Kotaku
North Carolina sheriff's deputy Christopher Long may not have been indicted by a grand jury for murder charges (the original indictment was due to a misfiled form) but that doesn't mean the investigation isn't going forward. The cop who fatally shot 18-year old PlayStation 3 robbery suspect Petron Strickland to death in his home could still face charges.
The Associated Press reports that the district attorney in New Hanover County is continuing the investigation. But what about that threat of charging the man twice for the same crime? According to a Wake Forest law professor quoted by the AP:
There's no constitutional bar to them going back again. If you're talking about double jeopardy, it doesn't actually attach to the case until a trial jury is seated.
Who thought that shooting to death a PlayStation 3 thief would cause such a rollercoaster of courtroom drama?!
D.A. in PlayStation shooting still investigating deputy [CNN]
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Who thought that bad grammar and punctuation could make me so mad.
It's worth going to trial just to find out (hopefully) exactly what happened.
So is **** ******* saying anything about this case? He seems to be so upity about people comiting crimes due to games, so has he said anything about the theft or the other crimes? Or is he still bitching about the useless crap.
He should have shot the people paying upwards of $1500 for a shitty console.
"...rollercoaster of courtroom drama?!" got the Phoenix Wright courtroom theme playing in my head (the fast one) and I started salivating.
A man is dead, you bastard.
Haha, look at his moustache! Quite the cock broom.
Check this, this is gonna end up a "ripped from the headlines" Law and Order episode within a year. I'm calling it ahead of time.
I think the question on everyone's mind is, did the bastard teenager (for they are all bastards, every one) actually steal the PS3?
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