A New York judge sentenced a woman who pleaded guilty to fatally shoving an 87-year-old Broadway singing coach onto a Manhattan sidewalk to six months more in prison than the eight years that had been previously reached in a plea deal.

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    10 months ago

    Eight and a half years for the senseless murder of one of our society’s most vulnerable citizens.

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      10 months ago

      Legally speaking you’d have a hard time prosecuting that as murder. You’d have to prove that she was intending for the old lady to die when she shoved her. I’m guessing she was charged with some combination of second degree assault and manslaughter, maybe more. She was facing up to 25 years and took a plea deal for 8, which I assume included part of the charges being dropped.

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        10 months ago

        Not as long as that person is going to be dead.

        If you can’t control your anger and you attack random people on the street, you belong behind bars.

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        10 months ago

        A random angry act is knocking a sign over, kicking a garbage can, punching a wall. NOT killing someone