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By law you can’t, notwithstanding people who think it was justified. Texas used to have a law, as some other states do now, that calls killing a person under sudden passion as Manslaughter. The classic is coming home and finding your wife in bed with a guy and maybe understandably losing your temper. The point being that even being upset is not enough but suddenly coming upon something that sets you off where you otherwise probably wouldn’t have. How many people in the Golden Triangle area file for divorce every month after one or the other party was caught cheating? How many resulted in homicide? That is different than walking in and accidentally catching someone in the act. It doesn’t negate the crime, but people are left with the thought of something like, yeah, I understand that. It gives a jury a chance to say that it’s still wrong but with a lesser penalty. You are correct, it’s still Murder because he intentionally killed someone. In some cases, the person may not have had time to think it out rationally. Quite a while back, Texas removed that law from the books. If you intentionally kill someone, it’s Murder, period or as social media now says, full stop. To (in my opinion) appease people, the changed law said that intentionally killing someone is still Murder even if you were provoked into anger, however….. The law on the penalty for Murder is a First Degree Felony and 5-99 years. IF, after a jury convicts a person of intentionally killing someone, so Murder, but finds that it was under sudden passion, the jury can voluntarily reduce the penalty to a Second Degree Felony or 2-20 years in prison. Of course even for a regular Murder charge, a jury can give a person as little as 5 years. So why the option to reduce it in deliberations to a 20 year maximum as a mitigating factor when a jury can do that without a different law? I think it’s a feel good law although technically under sudden passion a person can receive a 2 year minimum as opposed to a 5 year minimum. I don’t see much of a chance of a jury convicting a person of Murder and then giving a 2 year sentence but sometimes juries are strange. So what does all of that have to do with this case? I can think of two tactics by the defense. I think it’s fairly certain that the kid accused did kill the other. That leaves either sudden passion as a lesser prison sentence or self-defense. Did the deceased initiate an act toward the accused that placed the accused in a reasonable belief that he was in danger of serious bodily injury or death? I haven’t looked at the case lately, but it seems like there was a claim that the now deceased student grab the other guy by the arm or shoved him. Does grabbing a person by the arm or shoving him place the other person in fear of death or serious bodily injury? If that is true then there can sure be a lot of lawful killing going on. Even if a person punches you in the nose, does that lead a reasonable person to believe that he is about to die or suffer a serious bodily injury? Imagine how many kids fought when we were in school. How many would justify deadly force in self defense? I can attempt to think that is how the defense is going to approach this, however. They’re going to say that there was an argument and one student shove the other, so the one that would’ve killed him in “self defense”. Although, in my opinion, it should not work, it will be setting the grounds for asking for a lesser sentence due to sudden passion and probation.

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This response confirms my statement - thank you

I sincerely hope that President Trump ceases misleading the American populace. It is regrettable that we have a President who is unwilling to be truthful or contrite when mistaken. The MAGA movement refuses to acknowledge right from wrong. This President has contributed to the deterioration of political integrity. Observing the current state of the United States and Trump's declining approval ratings clearly reflects these issues. Expecting only denial and deflection does not address the underlying problems.

That does not make sense. Looks like in 2028 you'll have JD Vance.....he served

Man some of yall put yalls hope in whatever it is that gives conald a victory here.. just own up and say it was a bad choice unless were going to demolish them.. which were not So guess what? We're negotiating with terrorists and potentially rebuilding them from the damage we've done.. but yeah so much winning.. Nobody wants trump to fail more than trump himself.... I truly believe to run this country a requirement sho be to have served this country at some point! Jmo

You’re much more knowledgeable on this type of thing, but I don’t see how you don’t get murder out of the deal…..

Clearly it should be a conviction but who knows with the politics of the day. I could see him being convicted of Manslaughter as a lesser included offense but it doesn’t really fit the crime although it would in other states. In some states sudden passion is considered Manslaughter or Voluntary Manslaughter (as it was when I started 42 years ago) but Texas has removed that law. There is part of the Murder law in Texas that allows a jury to consider sudden passion as a mitigating factor AFTER the person is convicted of Murder.

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Thanks. For me, we didn’t “need” Correa when we got him back. I would trade him and his money. Again, maybe that’s why I’m not a GM.

Trump!

I have seen on X talks of trading several players, including Alvarez. I think Houston will wait to see where they are come trade deadline if they still have a chance to make playoffs. Houston's minor league prospects are very very slim. Most have been sent up prematurely because of IL situation. Those two would be the most likely to trade.

Talks of a Paredes and/or Walker trade. Have you seen this?

For the first time since mid April, Houston's team ERA is below 5 (4.92). It reached 6.47 just 3 weeks ago. Pitching overall has definitely got better. On the flip side, Astro batting has taken a bit of a dive the last three weeks. Houston has gone from an AL leading (2nd in MLB) .267 batting average to a now 3rd in AL (11th in MLB) .244 team batting average. Astros have gone from averaging 5.7 runs per game to 4.4. I think the offense had to take somewhat of a dip with so many on IL. Pitching is doing about as good as can be expected with who they have on staff.

THAT is cool! WIN - WIN!

Trying to look on the positive side, This may ultimately result in the regime change you said was necessary for the "win"

You really want Trump to fail because you don't want to give him the win. That is truly sad that politics have gotten this bad.

I wish UIL had the same set up as Louisiana and did best of 3 series for the state championships. Two "local" teams won state across the river in baseball this year: Westlake, and Moss Bluff Sam Houston (wife's alma mater). All of Louisiana's baseball state championship games were played in Sulphur, which surprised me.

I believe at least one of those was a senior.

Pure Domination! Played the best and dominated the best! Next season will be no different. Congrat's on a great season!

What about West Brook? They had a couple transfer in last year? Are they all staying put?

When will trump use his negotiation skills to close on this big beautiful glorious deal? The best deal you could ever imagine and I mean big. Will call it the Trump peace prize deal and we will rename the Strait, Strait of the Americas. 🤣 My own words Regan! [Hidden Content] Trump: Iran really wants to make a deal.

Thought I would put this back on top Jury selection starts today