03-01-2014, 12:28 PM
I have mixed feelings about a retrial.
On the one hand, it is expensive and Dunn will probably be sentenced to what equates to life in prison for the attempted murder convictions anyway. He won't have an opportunity to lose his shit and shoot somebody else.
On the other hand, there's a principle and a message to consider: you can't shoot and kill unarmed people, claim you were scared or thought you saw a weapon, change your story, flee the scene and never alert police....and then hide behind Florida's self-defense laws and get away with it.
And, Jordan Davis' parents want a murder conviction in the death of their son. I want them to have the justice they seek.
On the one hand, it is expensive and Dunn will probably be sentenced to what equates to life in prison for the attempted murder convictions anyway. He won't have an opportunity to lose his shit and shoot somebody else.
On the other hand, there's a principle and a message to consider: you can't shoot and kill unarmed people, claim you were scared or thought you saw a weapon, change your story, flee the scene and never alert police....and then hide behind Florida's self-defense laws and get away with it.
And, Jordan Davis' parents want a murder conviction in the death of their son. I want them to have the justice they seek.