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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 5:41 pm Post subject: Anaheim Korean Murder Court Drama |
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Anaheim Execution in Court
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Cho’s defense attorney, deputy public defender Robert Kohler, told the mostly non-Korean jury that cultural context could help them make sense of what may seem an improbable story. |
Please, understand Korean culture . . .
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If jurors decide Cho did not intend to kill his friend until the moment he pulled the trigger, that he shot in the “heat of passion,” they have the option of finding him guilty of voluntary manslaughter. If they doubt that story and instead find that he decided earlier to kill the man, they could convict him of first-degree murder, for which he could get up to a life sentence.
Jurors could begin deliberating as early as Wednesday afternoon.
Whatever they decide, the friendship that spanned more than three decades, survived financial debacles and crossed the Pacific ends with one dead on a roadside in Anaheim and the other in a California prison cell. |
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