• JJROKCZ@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wait a witness is now being charged as an accomplice almost 30 years later? I thought they had pretty much dropped this case as the cops didn’t want to solve it

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      1 year ago

      I haven’t read the article OP linked but this CBS article I read mentioned that the case was essentially dropped as prosecutors didn’t feel good about it, but after Duane “Keffe D” Davis started doing talk shows and released his book, they felt the case against him got strong enough to prosecute.

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      1 year ago

      Well, the witness in this case is a gang leader and the one who provided the gun to the shooter and I believe probably gave the command to shoot. So I think getting charged for murder is not necessarily unreasonable.