re: Dunkin’ Employee Fatally Punches Man who Used Racial Slur, Charged and Sentenced

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So what's an ideal punishment in your view, setting all the hypocrisy, etc. arguments aside?

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They were originally looking at a manslaughter charge, right? I'd assume that's because it's what most closely fit the facts of the case. Are there similar cases in the jurisdiction where a 20 something man hit a 70 something man and killed him? What were those charges? I'm fine with this mirroring those.

I think they let the "word" get in the way of what would have otherwise been seen as a fairly regrettable but serious felony. At the end of the day, a guy assaulted another guy and the result was the second guy's death. This was not done in self defense...it was done out of anger at words.