The article even kinda touches on their fallback excuse “he was an up and coming drug dealer”. So the prosecutors use that to say well, he was a bad person anyways so no harm done!
It’s all just so stupid.
It’s all just so stupid.
Just saying, I don't think that was just an excuse. I think they had good reason to believe this guy was a bit of a low level crime boss/gang leader and they decided it'd be better to put him away even if he didn't technically pull the trigger. Yea it's an abuse of the justice system in a lot of ways and I don't condone it, but I don't think it's as easy as saying the DA just wanted to randomly pin the murder on someone else.