guest wrote:A jury has found a Dearborn Heights man guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges for the deadly shooting of an unarmed woman on his porch.
That didn't take long. How does he get murder
and manslaughter? I figured it was one or the other. Myself, I thought it sounded more like manslaughter, but this guy is so dumb I'd give him a pass. Innocent by reason of stupidity.
He can be sentenced to life in prison on the second-degree murder rap. His attorneys almost certainly will appeal the verdict and a friend who knows one of the lawyers said they pretty much had a ready-made appeal dropped into their lap when the judge opted to conduct voire dire instead of allowing the lawyers to do so. Mack Carpenter, one of the defense attorneys for Wafer, defended Leonard Tyburski, the guy who clocked his wife and stuffed her into a freezer way back when, and actually won a new trial claiming it was improper for the judge to do the voire dire given the extensive media coverage of the case.
As for Wafer, the dumbfuck was dead in the water when they played a tape of his interview with police 30 minutes after the shooting and he told them he loaded his shotgun after he found someone had shot paintballs at his car in his driveway. Even the dumbest of juror could listen to that and realize that if this idiot wanted to shoot kids hitting his car with paintballs, it wasn't out of the question to expect him to come to the door with a gun when a drunk kid was beating on the door.
And he found his cellphone, the one he said he couldn't find as the banging intensified, seconds after he shot her.
Too bad the judge remanded him to custody to await sentencing. If I was 55 and facing the prospect of life in prison, I'd go buy a new shotgun and off myself.
My hand to God, she's gonna be at Carnegie Hall. But you - I'll let you have her now at the old price, OK? Which is, which is anything you wanna give me. Anything at all.