• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 months ago

    So how did this get turned into three charges? The article didn’t explain that.

    I want justice for this woman’s family but I hate how our system allows fifty different charges for one or a handful of crimes. Murdering one person should be one murder charge, not three, and not murder plus homicide plus manslaughter plus killing a person plus death by bullet plus turning a person into a corpse; you get what I mean.

    • zach@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      I think the “extra” charges are often used to put someone who’s clearly a danger to society away for longer. Another example I can think of that’s similar is someone going to jail for CSAM gets a separate charge for every frame of video, as they’re separate “images”. I agree that the law should be more straightforward but there are instances where nuance can be helpful.