Nah, she's going to use the girls will be girls defense. |
You can make that argument all you want but the prosecutor dismissed the murder charge. |
For now |
Although I wish otherwise, it’s not coming back. The USAO is a joke. Doesn’t care about victims unless they look differently from this victim and live in different neighborhoods. |
Because going easy on Black criminals is the top priority of the DC criminal justice system. Sorry about your mom, but some things are more important to your government. |
To be fair, that's untrue. The USAO doesn't care who the victims are. The real victims are those apprehended by the so-called justice system. |
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I’m not surprised if this criminal is going to only get a slap on the wrist for carjacking and killing a woman.
DC, these are the people and policies that you have voted in. What a shame. |
I think you’re probably right and in a civil wrongful death suit, the family would likely win under the lower evidentiary burden (but minimal damages because the victim was retired). But the prosecutor hears the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt and with no evidence one way or another about when the victim died, it would be hard to make that case. Might depend on what the daughter said — eg if the daughter said the mom was still conscious and trying to speak seconds before the car was stolen, that’s a good case. If the daughter said her mom was unconcsxiius at the time, or that she’d been gone from the car for several minutes trying to get help and couldn’t say what happened …. That’s probably a case that gets dismissed by the judge or reversed on appeal. |
| If the woman had passed, she may have had a chance of being revived with immediate medical attention. If she was passing, she may have died of fear. Has anyone stopped to think how traumatic it would be to be carjacked in the middle of a grave medical event? |
Matt Graves and his office prosecute fewer crimes than any other D major city. Don't take my word for it, it's all documented at https://x.com/dccrimefacts. Biden needs to be pressured to move Graves and replace him. |
The USA is a fed appointee, and his staff are feds. None of them were voted in by DC residents. |
Baltimore, Chicago, Philly, NYC all would be likely to be prosecuting this case to the fullest, but not USA Graves in DC. Stand by, they may drop the remaining charge or plead it down further. |
+1 It wouldn't even be a hard case. The people in this thread pretending to be lawyers don't know what they're talking about. |
I am not joking when I say that I doubt that this woman does any time at all so long as she does not commit another violent crime while on pre-trial release. The system here is basically everyone gets a couple freebies if you can control yourself or not be dumb enough to get caught for six months. |
And yet, Brian Schwalb was voted on by DC residents and he’s also soft on juvenile crime at a time when there is an epidemic of juvenile crime in the city. |