Originally Posted by
Auto Donk
perfect analysis, exactly what the jurors decided under my tutelage....
judge gave him 28 yrs in tdcj after we handed down our verdict.... (defendant elected to have the judge assess the sentence rather than the jury.... mistake on his part, as we'd have given him 20 yrs -- the available range for murder in texas, a first degree felony, is 5-99 yrs). Generally, in Texas, you serve only 1/3 of your sentence, so we might have given him 25--we didn't deliberate on an actual sentence, but I'm pretty sure the jury would follow my lead.
an interesting point that had entered my mind -- and that of one other asian juror, a fifty something aged man, was the OG was already on his way to dying from the first shot (undisputed medical evidence indicates the first shot that went into his chest was not survivable), was did it really matter that he more or less fired and "execution" style shot to the face of the OG, given he was already gonna die?
as our jury instructions didn't address that, we convicted him....