Re: Joe Horn?
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2nd/3rd Degree Murder. Life in prison x 2.
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The thing is, if they're going to charge him with murder, they can probably make a case it was premeditated since he apparently told the dispatcher he was going to kill the guys, and spent a couple of minutes chatting it up with the dispatcher, listening to the dispatcher's spiel about not going outside of his house to shoot the guys (ie, Horn had plenty of time to reconsider, and a rational guy in his ear telling him not to do it)...and then he went out and shot the guys anyway with the stated intent of killing them. Sounds like premeditated murder to me.
I suspect it's going to be hard to charge this guy with anything serious given the circumstances and the probable outcry of public support the guy will receive, but if this scenario played out exactly the same way, except in California (instead of Sugarland Texas) and the guy shot a couple of white suburban teenagers (instead of some brown guys), I feel confident saying he'd probably be facing a couple of first degree murder charges.
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