when viewed through the prism of the past 400 years of European-First Nations relations).