cloy wrote:
It’s funny how much faith you lose in our system when you start to practice.
As far as I know, cases like this in the US, they would be doing serious time. Most other developed countries, like Australia, they'd be lucky to do 10 years. I've seen similar stuff to this in the UK and Australia and it almost seems inevitable that even if charged with murder, its downgraded to manslaughter.
However we do now have strict assault laws in Australia, possibly the strictest in the world (not sue about the US). You punch someone and they die, you could be doing a 10 year mandatory sentence under new "one-punch" laws. This guy here has served 13 years and still not been released.
https://www.perthnow.com.au/politics/law-and-order/one-punch-killer-fails-to-convince-parole-panel-c-10345579