DBTrek wrote:Hmmmmm.
StA's reasonable doubt still sounds like jail to me.
"C'mon, man. He's just a schizophrenic who can't help but run people over when startled" sounds like a conviction waiting to happen.
Jail for what? Trying to escape imminent bodily harm or death? The law is supposed to charge the violent offender with the deaths and injuries that result from his crime. That's what felony murder means.
Whenever cops get into a firefight with somebody on the street, and innocent people are killed (even if by the cop's own bullets), guess who gets charged. It's not the cops. It's the criminals who started the firefight.
If you attack somebody in their vehicle, and they freak out only to crash into somebody else, that's YOUR fault.
And your characterization of him simply being "startled" is ridiculous. A large crowd of masked individuals armed with deadly weapons attacked him. Let's all admit to that fact. We can all see it on video, and yet the police have not felt the need to hunt down a single one of them.