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Rocknation

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7. Cyntoia was wrongfully sentenced, not wrongfully convicted
Tue Oct 11, 2022, 07:38 PM
Oct 2022

Last edited Tue Oct 1, 2024, 12:51 PM - Edit history (16)

But I am happy for her nonetheless.

The evidence instantly gutted her claim that she saw her victim reaching around underneath his side of the bed for what she feared was a gun: he was actually sound asleep with his back to her and BOTH his hands under his pillow.

What was "wrongful" was the prosecution "making an example" of her rather than leveraging her youth via a plea deal based on manslaughter, which would have provided her with motivation to reform and had her released by now anyway.


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