honest with signs of the times in the political climate today running the gamut from the downright dangerous, merely troubling, to the absurd. it is fair to ask if there is a thread connecting all of them. some kind of political philosophy driving it or whether this is just a moment for whatever reason that is ripe for almost everything and nearly anything. one example in new mexico four homes shot at belonging police say to democratic elected officials. the man now in custody and charged in connection with the crimes a republican who lost his state house race in a landslide then refused to concede. he seemed agitated. he seemed a little aggressive to me. i didn t consider him a threat then. but he was upset that he had lost the election. that is debby o malley who joins us shortly and says police said her home was hit 12 times maybe more. she is talking about the man in custody solomon pena who tweeted just after the election, quote, trump just announced for 2024. i stan
tonight keeping them honest with signs other times in the political climate today. they run the gambit from the downright dangerous to the nearly trembling and absurd. it s fair to ask if there is a threat connecting all of them, political philosophy of nihilism driving it or whether this was a moment for whatever reason that one example, new mexico, for home shot at belonging to democratic officials. the man now in custody and charged in connection with the crimes was a republican who lost the state house race in a landslide and refused to concede. he seemed agitated, he seemed a little aggressive to me. i did not consider him a threat then, but he was upset that he lost the election. that s debbie o malley, who joins us shortly. she said police who may be who tweeted after the election, quote, trump just sentenced for 2024, i stand with him. i never conceded my h g 14 race, not considering my options. the options he allegedly chose was politically motivated, that
also, based on what we know about the case, what do you think it would be? so it s either first-degree or second-degree. my gut is, if any domestic event like this where people know each other, traditionally is a second degree murder charge, that heat of passion type of charge, not first degree premeditated, the malice of forethought, which is necessary to the massachusetts statute to have first-degree murder. i m suggesting, based upon that he didn t say first-degree murder in the very brief press conference today, i think we will hear second degree murder. still a life sentence in massachusetts can be paroled. i think that is probably what s going to happen. i was a bit surprised and that it happened this quickly. i think the evidence is the compelling nature that john talked about that they ve been able to put together so quickly. mark, if he had not made those google searches, how to dispose of 115 pound woman s body, before she disappeared, had he gone to the home depot and sp
or second degree. my gut is in any domestic event like this where people know each other, traditionally there is a second-degree murder charge, the heat of passion type of charge not first degree premeditated malice of forethought which is necessary under the massachusetts statute. so if i was guessing based upon the fact that he didn t say first-degree murder in the very brief press conference today, i think we ll hear second-degree murder, still a life sentence in massachusetts, but you can be paroled. and i think that is probably what is going to happen. i was surprised it happened this quickly. i think evidence, the compelling nature of the evidence john talked about that they ve been able to put together so quickly. mark, if he had made the google searches, how to dispose of a 115-pound woman s body before she disappeared, had he gone to the home depot and spent 400 something dollars on duct
when the prosecutor in this case prosecutor mcginnty has telegraphed every way that i think he knows how that he himself does not believe that anything criminal was done. and remember, a judge this summer gave a range of options of charges that the judge believed there was probable cause to find that went all the way down to negligence. he decided he would use a grand jury to get a result that he clearly preferred and that he recommended to the grand jury, which was no charges at all of any kind. professor, can you give us a quick guided tour of the lesser manslaughter charges that might apply in this case. sure, the manslaughter charge, voluntary manslaughter in ohio requires a heat of the passion type of a crime, a reactionary crime in a fit of range. so it clearly wouldn t apply here. there was no provocation sufficient for a fit of range to apply. involuntary manslaughter requires some sort of