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ClayGuida posted...

I personally don't think it was fair when the judge refused to allow gun charges or his prior and post actions to be addressed during the trial.

Motive wasn't allowed to be established and that alone taints the trial for me. You can disagree, and that's perfectly fine, but I think a trial for murder should absolutely allow evidence of intent.

"I wish I had my gun" shouldn't have been dismissed by the judge. Hanging out with known white supremacists shouldn't have been dismissed. If that was indeed him on video beating the shit out of a teenage girl, that should have been allowed at the trial. Not to mention dismissing his charges of illegally obtaining a gun, crossing state lines, then using it in the act of a crime.

I hadn't been back to this topic, so sorry for the late response. I can certainly understand your POV. Those incidents could go towards his personality but also, it's not the same situation (beating a girl still makes him a coward in this case.) And apparently the gun was legal, otherwise they really should've went with Felony Homicide.

I was thinking they should've went for a lesser charge, personally. Proving intent wasn't going to happen with the video footage of him actually retreating. That's what made it a self defense claim. He wasn't the aggressor in the situation.