Life or Death?

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

Re: Life or Death?

You know he will get off on mental defect.<br />He lost touch with reality for a split second and forgot what he was doing and where he was at.

 

[roscoe]

Re: Life or Death?

Juan Manuel Alvarez, 25, is charged with 11 counts of murder, including a special circumstance'' of the intentional act of a train derailment,...<br /><br />Gonna be darn hard to prove premeditation, and even harder to prove the intentional derailment part.

 

[pjc]

Re: Life or Death?

but according to an account I read, he stood back to watch the train hit his suv. I do understand that he may have had no idea of the result that would occur from his suv being hit by the train. Thus premeditation is hard to prove.<br /><br />Circumstantial is an important word here imo.<br /><br />Precedence from Scott Peterson being convicted on circumstantial evidence is important. We will see in Feb if Peterson gets death...and how that may impact the sentence that Alvarez receives.