Just another day in New Orleans (2 Viewers)

[guidomerkinsrules]

In 'large-scale' New Orleans cocaine operation, two business owners sentenced, feds say

A Houston restaurateur set up the deal, and a New Orleans auto body shop owner distributed the cocaine in gas canisters, according to authorities.

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Reporter thinks she’s Raymond Chandler (or Carver, I always get them confused)

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

20 years each seems like a pretty soft deal.

Three of four teens plead guilty in deadly carjacking of Linda Frickey

Three of the tour teenagers accused in the death and carjacking of Linda Frickey have pleaded guilty

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[DaveXA]

20 years each seems like a pretty soft deal.

Three of four teens plead guilty in deadly carjacking of Linda Frickey

Three of the tour teenagers accused in the death and carjacking of Linda Frickey have pleaded guilty

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How do you get attempted manslaughter from an action that resulted in a death? I'm confused.

 

[buzd]

How do you get attempted manslaughter from an action that resulted in a death? I'm confused.

It doesn't matter. It's a plea agreement so they can change the offense to meet the sentencing guidelines for what they've negotiated.

 

[DaveXA]

It doesn't matter. It's a plea agreement so they can change the offense to meet the sentencing guidelines for what they've negotiated.

Ah, that makes sense.

 

[buzd]

20 years each seems like a pretty soft deal.

Three of four teens plead guilty in deadly carjacking of Linda Frickey

Three of the tour teenagers accused in the death and carjacking of Linda Frickey have pleaded guilty

www.fox8live.com

I wonder what the families are saying. I also wonder if it's not coincidence that the 3 that pleaded are actually juveniles.

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

I wonder what the families are saying. I also wonder if it's not coincidence that the 3 that pleaded are actually juveniles.

Yep. I am assuming the family signed off but we will find out soon.

My recollection is that the remaining defendant had a huge list of prior offenses and was likely the instigator of the whole thing, so its likely a much stiffer deal on offer to him.

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

How do you get attempted manslaughter from an action that resulted in a death? I'm confused.

Also manslaughter in LA is a little different than most states. It's not really 'negligent homicide" its basically 2nd degree murder - you killed someone in the act of another crime or without specific intent to kil.. 2nd degree murder in LA is basically 1st degree everywhere else - you intended to kill someone and did.

1st degree murder in LA is intentional with an aggravating factor (killed a cop, multiple victims, etc)

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

The family signed off on the plea deal for these 3. Sounds like they aren't signing off on any deals for the remaining defendant.

“We want him to get the maximum. He drove the car. He stomped on her,” said Griffin. “The girls, they were all there for the ride, but the issue we had with them is they didn’t do anything to stop it.”
“John Honore deserves no mercy,” said Richard. “We’ll give him the same mercy he gave Linda. None.”

'What I do feel for them is sadness' | Frickey’s family hopes girls who pleaded guilty will use their time to reflect

Monday, Briniyah Baker, 17, Lenyra Theophile, 16, and Mar’qel Curtis pleaded guilty to attempted manslaughter and were sentenced to 20 years.

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[El Caliente]

The family signed off on the plea deal for these 3. Sounds like they aren't signing off on any deals for the remaining defendant.

'What I do feel for them is sadness' | Frickey’s family hopes girls who pleaded guilty will use their time to reflect

Monday, Briniyah Baker, 17, Lenyra Theophile, 16, and Mar’qel Curtis pleaded guilty to attempted manslaughter and were sentenced to 20 years.

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And they shouldn’t.

Someone think of the children!

 

[GrandAdmiral]

20 years each seems like a pretty soft deal.

Three of four teens plead guilty in deadly carjacking of Linda Frickey

Three of the tour teenagers accused in the death and carjacking of Linda Frickey have pleaded guilty

www.fox8live.com

I'm ok with this only because it seems the Frickey family signed off.

 

[buzd]

I'm ok with this only because it seems the Fricken family signed off.

Excellent autocorrect.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

Excellent autocorrect.

Ugh. Thanks for catching that.

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

Trial is underway and the defense strategy is to ask for mercy because the defendant wasn't raised right.

“There is no doubt there was a terrible, terrible, awful wrong done,” Boggs said.
But he asked the jurors to confront their definitions of justice as they weighed whether to convict the teenager of second-degree murder, which carries a mandatory life-in-prison sentence. Boggs argued Honore had been failed by his parents.


“I am going to come to you and say, let’s not throw away another life,” he said.

Attorney admits teenager's guilt in Linda Frickey's death, asks for mercy as trial begins

In opening arguments in the second-degree murder trial of the teenager accused of killing 73-year-old Linda Frickey in a daytime Mid-City carjacking gone awry, a defense attorney acknowledged his client attacked Frickey before dragging her to her death from her stolen SUV.

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