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Dustlawyer

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2. I was jury foremen in a trial where the long term boyfriend broke into the apartment of his recent

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Sun Dec 6, 2015, 09:40 AM

Dec 2015

ex-girlfriend (just as he told everyone that morning he would) and shot and killed his girlfriend. Her 8 year old son came out of his bedroom to see him standing over her with the gun. At trial he admitted that if he couldn't have her, no one would. He expressed sorry for her family and we sent him to life in prison where he still is today some 15 years later. He will be in his 70's before he is eligible for parole.

What a waste! Instead of spending $50,000 per year to lock him up, why don't we spend the money on the front end to work with these abusers and at least try to break the cycle since usually they usually come from an abusive home?

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I don't know any of these women and yet I am in tears -Love You to death [View all] malaise Dec 2015 OP

kick . . .n/t annabanana Dec 2015 #1

I was jury foremen in a trial where the long term boyfriend broke into the apartment of his recent Dustlawyer Dec 2015 #2

+1,000 malaise Dec 2015 #3