gitana1
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IMO I started out thinking criminally negligent homicide was the least punishment she would receive. Where I'm at now, I don't believe it is a harsh enough punishment. I doubt the jury will find for murder, but she deserves that verdict. I guess manslaughter would be a compromise. It makes me sick that she will be able to have a gun someday.
All I can say is her antics after the killing make me see her as a ruthless, selfish and heartless human. I think one has to be super vested in finding her to be a victim to find otherwise. That's really my feeling. It's not close to normal.
And I know- people often have sex and drink while grieving. Even when their own child dies. The sex is a way to grasp at life and the drinking is to numb oneself.
But joking? Casually texting about it? Cutesy flirting and sexting? No one can convince me a normal, empathetic human who is devastated by what they've done would "grieve" in that manner.
That really changed things definitively for me as far as my perception of her.
I still wouldn't go for murder though. I don't think the crime fits. I sense there's more to the elements than in the statute.
I also feel murder should be reserved for those who kill die to a depraved heart and the desire to harm another for reasons other than defense. Even if the killer is unlikeable and otherwise depraved.
We have to have levels.