Originally Posted by
mam2009
Main Entry: 2. railroad
Function: verb
Date: 1877
transitive verb
1 a : to convict with undue haste and by means of false charges or insufficient evidence b : to push through hastily or without due consideration 2 : to transport by railroad
Like Eastside Al, I'm still waiting for the posters who have claimed on one hand to believe Ms. McBride's killer was guilty and should not have shot her, while on the other hand saying the killer was convicted on a "technicality," and he was a victim of a rush to judgment, and he should have had a better lawyer, etc. to explain this paradoxical logic. Can we all agree that if u do the crime, you do the time? If u agree he shot her ON PURPOSE and killed her and you agree he was wrong to do so, then you are agreeing he committed [[2nd degree) murder. If you agree he was pointing a loaded shotgun at a an unarmed human and fired it causing her death [[regardless of whether he meant to fire it), then you agree he committed statutory manslaughter. The sentencing guidelines REQUIRE [[regardless of the skin color of the murderer) 2nd degree murderers to be sentenced to a minimum of 15 years in prison for that crime. Just like they require those who commit felonies with a gun to serve a minimum of 2 years in prison.
If your problem is with the sentencing, your problem is with the overwhelmingly white Michigan Legislature who sanction the guidelines. [[Did the Legislature "railroad" Mr. Wafer, WM?). I have made numerous attempts to genuinely try to understand this paradox being asserted by the "Railroad Crew."
By the way, you cannot credibly say, he was wrong and should've been convicted, but try to argue in the same breath that his fear of the threat was so reasonable that it would justify him opening the door and purposely shooting Ms. McBride. Either he was wrong or he wasn't. This was a homicide trial, not neighborhood mediation or something. Either she caused her own death while overtly and realistically threatening lethal force or great bodily harm to Mr. Wafer or she didn't. She didn't, according to the killer.