Asking someone if they're making something up is snidness?

 

Ohh, okay. I get it now...

Ohh, okay. I get it now...

 

You don't have a clue what their hiring process or training is like, you admitted you made up a comment about quotas...what good does that do?

 

We all agree she was wrong. Why is the other stuff necessary?

 

*If there was an obvious known issue with their hiring process or training academy, I would agree that it should be changed. But it's hard to say that there is an issue when we know nothing about it.

You don't have a clue what their hiring process or training is like, you admitted you made up a comment about quotas...what good does that do?

 

We all agree she was wrong. Why is the other stuff necessary?

 

*If there was an obvious known issue with their hiring process or training academy, I would agree that it should be changed. But it's hard to say that there is an issue when we know nothing about it.

 

You asked for suggestions. I gave you a suggestion. You didn't like it.

 

The quota thing, I'll fully admit to being wrong on that. I thought for sure there were hiring quotas. Turns out there is not.

 

And I don't know what you mean when you say "other stuff" unless I'm overlooking something.

You asked for suggestions. I gave you a suggestion. You didn't like it.

 

The quota thing, I'll fully admit to being wrong on that. I thought for sure there were hiring quotas. Turns out there is not.

 

And I don't know what you mean when you say "other stuff" unless I'm overlooking something.

 

Other stuff = making claims that their hiring process or training is flawed when you know nothing about it.

Other stuff = making claims that their hiring process or training is flawed when you know nothing about it.

 

Ok. Then don't ask me to make any suggestions.

Found guilty of murder this morning.

 

Thank goodness justice prevailed here. I'm glad I could be wrong about this one, especially after the news yesterday afternoon that the judge was allowing the Castle Doctrine to be considered.

 

Now let's get that life sentence.

Not shocked at the verdict in this case.

 

I'd be shocked if she gets less than in the 20 to life range.

Not shocked at the verdict in this case.

 

I'd be shocked if she gets less than in the 20 to life range.

 

She deserves life in prison without parole. Anything less is unacceptable.

She deserves life in prison without parole. Anything less is unacceptable.

 

Our Sheriff was assassinated with a high powered rifle, shooter eligible for parole at 20 years. They planned to kill him and got 20 years, she didn't plan to kill this guy. I'm ok if it's 20 to life with no chance of parole for 20 years.

Is it second degree murder?

Is it second degree murder?

 

Texas doesn't have "second degree", per se. They have:

 

Capital Murder

Murder

Manslaughter

Negligent Homicide

Texas doesn't have "second degree", per se. They have:

 

Capital Murder

Murder

Manslaughter

Negligent Homicide

 

Gotcha.

 

I'm not sure what the specifics are in each of those categories, but this case doesn't seem like a premeditated murder. But it's certainly more than manslaughter too.

 

She's probably looking at a life sentence with the possibility of parole at some point.

Gotcha.

 

I'm not sure what the specifics are in each of those categories, but this case doesn't seem like a premeditated murder. But it's certainly more than manslaughter too.

 

She's probably looking at a life sentence with the possibility of parole at some point.

 

I had to reference their definition of capital murder. These are the specific circumstances that equate to capital murder in Texas:

 

CAPITAL MURDER.

 

(a) A person commits an offense if the person commits murder as defined under Section 19.02(b)(1) and:

(1) the person murders a peace officer or fireman who is acting in the lawful discharge of an official duty and who the person knows is a peace officer or fireman;

(2) the person intentionally commits the murder in the course of committing or attempting to commit kidnapping, burglary, robbery, aggravated sexual assault, arson, obstruction or retaliation, or terroristic threat under Section 22.07(a)(1), (3), (4), (5), or (6);

(3) the person commits the murder for remuneration or the promise of remuneration or employs another to commit the murder for remuneration or the promise of remuneration;

(4) the person commits the murder while escaping or attempting to escape from a penal institution;

(5) the person, while incarcerated in a penal institution, murders another:

(A) who is employed in the operation of the penal institution; or

(B) with the intent to establish, maintain, or participate in a combination or in the profits of a combination;

(6) the person:

(A) while incarcerated for an offense under this section or Section 19.02, murders another; or

(B) while serving a sentence of life imprisonment or a term of 99 years for an offense under Section 20.04, 22.021, or 29.03, murders another;

(7) the person murders more than one person:

(A) during the same criminal transaction; or

(B) during different criminal transactions but the murders are committed pursuant to the same scheme or course of conduct;

(8) the person murders an individual under 10 years of age;

(9) the person murders an individual 10 years of age or older but younger than 15 years of age; or

(10) the person murders another person in retaliation for or on account of the service or status of the other person as a judge or justice of the supreme court, the court of criminal appeals, a court of appeals, a district court, a criminal district court, a constitutional county court, a statutory county court, a justice court, or a municipal court.

 

(b) An offense under this section is a capital felony.

 

© If the jury or, when authorized by law, the judge does not find beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty of an offense under this section, he may be convicted of murder or of any other lesser included offense.

Here is the legal definition of Murder under Texas law:

 

MURDER.

 

(a) In this section:

(1) "Adequate cause" means cause that would commonly produce a degree of anger, rage, resentment, or terror in a person of ordinary temper, sufficient to render the mind incapable of cool reflection.

(2) "Sudden passion" means passion directly caused by and arising out of provocation by the individual killed or another acting with the person killed which passion arises at the time of the offense and is not solely the result of former provocation.

 

(b) A person commits an offense if he:

(1) intentionally or knowingly causes the death of an individual;

(2) intends to cause serious bodily injury and commits an act clearly dangerous to human life that causes the death of an individual; or

(3) commits or attempts to commit a felony, other than manslaughter, and in the course of and in furtherance of the commission or attempt, or in immediate flight from the commission or attempt, he commits or attempts to commit an act clearly dangerous to human life that causes the death of an individual.

 

© Except as provided by Subsection (d), an offense under this section is a felony of the first degree.

 

(d) At the punishment stage of a trial, the defendant may raise the issue as to whether he caused the death under the immediate influence of sudden passion arising from an adequate cause. If the defendant proves the issue in the affirmative by a preponderance of the evidence, the offense is a felony of the second degree.

Here are the legal definitions of manslaughter and negligent homicide in Texas. For what it's worth, the jury did come back and ask for clarification on the definition of manslaughter, and then went ahead and opted to find guilty on the Murder charge.

 

MANSLAUGHTER.

 

(a) A person commits an offense if he recklessly causes the death of an individual.

 

(b) An offense under this section is a felony of the second degree.

 

 

CRIMINALLY NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE.

 

(a) A person commits an offense if he causes the death of an individual by criminal negligence.

 

(b) An offense under this section is a state jail felony.