The Hoax is the trash quoted above ...The only thing missing in the sentencing is the Rape Charge. The prosecution knew they had the murder charge fully covered. Activism is a funny thing ....It turns fiction into fact ... ..25 to life, 29 served ....
My bet, the body was burned beyond the ability to tell what DNA had been inserted into the girl. Someone knew about the slashes on the body during the rape .....but disregard that, the rape never took place because the prosecutor never charged them ....because, according to the Activists, they were simply out for a walk in the park.
In some states, they both would have been charged with rape, kidnapping and murder. They would not served the minimum 25 years. It would have been life ...The reason for kidnapping? Not having the ability to leave on her own .....
I do believe what most states believe.....When the crime of murder is committed ....the accomplices are to be charged in the participation of the crime of murder ...
I did not read the entire text of a court proceeding or have access to all evidence. I do not take a news reporters article as gospel. At a glance, in appears those on trial were petty, patsy, thugs, definitely involved in the “original” case. The uproar is about the Release After time served, via the sentencing of the “original” case.
...Without ALL the facts from the “original case”, how do you know what they would have/should have, been charged with?
Kidnapping, does not ONLY include
Keeping one against their will...
It ALSO includes
Taking one against their will.
...Sounds more like to me, “Blunders”, “exculpatory evidence” was not established at the “original” trial, and “
their sentence light”, and ALL involved were not apprehended and harshly punished for each step of each crime committed against that little girl.
...The crimes against that little girl were definitely revealed.
...Charging is one thing...Proving “involvement” even a “presence” of not taking part, but not stopping a crime is “circumstantial” evidence....and making charges then proving the charges...gets sticky.
...IF the Charges of
each crime (taking, keeping, beating, raping, transporting, burning, etc.) are all rolled into
one Charge,
one Trial, and
one of the Charges, is
not provable by evidence, it favors the Perpetrator.
...The crimes committed against that little girl were so violent and heinous, IMO, every one involved should be pushing up daisy’s. But as you say some States have Life sentences, with provable involvement.
Personally I favor an express lane to the needle chamber for heinous crimes against children.
...I am not pleased with the short sentence nor release. However that outcome was all decided 25+ years ago.