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… and yes, 4 year olds aren’t usually that bad but you can see it coming sometimes.

Geez…. So a Beaumont teen went to Houston and is accused of killing two teenagers. I don’t take solace in the fact that it didn’t happen here. Two teenagers are dead. Where they are from or where they were at the time doesn’t really matter. If convicted of Capital Murder there are only two punishments available, life in prison without parole or the death sentence. If this guy is guilty, let’s hope that he had already walked his last free days on this Earth.

This is my 2¢ opinion. Such shooters usually (not always) do not want to be taken alive. It is sometimes their last act of defiance. Kill as many innocent people as possible, especially if a police officer, and then before being arrested, end their life or be killed by the police so as to keep anyone from seeking retribution. It’s like, I created mayhem and killed people and there’s nothing you can do about it. Starting at Columbine, that seems to be a common motive. When Klebold and Harris figured out that they were cornered and/or had run out of easy targets, they each committed suicide. Before that the police had fired about 140 rounds. So Klebold had Harris didn’t mind exchanging fire with the police, knowing that they were eventually going to end it. In the Mildland shooting it would not surprise me either way that the police killed the shooter or (perhaps more likely) he killed himself.

It’s over. 35 years

Hours….. In Texas there is a second trial that starts immediately if there is a guilty verdict and if the defendant chooses the jury to set punishment. Both sides will call witnesses to testify on behalf of the state and defense. They will try to convince the Jury to give a more harsh sentence or a more lenient sentence. Basically it is a trial of character witnesses. It really shouldn’t last very long as both sides should be able to make their case fairly quickly. Mama will probably get up there and say my son is a good kid and he just made a mistake and other such witnesses. The prosecution will try to show bad conduct like in trouble at school, a previous criminal history, etc., and ask for significant time in prison, probably even life. The Jury, will then go back and decide what the fate of Anthony is. I don’t know what the defense will bring up however, I think the penalty range will be 2-99 years or life.

They have to (and certainly will) find a point of appeal where Anthony didn’t receive a fair trial because __________(fill in the blank). The Black women who were struck by the prosecution, faulty jury instructions, jury misconduct, evidence allowed that should have been excluded, etc.

Sure, likely to end an avenue for an appeal. Manslaughter doesn’t fit elements of what happened. Manslaughter is an accident. There was not even any evidence brought by the defense or any claim that it was an accident. I guess the judge could have allowed a class C assault for an offensive contact as a lesser included crime.

And Manslaughter doesn’t even fit the incident. They are used to other states and their various levels of murder. I have said it before, but under Texas law, to convict him of manslaughter would mean that it was an accident.

Murder one! As they say in the movies.

It appears that the verdict took less than 3 hours of deliberation, whatever that means.

The verdict is about to be announced….

The defense hoping for a White guilt liberal member of the jury. There is no plausible defense however juries can be quite idiotic. Having sat on three juries, I have heard some really strange discussions. It’s where you can’t even figure out where another person’s thought process is even coming from. In other words, juries don’t always follow the law. Going by Texas law, Anthony needed to reasonably believe that Metcalf was about to kill him or cause serious bodily injury AND Anthony did not provoke the incident.

I think it will come down to the economy. Blame may be part of it. There is a saying that all politics are local. That is probably not 100% true, but there is certainly a lot of truth in it. An example is that Nancy Pelosi in some polls has shown to be the most unpopular politician in America, yet the Democrats had her as the Speaker. The country haters her but unlike the president, she is not on the national ballot. She is only from one district in San Francisco and she wins there by landslide. Politics is local. The national news media can talk about good times or bad times but people tend to vote on what is happening in their area. Politics is local. To expand on that, the Democrats are notorious for shooting themselves in the foot with their issues and campaign strategies. They choose hills to die on like taking away firearms, having schools teach and facilitate gender change without parental consent or knowledge, throwing the borders open, etc.Nationally some of that may play well but does it play well in southeast Texas or northwest Missouri? So if the economy is down or there is some other major issue going on and the Democrats give up on their identity politics, they have a good shot at the presidency. Hopefully they will hold to their strategy like the movie Idiocracy. If it seems utterly ridiculous, do it!

And unfortunately the woman has died from her injuries.

Obviously you know very little or nothing about the US Congress, which isn’t shocking. Trump is a lame duck president now the same as Obama was for 6 years and Biden was for all 4 years. There is nothing to deal with it. Neither party can pass a law without the support from the other party unless they control the House and have a 20 seat majority in the Senate. If those two situations do not exist, every president is a lame duck president. But it sure sounds impressive, if the other person doesn’t understand it. Like……. 🤣