A Florida man was convicted Wednesday in the 2012 fatal shooting of an unarmed teenager amid a dispute over loud rap music blaring from a car.
Jurors in the racially tinged retrial deliberated for about five hours before finding Michael Dunn guilty of first-degree murder.
It was the second time that Mr. Dunn, 47, a software developer who claimed self-defense in the death of Jordan Davis, 17, faced a jury. In February, a jury convicted Mr. Dunn of three counts of second-degree attempted murder – one for each of the surviving teenagers in the Dodge Durango — a crime for which he could receive a 60-year prison sentence.
I am sure that many of you remember this case from 2012, and perhaps even remember that Dunn compared himself to a rape victim at one point.
When the first jury could not agree on the first degree murder conviction, and the judge declared a mistrial, I think most of us were confused as to how such a thing could possibly happen.
I find it interesting that the former jury could not come to an agreement on the first degree murder charge, and yet this one only had to deliberate for about five hours before finding him guilty.
AW! Poor baby.
ReplyDeleteAnyone want to take bets on how long he survives in the general prison population?
They will put him in a special pod for infamous for a while.
DeleteI hope he survives long enough to feel tremendous terror each and every day at least for awhile.
ReplyDeleteUnexpected justice. What a nice surprise.
ReplyDeleteOh, I will bet he will survive. He is a software developer and he will be useful to the prison/state so he will not be put in the general population. I have not kept up with all the details, so I don't know if it is capital murder(death penalty), but I don't think so. That's too bad, but with all the appeals, in many cases it is the same thing as a life sentence. I am still waffling on whether I believe in capital punishment or not. I don't until some heinous crime happens and then I'm ready for the lynching.....as long as there is absolute undeniable physical proof.
ReplyDeleteFlorida gets it right for once? I'm shocked, but it won't put zimmerman where he belongs nor that nutcase Casey Anthony.
ReplyDeleteThis makes me smile. Who's the thug now?
ReplyDeleteOccasionally There is justice in this great country. I hope this sends a message.
ReplyDeleteAnd in other news, it has been reported that the Ferguson grand jury has a leak...
ReplyDeleteI'm actually not surprised. During this most recent trial, he showed no remorse & stated he would have emptied the entire chamber if he needed to. Girlfriend told the truth, too, that he never mentioned seeing a gun on the long drive back home.
ReplyDeleteNow just waiting for Georgie Boy to screw up one more time. I don't think he's going to make it out unscathed again.
So glad to see that for once FL got it right. You could look at that weasel and tell he was guilty.
ReplyDeleteWOW, good job for once, FL! Look at the picture. He just can't believe he's gonna spend (hopefully) the rest of his life in prison for murdering a black kid. He thought it was perfectly fine since Georgie got away with it and is currently lurking around the area looking for some other black kid to murder. Maybe he'll think twice about it next time, long enough to really get the ass-kicking he deserves.
ReplyDeleteHopefully, the female with him will be charged with failure to render aid, hindering an investigation, perjury and just, generally, being an idiot to return to the hotel drunk after the wedding reception, ordering pizza, drinking more and then returning to her life as though absolutely nothing was amiss.....justice for her, please!!
ReplyDeleteJust a little anecdote... the last time i deigned to make eye contact with an individual who had his sound machine cranked so loud it was making my car shake (quake to and fro), he mimed the pistol grip with his hand, pointed it to his temple and "pulled" the trigger with his middle finger keeping eye contact with me. I immediately broke eye contact and changed my route to get as far away as quickly as I could. Now before everyone goes all you're rethugliican racist, bigoted troll - I hate guns, don't own a gun and voted for our most excellent, albeit embattled, President I do not enjoy being intimidated by thugs who have no respect for other peoples space and sanity.When you're subjected to incivility I guess you have to swallow your pride and look the other way these days. To me its lack of consideration and basic manners that has our country in such miserable shape. Do people have the right to play loud music, sure. But when it becomes an assault another's peace of mind, I wish there was some non-violent remedy. And no, I think calling 911 and reporting a "loud" car would probably get you laughed at. I wish earth shockingly loud stereos in cars were illegal. Yup, I'm a grumpy old man.So flame on, I've said my piece in cowering Pollyanna terms I'd like to hear your remedy to such circumstances. When does one's "freedom of expression" stop trumping an other's right to civility?
ReplyDeleteOpening the floodgate of down-votes...
"I immediately broke eye contact and changed my route to get as far away as quickly as I could. "
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You did the intelligent thing when someone threatened you. You left the area immediately. That being said, the situation you describe has nothing at all to do with this criminal case.
The kids had the volume cranked up to a (subjectively) obnoxious level in Dunn's opinion.
Dunn thought killing them for annoying him was an acceptable first response.
The kids were unarmed. They didn't threaten him. At worst, they were rude.
Again, he thought killing them was an acceptable first response, rather than just leaving the area, calling police (after all, he claimed to have seen a gun), or just minding his own damn business, since he would be gone in a couple of minutes anyway.
You felt threatened. Dunn *was* the threatening individual.
So most of your post is irrelevant to this situation.
Being intelligent enough to back away from a dangerous situation does NOT mean you don't have a responsibility to report dangerous and obnoxious behavior. That's how those fools get away with it. And why they believe they can continue to get away with it. It's called bullying and the guy you faced was probably that way all his life without ever facing someone stronger.
DeleteOh, and about that getting laughed at if reporting it to 911? MOST municipalities have what are called noise pollution laws. In some places it's a STATE law.
Still, I have to agree with Nefer. This is non-relavent to the posted article due to the outcome in the two situations.
OT: 35,000 walrus converge on Alaska beach as sea ice retreats.
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