Senseless. Only goes to show that no matter how much athletic talent some of these guys have to advance themselves in life that you can take the man out of the gang but you can't always take the gang out of the man.
I hope they have the death penalty in Georgia.
A major sports figure getting the death penalty ...I definitely think that would serve as a wake up call for a lot of athletes. Killing a mom in cold blood and it's not even the right person? That's about as straight forward as you get
He didn't mean to kill the woman he actually killed, but he DID want to kill someone. So what is that? Murder 2? 3? Manslaughter? Murder 1? Georgia is a death penalty state but Crittenden won't get it.
When you intentionally mean to kill somebody, but kill somebody else, that's murder. Whether it's murder 1 or murder 2 depends upon specific state law, and will be related to premeditation, etc.
The victim shouldn't matter, as the intent "transfers" from the intended victim to the actual victim.
And since he opened fire, the assumed intent is always to kill, right?
No always, but in this case most likely yes.
However, let's say you mean to fire a "warning shot", and hit somebody that you didn't know was in the background. There's a very good argument that something like that is manslaughter, although some states might also consider it murder under their statutes (i.e., depraved indifference in NY, etc.)
Here, though, the prosecution's theory is that this was an attempted revenge killing. If they can prove that, they'll prevail in a murder prosecution.
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