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Showing Original Post only (View all)In your opinion, what is Darren Wilson guilty of? [View all]
What (if anything) do you believe Wilson should have been charged with?
I tend to come down on the side of Voluntary Manslaughter. I think a black kid first sassed him, then frightened him.
He had a gun, and believed he was operating under the color of law, so he used it, unlawfully in my opinion.
Embarrassed, scared, and trigger-happy is a combustible mixture, particularly in a cop.
43 votes, 2 passes | Time left: Unlimited | |
Murder 1 (Premeditated, with malice) | |
2 (5%) |
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Murder 2 (With malice, but not premeditated) | |
15 (35%) |
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Voluntary Manslaughter (Heat of Passion) | |
16 (37%) |
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Involuntary Manslaughter (Negligent homicide) | |
2 (5%) |
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Nothing | |
8 (19%) |
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2 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided. | |
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He committed homicide, the things on your poll consider homicide's legal qualifications
HereSince1628
Nov 2014
#10
There is no exact number of shots where justifiable homicide suddenly becomes murder
Lurks Often
Nov 2014
#26
The question the grand jury had to answer was not whether he was guilty, but whether there were
Mass
Nov 2014
#18
Probable cause exists for a Murder 1 indictment based on the final two head shots, which
KingCharlemagne
Nov 2014
#25