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That's a pretty light sentence for 375 murder attempts and threats.
by saghm 2y ago
That's a pretty light sentence for 375 murder attempts and threats.
- nomilk 2y agoNot to mention the opportunity cost: victims of real violent/urgent situations who couldn't access timely protection, as well as the cost to society of perpetrators who marginally escaped while law enforcement were occupied tending to fake call outs.
- leoqa 2y agoHe could face local charges in those jurisdictions? Does double jeopardy prevent each county seeking their own sentence?
- wavemode 2y agoYes, they can't charge him again for the same physical act. His federal guilty plea appears to admit to 375 swatting calls. So I don't think the state or local courts can subsequently charge him for any of those calls - they would need to find evidence of some separate calls.
- aidenn0 2y agoIANAL, but some googling suggests you are wrong about that: https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/blog/federal-crimes/is-it-double-jeopardy-to-charge-someone-in-state-and-federal-court/ https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/blog/federal-crimes/is-it-doubl...
- wavemode 2y agoYou're right, I stand corrected.
- pluc 2y agoIt's only attempted murder because American SWAT is trigger happy, equipped literally like an army and shoots before asking questions or establishing context, that's hardly his fault.
- lupusreal 2y agoIt's his fault if he knows his actions may result in the targets death and does it anyway. "It's hardly my fault the police doused pluc with gasoline, all I did was throw a match"
- pluc 2y agoIf you have smart police officers who do smart police work this is a mild annoyance at best. Not trying to defend him, but SWAT is just as guilty as he is.
- lupusreal 2y agoAFAIK the swat teams involved in the OP incidents didn't kill anybody, so they more or less did their jobs properly. Nonetheless, the intent was there; this guy committed hundreds of attempted murders.
- everforward 2y agoI agree that he is complicit, but I find it hard to view him as solely culpable for a death. If a child feeds law enforcement false data, and law enforcement then kills someone, both parties should have known better but I have much higher expectations of our law enforcement than a teenager. The kid needs to be punished, but that doesn’t change the fact that we have a glaring hole in our law enforcement procedures so large that even children can exploit them. That’s insane. Children are always going to do dumb shit, we need to have policies and procedures to guard against that.
- gsck 2y agoEquipped like an army, unfortunately not trained like one.
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- coding123 2y agoThere are at least 30 countries that would apply the death sentence for that.