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re: Brown charged with 2nd Deg murder as a juvenile?
Posted on 8/18/14 at 3:34 pm to SpidermanTUba
Posted on 8/18/14 at 3:34 pm to SpidermanTUba
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No. Especially considering the officer wasn't even aware of his past.
Any defense attorney is going to use the robbery and any past violent behavior to paint a self defense case at trial and the judge is going to let him do it.
All they need is reasonable doubt.
The prosecution needs to prove the cop was not in jeopardy, and that he shot Brown for no good reason.
All I want to know is what happened. If a bad cop killed this man for no reason, I'd vote the death penalty. But they would have to prove to me that he did the shooting on purpose and so far they haven't come close.
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Posted on 8/18/14 at 4:26 pm to doubleb
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Any defense attorney is going to use the robbery and any past violent behavior to paint a self defense case at trial and the judge is going to let him do it.
I'm getting fuzzy on my rules of evidence, but I'm pretty sure past criminal behavior is not admissible at trial. You can't use the past to prove the present.
ETA: I'm wrong! As to a victim in an assault case character evidence is admissible....I don't know how that works with juvenile records, though.
This post was edited on 8/18/14 at 4:32 pm
Posted on 8/18/14 at 5:02 pm to doubleb
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Any defense attorney is going to use the robbery and any past violent behavior to paint a self defense case at trial and the judge is going to let him do it.
quote:The answer is "it depends."
I'm getting fuzzy on my rules of evidence, but I'm pretty sure past criminal behavior is not admissible at trial. You can't use the past to prove the present.
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