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Idiot? Why don’t read the text exchange in the article from the court hearing Sherlock. Miller absolutely knew he was taking that gun back to trouble. He should not be playing for Alabama right now.
Obviously, the entire situation was ****. But mens rea is a huge part of criminal proceedings. If Miller was acting in good faith and bringing his friends gun back because he thought he was in trouble then what law did he break? It sounds like y’all don’t like the gun laws in Alabama more than anything
Accessory before the fact, conspiracy, aiding and abetting….I can think of a few…
To your point, I guess you could say he was bringing the gun so his “threatened” friend could defend himself……kind of a stretch. Why couldn’t he have just told him to leave or why didn’t he call the police?
Why didn’t his friend just leave?
Seems like a shooting was going to take place and Miller knew it plain and simple. He wasn’t even there to begin with, but injected himself into the situation after the text was received. Big stretch to think that Miller “was acting in good faith” don’t ya think!?
Kinda stoopid on Miller’s part, for sure……
i said that he shouldn’t be playing basketball for Alabama and could probably be charged after reading the text exchange. He wasn’t simply returning property. He was bringing a weapon to a heated situation and he knew it. He may not be guilty by the letter of the law but he’s not some Good Samaritan that didn’t break some sort of team or university conduct that would have at a minimum suspended him indefinitely until total investigation is over. The grand jury could still bring charges whether you like it or not.
Exactly. all of this is spot on
You’re saying the same things I’m saying. There were much better options and the whole thing was dumb, but what law did Miller break? You listed a few things with no justification behind them when the threshold for conviction is beyond a reasonable doubt.
Better that a thousand guilty go free than one innocent gets convicted? Sometimes that's hard to take, like when a mother is removed from her child's life. I'm not sure how to balance that against the thousand guilty ones that go free.
I’m talking strictly of the legal aspect. There is definitely a legit convo about his future in basketball after that level of poor decision making, but he followed Alabama law. If you don’t like this outcome then get mad at the state of Alabama.
If the government has the ability to take away people’s freedom, then we need to have a really high bar for them to clear in order to do so.
y’all just need to read this
The timing of the text I believe is critical. Based on his attorneys account of the situation he was already on his way to pick them up when he received the gun text. I can see how it would be hard to charge him with anything if that is the case. He could’ve made better decisions maybe by trying to get them to leave. Just a bad situation altogether
thanks for this. Interesting.
This is the real life version of the Dave Chappelle sketch "When Keeping it Real Goes Wrong". I was recently watching some videos from Glenn Loury and John McWhorter recently and they actually discussed the cultural forces around these self-defeating behaviors. Complicated and perplexing issues, for sure.
The human is, indeed, a complicated result of genetic, environmental and cultural forces. And folks think CTM's job is complex.
Nah, I was answering your question "What law did he break?"..... I assumed you meant what could be be charged with....Conviction and evidence of such is a different matter. No way to give any justification as to what laws did he break as all the facts are not known. But there are definite possibilities of laws that could have been broken, if more facts were known, and I named a few off the top of my head in my prior post. Any other assumption as in Did he break a law or not, is pure speculation at this point.
You don't have to agree, and that is fine, but he potentially could have broken some laws based on the circumstances to which he **** himself.
From the few newscasts and twitter accounts of this incident, it would be very hard to form an opinion as to what he could be charged with (not familiar with Bama laws) even more what he could be convicted of..... but I did, generally, name a few if the evidence would sustain such a charge.