California double-murderer Shawn Shirck, 29, served fewer than four years in prison in the same county where Bryn Spejcher, 33, got probation this week for killing her boyfriend in a pot-induced psychosis. Lawyers for both defendants asserted they were incapable of intending to murder their victims due to their intoxicated states an argument that has outraged relatives of their victims.
Lax punishment for killers has seemingly become commonplace in one SoCal county - after two cons managed to escape stern sentences in their respective cases
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