Juries are funny things you never really know how they will respond to testimony. Regardless of how justified the shooting may have been a dead victim’s family and paralyzed victim are heavy visuals for a Jury. Also, it sounds like the Defendant was not the most sympathetic person to begin with.
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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
- Milton Friedman
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