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[quote=Anonymous]I’ve watched much of the trial and am anxious for the verdict. I’m a former prosecutor and defense attorney so I bring that experience.

Miu really messed up lying to the police - I think he’s just a scared person who was afraid of the consequences but I also think he was legitimately scared of that ‘pack of wolves’ that surrounded him - a group of very intoxicated teenagers taking on a guy who is overweight, out of shape and only a year or two since he’d had open heart surgery. He described having tunnel vision and not being able to really hear what was being said to him but just being fearful for his life after they pushed him into the water twice and he fell back into the river rocks.

They shouldn’t have confronted him, and he shouldn’t have been expected to go away just because they demanded he go - the river doesn’t belong to them.

Having done criminal law for some years, I know that people act all sorts of ways and even good people can lie under the pressure of an aberrant situation. I think his lifelong good character and zero history of violence or any criminality should weigh in his favor but it will be interesting to see what the jury decides - most of them are in his age group so that may influence their decision.

I’m his age and I just spent several weeks working with kids at a youth development program and I quit after seeing some students physically assault a staff member- I didn’t want to wait for my turn. I hate to say ‘kids these days,’ but a lot of kids are feral these days and you add a lot of intoxicants and the mob mentality, that is a recipe for disaster.

I think he was truly scared. I don’t think he intended to kill anyone and was truly trying to get them to back off. It’s too bad he didn’t know better than to speak to the police and that he lied, most likely out of fear. [/quote]

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