Seattlest: Brown Pleads Guilty To Traffic Circle Murder

Weazul

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:37:06 -0800

I wasn't too sure myself but the simple words seem to make this a case of voluntary manslaughter. I think he feels guilty, he did the whole going and turning to god in fear and turned himself in.. anyway I'm just another useless comment on the web but here is something useful. Voluntary manslaughter occurs when a person intentionally kills another person after "adequate provocation"; that is, there has been action that was sufficient to incite an "ordinary person" to "sudden and intense passion" such that s/he loses self control. It should be noted that the time between provocation and the killing should not be long enough for the passion to have cooled off. Involuntary manslaughter generally occurs in only two cases. The first is when someone is killed due to criminal negligence, and the second is when someone is killed during the commission of another crime, where the intent was not to cause bodily injury or death. (This is often called "misdemeanor manslaughter".) Murder is the act of killing another human being with "malice aforethought". Malice aforethought is defined to be the intent to kill or to inflict bodily injury, either express or implied. If a deadly weapon is used, intent to kill will necessarily be implied by a court of law. This legal definitions taken from http://criminal-law.freeadvice.com "

Mike D

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:02:18 -0800

I'm with @2.

sevenless

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:12:35 -0800

Huh. Well I've only heard the hearsay printed here and wherever, and my knowledge of legal definitions is dubious at best, but I'm still not convinced he committed murder. If that's what they were going to charge him with anyway, why plead guilty? I suppose the time is less that what people are usually sentenced to?

Weazul

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:10:42 -0800

emotion less on this one.. crotchety old man died because he was stubborn and a young man will have many years of his life removed because he made one mistake that turned into a huge (and rightfully so) deal Sounds like a case of reap what you sew

herbisara

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:39:14 -0800

Only 8 to 11 years? That's it? That's f*cking ridiculous, and really really sad.